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Why don't we spend enough on public health?
 "The field of public health has long been the poor relation of medicine. Medicine -- in which most resources are used to help cure individual patients after they have become sick or injured or to help manage already-existing chronic conditions -- is flashy, its master practitioners and innovators lionized,and its accomplishments widely celebrated. In contrast, public health -- in which most resources are focused on trying to keep something bad from happening in the first place -- is seemingly mundane, its efforts and prime movers often all but invisible," writes David Hemenway, professor of health policy, in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read Hemenway's four key reasons for public health's underfunding.
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Saturday Is for Funerals
 HIV infections have killed tens of millions of people worldwide, most in southern Africa. Botswana -- a country so ravaged by AIDS that Saturdays are unofficially reserved for mourning -- is the setting for this book by novelist Unity Dow and Max Essex, Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences at HSPH. |
Around the School Michael Grusby has assumed the enhanced role of Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Diversity, adding responsibility for overall diversity initiatives for faculty and students at HSPH to his current responsibilities. Gökhan Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the
Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, will receive the prestigious Wertheimer Award
from the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) in
July in Stockholm, Sweden, and will deliver the opening award lecture. Learn moreThe American
Physiological Society selected Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology, to present the Walter B. Cannon Memorial Lecture. He presented, "Physiology in Perspective: A Hard Day in the Life of a
Soft Cell," at the Society's Experimental Biology 2010 conference, on April 24. The Cannon Lecture is the Society's pre-eminent award lecture and is designed to recognize an outstanding
scientist for his or her contributions to the field. Learn moreKenneth Hill, professor of the practice of global health, received the Mindel C. Sheps Award at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America on April 16. Health Policy Lecturer Christie Hager was appointed New England's regional director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She reported to HHS on April 26. |
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HSPH in the Media
More police and fire recruits are flunking fitness tests. Researchers consistently find that among police & firefighters, 3/4
are overweight (including 1/3 who are obese), HSPH's Stefanos Kales told USA Today. Read more
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