Welcome to the August 2011 issue of HSPH Update, an e-letter for friends of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Watch September 6 Live Webcast
DISASTER RESPONSE: A Decade of Lessons Learned Post-9/11 Watch Live Webcast Tuesday, September 6 at 3:30 PM ET MODERATOR
HSPH's Jennifer Leaning EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
HSPH's Isaac Ashkenazi and Stefanos Kales, and other invited experts. Submit questions for the expert participants before or during the live webcast to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu. |
Red meat linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers finds a strong association between the consumption of red meat--particularly when the meat is processed--and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The study also shows that replacing red meat with healthier proteins, such as low-fat dairy, nuts, or whole grains, can significantly lower the risk. Read more
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World population to surpass 7 billion in 2011 Global population is expected to hit 7 billion later this year, up from 6 billion in 1999. Between now and 2050, an estimated 2.3 billion more people will be added--nearly as many as inhabited the planet as recently as 1950. Other new estimates project that the population will reach 10.1 billion in 2100. HSPH's David Bloom says these increases represent unprecedented global demographic upheaval. Read more
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Physician-journalist reports on new model to lower health care costs
 Atul Gawande, HSPH associate professor in health policy and management, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and a journalist, interviewed a Camden, NJ, doctor who's working to lower health care costs by closely monitoring the highest-cost patients in the impoverished city, on a segment on PBS' Frontline. Gawande also wrote about the topic in a January issue of the New Yorker. Read morephoto: iStockphoto.com/Denis Tangney Jr.
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Meet Ramon Sanchez
 Ramon Sanchez, SD '11, and his twin brother, Jose, SM '05, hope to revolutionize the energy industry with microalgae biofuel farms. Ramon took up the cause while working in the automotive industry, but until he came to HSPH Ramon lacked the tools to demonstrate why switching to cleaner fuel made good public health and economic sense. Your gift to the HSPH Scholarship Fund today could make all the difference to a student like Ramon. Every year, every dollar from this fund goes directly into students' financial aid packages. But there is never enough to meet the need. Please support the HSPH Scholarship Fund today.
Photo: Kent Dayton/Harvard School of Public Health
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Health policy pro impressed with national health reform progress
HSPH Prof. John McDonough, director of the Center for Public Health Leadership, gives an overview of efforts to roll out the new health reform law.
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HSPH's Bloom: WHO needs change
The World Health Organization (WHO) needs major reform to regain its leadership as a trusted provider of scientific and technical knowledge, according to Barry Bloom, Jack and Joan Jacobson professor of public health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Read more
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