Press
October 2025
At least 170 US hospitals face major flood risk. Experts say Trump is making it worse. (Caleb Dresser quoted, CNN, October 5, 2025)
Alumni and Reunion Weekend 2025 celebrates leadership, connection, and public health impact (Mary T. Bassett and Yara M. Asi mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, October 2, 2025)
September 2025
Opinion: Health equity research is evidence-based, helps everyone thrive (Nancy Krieger and Mary T. Bassett quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, September 29, 2025)
New cohort of Scholarly Working Groups to tackle pressing global health challenges (Satchit Balsari mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, September 25, 2025)
Confronting extreme heat, cities prepare for a silent killer (Satchit Balsari mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, September 25, 2025)
Confronting Extreme Heat, Cities Prepare for a Silent Killer (Satchit Balsari mentioned, Harvard University Bloomberg Center for Cities, September 23, 2025)
Canadian Roma: A People Uncounted (FXB Roma Program report profiled, Travellers Times, September 5, 2025)
August 2025
Some Common Medications Have a Little-Known Side Effect (Catharina Giudice quoted, Bloomberg, August 9, 2025)
NIH director Bhattacharya’s views on health disparities contradict, experts say (Mary T. Bassett and Nancy Krieger quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, August 7, 2025)
How Trump’s executive order could criminalize homelessness: ‘Terrifying’ (Margaret Sullivan quoted, The Guardian, August 7, 2025)
Physicians lead effort to end race-based bias in lung function testing (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, MSN News, August 1, 2025)
July 2025
Efforts Underway to End Race-Based Assessments of Lung Function (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, Mass General Brigham Newsroom, July 30, 2025)
Global Health Institute: remember climate this Disability Pride Month (Satchit Balsari quoted, Tess Wiskel mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, July 25, 2025)
June 2025
SPH Partners with MAPC to Host Symposium on Heat Health (Caleb Dresser quoted, BU School of Public Health News, June 26, 2025)
As temperatures soar, researchers and advocates talk extreme heat solutions (Caleb Dresser quoted, The Bay State Banner, June 25, 2025)
Boston continues to bake in simmering temperatures. Here’s where to cool down (Tess Wiskel quoted, NBC Boston, June 23, 2025)
Hunger in Gaza and the Ongoing Weaponization of Aid (Yara M. Asi authored, Arab Center Washington DC, June 20, 2025)
Israel’s Undeniable War Crimes in Gaza (FXB study mentioned, New York Magazine, June 16, 2025)
“The Shame of Israeli Medicine”: How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues & Patients (Osama Tanous mentioned, Democracy Now!, June 5, 2025)
How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing thousands of young men (Catharina Giudice mentioned, Nature, June 4, 2025)
May 2025
Society for Romanian Studies Newsletter (Margareta Matache mentioned, May 2025)
The Shame of Israeli Medicine (Osama Tanous co-authored, The New York Review, May 31, 2025)
Healthcare, cities, and climate change: Challenges and opportunities (Caleb Dresser interviewed, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, May 29, 2025)
In Texas, an early heat wave raises concerns for summer (Tess Wiskel interviewed, NPR, May 17, 2025)
Rethinking How to Evaluate Impact: New Scale Measures Agricultural Community Power (Tori Cowger mentioned, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health News, May 7, 2025)
How hot is too hot? (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Harvard Gazette, May 2, 2025)
April 2025
The Long-Lasting Trauma of Family Detention Centers (FXB report on child migrants in immigration detention mentioned, TIME, April 30, 2025)
What’s lost when federal funding for research is abruptly terminated (Nancy Krieger quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, April 24, 2025)
Childhood trauma linked with worse teen mental health, less access to care (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, April 24, 2025)
Doctors for Change: Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism (Jennifer Leaning mentioned, Harvard Magazine, April 23, 2025)
Hospitals in Ruins (FXB PLOS Global Public Health study referenced, The New Yorker, April 18, 2025)
Conference explores injustices against Roma people, other groups (Roma Program conference summarized, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, April 17, 2025)
With the Threat of ICE Raids Looming, Hospitals Must Be Prepared (Lara Jirmanus co-authored, MedPage Today, April 16, 2025)
India 2047: Four-day convening in New Delhi brings together 180 scholars to advance climate resilience in India and beyond (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute News, April 3, 2025)
March 2025
As Trump Slashes Federal Grants, the Harvard School of Public Health Has the Most To Lose (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Harvard Crimson, March 25, 2025)
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them (Nancy Krieger quoted, NPR, March 23, 2025)
How heat affects informal women workers—loss of income, skin infections, domestic violence (Tess Wiskel co-authored, ThePrint, March 20, 2025)
At India Climate Conference, Harvard’s South Asia ties take center stage (Satchit Balsari mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, March 19, 2025)
Doctoral students awarded stipends for social equity, health equity projects (Dougie Zubizarreta, Jasmine Graves, Taylor Robinson, Mai-Han Trinh, Artair Rogers mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, March 19, 2025)
Federal funding cuts ‘will make us less safe,’ says expert (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, March 18, 2025)
The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’ (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Atlantic, March 14, 2025)
Stay safe from online hate with these five tips (Samuel Mendez quoted, Nature, March 14, 2025)
Harvard professors simulate and study Phoenix heat emergency (Satchit Balsari, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability News, March 12, 2025)
Where the need is greatest: Strengthening child protection systems (G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program mentioned, UNICEF Stories, March 11, 2025)
Harvard Researchers Broaden Study on Extreme Heat’s Effects on Health and Livelihoods (references Satchit Balsari’s Community HATS study, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute News, March 11, 2025)
Children’s mental health care lacking in migrant detention centers, study finds (Dennis Kunichoff, Margaret Sullivan, Vasileia Digidiki mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, March 10, 2025)
Measles Outbreak Expanding (Mary T. Bassett quoted, WCCB Charlotte, March 9, 2025)
Measles outbreak spreads to 12 states: authorities push for vaccination, testing (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Fox San Antonio, March 9, 2025)
NIH abruptly terminates millions in research grants, defying court orders (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Boston Globe, March 6, 2025)
Taking a ‘wrecking ball’ to global health: Public health expert on Trump funding cuts (Mary T. Bassett interviewed, CNN, March 4, 2025)
‘Health Freedom’ is a Fraud. What We Need is a Right to Health (Justin Feldman authored, Current Affairs, March 3, 2025)
February 2025
Extreme Heat Linked to Accelerated Aging in Older Adults, Study Finds (Nancy Krieger quoted, The New York Times, February 26, 2025)
Ph.D. students awarded more than $130,000 in Social Equity and Health Equity stipend funding (Taylor J. Robinson quoted, The Harvard Gazette, February 26, 2025)
Opinion: Romani people face racist tropes that must be curbed (Margareta Matache quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, February 26, 2025)
Allowing racist tropes about Romani people to persist is dangerous (Margareta Matache authored, Al Jazeera, February 22, 2025)
Doctors and Medical Schools Are Changing Treatments and Training to Respond to the Warming Climate (Gaurab Basu quoted, Inside Climate News, February 20)
Trump is ‘putting the health and wellbeing of Americans at risk,’ says Mass. health commissioner (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Boston Globe, February 7, 2025)
HUM SAB EK (We Are One) Continues Global Journey with Stop at The World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute News, February 7, 2025)
How political decisions affect public health (Nancy Krieger quoted, Harvard Public Health, February 7, 2025)
The bombs may have stopped but Gaza’s health emergency continues (Yara M. Asi authored, The New Arab, February 6, 2025)
How philanthropic investment can help protect children (FXB Child Protection Certificate Program mentioned, Financial Times, February 6, 2025)
Scientist calls the disappearance of federal health data a ‘digital book burning’ (Nancy Krieger interviewed, NPR, February 5, 2025)
CDC webpages go dark as Trump targets public health information (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Guardian, February 4, 2025)
After US weapons ravaged Gaza’s hospitals, US doctors can’t remain silent (Mary T. Bassett co-authored, Al Jazeera, February 2, 2025)
January 2025
Health resources vanish following D.E.I. and gender orders (Nancy Krieger quoted, The New York Times, January 31, 2025)
Huge health challenges face Gaza residents returning to their homes (Yara M. Asi quoted, WTOP News, January 27, 2025)
Health and physical dangers persist for Gaza residents (Yara M. Asi quoted, Aldergrove Star, January 27, 2025)
Huge health challenges face Gaza residents returning to their homes (Yara M. Asi quoted, AP News, January 27, 2025)
Considering rural areas’ complexity in shaping health interventions (Jen Cruz quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, January 17, 2025)
Finding Hope on the Path to Health Equity (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Blog, January 16, 2025)
How much will it cost to rebuild Gaza after 15 months of war? (Yara M. Asi quoted, BBC World Business Report, January 15, 2025)
New Study Highlights Disconnect Between AMA’s Stance on Climate Change and Political Contributions (Gaurab Basu quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, January 14, 2025)
As deadline looms, health systems rush to ensure clinical algorithms don’t discriminate (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, STAT, January 14, 2025)
Mega management: Why Western universities are studying Mahakumbh (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Economic Times, January 11, 2025)
ASHA workers to look for signs of distress in rural areas (Satchit Balsari referenced, Times of India, January 9, 2025)
How reparations could affect Black mortality (Jourdyn A. Lawrence quoted, Harvard Public Health, January 7, 2025)