STUDENTS

Each year, over 1000 students from more than 50 different countries pursue public health degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Clearing the Air

Students target air pollution from Boston to sub-Saharan Africa

Don't I Know You From Chennai?

How genes and environmental forces increase cancer risk 

How Genes and Environmental Forces Increase Cancer Risk

HSPH doctoral student Monica Ter-Minassian

You Have to Be There

Michael Von Clemm travelling fellows experience public health in the real world

Jocelyn Kelly: Panzi Hospital
Rachel Rosenheck: 2 million newborn deaths
Debra Vaughn Hester: 10,000 people, no doctors
Erin Hetherington: School girls at risk for HIV
Stephanie Psaki: HIV/AIDS patients' plight
Meike Van Hemelrijk: Treatments abandoned
Claire Chase: The cost of malaria 

An Investment in the Future

By HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom 

Project Antares

Can students launch enterprises that turn a profit and save lives? 

A Weighty Challenge

Pritzker scholarship winners fight obesity from many angles

A Geographer of Health

Mapping health risks in Cyprus and Boston

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FACULTY PROFILES

HSPH's world renowned faculty and researchers are credited with landmark discoveries ranging from identification of the AIDS virus most prevalent in Western Africa to demonstrating the dangers of dietary trans fats.

Mr. Water

John Briscoe offers bold, unorthodox ideas for managing scarce water.

Couple's combined expertise forges new directions for treating asthma and lead poisoning

HSPH faculty members Rosalind and Robert Wright

Society Is His Patient: HSPH Dean Julio Frenk

Q & A with HSPH Dean and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development

Heart Disease: the impact of genetics, stress, and lifestyle

Q & A with Associate Professor Eric Rimm, Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at HSPH