Harvard launched a University-wide staff survey this week to hear from employees about a range of workplace topics. The quick, confidential survey follows similar efforts in 2006 and 2008 and will provide feedback to University leaders as they consider how best to create and sustain an engaging work experience at Harvard. Each staff member received an email invitation to the survey on Nov. 15 and will have until Nov. 30 to complete it. Those who complete the survey can enter a raffle to win an iPad2. Read more
Thanksgiving suggestion: Tasty vegetable side dishes
Veggies don't have to be a bland afterthought on your Thanksgiving table. Fill your plate with delicious recipes from HSPH's Nutrition Source:
No one would mistake French fries and pizza for a healthy meal. Yet Congress is moving to overturn a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plan that would limit French fries and stop counting pizza sauce as a vegetable in school lunches, and to stall other healthy meal changes around whole grains and salt. News-media outlets reported on November 15, 2011, that the final version of an agricultural spending bill has watered down the USDA's comprehensive proposal for improving school lunches. The USDA's original plan was based on sound science--and could have helped turn around this country's obesity and diabetes epidemics. But the guidelines came under fire from food industry lobbyists, among them, potato growers, frozen pizza makers that supply schools, and the salt industry. Read more on HSPH's Nutrition Source.
Around the School
HSPH hosts seminar on School's contributions to maternal health
Wafaie Fawzi, Jennifer Leaning, Atul Gawande, Ana Langer. Photo: Aubrey LaMedica
At a November 7, 2011, event, HSPH faculty spoke about their efforts to boost the health of mothers around the globe and prevent unnecessary maternal deaths. Read more
Ministerial Leadership in Health Program launches
Photo İOscar Gutierrez
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk met with South African Deputy President the Hon. Kgalema Motlanthe at the November 4 launch of the School's new Ministerial Leadership in Health Program. Read Motlanthe's remarks
HP&M instructors honored
Photo İDon West
W. Michael Byrd and Linda Clayton, instructors in HSPH's Department of Health Policy and Management, were awarded honorary degrees from Wheelock College, in Boston, during the school's annual Convocation Ceremony on September 14. Byrd and Clayton, a married couple, are both practicing obstetrician-gynecologists. Read more
No one would mistake French fries and pizza for a healthy meal. Yet Congress is moving to overturn a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plan that would limit French fries and stop counting pizza sauce as a vegetable in school lunches, and to stall other healthy meal changes around whole grains and salt. News-media outlets reported on November 15, 2011, that the final version of an agricultural spending bill has watered down the USDA's comprehensive proposal for improving school lunches. The USDA's original plan was based on sound science--and could have helped turn around this country's obesity and diabetes epidemics. But the guidelines came under fire from food industry lobbyists, among them, potato growers, frozen pizza makers that supply schools, and the salt industry. 
