Most U.S. adults eat too much salt—which increases the risk of high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke—but consumption patterns tend to vary across racial and ethnic groups, according to a study published May 28 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. First author Jessica Cheng, a postdoctoral research…
For more than 20 years, Marc Weisskopf has been working to understand why military veterans face twice the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal disease with no known cause or cure, as the rest of the population. That research is now in jeopardy due to federal funding cuts, said Weisskopf, Cecil K….
Hide caption Show caption Image by Josh Appel (@joshappel) at Unsplash.com A new STAT News article highlights concerns from STRIPED’s Ariel Beccia and other experts about the continued exclusion of eating disorders from national chronic disease priorities. Despite their high mortality rate and growing prevalence—especially among youth—eating disorders remain underfunded and overlooked in federal health…
People who self-identified as a sexual minority were nearly twice as likely to have a pregnancy that ended in abortion than their heterosexual peers—and thus may be disproportionately impacted by abortion restrictions, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study was published May 6 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers…
Over the past several months, the federal government has terminated roughly 2,100 National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants worth around $9.5 billion. One of the most detailed accounts of those grant terminations has been produced by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Scott Delaney. Delaney, a research scientist in the Department of Environmental…
Women who ate diets rich in high-quality carbohydrates—including fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes—were more likely to stay healthy as they aged than those who did not, according to a recent study led by researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
“When I applied to PhD programs, the BPH program fit my research interests. I’m surrounded by people who are focused on public health for everyone, and that motivation ends up informing the basic biology research that I do.” Reflecting on her academic journey that eventually brought her to The Harvard Chan School’s Biological Sciences…
Home Congrats to new Grad Lab PhD Candidates! May 29, 2025 Jump to Section Share Post LinkedIn Facebook WhatsApp Email Copy link Huge congratulations to PhD students Maddy Kline, Bailey Bowcutt, and Eric Neubauer Vickers on passing their qualifying exams this spring! We’re very proud of our now-official PhD candidates and excited to see where…
In May, Aditya Bandekar published the fantastic article Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Current Biology. It describes the spatiotemporal aspects of gonococcal cell proliferation – highlighting the importance of cell morphology in determining the fidelity of chromosome segregation and cell division. Grad Lab members Samantha Palace, Yi Wang, and Yonatan Grad…
We are proud to announce that Dr. Christian Happi, an adjunct faculty member in our department, has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025. This recognition highlights his significant contributions to infectious disease research and public health. Dr. Happi believes that African nations, which historically struggle with pathogen surveillance for future…
