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While pundits and scholars continue to debate the political ramifications of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) has stepped back to examine another long-term consequence of the occupation—its impact on the health of Kuwaiti nationals who stayed in the country during the invasion...
...study released last week, SPH researchers found that, since the invasion and the subsequent seven-month occupation, mortality rates have proven substantially higher among older Kuwaiti civilians who stayed in the country through the occupation than among Kuwaiti nationals who were outside the country during that period...
...research team, led by SPH Senior Lecturer on Environmental Science John S. Evans, also concluded that smoke exposure alone could not fully account for Kuwaiti nationals’ abnormally high mortality rates...
...Obviously it hasn’t been well coordinated, and I do believe that until recently there was a lack of understanding of the extent of expertise available in the SPH for such work in developing countries,” Essex said last Friday...
...also delayed until last week. The University is supposed to “draw down,” or accept a portion of the PEPFAR money, at least once every quarter—or risk defaulting and losing the grant, according to Program Director for Nigeria and SPH Adjunct Professor of Infectious Disease Robert Murphy...