While cooking oils extracted from plants—such as canola, corn, and soybean—often get a bad rap from nutrition influencers, they are seen as safe and beneficial by organizations including the American Heart Association. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Walter Willett and other experts weighed in on the topic in a Feb. 25 Everyday Health…
More American workers are staying on the job past 65, and the trend is expected to increase as birth rates decline, the population ages, and workers contend with stagnant wages, inflation, and insufficient retirement savings. A Feb. 24 Time article focused on older workers in Vermont noted that while some people opt to work longer…
Home / News / Song, sax, poetry, and dance grace i-Night performance Hide caption Show caption Students Anoushka Dhru, Rajeshwari Subramanian, and Smitha Viswanathan perform a Bollywood dance. Photo: Sophie Greenebaum Soulful saxophone, Bollywood dancing, singing, and spoken word poetry were some of the highlights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s annual International…
Home / News / Understanding heart disease: Advances in risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment A Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum In 2024, researchers made noteworthy advancements in the ability to assess cardiovascular risk, creating new pathways to both prevent and treat heart disease. During American Heart Month, this panel focused on the latest innovations in…
Racist tropes about Romani people persist even in supposedly progressive places like Canada—and these tropes must be fought because they pose real dangers to people, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Margareta Matache. In a Feb. 22 opinion piece in Al Jazeera, Matache, lecturer on social and behavioral sciences, said that myths…
Home / News / Daniel Beaudoin—facilities director, mountain climber, public health enthusiast To prepare for climbing Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, a 20,548-foot peak, Harvard Chan School facilities director Daniel Beaudoin hit the School’s stairwells. Three days a week, for months, he climbed 50 flights in the School’s four buildings, carrying a heavy backpack and wearing a…
In March of 2023, the first National Pri-mary Drinking Water Standards for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were announced. The fourth Regulatory Determination that led to this development also included several other con-taminants for consideration: 1,4-dioxane (dioxane), 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP), and strontium, which faced no determination at this time. In this study, the relative risks associated…
Home Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire: Vaccines for the Future By Markella Paradissis-Healy February 25, 2025 Jump to Section Share Post LinkedIn Facebook WhatsApp Email Copy link Virologist and immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire will receive the 2024 Hans Sigrist Prize for her contribution to the development of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. Her research pushes the boundaries of vaccine technology….
Home / News / One thing everyone should know about cardiovascular disease Hide caption Show caption Pinkybird / iStock Goodarz Danaei, Bernard Lown Professor of Cardiovascular Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses one thing everyone should know about cardiovascular disease—that we can easily prevent fatal heart attacks and strokes by reducing…
The Grad Lab started off 2025 with a celebration of Yonatan’s tenure appointment with the department, alumni, and friends of the lab – Congratulations on your achievement, Yonatan! The end of 2024 brought two new papers. Kirstin Oliveira Roster published Estimating the undetected burden and the likelihood of strain persistence of drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in…
