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Roughly 56 percent of businesses surveyed believe they would not encounter severe operational problems if 30 percent of their workforce were absent for two weeks, according to the survey conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at HSPH. But when faced with losing half of their workforce for two weeks, only one-third of businesses reported feeling prepared...
...surveys are funded by a cooperative agreement between HSPH, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative...
...subject more accessible to the public and policy makers. The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics will be funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) with a renewable grant of approximately $2 million a year for five years. The new HSPH organization will become MIDAS’s second “Center of Excellence,” and will be devoted both to research and its applications. The first is located at the University of Pittsburgh. “We focus on policy interaction, outreach, education, and research...
Americans’ concerns about catching the H1N1 swine flu have decreased substantially over the past week, though more people have been taking action to protect themselves, according to a Harvard School of Public Health survey released Friday. The survey, conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at HSPH, is the first comprehensive nation-wide survey that polls the reactions, beliefs, level of alarm about the outbreak. Results were announced through the Center for Disease Control, which funds the survey, as part of the CDC’s daily update on swine flu. This is the second HSPH survey...
...researchers added an extensive section called “Choosing Health Drinks” earlier this week to Nutrition Source—a Web site maintained by HSPH faculty that aims to translate nutrition research into easy-to-understand information for the public and policy makers...