Home / News / The power of public health storytelling Presented jointly with the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health How can storytelling raise awareness of urgent public health issues — and begin to shape a meaningful response? This panel of skilled storytellers shared insights from their own…
Home / News / Measuring the determinants of maternal health Hide caption Show caption iStock/Oksana Kalmykova A collection of studies led by maternal health researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health highlights unique research methods to improve measures for tracking maternal health determinants around the world. The collection, compiled by PLOS, was published…
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….
