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While Massachusetts residents were recently found to have the second-highest life expectancy in the country, major health disparities still plague the state—and could widen if vulnerable patients lose access to the hospitals and health centers they’ve relied on.
Many deaths in the U.S. from the most common causes could be delayed or prevented with lifestyle changes and improved primary care delivery, experts say.
Health policy expert John McDonough discusses how profit-focused decisions by companies including Steward Health Care, UnitedHealth Group, and drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS, are damaging medical care in Massachusetts—and how the situation might improve.
Mentoring plays a critical role in how a tight-knit group of health decision science researchers support one another and bring new people into the fold.
A majority of Americans say that several key policies to stop the spread of COVID-19 were generally a good idea in hindsight, according to a new national poll by Harvard Chan School and the de Beaumont Foundation. The poll also found, however, that views varied across policies, and many say the policies had negative impacts.
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.
