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5 unusual facts about Harvard School of Public Health


Brian Vala Nahed

He is a graduate of the Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health and is actively engaged in research studying the socioeconomic aspects and outcomes in neurosurgery.

Dilip Mahalanabis

The 2006 Prince Mahidol Prize was awarded jointly to Dr. Richard A. Cash of Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. David Nalin and Dr. Mahalanabis.

Psychic cost

David Hemenway of Harvard School of Public Health claims that when some people in a community own guns, it "imposes psychic costs on most other members of the community".

Taro Takemi

In 1982, Takemi Taro was appointed a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, but was unable to fulfill the commitment due to illness.

The Food Project

In 2005, The Food Project won the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Children's Health, given by the Boston Mayor's Office, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Children's Hospital Boston.


Eric E. Whitaker

Whitaker received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Grinnell College in 1987, and in 1993 a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degreefrom the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China

Other past speakers include: Kai-Fu Lee, founding president of Google China; Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University; Yuanli Liu, Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the China Initiative from Harvard School of Public Health; Kim Kardashian, American celebutante; Johnny Depp, famous actor; and Nancy Barry, former president of Women's World Banking.

Health issues in American football

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the issue of head injuries in professional football during a talk held on November 15, 2012 at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

In 2011, IHME co-sponsored the first Global Health Metrics & Evaluation conference in Seattle with The Lancet, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, and University of Queensland School of Population Health.

James B. Aguayo-Martel

James B. Martel received a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University; a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School; a Masters in Public Health in the area of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and received his surgical sub-specialty training in ophthalmology from Johns Hopkins Medical School and Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute.

Laurie Glimcher

Glimcher is Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Michael Porter

His New England Journal of Medicine research article, "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System" (July 2009), lays out a health reform strategy for the U.S. His work on health care is being extended to address the problems of health care delivery in developing countries, in collaboration with Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.

Paolo Boffetta

In 2009 he became Affiliate of the R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.

Siddharth Kara

He also accepted a joint appointment as a Visiting Scientist on Forced Labor at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health.

Winston Dang

Dang did his undergraduate education at Taipei Medical University and then moved to the United States to pursue further education, successively earning an M.A. from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, and a M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.


see also

Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries


The Task Force is a 36-member body combining leaders in cancer and global health and co-chaired by Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Lawrence Corey, President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Party school

"It's positively unscientific," said Dr. Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Studies Program.