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A popular course at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health teaches students to harness the power of storytelling to motivate others to join them in translating public health research into societal change.
Alex Boyle and Aashna Shah, both MPH ’24, helped a nonprofit in India, Jaipur Foot, improve its patient feedback process while learning valuable lessons for their own public health careers.
In the 25 years since Columbine, federal gun laws have been weakened, state laws are a patchwork, and the U.S. still has more gun deaths per capita than any other high-income country. But firearms researcher David Hemenway sees reasons for hope.
A symposium at Harvard Chan School brought together academics, community leaders, activists, mindfulness practitioners, and monastics who studied under Thich Nhat Hanh to explore the intersection of health, mindfulness, and climate change.
A sharp uptick in homelessness in the U.S.—driven by high rents, shrinking public assistance, a lack of affordable housing, and fallout from the COVID pandemic—represents “a hard and complicated public health issue,” according to Harvard Chan School’s Howard Koh.
Sen. Bernie Sanders called the U.S. health care system “totally broken” and advocated for a Medicare-for-all system at a Studio event that filled Harvard Chan School’s Kresge Auditorium.
Far more people were enrolled in Medicaid during the pandemic than who reported in surveys having coverage—a discrepancy suggesting that many people were unaware that their coverage had continued under federal policies, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
A March 20 JAMA Viewpoint article discusses a growing category of Medicare Advantage plans—what the authors call “affinity plans”—and argues that these plans come with dangers for patients.
