October 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)
Harvard Public Health School Launches New Climate Change and Planetary Health Concentration, The Harvard Crimson, (Gaurab Basu quoted, 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, 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)