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...student council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) presented three professors with the Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award yesterday. Professor on Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon of the School of Public Health, Jayne Professor of Government Jennifer L. Hochschild, and Associate Professor of Medicine Raghu Kalluri of the Harvard Medical School each received an award, which honors “those Harvard faculty members who truly go out of their way to mentor GSAS students,” said Graduate School Council (GSC) President Crystal M. Fleming. Hochschild said yesterday afternoon after receiving...
...latest paper was the fifth and final segment in a series that Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon has been working on since 2001 with the aim of publicizing the American peoples’ concerns regarding health care...
...thought it was important for people who are in the health-care field and health policy world to know what the general public thought were the major health care problems,” said Blendon, who conducted the study with four other researchers...
...vaccine and treatment drugs are available. But HSPH experts say that the results of the study are still up in the air. “I don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert J. Blendon said. Under this contingency plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would promote traditional approaches for contagion control such as washing your hands or covering your mouth when you sneeze. For his part, CDC quarantine chief Martin Cetron said that the results of the Harvard study could guide future...
...conventional wisdom after Katrina was that most of the people who failed to evacuate were too poor to do so. But a recent survey of more than 2,000 respondents in eight hurricane-prone states showed that other forces may also be at play. The survey, led by Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health, attempted to determine what, if anything, would pry people from their homes in the face of another Katrina. Overall, 33% said they would not leave or were not sure whether they would leave if an evacuation...