Unlocking the Secrets of Drug Resistance in Malaria Parasites
New Gene Search Tool Opens “Endless Possibilities” Dyann Wirth, chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (left) and Pardis Sabeti, assistant professor in the Department of...
View ArticleDean's Message: A Broader View of Global Security
The year 2001 saw not only the horrors of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, but also the establishment of the UN Commission on Human Security. In its report to the General Assembly, the commission wrote...
View ArticleLife After Death: Helping Former Child Soldiers Become Whole Again
A 14-year-old former child soldier in Sierra Leone photo: Stuart Freedman/PANOS Today, among the 87 war-torn countries in which data have been gathered, 300,000–500,000 children are involved with...
View ArticleReturning Home, with a Plan to Thwart Killer TB
Osman Abdullahi, a molecular epidemiologist and postdoctoral research fellow at HSPH, plans to open a tuberculosis laboratory in his homeland of Kenya. In Kenya’s arid Wajir district, across the...
View ArticleA Launchpad for Leaders
When Roy Wade was a medical resident at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, one patient in the pediatric clinic he was working in really stuck with him: a 16-year-old girl with a deeply...
View ArticleFrontlines Fall 2011
FrontlinesLearn more about stories in the Fall 2011 issue of the Harvard Public Health Review.
View ArticleWhy IS Health Care Reform So Elusive?
Why IS Health Care Reform So Elusive? HSPH health policy expert John McDonough discusses the revolutionary health reform law.
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Oregon's experiment with Medicaid gives an HSPH economist a rare chance to analyze effects of extended coverage. Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics In March 2008, a colleague burst into...
View ArticleMobilizing a Revolution: How Cellphones are Transforming Public Health
Between 2006 and 2008, outbreaks of cholera—a deadly infection spread by contaminated drinking water—struck hundreds of victims in Rwanda. In response, Nathan Eagle, Harvard School of Public Health...
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Vermont's single-payer health care plan is just the latest of Bill Hsiao's many public health reforms.
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