Harvard Public Health NOW

Chinese Health Care Reform: The Good and the Bad

Health usually follows wealth, but that has not been the case in China, according to William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics in the HSPH Department of Health Policy and Management. China's booming economy is bringing rapid improvements to its citizens' standard of living, but improvements in health have stagnated, he told an audience on February 20 in Kresge G-3.

“Where Have All the Barefoot Doctors Gone?” asks HSPH Doctoral Student in Award-winning Essay in Lancet Anthology

How will China deliver quality, equitable health care to its people, while developing a health care workforce in a new era? Lingling Zhang, a doctoral student in the HSPH Department of Population and International Health, reflected on this question in an essay published in The Lancet's 2007 anthology, Young Voices in Research for Health.

Postdoctoral Fellows Finds Ways to Network, Learn, and Socialize 

Last May, a group of postdoctoral fellows launched the HSPH Postdoctoral Association to provide a means by which the School's 219 post-docs — who work in labs around the Longwood and Cambridge campuses — might connect with one another.

HSPH Faculty Participated in AAAS Conference in Boston

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) concluded on February 18 after four days of more than 150 symposia, special events, plenary, and topical lectures. The theme was Science and Technology from a Global Perspective.

Degree Planners Launched for Course Planning  

HSPH has launched degree planners, which are online tools providing a sample course schedule for each of the different programs, concentrations, and/or areas of focus offered throughout the School. The degree planners are useful for prospective students, current students, and student advisors.

Two Fellowship Programs Announced: One for Research into Child Development; One to Support Cypriot/Greek and Nigerian Students in Public Health

The A.G. Leventis Foundation Fellowship Program has been established to support Cypriot/Greek and Nigerian students and scholars in public health. And, The Julius B. Richmond Fellowship at the Center on the Developing Child supports dissertation research for up to two Harvard University doctoral students annually.