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Welcome to the July issue of HSPH
Update, an e-letter for friends of the
Harvard School of Public Health.
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HSPH
researchers advising government officials on Gulf oil spill
 As cleanup from BP's ruptured
Deepwater Horizon
well continues in the Gulf of Mexico, HSPH researchers Robert Herrick and James Shine are
sharing data and recommendations with government officials charged
with managing the disaster. Read more |
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Research News
 Misconceptions About AIDS
The 18th International AIDS conference is taking place this week. In an op-ed for Reuters, AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, a lecturer in the
Department of Global Health and Population, discusses four
misconceptions about the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read more
Creating realistic targets for developing global health workforce Global
health workforce targets set by the World Health Organization are
unrealistic for many low-income developing countries. HSPH researchers Thomas Bossert and Tomoko Ono propose an alternative
that takes into account a country's financial resources and shifts the mix of workers to a more
efficient, cheaper mix of doctors, nurses and midwives. Read 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
Bicycling,
brisk walking help women control weight
Premenopausal women who
make even small increases in the amount of time
they spend bicycling or walking briskly every day decrease their risk of
gaining weight, according to a study by HSPH researchers. Read more
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Dean Frenk to join
Commonwealth Fund Board
of Directors
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk has been elected to The Commonwealth Fund Board of
Directors. His membership on the Board will begin in April 2011. The
Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent
research on health care issues and makes grants to improve health care
practice and policy. Read more |
Division of Policy
Translation and Leadership Development launches The School's new Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development officially launched on July 1. 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 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. 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. Read more |
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Alumna serving in Afghan government
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 Suraya Dalil, MPH'05, has been Afghanistan's deputy minister for
policy and planning and acting minister of health since January. Read moreIn 2005, Dalil
told the Harvard Public Health Review that she wanted to return home to Afghanistan, despite the pain of war
and political oppression. Read more
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Nutrition News
Is milk good or bad for us? The answer is unclear
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Walter Willett, chair of the HSPH Department of Nutrition, suggests that
drinking one to two cups of milk a day can be safe and nutritious. But
he adds that the benefits of drinking more are unclear. Read more
Cut the Salt, Keep the Flavor
HSPH's Frank Sacks and Lilian Cheung discuss reducing salt for healthy eating on
ABC's Nightline. Watch the video
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