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More commendable than mere success is the ambitious pursuit of excellence above and beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study...
...interview last week, HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom said that fewer than half of the students at the school currently receive aid from HSPH funds and only 60 percent receive any aid from the University, a figure that includes the CitiAssist program...
...science on the diseases and health problems of the poorest people on the globe,” School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom said in a statement. “His impact has been incalculable, and his legacy will be something cherished by generations to come at HSPH and far beyond...
...distinguished career as one of the most thoughtful, insightful, and eloquent exponents of the power of public health to change lives for the better," University President Drew G. Faust said in a letter to the school community. "He has remained closely engaged with the academy, including the HSPH, and has played a vital role at the crossroads of academic research and practice."As health minister in Mexico, Frenk, 54, won plaudits for creating the Seguro Popular program, a national health insurance plan that expanded access to medical care for millions of Mexicans who had been previously uninsured.Despite his popularity, Frenk...
...week-long intensive, didactic training process” to prepare for the experience. The participants themselves have a wide range of prior experience in dealing with the issues associated with refugee camps, according to Appleby—coming from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the Harvard Kennedy School, and Tufts University, among other places. The simulation is intended to provide students with the closest possible recreation of the issues confronting non-governmental organization workers in Darfur. Volunteers will role-play as refugees, while military checkpoints, mock Janjaweed attacks, and security evacuations are incorporated into the experience. The program...