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...significant contributions from basic science, while global health delivery science is rooted in the social sciences—the opportunities for productive synergies between NTD and delivery research initiatives are numerous, including collaborations in the development of research capacity overseas. Many Harvard professors, including Jim Kim, Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, Sue Goldie and Paul Farmer have made extensive contributions to these fields...

Author: By Matthew F. Basilico and Jason Zhang | Title: Stepping Up Harvard's Leadership in Global Health | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...more likely to have a severe case of malaria with high inflammation and fever. Daily said that the experiment showed that “parasites can sense the environment and respond. Up to this study, it was not clear that this was the case.” Dyann F. Wirth, co-director of the Infectious Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute and the chair of the HSPH department of immunology and infectious diseases, said that combining different research techniques was the key to the breakthrough. For recent research, faculty profiles, and a look at the issues facing Harvard scientists, check...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Helps Explain Variations in Malaria | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...explored new ways of combatting the disease that claims more than one million lives—mostly young African children—every year. “There are over 200 million new cases of malaria each year,” said Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases Dyann F. Wirth, who directs the Harvard Malaria Initiative. “It’s a major disease which deserves our attention.” While she said she was not sure why there has not been more success in treating and preventing malaria, Wirth asserted that it is fundamentally...

Author: By Shoshana S. Tell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Symposium Tackles Malaria | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...partners with the South in the rise of the Democratic Leadership Council. The region was filled with creative, moderate Democratic Governors in the 1980s--people like Dick Lamm and Roy Romer in Colorado and Bruce Babbitt in Arizona. Colorado had two well-known Democratic Senators, Gary Hart and Tim Wirth, in the 1980s. There were legendary Democrats from the region like Arizona's Mo Udall and Colorado's Patricia Schroeder serving in Congress. In 1992 Bill Clinton won Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Montana--albeit with a hefty assist from Ross Perot, who peeled votes away from George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' New Western Stars | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...partners with the South in the rise of the Democratic Leadership Council. The region was filled with creative, moderate Democratic Governors in the 1980s--people like Dick Lamm and Roy Romer in Colorado and Bruce Babbitt in Arizona. Colorado had two well-known Democratic Senators, Gary Hart and Tim Wirth, in the 1980s. There were legendary Democrats from the region like Arizona's Mo Udall and Colorado's Patricia Schroeder serving in Congress. In 1992 Bill Clinton won Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Montana--albeit with a hefty assist from Ross Perot, who peeled votes away from George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' New Western Stars | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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