Home / News / Considering rural areas’ complexity in shaping health interventions Hide caption Show caption iStock/IMNATURE There’s no one-size-fits-all definition of what constitutes a rural community in the U.S., but there are four distinct patterns of rurality, each with strengths and deficits upon which tailored health interventions can be built, according to a new…
Home / News / Mental health declined among U.S. adults from 2011 to 2022 Hide caption Show caption iStock/Elena Kalinicheva The number of U.S. adults who reported poor mental health rose significantly—and inequitably across social groups—between 2011 and 2022, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health….
The IT Department has completed January server and network maintenance. Please reboot your computer at your earliest convenience. This will refresh your network connection and apply updates. This applies to SPH-managed laptops and PCs that are both on and off campus. 2026 Monthly Maintenance Schedule 2/13/2025 3/14/2025 (Friday) 4/10/2025 5/16/2025 (Friday) 6/12/2025 7/10/2025 8/15/2025 (Friday) 9/11/2025…
IT will perform regular monthly system maintenance to servers and network equipment beginning at 7 PM Thursday, January 16th, and ending at 1 AM Friday, January 17th, Eastern Daylight Time. The following services will be unavailable during the dates and times above: All Virtual Desktop Systems File and Print services Mailman listservs Local SMTP email services…
Harvard’s Marvin Zelen Award – Nominations Due 2/14 The prestigious Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science is an annual award supported by colleagues, friends and family of Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics, and was established to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long and distinguished career as a statistician and his major role in shaping the field of biostatistics….
You’re reading Lessons Learned, which distills practical takeaways from standout campaigns and peer-reviewed research in health and science communication. Want more Lessons Learned? Subscribe to our Call to Action newsletter. Strategies to combat misinformation often use methods that focus on the accuracy of information, such as reminders to share accurate information and fact-checking. However, people frequently have…
In his academic year stay at HICRC (2023-20240, UK physician and Harkness Fellow Vageesh Jain wrote 4 papers on firearm issues, two which have already been published. In the first, Dr. Jain finds that the US minimum legal drinking age reduces suicide, largely by reducing alcohol-involved firearm suicide. Jain V, Miller M, Hemenway D. The impact of…
Home / News / Students get inside look at Massachusetts health policymaking at annual forum Hide caption Show caption Harvard Chan student cohort at Massachusetts Student Health Policy Forum. Front row, from left: Katie Zhang, Sophia Roe, Sophie Hearn, Ilahi Creary; rear, from left: Heather Soucy, Sheel Singh, Prof. John McDonough, Massachusetts public health commissioner…
Home Wildfires Can Harm Your Health, Even if You’re Far Away, Experts Say By Anna Miller January 8, 2025 Jump to Section Share Post LinkedIn Facebook WhatsApp Email Copy link Related Topics Last Updated January 13, 2025 Related News In the Media Cancer is the unseen danger in the Los Angeles fires January 13, 2025…
Home / News / Meta’s fact-checking changes raise concerns about spread of science misinformation Hide caption Show caption iStock/Egoitz Bengoetxea Iguaran Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its use of fact-checkers and launch a user-based “community notes” system to flag inaccurate or misleading posts. The…
