Harvard Public Health NOW

In First Address to HSPH as Dean, Julio Frenk Describes Ambitions for School to Packed Crowd

In his first address since assuming the deanship on January 1, 2009, Julio Frenk described what he called his ambition for HSPH — to become the first school of public health of the 21st century and to invest in the highest quality students and faculty who will shape the coming decades.

Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Reflects On Career as Public Health Leader

"Politics should serve health and not the other way around,” said former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, citing one of the core principles that has guided him through six decades of public health service as he addressed a full house in Snyder Auditorium on December 10.

PBS Series on Health Disparities Featuring HSPH Faculty and Alumni Wins Broadcast Journalism Equivalent of Pulitzer Prize

HSPH faculty and alumni are featured in a PBS series on health disparities selected for an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

HSPH Economist David Bloom Selected by Paul G. Rogers Society for Group of Global Health Research Experts

David Bloom, a well-known health economist and demographer who has helped develop and popularize the notion that "health makes wealth," has been selected to join a group of 25 ambassadors in Research!America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research.