Featured series 
Tag: Harvard University Health Services
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Campus & Community
‘Access, awareness, prevention, and support’
Student mental health initiative co-chairs Giang Nguyen and Robin Glover discuss the state of their work.
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Campus & Community
New 24/7 mental-health hotline for Harvard students opens
Counseling and Mental Health Services has launched a new 24/7 hotline for students who have mental health concerns or questions of any kind, whether they are in immediate distress or not, on campus or elsewhere.
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Campus & Community
Harvard creates Office for Gender Equity
Harvard is forming a new Office for Gender Equity that will bring together resources previously housed in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and the Title IX Office. The new office will be headed by Title IX coordinator Nicole Merhill.
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Campus & Community
Where Health Services stands with COVID vaccine
University Health Services awaits increase supply of vaccines, indicating it has the ability to administer twice the number of vaccines to the Harvard community.
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Campus & Community
School of Dental Medicine expands patient care, services
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine announced today that it will reopen the former Harvard University Health Services dental clinic with expanded services in February 2021.
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Science & Tech
Inside Harvard’s COVID tracing effort
A look at COVID-19 contact tracing efforts at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
University to begin transition to unobserved COVID-19 testing
After approval from the FDA, Harvard University will begin to transition to unobserved, self-administered COVID-19 screening tests for all individuals authorized to live or be on campus as part of continued efforts to monitor and control the virus.
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Campus & Community
By phone and online, the care continues
A Q&A with Harvard University Health Services’ Executive Director Giang Nguyen about the steps taken to move as much care online as it could as the novel coronavirus approached. He also outlines new resources available to the Harvard community.
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Health
Harvard to help track the virus
Soon hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, and taking part in efforts to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
Director of health services to step down
After 15 years in the post, Paul Barreira will step down as director of Harvard University Health Services, effective Nov. 18.
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Campus & Community
New director named for University Health Services
Professor and physician Giang T. Nguyen, head of student health services at Penn, viewed as a champion of diversity and inclusion.
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Campus & Community
Expanded Counseling and Mental Health Services
Paul Barreira and Barbara Lewis discuss the expansion of Counseling and Mental Health Services in the Smith Center, and how it broadens their mission.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating Harvard Heroes
Sixty Harvard Heroes, exceptional employees from across the University, on Monday basked in the applause of hundreds of colleagues, friends, and family members who gathered to recognize their achievements.
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Health
For freshmen, food for thought
Campus food experts say the first year in college is a time for change at the dining table as well as in the classroom.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with Alicia Oeser
The Gazette sat down with the new director of Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Alicia Oeser, to discuss the dual mission of providing support services to those who have experienced sexual assault and offering education and outreach programs to decrease the incidence of sexual assault on campus.
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Health
Getting around gluten
The Harvard Allston Education Portal on Thursday hosted a workshop examining the effects of gluten on health, with Jennifer Zartarian of Cambridge Health Associates answering questions and acting as a guide through the latest research.
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Campus & Community
Resources in the aftermath of tragedy
The following events are being held to help the Harvard community cope with Monday’s tragedy during the Boston Marathon.
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Campus & Community
O’Callahan a new director at HUHS
Patrick O’Callahan has been named the new director of after-hours urgent care and the Stillman Infirmary at Harvard University Health Services.
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Campus & Community
Barreira named HUHS director
Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber announced July 26 the appointment of Paul J. Barreira, M.D., as director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene.
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Campus & Community
Suzanne Vogel, researcher of Japanese culture, 81
Suzanne Hall Vogel, a psychotherapist at Harvard University Health Services for 27 years, died on June 19.
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Campus & Community
Tuned to emotions
Student Mental Health Liaisons promote emotional well-being among their classmates through outreach, events, and activities.
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Campus & Community
The no-diet dietitian
Forget nutrition labels and calorie counting. Michelle Gallant, a clinical dietitian at Harvard University Health Services, is on a one-woman mission to teach how proper eating means trusting your gut.
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Health
Decoding keys to a healthy life
Now 74 years young, the Harvard Study of Adult Development continues to yield a treasure trove of data about how people behave, and change — including predictions of strong indicators to a happy life.
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Health
A winter wellness workout
Dozens of Harvard undergraduates started the year with a new emphasis on wellness, thanks to the Optimal Health program. With presentations from a lifestyle medicine consultant, a nutritionist, a personal trainer, a sleep specialist, and a stress manager, Optimal Health emphasized prevention and fitness.
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Campus & Community
Rosenthal to depart HUHS
David Rosenthal, who has been director of Harvard University Health Services for 23 years and oversaw both physical and electronic modernization, is stepping down at the end of the academic year.
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Campus & Community
Intuitive eating seminar open for enrollment
Harvard University Health Services’ Intuitive Eating Seminar is open for registration.
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Campus & Community
Moments that make Commencement
After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…
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Campus & Community
Senior relief
Harvard offers a wealth of resources to help seniors manage stress and get as much from their last year of college as they have from their first three.
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Campus & Community
Hardly the retiring kind
A vital resource, the Harvard University Retirees Association keeps former employees connected to the University’s vast resources, and to each other.
