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...universities to adopt research and technology transfer policies that promote global health. The growing list of signatories include Harold Varmus and three other Nobel laureates; Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor and Co-Founder of Partners in Health; Jim Kim, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Center for Health and Human Rights and Former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. This increasing support from both inside and outside the University further underscores the need for Harvard to address these issues...
Think twice before eating that bagel with cream cheese and lox this Sunday at brunch—it would account for more than half of the daily “energy imbalance” cited as a reason for child obesity in a new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) report...
...study, led by HSPH researcher Y. Claire Wang, is the first to quantify the “energy gap”—the discrepancy between energy taken in and energy expended—specifically for youth...
Research that assessed this same discrepancy in adults identified an energy imbalance of only 30 calories, leading researchers to believe that small dietary changes would be enough to combat the obesity epidemic, according to HSPH researcher and Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology Steven L. Gortmaker...
...HUPA aims to connect undergraduates with professors across the campus, and expose them to research opportunities in the field. This spring term a group of College students will study abroad in Botswana, working with the HSPH Aids Initiative (HAI) and gaining valuable lab experience in the field of HIV/AIDS research. The Botswana-Harvard Partnership has existed since 1996, but this spring marks the first time that research opportunities will be open to undergraduates...