Justin Ide, Harvard News Office

Breast Cancer in the Developing World
A Harvard-led team of experts convened a multi-day meeting in Boston recently of approximately 400 oncologists, public health experts, advocates, and international figures from 37 countries to discuss breast cancer in the developing world. Read the story in HPH NOW.

Pushing for Healthy Foods
Prof. David Williams, who also serves as staff director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America, discusses some of the progress being made to connect nutritious foods with the nation's health. Read his post on the Commission's leadership blog.

Health Care Quality and Reform
Donald Berwick, president and CEO of the Institute for HealthCare Improvement and a professor in the department of health policy and management at HSPH, spoke with Kaiser Health News about healthcare quality efforts. Watch the video.

HSPH Prof Heads Vaccine Safety Group
Marie McCormick has been appointed head of a new working group of independent health experts who are monitoring the safety of the H1N1 vaccine. Read the story from AP and watch a clip from ABC News.

HSPH Alumna Name to Top Health Job in Indonesia
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, a former doctoral student in global health and population, has been named Minister of Health in Indonesia. Read the article in The Jakarta Globe.

Swine Flu in Spring May Have Infected Millions
As many as 5.7 million people in the U.S. may have been infected with H1N1 earlier this year, according to a CDC report authored by Prof. Marc Lipsitch and CDC researchers. Read the Bloomberg story.

Biostatistics Luminary Stephen Lakagos Dies
Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the HSPH, died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years old. His wife, Regina, and his mother, Helen, were also killed in the daytime accident, along with the driver of the other car.

Read the HSPH press release and an obituary from The Boston Globe.

Interested in learning more about a healthy diet? Check out The Nutrition Source website, developed by the HSPH Department of Nutrition, where you can find the latest science about healthy eating for adults.

Recent Press Releases

HSPH Nutrition Expert Offers National Family Physician Group No-Cost Alternative to Funding from Coca-Cola
November 12, 2009

Poll Finds Two-thirds of Parents and High-Priority Adults Who Tried to Get H1N1 Vaccine Were Unable to Get It
November 6, 2009

New Analysis Shows Public Support for Health Reform Ultimately Dependent on Impact on Individuals
November 4, 2009

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Around the School

Health and Industry Perspectives on Flu Vaccines
Klaus Stohr, Vice President, Global Head, Influenza Strategy at Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Cambridge, MA, spoke to an HSPH audience recently. Watch the webcast.

Research Transformation Project Launches
Dean Julio Frenk recently initiated the project to review and innovate research administration at the School. The project is examining the School’s current research administration structure, with the goal of achieving outstanding support for the School’s sponsored research portfolio.

Annual Talk Provides Overview of School
Julio Frenk and David Hunter delivered the 8th Annual State of the School Address, their first as deans of the School, to a capacity crowd in the Kresge cafeteria on October 5, 2009, providing an overview of HSPH's financial status, research priorities, reorganizational efforts and milestones.

Also, watch Dean Frenk's talk, "Health Reform in an Era of Pandemics," which he gave at the Commonwealth Club of California.  

Authors Discuss Book On Empowering Women
Global gender inequity is the most urgent moral problem of the 21st century, asserted New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and former foreign correspondent Sheryl WuDunn at a talk at HSPH on October 5.  There to discuss their new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Watch the video of the event.

Health Challenges and Opportunities in Tanzania
The Minister of Health for Tanzania spoke to a capacity audience at HSPH on Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Watch a webcast.

Experts Debate National Health Care Reform
Profs. Katherine Baicker and Arnold Epstein discussed health care reform on a panel hosted by HSPH and NEJM. Watch the video.

Text Message Emergency Alerts
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HSPH In the Media

Shot, Spray or Nay? -- coverage from The Indianapolis Star, November 19, 2009, featuring HSPH's Gillian SteelFisher

Republicans Say Cancer Screening Guidelines Portend Medical Rationing -- coverage from The New York Times, November 17, 2009, featuring HSPH's Robert Blendon

AP Poll: Americans Fret Over Health Overhaul Costs -- coverage from The Miami Herald, November 16, 2009, featuring HSPH's Robert Blendon

Illegal Organ Trade Rife in China -- coverage from ABC News, November 16, 2009, featuring HSPH's Daniel Wikler

Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records -- coverage from The New York Times, November 15, 2009, featuring HSPH's Ashish Jha

Coca-Cola Deal With Family Doctors Draws Fire--and a Counteroffer -- coverage from The Boston Globe, November 13, 2009, featuring HSPH's Walter Willett

Health Courts for Those Who Never Thought They'd Have a Case -- coverage from CBS Marketwatch, November 13, 2009, featuring HSPH's Michelle Mello

Ohio Wants to Use Industrial Poison on Bedbugs at Home -- coverage from The New York Times, November 12, 2009, featuring HSPH's Richard Pollack

Lafarge Plant Health Risk Under Study -- coverage from The Albany Times-Union, November 12, 2009, featuring HSPH's Michael Bank and John Spengler

Teenage Obesity Link to Future MS -- coverage from the BBC, November 9, 2009, featuring HSPH's Kassandra Munger

Many Can't Find Swine Flu Vaccine, But Some Don't Want to, Survey Finds -- coverage from The Washington Post, November 7, 2009, featuring HSPH's Robert Blendon

Public's View of Health Care Overhaul Has Familiar Ring -- coverage from The Boston Globe, November 5, 2009, featuring HSPH's Robert Blendon

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