Department of Health Policy and Management
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News
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Michael Dillon’s mission: the ‘incredibly urgent’ issue of LGBTQ health
Michael Dillon, MPH ’23, spent more than three decades managing mergers and acquisitions at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He combined his previous work experience with his Harvard Chan School education to launch a “second act”—advancing health equity for the LGBTQ community.
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Addressing life expectancy decline driven by COVID-19, opioid crisis
Experts at the 7th Cutter Symposium discussed how epidemics such as COVID-19 and the opioid crisis are shortening the human lifespan, and health policies that can help mitigate the problem.
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Substantial racial inequalities despite frequent health care contact found in treatment for opioid use disorder
In the wake of an opioid-related event, White patients received medication for opioid use disorder up to 80% more frequently than Black patients and up to 25% more frequently than Hispanic patients, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School. Across racial groups, patients made a similar number of visits to health care providers in the six months following such an event—indicating that disparities in treatment are not explained by low contact with care.
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Jane Kim announced as interim dean of Harvard Chan School
Jane Kim, dean for academic affairs and K.T. Li Professor of Health Economics, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Harvard Chan School, effective July 1.
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Complexities of homelessness explored at ‘deep dive’ event
Many facets related to the problem of homelessness—including its prevalence, causes, relationship to health, and ways to respond—were on the agenda at a two-day conference at Harvard University in late March.
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Class explores the role of insurers in health care
In a course at Harvard Chan School, Andrew Dreyfus, recent president and chief executive officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, is asking students to explore the question “Can health insurers be good?”
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Healer, mentor, music-maker
Joel Burt-Miller, MPH ’23, uses an array of talents to address physical and mental health disparities.
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U.S. governmental public health workforce shrank by half in five years, study finds
Nearly half of all employees in state and local public health agencies in the U.S. left their jobs between 2017 and 2021, and if such workforce contractions continue, more than 100,000 public health staff could leave their jobs by 2025, according to a new study from Harvard Chan School.
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Sharing the language of health
Elizabeth Perry, DrPH ’23, uses her communication skills and behavioral science training to help people thrive.
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Higher trust in public health agencies during COVID-19 driven more by beliefs that agencies led with clear, science-based recommendations and provided protective resources, than by beliefs that agencies controlled outbreak
In the first nationally representative survey of U.S. adults on reasons for trust in federal, state, and local public health agencies’ information during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found that high levels of trust were not primarily due to people believing agencies had “done a good job” controlling the spread of COVID-19, but rather to public beliefs that agencies communicated clear, science-based recommendations and provided protective resources, such as tests and vaccines. The survey found that lower levels of trust were primarily related to beliefs that health recommendations were influenced by politics or corporations, or were conflicting.
