Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development launches
The School's new Division of Policy Translation and
Leadership Development officially launched on July 1, Dean Julio Frenk announced to the HSPH community in an e-mail. The Division is led by Director Robert J. Blendon, senior associate dean for policy translation and leadership development, and Deputy Director Robin Herman, assistant dean for research communications. It encompasses the Center for Health Communication, the Center for Continuing Professional
Education, and a new Center for Public Health Leadership -- as well as the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, run jointly with the
Kennedy School, and other activities. The new Division also oversees a venture debuting in October:
The Forum at Harvard School of Public
Health, for which Herman will serve as Director. Visit the Division's website to learn more. |
Surgery unavailable to one third of the world's population
 More than two billion people worldwide do not have adequate access to
surgical treatment, a number that shocked author Atul Gawande, a surgeon at BWH, and his fellow researchers. Gawande has a secondary appointment in the HSPH Department of Health Policy and
Management. Read more |
Around the School
 President Obama appoints Donald Berwick head of Medicare and Medicaid
President
Obama appointed Donald M. Berwick, a professor at HMS who has a secondary appointment in the HSPH Department of Health Policy and Management, as administrator of
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services. The agency runs health programs insuring nearly one-third of
all
Americans. Berwick was nominated in April. Read more
Asst. Prof. Sarah Fortune selected for award
Sarah Fortune,
assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases, has been
selected to receive a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The award encourages
the next generation of physician-scientists to stay committed to
clinical research by providing support as they transition to an
independent research career. Read more
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