Harvard Public Health NOW

State of the School Address Offered 10-Year Retrospective, Annual Report, and Q&A Segment

For the seventh successive year, the HSPH community gathered in the Kresge cafeteria to hear about the School’s recent accomplishments and future goals. The State of the School Address took place on Wednesday, October 8, 2008. 

Professor Greg Connolly and Alumna Laura Rosen Work on Tobacco Control Efforts in Israel

As early as 1983, Israel passed a law banning smoking in public places. Problem was, the law was poorly enforced.  The ban was so underutilized that the amount of indoor air pollution from smoking in bars and cafes last year was nearly 20 times the level permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Those were the findings of a paper published in the August-September 2008 issue of the Israeli Medical Association Journal by HSPH Professor Gregory Connolly and alumna Laura Rosen. 

Mathematician Tchetgen Tchetgen Pursues Genetic Epidemiology

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen is a newly appointed assistant professor in the HSPH Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics pursuing an interest in genetic epidemiology. But his path was not always so clear.