Harvard School of Public Health

The Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to advancing the public's health through learning, discovery and communication. The School's research and training programs emphasize five critical areas (1) AIDS, Cancer, and Heart Disease; (2) Behavior, Nutrition, and Lifestyle; (3) The Environment; (4) Health Care; and (5) World Health.

Affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health
Web site: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/

Recent articles about Harvard School of Public Health

Not having health insurance is expensive (October 5, 2009)
School of Public Health professor advising feds on H1N1 policy (September 30, 2009)
NIH funds risky, potentially transformative research by Harvard faculty members (September 24, 2009)
NIH renews Harvard Center for AIDS Research grant for another five years (August 14, 2009)
Economy shaping health care reform effort (August 6, 2009)
Lifestyle culprit in increase in cardiovascular disease (July 24, 2009)
Parents concerned about financial impact of possible school flu closings (July 17, 2009)
D. Mark Hegsted, 95, Harvard Nutritionist, Is Dead (The New York Times, July 9, 2009)
Jeremiah Mead, architect of respiratory mechanics field, dies (July 8, 2009)
D. Mark Hegsted, national force in science of human nutrition, dies (June 20, 2009)
‘Water guy’ John Briscoe stays in motion (June 15, 2009)
How growing cells move together (June 3, 2009)
Chemical leaches from plastic drinking bottles into people (May 21, 2009)
Survey: Many Americans protecting themselves against H1N1 (May 8, 2009)
Scholars discuss ‘medicalization’ of formerly normal characteristics (May 6, 2009)
Survey: Nearly half of Americans concerned they or their family may get sick from swine flu (May 1, 2009)
Outwitting mutating flu during a pandemic (May 1, 2009)
Harvard dean praises Mexican response to swine flu (The Boston Globe, April 28, 2009)
Majority of new cases of diabetes in older U.S. adults could be prevented (April 27, 2009)
Smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight top three preventable causes of death in the U.S. (April 27, 2009)

Affiliated researchers cited in HarvardScience