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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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- Jean-Jacques Muyembe, a Congolese microbiologist who leads public health emergency responses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including for COVID-19, is one of @Harvard's honorary degree recipients for 2022.
- Today, @WHO classified #COVID19 a #pandemic. Remember, the term pandemic refers to the scope of cases of the disease, not the severity of those cases. Thanks to Harvard Chan School epidemiologist @mlipsitch for helping us to develop these infographics.
- Something is very wrong in the United States and the United Kingdom, says @MichaelMarmot. While the rich continue to enjoy good health and longer lives, he said, the poor are getting sicker and dying younger. harvardhealth.me/x72
- "Teas do not detox: Our bodies come with livers, kidneys and other bodily processes to do that. These products are no more than a lucrative Trojan horse masquerading as a “wellness hack,” cleverly engineered to get millions of people to abuse laxatives in hopes of looking thin.".@jameelajamil's crusade against the Kardashian family's detox ads is ground zero in the fight against diet scams, writes Harvard public health professor S. Bryn Austin. Here's why the pseudoscience of weight loss products is so dangerous: nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
- A 2016 survey found that 72% of Americans rated coconut oil as “healthy,” though only 37% of nutrition experts agreed. @HSPHnutrition examines the science behind this popular food harvardhealth.me/2a8b4
- We love this holiday message from @HarvardChanDean: "There is something better than science and that is science with a moral compass, science in the service of humanity, science that makes current needs responsive to future needs." - William Foege, MPH '65
- On average, medical schools devote only 19 hours to nutrition education over four years.
00:00 - Have you ever thought to yourself, "How do I know that 2+2=4? Why isn't it 2+2+5?" PhD student @kareem_carr talks about numbers and abstraction with @PopMech bit.ly/31oFrUT @HarvardGSAS
- The 2020 Harvard Chan School Commencement speaker will be @muhammadpate, the Global Director of the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank and a professor at Harvard Chan School. Watch the School's online ceremony on May 28.
- These public health fortune cookies are really inspiring.
- Researchers say that a healthy lifestyle could prevent half of all cancer deaths harvardhealth.me/09d2 #WorldCancerDay
- "Invite me to your Harvard graduation." In 1997, the sixth-grade teacher of Christin Gilmer, DrPH '18, left this note on her report card. Today, that teacher, Judith Toensing, was at the Harvard Chan School to watch Gilmer graduate. #HarvardChan18 #Harvard18
- By 2025, @HHSGov predicts that there will be a nationwide shortage of nearly 90,000 physicians, many driven away from medicine or out of practice because of the effects of burnout. harvardhealth.me/150da
