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An influential healer
 Atul Gawande, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and HSPH, landed a spot on this year's Time magazine list of the 100 people "who most affect our world."
Read the profile by Senator Tom Daschle
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Around the School The inaugural Thomas H. Weller Symposium paid tribute to the late Nobel Prize-winning physician, virologist, and HSPH professor emeritus, who died in 2008. Also at the May 3 event, William Foege, MPH'65, was awarded the first Weller Prize for his career accomplishments in public health. Foege was involved in the campaign to
eradicate smallpox in the 1970s and is now a senior fellow in the Global Health Program at the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Learn moreThe Department of Biostatistics' Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences was honored by The American Mathematical Society for its efforts to bring more minority students into the mathematical sciences. The "Mathematics
Programs that Make a Difference" award each year highlights two programs
that have developed successful, replicable methods for increasing
participation of underrepresented students in the field. Learn moreProfessor Takashi Kadowaki, who recently gave the Division of Biological Sciences' Distinguished Lecture, will be awarded the prestigious Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese
Government. A professor of diabetes and metabolic diseases at the University of Tokyo, Kadowaki has contributed significantly to the understanding of the molecular mechanism of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Watch a video of the lecture |
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New HSPH Center to tackle lung cancer inequities
 The Lung Cancer Disparities Center will sponsor research that identifies how
environmental conditions related to low income and education, as well as
race and ethnicity, affect risk patterns for lung cancer outcomes. Center researchers will
identify effective strategies to stop people from starting to smoke
tobacco and other strategies to persuade smokers to quit. Learn more
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Is all that sitting really killing us?
HSPH's Jack Dennerlein contributed a commentary on office ergonomics to the New York Times.
"There is a public health paradox in ergonomics -- we seek to design work
that fits a large population and reduces physical loading on muscles,
bones and tissues. Yet, we know that physical activity is important to
reduce chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease," he wrote. Read more
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Glimcher pursues a cross-disciplinary understanding of how cell biology
affects the immune system
 Trained in research by some of the giants of immunology, Laurie Glimcher is herself a major force in that field. |
