Do we shrink as we grow older?
HSPH alumnus pens book on middle-aged health issues
 You used to sleep soundly for hours, but now you wake up once or twice a night. You're losing a small patch of hair on your scalp. You can't hear too well out of one ear. You have trouble remembering people's names. But you're middle-aged, so it's probably normal
--right? Harvard School of Public Health alumnus John Whyte offers advice on these and many other issues facing folks in their 40s, 50s, and 60s in his new book, Is This Normal? The Essential Guide to Middle Age and Beyond. Read more
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Watch October 20 live webcast
The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health
REFORMING THE 2012 FARM BILL: Subsidies, Food Assistance and America's Health
October 20
2:30-3:30 PM
www.ForumHSPH.org
EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
David Ludwig, professor, pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; Barry Popkin, WR Kenan, Jr Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and professor of economics; Gary W. Williams, professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University; Walter Willett, chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
MODERATOR
Abigail Trafford, author and former health editor, The Washington Post
ASK THE EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
* Tweet your questions using the hash tag #farmforum
* E-mail theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
* Submit your question to the Community Discussion page
PARTICIPATE DURING THE LIVE WEBCAST
Join the live comments, which will be featured on The Forum's 2012 Farm Bill web page.
We'll also be live-tweeting from @ForumHSPH.
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Around the School
Three HSPH faculty members elected to IOM 
HSPH faculty members Katherine Baicker, Atul Gawande, and JoAnn Manson are among the 65 new Institute of Medicine members announced by the IOM on October 17, 2011, in conjunction with its 41st annual meeting. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Read more
HSPH's Williams honored HSPH Prof. David Williams received the prestigious Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association's Medical Sociology section in honor of his "outstanding and distinguished career in medical sociology." It was presented in August at the annual meeting of the ASA. Read more
HSPH partners with Mass. on childhood obesity prevention in New Bedford, Fitchburg
Pilot programs to fight childhood obesity will be launched in New Bedford and Fitchburg, thanks to a $1.7 million federal grant awarded to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The Harvard School of Public Health is a partner in the effort, as is Harvard Medical School's Department of Population Medicine and the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality. Read moreYerby Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program
applications due Nov. 1.
Harvard University CFAR request for proposals The Harvard University Center for AIDS Research is accepting proposals for feasibility projects and scholar awards. The deadline is November 14. Algorithm development through crowdsourcingHarvard Catalyst announced a unique, time-limited opportunity for the Harvard community to use crowdsourcing to identify solutions to computational algorithmic problems with a health-related application. Crowdsourcing, in this case, will be done by engaging a world-wide online community of highly-skilled problem solvers competing for prize money. Algorithms developed through crowdsourcing tend to outperform solutions derived through conventional means, sometimes by orders of magnitude. Harvard Catalyst will provide assistance in formulating the final prize statement as well as prize money for several challenges to be run on a crowdsourcing platform. Harvard Catalyst invites faculty, associates, students, and other members of Harvard University and its affiliated institutions to submit an algorithmic problem with health-related applications for consideration. The submission deadline is November 18, 2011, with rolling decisions as of October 30. |
Energized, global effort needed to target noncommunicable diseases
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The United Nations, the World Health Organization, and disease-specific non-governmental organizations need help to address the mounting toll of noncommunicable diseases--such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and chronic respiratory disease--that already annually claim an estimated 36 million lives around the globe, Visiting Prof. Srinath Reddy told an HSPH audience on September 27. He said a "grand coalition" of governments, public-private partnerships, academia, and others is needed to address NCDs, which are predicted to rise significantly in the coming years. Read more
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Event highlights
The Cancer Divide: The Global Equity Imperative of Expanding Access in Low and Middle Income Countries
Oct. 28
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, HMS
Register (required)
AIDS@30 Symposium
Dec. 1-2
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, HMS
Register (required)
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Breakthroughs celebrated for Harvard's 375th
Prof. Barry Bloom talks about HSPH Assoc. Dean Jay Winsten's role in launching the designated driver campaign in the U.S. as part of Harvard's 375th anniversary video series. Watch video
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Join the HSPH community at Fall public health conferences
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Unlocking the secrets of drug resistance in malaria parasites
New research at HSPH is addressing an urgent need: early warning methods to detect the first signs of drug-resistant malaria strains, so that a swift response might keep them from gaining a foothold. Read more
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