Tag: Mercedes Becerra

  • Campus & Community

    New faculty deans at Adams House

    New faculty deans at Adams House, Mercedes Becerra and Salmaan Keshavjee, will begin July 1.

    3–5 minutes
    Salmaan Keshavjee and Mercedes Becerra.
  • Health

    New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates

    Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.

    2–3 minutes
  • Health

    Harvard researchers receive $14 million TB study grant

    Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Partners In Health (PIH) have received a grant of $14 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The goal of the project…

    2–3 minutes