UMass Medical School, in partnership with UConn, was awarded funding to develop and implement a Practice Transformation Network for Massachusetts and Connecticut. Congratulations to Judith Steinberg, CFMF Fellow (2007-08) who is the Co-PI of this project
October 28, 2015 |
American Cancer Society eNews
October 19, 2015 |
UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care
October 1, 2015 |
AAPNews
September 30, 2015
September 7, 2015 |
COV Magazine
August 24, 2015 |
The White House Press Release
April 29, 2015 |
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Video Series
December 24, 2014 |
Boston Globe
December 2, 2014 |
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) announces that Irwin Redlener, MD, Co-founder and President of the Children’s Health Fund, will receive the 2014 Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. The 2014 Clarion Award for Health Promotion and Education will be given to Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, Director of the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Sally Harris, a long time ASF board member and current vice chair, will be honored with the 2014 Lawrence Gussman Award for Extraordinary Service to The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.
September 27, 2014
Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, Mongan Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Health Policy (2004-2005), received the Mid-Career Award presented by HSPH, recognizing achievements in public health practice, innovation, and professional service.
June 10, 2014 |
WBUR
The roughly 160,000 undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts do not have access to most public health insurance programs. Some doctors and nurses in Boston have noticed this can pose particular challenges at the end of life, where the undocumented do not have access to nursing facilities or hospice care.
May 29, 2014 |
Harvard Gazette
With a master’s from the School of Public Health, physician Darrell Gray hopes to use telecommunications to extend care to underserved neighborhoods.
The man came into the emergency room of St. Louis’ Barnes-Jewish Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. Having no insurance, he had avoided medical care as long as he could, but the pain had finally become too intense.
The gastroenterologist called in to consult that day was Darrell Gray, a young physician from Baltimore doing a fellowship at the hospital, which is affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
May 9, 2014 |
HSPH News
The phone call from Ghana clinched Asare Christian’s career path. His grandmother was exhibiting sudden, puzzling symptoms including loss of balance, coordination, and bladder function. To Christian, who was learning about brain injury in his clinical rotation in rehabilitation medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, this sounded like a case of hydrocephalus, fluid accumulation within the brain. His diagnosis was confirmed and she received surgery that saved her life. But with no physical rehabilitation services available to help her through the first months of recovery, she became disabled.
May 9, 2014 |
Boston Business Journal
As a physician at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program since 2003, Dr. Monica Bharel knows the work she and her staff do to build trust with the more than 12,000 patients the program sees annually at nearly 80 shelters and other sites around the city is just as important as the medical care she delivers.
May 5, 2014 |
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Video Series
May 1, 2014 |
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Video Series
March 3, 2014
December 1, 2013 |
HSPH News | Winter 2013
Anne Newland, Mongan Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Health Policy, has served as a physician at the Kayenta Health Center in Arizona for eight years, and as acting clinical director for the past three. A remote outpost with a downtown consisting of a small strip of stores, Kayenta is located about 25 miles south of Monument Valley, in the heart of gorgeously sculpted red-rock country. But the movie-set scenery belies deep public health problems.
May 28, 2013 |
HSPH News
At age four, Talita Jordan told her mother — a young, single parent — that she wanted to be a doctor. She stuck with the plan, becoming chief resident at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Now, about to graduate from Harvard School of Public Health with an MPH in health policy, Jordan has a new ambitious plan. She is returning to D.C. to pilot a program aimed at tackling childhood obesity through community change that she hopes to eventually take nationwide...
January 1, 2013 |
HSPH Alumni Community Newsletter
