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...There’s no doubt that bedbugs have become resurgent and spread considerably,” wrote entomologist and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher Richard J. Pollack, a noted expert on bedbugs and lice, in an e-mail...
...died in 1998 from pulmonary blood clots rests his other son, Paul W. Ambrose, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 that was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Along with nine other Harvard University alumni, Ambrose, a 2000 graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), lost his life in the terrorist attacks. Five years later, Ambrose’s parents and loved ones of the other Harvard victims commemorated those killed. But they said just because it was the fifth anniversary, they wouldn’t remember those lives any differently. “I don?...
...introduce statistics in high schools. He helped write teachers’ manuals in the field and taught a televised course on statistics in NBC’s “Continental Classrooms” in 1961.He later chaired the Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health (HSPH), and both developed and chaired the school’s Department of Health Policy and Management. He also offered classes on the applications and methodology of statistics at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government.“As the person who organized and led the Department of Biostatistics...
Surveys designed to measure the effectiveness of virginity pledges may be unreliable because adolescents wrongly report their sexual behavior depending on their social circumstances, according to a study by a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher. According to study author Janet E. Rosenbaum ’98, an HSPH doctoral candidate, 50 percent of adolescents who reported on an initial survey that they had signed a virginity pledge—a promise not to have sex before marriage—denied having signed this pledge on a second survey a year later. 10 percent of those reporting sexual experiences...
Banning smoking in Irish-style pubs decreases air pollution by 93 percent, according to a study co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Harvard researchers collaborated with scientists from the U.S. and Ireland to survey pubs in 15 countries around the world. Though researchers investigated pubs in 41 cities, including Beijing, Sydney, and Beirut, the study was originally conceived to evaluate the public health benefits of Ireland’s 2004 ban on smoking in public places. According to the study, pubs in cities without smoking bans had significantly higher levels of fine-particle pollution. The Environmental...