Review 
Health policy efforts focus on improving health care delivery, quality, and equity while controlling costs.
Press Releases
- Most Massachusetts practicing physicians support state's reform law
- Majority in Massachusetts still support health reform law
- Hospitals slow to adopt electronic health records
- Surgical checklist reduces deaths by more than 40 percent
Related Links
- Department of Health Policy and Management
- Department of Global Health and Population
- Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Related Stories
- VA pioneers digital medical records
- Stimulus funds could widen digital health divide
- Dean Frenk calls for health "reform in the midst of a storm"
- HSPH's Atul Gawande and Meredith Rosenthal in NEJM panel discussion on health care costs
- Fear of lawsuits leads to wasteful treatments, higher health care costs
HEALTH CARE FINANCING
Reining in Health Care Costs
As commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, Sarah Iselin, SM’99, is responsible for implementing key provisions of the state’s health care legislation— this despite a budge deficit that in February 2009 exceeded $1.5 billion.
Employer Health Incentives
Employee wellness programs prod workers to adopt healthier lifestyles
Doctoring In A Digital World
Electronic health records could make care safer and save money. So why aren't more doctors and hospitals using them?
Health Care and Uncle Sam
To make health insurance more affordable and accessible, reform the federal tax code, says HSPH Professor of Health Economics Katherine Baicker.
Health Care for Almost Everyone
Massachusetts' bold experiment
MEDICAL ERRORS/MALPRACTICE/QUALITY
A Simple Checklist That Saves Lives
Fighter pilots use checklists to avoid deadly errors. Why not surgeons, too?
"We're Sorry"
The healing power of apology - and how two little words could make medicine safer
The Pen and the Scalpel
Atul Gawande is a surgeon and an award-winning scribe.
DRUG POLICY
Drug Companies at the Crossroads
HSPH's Michelle Mello explores the thorny issues at the intersection of public health, law, and ethics.
HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
China's leaders, HSPH experts unite in reform effort
Keeping 1.3 Billion People Healthy
Restoring health care for China's peasant farmers
The Innovation Revolution
Reenergizing India's national health service
A Dose of Prevention
HSPH joins India's ambitious effort to create new public health schools
MICROFINANCE
The Difference $100 Can Make
A Harvard undergraduate explores the macro benefits of microlending—and discovers a passion for public health.
OTHER
Death By Violent Means: Who's at Risk?
A CDC database piloted by HSPH is galvanizing prevention measures.
What Money Can't Buy
For millions of Chinese, there's more to well-being than income.
Banner image: Kent Dayton/HSPH