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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Given the challenges aid workers face, said 
