The initial tidal wave of the injured has eased, after washing over Port-au-Prince's University Hospital and out to places like the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)'s Fond Parisien field hospital, which specializes in rehabilitation after initial treatment. But the need for medical volunteers remains acute. Hilarie Cranmer, MPH'04, an assistant professor at HMS and HSPH and an HHI-affiliated faculty member who is directing the Fond Parisien field hospital, said the focus has moved from amputating limbs to saving them. read more

Learn more about how HSPH faculty and alumni have responded to the disaster in Haiti.

Photo: Hilarie Cranmer in Haiti
Justin Ide/Harvard staff photographer

Understanding how pathogens evolve can shed new light on the dynamics of disease. Dyann Wirth, who chairs HSPH's department of immunology and infectious diseases, is leading an effort to use new genomic tools, first developed for studying evolution, as a means to better understand malaria and find effective ways to fight it. read more

Researchers, led by HSPH's Michelle Holmes, reported that women who took aspirin after completing breast cancer treatment were half as likely to die from the disease as women who did not regularly use aspirin. read more

Harvard President Drew Faust recently toured clinics and laboratories of the Botswana-Harvard Partnership for HIV Research and Education in and around Botswana's capital, Gaborone. Established in 1996, the partnership is a research and training collaboration between the government of Botswana and the HSPH AIDS Initiative. read more