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President nominates HSPH's Berwick
 President
Obama tapped Donald M. Berwick, a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, which runs health programs insuring nearly one-third of all
Americans. Learn more
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The Green Carpet award goes to ...
 On the day after Earth Day, Harvard rolled out a green carpet to honor individuals, teams, projects, and Schools for their efforts to reduce environmental impact at the University. HSPH Professor John Spengler received a Special Achievement Award. (The EPA also honored Spengler this Earth Day with an Environmental Merit Award for Lifetime Achievement.) Sebastian's Café and the HSPH Green Team café program shared top honors with a Divinity School team in the Waste/Water Reduction Project category. And Individual Achievement awards were handed out to the following HSPH role models of sustainability: Erin Beasley, project coordinator in the Office for Educational Programs
Peter James, president of the Student Environmental Health & Sustainability Club
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HSPH students awarded Schweitzer FellowshipsHSPH students Lisa Peterson, SM'11, and Monica Wang, SD'14, have been selected as 2010-11 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Over the next year, Peterson and Wang will join approximately 200 other Fellows across the country in service projects that address the unmet health-related needs of underserved communities. Peterson and Wang plan to collaborate with youth leaders in the Boston area to raise awareness about healthy living -- particularly reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Learn more |
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Cut the salt, keep the flavor
 Sodium is a major culprit in our nation's epidemic of high blood
pressure--a disease that can start in childhood and will afflict nine out
of 10 Americans over the course of their lifetimes. Reducing the amount of salt we consume could save billions
of dollars annually on health costs--and save upwards of 90,000 lives--by
lowering blood pressure, and in turn, the risk of heart
disease and stroke.
Get practical strategies for cutting the salt in your own diet from the experts at HSPH's Nutrition Source and The Culinary Institute of America.
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Should
baseball outlaw smokeless tobacco?
Health experts raised concerns about the growing use of smokeless tobacco by
teenagers, and suggested its use by Major League Baseball players is
influencing young people to take up the cancer-causing habit. HSPH's Gregory Connolly said research shows that about one-third of
Major League players and one-quarter of minor league players report
using chewing tobacco and moist snuff. Learn more
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TB, AIDs, and malaria finding new ways to resist treatment
Rising drug resistance has turned what public health officials call
today's Big Three infections even more fearsome. Together, these diseases kill millions every year,
representing 10 percent of all deaths globally. Worse, the trio of
epidemics is tragically interconnected, with TB, for example, the
leading cause of death among individuals infected with HIV. "Drug resistance is the product of success: With treatment, we have
drug resistance," explains Eric Rubin,
professor of immunology and infectious diseases at HSPH. |
