From the Harvard Public Health Review  

 

AIDS at 30: Hard Lessons and Hope 

Thirty years after the first official reports about HIV/AIDS, we look back on the human devastation and forward to a changed social landscape. Review editor Madeline Drexler asked distinguished Harvard School of Public Health faculty and alumni at the forefront of research where the epidemic has taken us and where it is headed. Read more

Read more stories from the Spring/Summer 2011 Harvard Public Health Review. 

HSPH research in the media

Study blames 2,200 deaths on traffic emissions
"What the study says is when you are designing and evaluating (transportation) policies, you should take into account the pollution impacts, because they do matter," Katherine von Stackelberg, a research associate at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, told USA Today. Read more

Stress does not increase risk of getting MS, study finds
"While we've known that stressful life events have been shown to increase the risk of MS episodes, we weren't certain whether these stressors could actually lead to developing the disease itself," said first author Trond Riise, of the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway, who conducted the research as a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health. Read more