Department of Health Policy and Management
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News
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U.S. men die nearly six years before women, as life expectancy gap widens
New research from Harvard Chan School and UC San Francisco shows that the life expectancy of American women is now 5.8 years longer than that of American men—a trend researchers say is driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid overdose epidemic.
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‘Crossroads’ conversations: Faculty, alums share key career moments with students
Harvard Chan faculty and alumni shared stories about major transitional moments in their careers and lives at an October 16 dinner with students.
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Sara Bleich, Christian Happi elected to National Academy of Medicine
Two faculty members from Harvard Chan School—Sara Bleich and Christian Happi—have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Improving accuracy of state-level obesity estimates to better inform prevention, treatment
A novel statistical method developed by Zachary Ward, assistant professor of health decision science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues gets around biases in self-reporting.
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Professor and former political appointee reflects on research and public service
Physician and health economist Benjamin Sommers spent two years on leave from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to serve in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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A new drive to end homelessness
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s pilot homelessness initiative seeks to address one of our nation’s biggest crises by focusing on what works.
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Doctors’ affiliations with large health systems may drive up costs
When primary care physicians work for or are affiliated with large health systems, their steering of patients toward specialists or other providers within those systems may be driving up health care costs, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
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The problem with Medicaid ‘unwinding’
As of late June, more than 1.5 million enrollees in Medicaid—the program that provides health insurance to low-income Americans—have been disenrolled from the program, due to a change in federal policy that went into effect April 1. Harvard Chan School’s Adrianna McIntyre explains why this “unwinding” is happening, which groups are most at risk of losing coverage, and possible solutions.
