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...Ellison Medical Foundation is close to completing discussions with Harvard for a $115 million gift to establish a research center for global health monitoring and five professorships at the University, according to professors at the School of Public Health (SPH...
Details of the gift, which could potentially be the largest in Harvard’s history, emerged recently after Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH), spoke about the grant during a closed SPH faculty meeting...
Walter Willett, who chairs the SPH nutrition department, wrote in an e-mail that the benefits of the Ellison grant for SPH will depend on how the global-health-monitoring project is structured...
...this is used to set up a separate institute that draws the involvement of our faculty away from the SPH, it could have a negative impact on research and teaching at our school,” Willett wrote. “However, if it is implemented in such a way that it is well integrated with the activities of the school, and other parts of the university, it can bring new resources to international activities at the SPH that will benefit students, post docs, and faculty...
...These findings should be considered when policy makers design cigarette prevention programs,” said lead author Carrie M. Carpenter of the SPH Tobacco Control Research and Training Program. “We know that targeting by the industry has increased cigarette use in women, and this is especially worrisome in developing countries where the rate of female smoking is expected to rise...