Demographics
From Infographic: Then and now Sources: Education then and now: Percentage of persons age 25 and over with high school completion or higher and a bachelor’s or…
2013 Multimedia Archives
A Healthier World: The Impact of Financial Aid
April 2013 — Students and alumni talk about the impact that receiving financial aid to come to Harvard School of Public Health has made…
The uninsured and Medicaid
August 2013 — HSPH Professor Katherine Baicker discusses the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a unique study that evaluates the impact of covering the uninsured…
Why Public Health? Priya Agrawal
April 2013 — In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what…
Breakfast and heart disease risk
July 2013 — A new study led by HSPH researchers Leah Cahill and Eric Rimm finds that skipping breakfast led to a 27% increase…
Human Microbiome Project: Analyzing microbes that play a role in health and disease
February 2013 — Curtis Huttenhower, assistant professor of computational biology and bioinformatics, talks about the Human Microbiome Project and the role that microbes—organisms like bacteria,…
New findings in battle against drug-resistant tuberculosis
Sarah Fortune, Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases, on why some people infected with some “bad actor”…
Infographic: Global burden of disease
Our work is working… The past two decades have seen major progress in global health, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease study…
Reducing meal waste in schools: A healthy solution
January 2013 – How can schools provide healthy meals that kids will eat? HSPH research fellow Juliana Cohen talks about efforts to help schools…
Not just hunger-free, but healthy
Alumna Cindy Leung chose HSPH for her nutrition studies so that she could help vulnerable people eat healthier food—and have healthier lives. January 24,…