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...have that kind of impact on new generations as one of my proudest achievements.” The goals of the national mentorship campaign are to recognize the work of mentors and to recruit new volunteers, said Susan Moses, the co-director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Harvard Mentoring Project. Other personalities include Maya Angelou, Clint Eastwood, and Sting, all of whom will be making public service announcements to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring. Jones—after whom Harvard’s first-ever endowed African American music professorship is named?...
...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...