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Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have identified a correlation between high levels of urate—a naturally occurring antioxidant found in blood—and a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published online last month in The American Journal of Epidemiology...
...epigraph of Forster’s “Howard’s End,” “Only connect…” perhaps best reflects my thoughts about the opportunity that a possible move to Allston holds for the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and for the University at large. With its breadth of disciplines and mission both to generate new knowledge and apply it to improve the health of populations here and around the world, the School has enormous potential to make significant contributions to public health and to this University...
...measuring environmental exposures to child development, from health and third world economic development to U.S. health care reform. That this remarkable diversity of backgrounds and expertise has been brought to bear on multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems relating to health within a single faculty is what I believe makes HSPH such a special and rewarding place for its faculty and students...
Nonetheless, we at HSPH share the vision of this multidisciplinary approach and would look forward to many points of linkage across the University: to the Medical School and hospitals on clinical trials and epidemiologic study and infectious diseases; to the FAS in collaborations in statistics, economics, government, and regional studies; with the Kennedy and Business schools in global health; to the School of Education on childhood development and health; and with the Law School in our joint Public Health Law program...
...future institutional needs of the School and the educational needs of its students. The Allston Master Plan filed with the City of Boston includes the Harvard School of Public Health as one of the professional schools to be located in Allston along with the Graduate School of Education. At HSPH, faculty committees are working hard on developing the best strategy for the School to take advantage of such a move to Allston, while retaining our longstanding relationships with the hospitals in Longwood...