Welcome to the June 2012 issue of HSPH Update, an e-letter for friends of Harvard School of Public Health.
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Chef in school boosts healthy eating
What's a good way to encourage students to eat healthier school meals? Change the food and put a chef in the school kitchen, say HSPH researchers. According to a new study, when cafeteria staffs are trained by a chef in ways to create meals that are both nutritious and tasty, students eat more whole grains, vegetables, and other healthy foods. Read more
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Human Microbiome Project identifies microbes that play role in health  | | Human Microbiome Project researchers Nicola Segata (l), Curtis Huttenhower |
New studies led by HSPH researchers have helped identify and analyze the vast human "microbiome"--the more than five million microbial genes that exist inside the human body. Scientists estimate that each person carries about 100 times as many microbial genes as human genes, and they want to learn more about the role that microbes play in normal bodily functions as well as in disease. Read more
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Hospitals receive letter grades for patient safety
Hospitals across the nation are now receiving letter grades--A, B, C, D, or F--for patient safety. The new initiative comes from The Leapfrog Group, a health quality nonprofit, which sought advice from a panel that included HSPH experts Ashish Jha, associate professor of health policy and management, Lucian Leape, adjunct professor of health policy, and Sara Singer, assistant professor of health care management and policy. Read more
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Jamie Oliver wins Healthy Cup Award
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Jamie Oliver, with Dean Julio
Frenk (left) and nutrition department chair Walter Willett, hoists the Healthy Cup Award.
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Television personality, food activist, and internationally acclaimed chef Jamie Oliver received HSPH's Healthy Cup Award on May 22, 2012 at a packed ceremony at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston. More than 500 people came to see Oliver, star of TV series such as Naked Chef and Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, receive the award. "We need a food revolution," Oliver told the audience. Read more; watch video from the event.
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Many sick Americans report financial problems, dissatisfaction with care
 Many Americans who have experienced a serious illness or injury within the past 12 months are concerned about the financial costs of medical care, and struggle to ensure that their care is appropriate, according to a new poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NPR, and Harvard School of Public Health. Read more
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Toxic mercury, accumulating in the Arctic, springs from a hidden source
 Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean. While the atmospheric source was previously recognized, it now appears that twice as much mercury actually comes from the rivers. Read more
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New video highlights HSPH nutrition researchers' cutting-edge work
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Check out a new HSPH video, first screened at the May 22 Healthy Cup Award ceremony honoring Jamie Oliver, that looks at some of the cutting-edge work being done by HSPH nutrition researchers to help people everywhere live healthier lives. Watch the video
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In new videos, students discuss why they chose public health
 A new HSPH video series features students talking about why they chose public health. Here, Predrag Stojicic, an MPH candidate and physician from Serbia, talks about how his work on HIV/AIDS prevention in his home country led him to pursue a degree in public health. Watch the video
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Video: Why financial aid?
Clare Rosenfeld Evans' journey to HSPH took her from her diabetes diagnosis at age 7 to the news that she'd been offered the Taplin Fellowship--which helped make it possible for her to pursue a doctorate in Society, Human Development, and Heath. Watch a new video that features some of the extraordinary students like Rosenfeld Evans, SD '16, who benefit from scholarship support at HSPH. Please make a gift to the HSPH Scholarship Fund today.
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