Celebrating year of innovation and impact at HSPH
A new short video prepared as part of the School's year-end fundraising efforts, celebrates some of the people and accomplishments of HSPH in 2011.
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| Fighting malaria with spermless mosquitoes
 Flaminia Catteruccia, a molecular entomologist and new associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at HSPH, wants to learn everything she can about the reproductive biology of mosquitoes. Her goal is to develop novel methods for mosquito control to reduce the incidence of mosquito-borne malaria, which kills roughly one million people each year and for which no vaccine is yet available. It's a crucial goal, given that mosquitoes are increasingly resistant to insecticides. Read more |
Daily multivitamin is good nutrition insurance policy
 A healthy diet should provide nearly all the nutrients you need. But many people don't eat the healthiest of diets. That's why a multivitamin can help fill in the gaps, and may have added health benefits. Read more |
Scientists uncover evidence on how drug-resistant TB cells form
 A new study led by HSPH researchers provides a novel explanation as to why some tuberculosis cells are inherently more difficult to treat with antibiotics. The discovery, which showed that the ways mycobacteria cells divide and grow determine their susceptibility to treatment with drugs, could lead to new avenues of drug development that better target tuberculosis cells. Read more |
Around the School
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Award-winning catalog
 HSPH's 2011-2012 course catalog won an award from Printing Industries of New England (PINE) "in recognition of superb craftsmanship in the creation, design and production of top quality materials."
Fortune lab hosts budding scientists
 Science blogger Brent Danley's meeting with HSPH's Sarah Fortune at the PopTech Conference in Camden, Maine, in October led to an invitation for Danley and his daughters to visit Fortune's lab. Read Danley's blog about the trip.
HSPH student awarded field research funding
Josh Glasser, SM '12, is one of this year's recipients of funding for field research in crisis-affected settings through the Cogan Family Fund. Glasser will travel to Bangladesh during Winter Session to study vulnerability to climate change in Dhaka's slums. Read more
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