Watch the Live Webcast, Friday, July 22  The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health ALZHEIMER'S: WHAT IS THE VALUE OF KNOWING EARLY? A View Across Five Countries Presented in Collaboration with Reuterspart of THE ANDELOT SERIES ON CURRENT SCIENCE CONTROVERSIES Friday, July 22 12:00-1:00 PM ET Watch at www.ForumHSPH.orgMODERATORJulie Steenhuysen, Health and Science Correspondent, Reuters EXPERT PARTICIPANTS- Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, and Executive Director, Harvard Opinion Research Program
- Adrian Ivinson, Founding Director, Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center
- Matthew Baumgart, Senior Director of Government Affairs, Alzheimer's Association
Submit questions for the expert participants before or during the live webcast to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
|
New chairs of Global Health and Population, Epidemiology announced Wafaie Fawzi assumes the role of chair for the Department of Global Health and Population on September 1. Fawzi succeeds David Bloom, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at HSPH, who served for 10 years. Bloom will continue as a faculty member in the Department.  Michelle Williams has been appointed Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and will succeed Hans-Olov Adami as chair of the Department of Epidemiology on August 1. Adami served for more than four years and will continue as a member of the faculty.
Read more
|
Mass graves documented in Sudan, says Harvard Humanitarian Initiative-affiliated Satellite Sentinel Project  The Satellite Sentinel Project has revealed visual evidence of mass graves in Sudan's South Kordofan, near the border of the newly independent South Sudan. The findings are based on the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's analysis of DigitalGlobe satellite imagery and eyewitness reports, according to a Satellite Sentinel Project release. The release states that the evidence is consistent with allegations that the Sudan Armed Forces and northern militias have engaged in a campaign of killing civilians. Read more
|
HSPH, HBS students team to develop health-care model for women's development organization in Mexico  Project Antares is a unique semester-long course and field experience that brings together graduate students from the HSPH and Harvard Business School to develop commercial self-sustaining health-care initiatives to better meet the health needs of low-income populations and simultaneously address one of the drivers of poverty. Read more
|
Medicaid increases use of health care, decreases financial strain, and improves health for recipients
 Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues have found that expanding low income adults' access to Medicaid substantially increases health care use, reduces financial strain on covered individuals, and improves their self-reported health and well-being. Read more |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Around the School Faculty hires and
promotions
Goodarz Danaei, appointed assistant professor of global health Jian Guo, appointed assistant professor of biostatistics SV Subramanian, promoted to professor of population health and geography Lorenzo Trippa, appointed assistant professor of biostatistics Faculty book 
Sample Preparation in Biological Mass Spectrometry (Springer 2011) co-edited by Alexander Ivanov
The aim of this book is to provide the researcher with important sample preparation strategies for a wide variety of analyte molecules, specimens, methods, and biological applications demanding mass spectrometric analysis as the detection end-point.
|
Indonesian prime minister discusses challenges of implementing health reform 
Minister of Health for the Republic of Indonesia Endang R. Sedyaningsih, MPH '92, SD '97, (pictured) shared her challenges with an HSPH audience. Read more
|
|
|
