Welcome to the September 2011 issue of HSPH Update, an e-letter for friends of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Harvard's healthy eating plate 
HSPH researchers, working with colleagues at Harvard Health Publications, have created a new Healthy Eating Plate. It's a simple and easy to understand visual guide that addresses shortcomings in the U.S. government's MyPlate icon. Read more
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THE FORUM
AT HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Disaster response: A decade of lessons learned post-9/11
Presented in collaboration with Reuters
 Watch the on-demand video at www.ForumHSPH.org, read a transcript, read coverage in the Harvard Gazette, review policy implications discussed during the event, and share the link with your colleagues.
Pictured: Moderator Aaron Pressman, Reuters; and panelists Stefanos Kales, Jennifer Leaning, Stephanie Kayden, and Isaac Ashkenazi
Photo: Kent Dayton/HSPH
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HSPH awarded $12 million grant to improve global maternal health
A new three-year, $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support an HSPH effort to significantly improve maternal health in developing countries. The project will be led by Ana Langer, professor of the practice of public health and coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health at HSPH. Read more
Photo: Rafiquar Rahman/Reuters
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Government-led efforts needed to curb obesity epidemic
Noting that many countries lack basic population-wide data on children's weight and height, HSPH Prof. Steven Gortmaker, lead author of a new paper published in the August 25 edition of The Lancet, and co-authors call on governments around the world to launch a coordinated effort to monitor, prevent, and control obesity, and the long-term health, social, and economic costs associated with it. Read more
Photo: iStockphoto.com/wdstock
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Support Zinzi's public health goals
 Zinzi Bailey, a doctoral student from Jamaica who grew up in Miami, wants a public health degree so she can help provide a voice for vulnerable populations and advance the campaign for social justice.When you include the School and student support among your philanthropic priorities, you are opening doors for Zinzi and others in the next generation of public health leaders. Every student has a story about why he or she chose a career in public health--in many cases leaving better-paying jobs in other professions and coming to HSPH. We invite you to hear some of their stories in our "Why Public Health" video series. Please help us to enable more students to pursue their passion for public health regardless of financial considerations by making a gift to the HSPH Scholarship Fund today.
Please visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/give
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Technology boosts humanitarian efforts  Given the challenges aid workers face, said Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), it's essential for humanitarian organizations to utilize new technologies that can help with communication, information-gathering, and data analysis. VanRooyen spoke at an HSPH Hot Topics lecture on August 16. Read morePhoto: Aubrey LaMedica/HSPH
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Orientation 2011
Following two days of workshops and panels, new students met their classmates at an evening reception.
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