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Most Harvard professors can boast a seemingly endless array of academic accolades, but Donald M. Berwick ’68, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), last week received an award shared by only a few Americans—an appointment as an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...SPH Professor Howard H. Hiatt—who co-teaches General Education 187, “The Quality of Health Care in America,” with Berwick and has worked closely with him in other endeavors—said he could speak “only in superlatives” about his colleague...
...effects of PTSD on Kuwaiti nationals were first studied by Jaafar Behbehani—an assistant medical professor at Kuwait University and a key researcher on the current SPH project—in studies conducted...
...findings released last week represent the first phase of the project, which the Kuwaiti government commissioned in 2002. The project was designed to have SPH assess the magnitude and causes of effects that the 1990 invasion had on the health of the nation’s populace. The study, which is conducted, funded, and monitored by the UNCC, also asked Harvard to look for a cost-effective means of facilitating early detection and treatment of those negative health impacts...
...SPH Professor of Environmental Science Frank E. Speizer noted that there are “some precedents” for compensating for negative impacts on public health, but that the report must first undergo a peer-review process before any public policy can be derived from its conclusions...