Featured series 
Tag: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Health
COVID’s triple whammy for Black students
College students of color not only face a disproportionate risk of contracting COVID-19, they are particularly vulnerable to its psychological damage — especially when the longtime struggle against inequality and the current financial crisis are factored in, said speakers at a virtual Harvard forum.
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Nation & World
A fraught season for health care
With Election Day approaching and the coronavirus pandemic surging, Benjamin Sommers discusses how shifting political winds might affect health care.
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Health
Is go-slow schools’ reopening failing kids?
Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather we could use to boost in-person learning.
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Work & Economy
Disruption of work relationships adds to mental-health concerns during pandemic
COVID-related workplace interventions have focused on workers’ physical health, but a new study shows that attention should be paid to replacing workplace social networks also disrupted by the virus.
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Health
The positive effects of optimism
A Harvard Chan School study has found a link between optimism and hypertension, describing the positive force as having a “protective effect” on individuals, including those in combat.
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Health
What crowdsourced big data may be able to tell us about COVID
How We Feel app lays groundwork to use big data to understand and predict coronavirus infection.
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Campus & Community
Preparing grad and professional Schools for remote fall
We look at how the different graduate Schools are handling online learning in the fall.
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Health
Root of the problem
Sheila Riggs is developing and implementing innovative dental health care solutions through research and hands-on community engagement.
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Health
Cheap, frequent COVID tests could be ‘akin to vaccine,’ professor says
Shifting the U.S.’s COVID-19 testing strategy to emphasize inexpensive, daily tests would break national transmission chains within weeks, an infectious disease testing expert said.
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Health
Five simple steps would tame COVID-19
Anthony Fauci, one of the government’s top authorities on the coronavirus pandemic, said that simple measures including wearing masks, avoiding bars, and spending time outdoors can tame the pandemic, but only if widely adopted.
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Health
Time to resume COVID restrictions in some safe states?
Officials in states that appear to have COVID-19 under control should keep an eye on a slow rise in cases, and take the chance to enact modest measures before case numbers begin to rise rapidly again, a Harvard expert said.
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Health
Finding patients
Michigan native Jeremy Lapedis works at the intersection of health care and social services for the most vulnerable residents of Washtenaw County.
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Science & Tech
A versatile vessel for next-gen therapeutics
The startup company Vesigen will develop and commercialize the drug-delivery technology created in the lab of Harvard Chan School Professor Quan Lu.
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Campus & Community
Same old labs but not
Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”
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Health
Checking up on the nation
The first study to examine life expectancy across more than 65,000 census tracts in the U.S. showed significant disparities within counties and states.
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Health
Saving lives, together
With unlikely partners by her side, Morissa Sobelson Henn is working to battle the suicide rate in Utah, a state where the tragedy is far too common.
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Nation & World
Hunger on the rise amid pandemic
Experts on food insecurity and diet gathered at an online forum on Tuesday to discuss COVID-19’s impact on hunger in America, and ways to make the post-pandemic food landscape better than that before COVID struck.
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Health
Healthy buildings expert outlines recommendations for school reopenings
As school officials worry about whether they can safely reopen their districts in the fall, Joseph Allen, a Harvard healthy buildings expert has an answer: yes.
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Science & Tech
Lockdown? What lockdown?
Cellphone mobility data shows that most Americans have put the coronavirus lockdown in the rearview mirror and are moving about at nearly the same rate as they were before the pandemic began, according to a Harvard epidemiologist who studies such data.
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Science & Tech
Finding COVID clues in movement
Tracking mobility of individuals offers hints of whether a problem is rising or falling.
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Health
The risks of ‘not trying enough’ against COVID-19
Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said we’re in greater danger of doing too little to fight COVID-19 than too much.
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Work & Economy
Americans are weary of lockdowns, but if COVID surges, what then?
If not a new lockdown, how do we slow the coronavirus in the future, researchers ask.
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Health
Pod-based e-cigarettes efficiently addictive
A new Harvard Chan School study has found that pod-based e-cigarettes’ efficient delivery of nicotine may foster greater dependence than other types of e-cigarettes.
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Campus & Community
Clearing the air
Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20, is boosting Alaskans’ health by promoting dialogue between public health officials and the community. Now with COVID-19, Nelson said that her Harvard Chan School training in risk communication is proving invaluable
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Campus & Community
‘When you see death all the time, you go into this mode of increased energy and sharper focus’
Pioneering AIDS researcher Myron “Max” Essex was one of the first to propose that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS.
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Health
A summer like no other
Summer message from a health expert: Go outside and play, but don’t forget about COVID.
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Health
Sticking to the healthy diet?
A newly identified “metabolic signature” can evaluate an individual’s adherence and metabolic response to the Mediterranean diet and help predict future risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Campus & Community
Positive disruption
Saamon Legoski, a student in Harvard Chan School’s M.P.H.-45 program is on a mission for environmental justice.
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Health
How far are we from a vaccine? Depends on who ‘we’ is
Rising nationalism and global inequity will be hurdles to the distribution of COVID vaccines, despite the comparatively “lightning” fast scientific response to the pandemic so far, a Harvard infectious disease expert said Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Breaking ground with new degree
Juan Reynoso will be the second Harvard student to have completed a new joint Master in Public Health/Master in Urban Planning degree program.
