Press
December 2024
Boosting community partnerships for immigrant mental health (Maggie Sullivan and Jocelyn Chu quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, December 11, 2024)
November 2024
Resilience in Action: Empowering India’s Informal Workers Through Crisis and Adaptation (Satchit Balsari interviewed, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Social Impact Review, November 26, 2024)
Fostering resilience in the face of adversity (David Williams, Brittney Francis quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, November 14, 2024)
Conservative policies could harm Americans’ health (Nancy Krieger quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News 2024, November 14, 2024)
Why the Trump administration will be bad for Americans’ health (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Guardian, November 12, 2024)
Oppose war in honor of service members (FXB Center mentioned, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, November 9, 2024)
October 2024
Addressing the U.S. maternal mortality crisis (Alecia McGregor quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, October 31, 2024)
Amid Hurricane Milton’s devastation, a sliver of good news (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Harvard Gazette, October 29, 2024)
Pentagon launches audit of ‘Israel’s’ management of US weaponry (FXB Center mentioned, Al Mayadeen English, October 25, 2024)
Local government actions can curb air pollution in India and Pakistan (Satchit Balsari co-authored, Nature, October 23, 2024)
DEI backlash affecting research focused on racism and health (David Williams quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News 2024, October 23, 2024)
Strikes near Gaza hospitals using MK-84 bomb indicate war crime: Study (FXB Center mentioned, Al Mayadeen English, October 23, 2024)
Measuring anti-Romani discrimination in Canada (Roma Program report overview, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News 2024, October 23, 2024)
US-made MK-84 bombs in Gaza may prove humanitarian law violations: Harvard study (Dennis Kunichoff quoted, Anadolu Agency, October 23, 2024)
Two years after its launch, Harvard, Americares release updated climate toolkit (Caleb Dresser quoted, Healthcare Brew, October 21, 2024)
Podcast explores what drives health disparities (Brittney Francis quoted, Tori Cowger mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News 2024, October 16, 2024)
Joseph Amon, Epidemiologist and Human Rights Activist, Named Director of Bloomberg School’s Center for Public Health and Human Rights (Joseph Amon, FXB Center mentioned, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health News, October 15, 2024)
El ejército israelí no respetó la protección especial de los hospitales al bombardear Gaza (FXB Center mentioned, ethic, October 15, 2024)
Hurricane Milton’s floodwaters are hiding a dirty secret (Catharina Giudice quoted, San Bernardino Sun, October 14, 2024)
El ejercito israelí no respetó la protección especial de los hospitales al bombardear Gaza (FXB Center mentioned, infoLibre, October 14, 2024)
El ejercito israelí no respetó la protección especial de los hospitales al bombardear Gaza (FXB Center mentioned, Servicio de Información y Noticias Científicas – SINC, October 14, 2024)
El ejercito israelí no respetó la protección especial de los hospitales al bombardear Gaza (FXB Center mentioned, La Sexta, October 14, 2024)
Hurricane Milton’s Floodwaters Are Hiding a Dirty Secret (Catharina Giudice quoted, BNN Bloomberg, October 12, 2024)
Racism was called a health threat. Then came the DEI backlash. (David Williams quoted, The Washington Post, October 11, 2024)
Inside the Partnership Between Harvard Researchers and a Palestinian University (Yara Asi, Bram Wispelwey quoted, The Harvard Crimson, October 11, 2024)
Republicans Are Hazardous to Your Health (Nancy Krieger quoted, The Nation, October 10, 2024)
A study analyzes the proximity of bombs detonated by the Israeli army to hospitals in the Gaza Strip (FXB Center mentioned, Science Media Centre Spain, October 10, 2024)
Satellite Reveals Bombs Near Gaza Hospitals in 2023 (FXB Center mentioned, Mirage News, October 10, 2024)
Israeli military dropped 2,000-pound bombs in “dangerous proximities” to nearly all hospitals in Gaza, study finds (Dennis Kunichoff quoted, CNN World, October 9, 2024)
Satellite data shows massive bombs dropped in dangerous proximity to Gaza Strip hospitals in 2023 (FXB Center mentioned, EurekAlert!, October 9, 2024)
Satellite data show massive bombs dropped in dangerous proximity to Gaza Strip hospitals in 2023 (FXB Center mentioned, Phys.org, October 9, 2024)
Study Reveals Israeli Military Dropped 2,000-Pound Bombs Near Gaza Hospitals (FXB Center mentioned, inkl, October 9, 2024)
Climate resilience focus at Alumni Weekend 2024 (Caleb Dresser, Gaurab Basu mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, October 9, 2024)
School mask mandate study highlights challenges of using observational data to study effects of public health interventions (Tori Cowger quoted, ScienceNews Net, October 7, 2024)
Polio in Gaza: Experts explain the outbreak and the public health response (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, October 3, 2024)
Dangerous rescue: Helene nearly turned a hospital into a death trap (Caleb Dresser quoted, E&E News by POLITICO, October 2, 2024)
Neighborhood Violence Is Linked to Using More Acute Care and Unmet Preventive and Mental Health Care Needs (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, UPenn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Health Care Access & Coverage Blog Post, October 2, 2024)
Carney should reopen as a full-service hospital, (Alecia McGregor authored, Commonwealth Beacon, October 2, 2024)
September 2024
Announcing the Founding Faculty Affiliates of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program (Jacqueline Bhabha, Evelynn Hammonds mentioned, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Research, September 28, 2024)
Improving COVID-19 wastewater surveillance to ensure equity (Tori Cowger, Ruchita Balasubramanian, Soroush Moallef, Mary T. Bassett, Nancy Krieger mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News 2024, September 20, 2024)
Extreme temperatures may contribute to thousands of additional deaths in the US (Gaurab Basu quoted, ABC News, September 20, 2024)
N.Y. can ease child poverty: Two former health commissioners lay out a plan (Mary T. Bassett co-authored, New York Daily News, September 15, 2024)
Loneliness is hurting our health, but these policies could help (Ichiro Kawachi quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, September 12, 2024)
Harvard Public Health School Launches New Climate Change and Planetary Health Concentration (Gaurab Basu quoted, The Harvard Crimson, September 12, 2024)
Children in Gaza will be protected from polio but not Israel’s airstrikes (Yara M. Asi authored, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), September 6, 2024)
Climate change and planetary health concentration launches (Gaurab Basu quoted, Caleb Dresser mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, September 4, 2024)
After a summer like this, are Calgarians ready for fall? (Tess Wiskel quoted, CBC News, September 2, 2024)
August 2024
Heat-related deaths spiked 117% in the US since 1999 (Catharina Giudice quoted, Yahoo!News, August 26, 2024)
U.S. sees a significant surge of 117% in heat-related fatalities since 1999 (Catharina Giudice quoted, Aussiedlerboten, August 26, 2024)
Heat-related deaths spiked 117% in the US since 1999 (Catharina Giudice quoted, KETV, August 26, 2024)
Racial, economic injustice may accelerate epigenetic aging (Nancy Krieger interviewed, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, August 26, 2024)
Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore (Gaurab Basu quoted, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives, August 16, 2024)
Beyond the Battlefield, War Is a Public Health Crisis (Yara M. Asi authored, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), August 14, 2024)
Want to cool down? 14 ideas to try (Tess Wiskel quoted, Harvard Health, August 9, 2024)
As eviction deadline looms, housing advocates urge Healey to reverse five-day shelter policy (Lara Jirmanus quoted, GBH News, August 8, 2024)
July 2024
If it feels too hot to run, maybe it is (Catharina Giudice quoted, The Harvard Gazette, July 30, 2024)
At climate summit, students from around the world focus on action (Caleb Dresser, Gaurab Basu mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, July 29, 2024)
Health and Human Rights Journal commemorates 30 years (FXB Center mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, July 26, 2024)
NYC Neighborhood Health Action Centers support Black maternal health (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Amsterdam News, July 25, 2024)
Understanding the Real Toll of Israel’s Assault on Gaza (Yara M. Asi authored, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), July 24, 2024)
Our policies punish pregnant people for getting treatment for addiction. It doesn’t have to be this way (Rohan Khazanchi co-authored, WBUR Cognoscenti, July 23, 2024)
Lower COVID vaccine uptake tied to unequal access to vaccination sites (Rohan Khazanchi’is study quoted, CIDRAP, July 19, 2024)
Water War Crimes: How Israel has weaponised water in its military campaign in Gaza (Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights Conflict and Health article “Nowhere and no one is safe” cited, Oxfam Briefing Paper, July 18)
Tackling the climate crisis: Local solutions for a global problem (Satchit Balsari mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, July 16, 2024)
Webinar: The destruction of healthcare in Gaza and the scientific assessment of settler colonial violence (Bram Wispelwey, Dennis Kunichoff, Sawsan Abdulrahim, A. Kayum Ahmed mentioned, Mondoweiss, July 14, 2024)
June 2024
3 Policy Approaches To Tackle Extreme Heat (Caleb Dresser quoted, Forbes, June 29, 2024)
Displacement Is the Point: Contextualizing Israel’s Decades of Violence and Destruction in Gaza and the West Bank (Yara M. Asi authored, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Peace, June 27, 2024)
We asked, you answered: The first presidential debate of 2024 (Lara Jirmanus quoted, WBUR, June 27, 2024)
The 42 best books and podcasts on health and science to check out this summer (Gaurab Basu quoted, STAT News, June 25, 2024)
First, understand that this is no ordinary heatwave (Satchit Balsari co-authored, The Indian Express, June 23, 2024)
Melting? Fossil Fuels Have Made Extreme Heat 35 Times More Likely in North America (Catharina Giudice quoted, Mother Jones, June 22, 2024)
Thunderstorms drench Boston as heat wave kicks summer into gear (Caleb Dresser quoted, 7 News WHDH, June 20, 2024)
How to tell if you are dehydrated in the extreme heat (Gaurab Basu quoted, The Boston Globe, June 19, 2024)
Extreme heat and the danger to your health (Gaurab Basu quoted, ABC News, June 18, 2024)
Preparations underway as New England braces for possible heat wave (Caleb Dresser quoted, 7 News WHDH, June 17, 2024)
As high temps loom in Massachusetts, schools close, cities set up cooling centers (Caleb Dresser quoted, CBS News, June 17, 2024)
Saint Levant’s Memories of Gaza (FXB Center referenced, Paper, June 13, 2024)
Everyone you know will eventually be highly vulnerable to extreme heat (Catharina Giudice quoted, The Japan Times, June 7, 2024)
Commentary: Maternal, infant health must be prioritized amid climate change (Caleb Dresser quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News 2024 , June 6, 2024)
Global migration course provides an on-the-ground learning experience (Vasileia Digidiki quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, June 3, 2024)
May 2024
The power of storytelling in public health (Predrag “Pedja” Stojicic quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, May 31, 2024)
Gaza demands a new kind of humanitarian action (Yara M. Asi authored, The New Humanitarian, May 30, 2024)
Heat Waves Increases Rates of Preterm Births, Leads To Poorer Health For Babies (Caleb Dresser quoted, Nature World News, May 30, 2024)
Bringing Climate Change into Medical School (Gaurab Basu interviewed, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability News, May 29, 2024)
Migrants Bring Opportunity to Boston and Beyond (Jacqueline Bhabha, Margaret Sullivan interviewed, Epicenter Podcast, May 29, 2024)
Lara Jirmanus: What Would You Risk for Someone You Don’t Know? (Lara Jirmanus, The Harvard Crimson, May 22, 2024)
‘Tell the cities about us … and tell our neighbors about what we do’ (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Harvard Gazette, May 22, 2024)
Graduation 2024: Award winners (Margareta Matache mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, May 21, 2024)
The US Medical Establishment Is Making One of Its Worst Mistakes—Again (Mary T. Bassett co-authored, The Nation, May, 21, 2024)
Nancy Krieger wrote the book on epidemiology. Here’s what’s changed since. (Nancy Krieger interviewed, Harvard Public Health, May 21, 2024)
Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza (Bram Wispelwey, David Mills, Yara M. Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh, Dennis Kunichoff, A. Kayum Ahmed mentioned, ReliefWeb, May 17, 2024)
Revised clinical guidelines on mandatory reporting of substance-exposed newborns show promise (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, Medical Xpress, May 8, 2024)
New Study Shows Promising Results from Boston Medical Center’s Revised Clinical Guidelines on Mandatory Reporting of Substance-Exposed Newborns (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, Boston Medical Center News, May 7, 2024)
Lack of safe hair products for Black women in Boston highlighted at art show (Marissa Chan quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, May 7, 2024)
April 2024
Statement from Harvard Chan C-CHANGE’s Dr. Gaurab Basu on new EPA power plant regulations (Gaurab Basu quoted, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE News, April 25, 2024)
Building solidarity to face global injustice (Mary Bassett, Natalia Linos, Margareta Matache quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, April 24, 2024)
Building climate-resilient health clinics (Caleb Dresser quoted, Johnson & Johnson Health & Wellness, April 19, 2024)
Telling workers’ stories through technology (Satchit Balsari quoted, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Alumni News Brief, April 15, 2024)
Natalia Linos, leaving School Committee for UN position, reflects on her one-year tenure (Natalia Linos quoted, Brookline.News, April 12, 2024)
The War on Health in Gaza (Paper published by Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights Leadership Collective referenced, Dissent, April 12, 2024)
Who Are the Roma People? A History of Persecution, Displacement, and Resistance (Margareta Matache interviewed, Teen Vogue, April 8, 2024)
CEU Marks 20th Anniversary of Roma Access Programs with Conference (FXB Center mentioned, Mirage.News, April 5, 2024)
How Can Health-Care Innovation Improve Patient Care and Access? (Gaurab Basu interviewed, AtlanticLIVE, April 4, 2024)
Behind the Scenes of the Exhibition “HUM SAB EK – We Are One” with Dr. Satchit Balsari (Satchit Balsari interviewed, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Harvard University News, April 3, 2024)
Documentary explores ‘invisible’ work of public health (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News, April 3, 2024)
Adding health to the reparations conversation in Boston (Mary T. Bassett quoted, WBUR, April 2, 2024)
March 2024
New Study Highlights the “Profound Impacts” of Limited Healthcare Access for Children Exposed to Violence (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, Boston Medical Center HealthCity, March 29, 2024)
Reparations as Public Health (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Harvard Magazine, March 27, 2024)
People are starving to death in Gaza: How hunger plays a role in war throughout history (Yara M. Asi interviewed, WBUR Here & Now, March 22, 2024)
Gaza Is Showing Us We Need New Tools to Measure Trauma (Yara M. Asi interviewed, The New York Times, March 12, 2024)
Commentary: Response to migrant family health requires more urgency, collaboration (Margaret Sullivan co-authored, Boston Business Journal, March 7, 2024)
Her friends’ parents were dying of cancer. Then her mom got sick. (Jen Cruz interviewed, The Harvard Gazette, March 4, 2024)
Q&A: AMA’s chief health equity officer on ridding medicine of racial essentialism (Mary T. Bassett mentioned, STAT, March 1, 2024)
February 2024
Children in detention lack adequate health care, report finds (Jacqueline Bhabha quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News, February 29, 2024)
Global Report Unveils Health Crisis Among Detained Children: Urgent Action Needed (FXB report referenced, BNN Breaking, February 29, 2024)
Improving children’s access to care could mitigate the health consequences of exposure to neighborhood violence (Rohan Khazanchi quoted, EurekAlert! News Release, February 28, 2024)
How reparations could boost Black wealth and health (Mary T. Bassett quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News, February 28, 2024)
Rural Americans seek options to give birth closer to home as hospitals continue to close maternity wards (Alecia McGregor quoted, Milwaukee Independent, February 26, 2024)
Research Shows How Reparations Are a Prescription for Black Progress (Mary T. Bassett interviewed, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Blog, February 22, 2024)
The Trauma Experienced in Gaza Is Beyond PTSD (Yara M. Asi authored, The New York Times, February 22, 2024)
How Reparations Could Improve Black Health and Wellbeing (Mary T. Bassett interviewed, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Blog, February 21, 2024)
Humanizing the Humanitarian Crisis in the Middle East (Sawsan Abdulrahim quoted, Duke Today, February 21, 2024)
Better quality health care needed for children in detention, says report (FXB Center report referenced, Medical Xpress, February 14, 2024)
Improved future pandemic responses hinge on more government involvement, experts say (Mary T. Bassett, Justin Feldman quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News, February 14, 2024)
New Fellows Bring Expertise on Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Public Health and the Environment to the Organization (Yara M. Asi quoted, Democracy for the Arab World Now, February 14, 2024)
Public Health Is Access: Protecting health care access for immigrant populations (Margaret Sullivan interviewed, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office for Alumni Relations, February 13, 2024)
Promoting breast cancer equity in rural communities (Jen Cruz interviewed, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, February 8, 2024)
The Relationships Between Health, Food, Sustainability, and Our Planet (Nile Nair interviewed, This Week in Sustainability Newsletter, February 6, 2024)
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke harm low-income and nonwhite communities the most, study finds (Catharina Giudice quoted, KWTX, February 2, 2024)
January 2024
‘Digital safety kit’ offers guidance for public health workers dealing with online harassment (Samuel Mendez quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Featured News Stories 2024, January 31, 2024)
Polish government policies support local solidarity for Ukrainian refugees: report (Vasileia Digidiki, Jacqueline Bhabha quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News, January 30, 2024)
Harassment in public health is real. Here’s how to respond. (Samuel Mendez authored, Harvard Public Health, January 23, 2024)
Study finds immigration detention harms children’s mental, physical health (Vasileia Digidiki quoted, The Harvard Gazette, January 22, 2024)
Migrant children in U.S. detention face physical, mental harms: report (Vasileia Digidiki quoted, Jacqueline Bhabha, Dennis Kunichoff, Margaret Sullivan mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health In the News, January 22, 2024)
An interview with public health expert Dr. Yara Asi on the genocide in Gaza: “What we’re seeing is a complete assault on every aspect of life” (Yara M. Asi interviewed, World Socialist Web Site, January 14, 2024)
Quitting This in New York State Could Buy You a Porsche (Mary T. Bassett quoted, WIBX 950, January 12, 2024)
Press Release: New Report Finds Immigration Detention Harms Children’s Mental and Physical Health (Vasileia Digidiki quoted, Harvard Global Health Institute Stories, January 11, 2024)
Physicians develop innovative approach to combat extreme heat: ‘This has massive ramifications…’ (Satchit Balsari quoted, The Cool Down, January 9, 2024)
Faculty news, notes, and accolades (Mary T. Bassett, Nancy Krieger mentioned, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, January 4, 2024)