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Shruthi Mahalingaiah, an assistant professor of environmental, reproductive, and women’s health, and JP Onnela, an associate professor of biostatistics, are two of the Harvard Chan School researchers involved in a new study seeking to gain more insight into women’s health. Using an app on their Apple devices, women can share information about their monthly cycles, as well as certain behavioral factors such as physical activity and mobility, to help researchers advance understanding of menstrual and gynecological health. To learn more about the study, or to participate, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/applewomenshealthstudy.

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Chad Brummett, a pain management specialist from the University of Michigan, shares a new approach to combat Michigan's opioid crisis that could be a model for the rest of the nation. Brummett sat down with Mary Bassett, director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

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The goal is to produce songs and music videos that can reach youth across Zambia with important messages about HIV prevention. We spoke to three of the people making this possible. Katy Weinberg recently graduated with an MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and works in the Global Health Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has partnered on the project with her colleague, David Bickham, a research scientist at the Hospital’s Center on Media and Child Health. And we were also lucky to be joined by one of the musicians collaborating with Katy and David—Ephraim "Son of Africa."

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The study was led by Marc Weisskopf, Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Physiology at the Harvard Chan School. The research comes amid increasing concerns over the effects of repeated head trauma on the health of NFL players. And while the study did show a difference in death rates, it’s still unclear exactly what’s driving that disparity—and how to address it. We sat down with Weisskopf to discuss the research and the unanswered questions he’s hoping to answer in the future.

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Former NFL players die at a faster rate than other professional athletes, study finds (STAT)

Pro-Athlete Mortality Gap (Harvard Medical School)

In this week’s episode we’re talking to two researchers from Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University who are tackling big questions about flourishing: What does it mean for people to flourish? How do we measure it? And are there things that make people more or less likely to flourish?

Our guests are Tyler VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program and John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard Chan School, and Matthew Wilson, associate director of the Human Flourishing Program and a research associate at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

You can sign up here for a monthly research e-mail from the Human Flourishing Program, or click here to follow them on Twitter. You can also check out the Human Flourishing Blog, hosted by Psychology Today.

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Now, new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health research offers a potential fresh approach to fighting malaria: directly target the parasite responsible for the disease. A recent study showed that mosquitoes that landed on surfaces coated with the antimalarial compound atovaquone were completely blocked from developing Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. The study was led by Flaminia Catteruccia, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and Doug Paton , a research fellow at the Harvard Chan School. In this week's episode we sit down with Paton to discuss the findings—and how they could be used to make progress in the fight against malaria.

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Sex, Drugs & Mosquitoes (Harvard Public Health magazine)

Throughout her career, Trent-Adams has focused on improving access to care for under-served and marginalized groups. And during a visit to the Harvard Chan School, we took the opportunity to interview Trent-Adams about her career in public health. She spoke about the need to shift America’s health care system to a prevention model, strategies for addressing complex health challenges, and how being a nurse has shaped her career.

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Leading from Where You Are: The Role of the Nurse Innovator (Frontier Nursing University)

Public Health is Community Health (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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In this week's episode, part two of our miniseries on cancer prevention, we're speaking with one of the co-principal investigators of the team, Wendy Garrett, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Garrett is also on the steering committee of the Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention. In part one of our miniseries, we spoke to Timothy Rebbeck, the center's director.

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The challenge of combating cancer may seem daunting, but research has shown that one-half to two-thirds of all cancer cases could be prevented if societies fully implemented currently available cancer-prevention strategies. At the same time, there is also a need to develop new strategies for prevention and screening. That's why we're devoting our next two episodes to the future of cancer prevention and diagnosis. In part one you'll hear from Timothy Rebbeck, director of the recently launched Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention. During a wide-ranging conversation Rebbeck explained the current landscape of cancer prevention and detection—and outlined his interdisciplinary approach to pushing the field forward.

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New center for cancer prevention launched at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan School news)

In this week's episode you'll learn how one of the world's top public health researchers, Ashish Jha, dean for global strategy at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and one of the world's foremost design experts, Patrick Whitney, professor in residence in the Department of Health Policy and Management, have teamed up to think about how design methods can be used to address issues ranging from the opioid epidemic to the future of hospitals.

This episode is a collaboration with Harvard Global Health Institute.

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Rethinking WHO: Students see a bigger role for frontline health workers (Harvard Chan School news)

The team from the Harvard Prevention Research Center analyzed data from 24 states that have lead testing programs in schools, plus Washington, D.C. Only 12 of the states had useable results. Among those, 12% of all water samples tested had higher-than-recommended lead levels, and 44% of schools tested had one or more samples with higher-than-recommended levels. In this week’s episode we’re talking about the report and its findings with Angie Cradock, who is the deputy director of the Prevention Research Center.

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A new research project is trying to tackle that problem by taking an in-depth look at the health of coral reefs in the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati. In this week’s episode we’re speaking to Christopher Golden, the scientist leading this four-year project. Golden is an assistant professor of nutrition and planetary health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and associate director of the Planetary Health Alliance. Golden and other researchers will examine the factors affecting the health of reefs in Kiribati, identify fisheries management strategies that can promote healthier reefs, and gather nutritional data from residents to understand how changes in the health of reefs can affect the health of people living nearby.

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You'll hear perspectives on gun violence from the emergency room, with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway. Ranney is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and also chief research officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, a non-partisan philanthropy focused on filling the funding gap for high-quality, medically-focused, firearm injury research. Hemenway is a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He has written widely on injury prevention, on topics including firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls, and fractures.

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Doctors affirm commitment to reducing gun violence (Harvard Chan School news)

New recommendations urge doctors to talk to patients about guns (Harvard Chan School news)

Uncommon Ground (Harvard Public Health magazine)

This episode was produced with assistance from Veritalk, a podcast from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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Extreme heat linked with reduced cognitive performance among young adults in non-air-conditioned buildings (Harvard Chan School news)

How 'heat islands' can harm health (Harvard Chan School news)

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Use of telehealth rising—slowly (Harvard Chan School news)

Trends in Telemedicine Use in a Large Commercially Insured Population, 2005-2017 (JAMA)

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A lifesaving therapy—and the researcher who helped launch it

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Walton and a team of researchers, including Bryn Austin, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, found that when families sit down together for dinner, adolescents and young adults eat more fruits and vegetables and consume fewer fast-food and takeout items. What’s unique about this study is that Walton and her colleagues looked at the families participating in the meal—assessing how they communicated, managed schedules, and even bonded with children, something called family functioning. And they found that the benefits of family meals were seen regardless of how well—or poorly—a family functioned. We spoke with Walton about the findings of her study and how they could inform future initiatives to encourage families to eat together.

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Family Dinners Improve Teens’ Eating Habits No Matter How Well Family Functions, New U of G Study Finds

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MetaCausal: Health science, statistics, and media

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Your Phone Knows How You Feel (Harvard Public Health)

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Separation at the border (Harvard Chan School news)

Migration (Harvard Public Health magazine)

A new study from Anne Lusk, research scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed how bicyclists and pedestrians responded to various placements of trees along cycle tracks—barrier-protected bicycle-exclusive paths between the road and the sidewalk. The research shows that the placement of these trees can play an important role in how people walking and biking perceive traffic, pollution, heat, and even safety.

But the benefits extend beyond just those using the street—and could even be a factor in mitigating the effects of climate change. These trees may make it more likely that people will bike—helping to reduce pollution. And increased greenery can also help cool cities, which often suffer from a heat island effect, which means they’re significantly warmer than more rural areas. Lusk says all of this highlights the need to re-think how we’re designing streets to encourage more people to walk and bike instead of drive.

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In this week's episode, we'll speak with the authors of that study to learn how we can  better design our buildings and cities to adapt to our changing climate. You'll hear from Joe Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science and director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, and Jose Guillermo (Memo) Cedeño Laurent, associate director of the Healthy Buildings Program.

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Extreme heat linked with reduced cognitive performance among young adults in non-air-conditioned buildings (Harvard Chan School news)

Your building might be making you sick. Joe Allen can help. (Harvard Gazette)

In this week's episode we examine how changes in SNAP are likely to affect the health of food insecure Americans. You'll hear from Sara Bleich, professor of public health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Hilary Seligman, a primary care physician and associate professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at University of California, San Francisco.

This episode is a collaboration with Review of Systems, from the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School.

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You'll hear from three researchers spearheading this work: Howard Koh is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership and principal investigator of the Culture of Health program; John McDonough is professor of public health practice and a co-principal investigator; and Eileen McNeely is an instructor in the Department of Environmental Health and director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise—or SHINE.

Learn more about Culture of Health and register for programs and classes here. Register for the upcoming SHINE Summit here.

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Shining the spotlight on trans fats (The Nutrition Source)

A final farewell to artificial trans fats (Center for Science in the Public Interest)

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Mumps resurgence likely due to waning vaccine-derived immunity (Harvard Chan School news)

Past encounters with the flu shape vaccine response (Harvard Chan School news)

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Can Gina McCarthy help save the planet one straight-talking conversation at a time? (Harvard Chan School news)

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Violence Against Women and Girls: Let's Reframe this Pandemic (Ted Talk)

The pandemic that threatens women globally (CNN)

NIH Funds a Research Consortium to Address Firearm Deaths Among U.S. Children and Teens (University of Michigan Health Lab)

But the results of the study were mixed—what researchers call a "null" result. While the checklist improved the quality of care during labor and delivery, it did not reduce death rates. In this week's episode, we speak to Katherine Semrau, director of the BetterBirth program at Ariadne Labs and the lead author of the study, about why that “null” result can actually teach us a great deal about strategies to improve maternal health—and the way public health research is conducted.

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Checklist and coaching program in India markedly improved childbirth care but did not reduce death rates (Harvard Chan School news)

BetterBirth program aims to improve maternal health (Harvard Chan School news)

Ariadne Labs BetterBirth program

Members of the commission were recently convened by David Satcher at Morehouse School of Medicine to discuss strategies for achieving health equity. As part of the gathering, Michael Marmot, chair of the commission and one of the world's foremost researchers on health inequality, delivered a keynote address: “How Do You Achieve Change?” In this week's episode, we're sharing that talk, which outlines vast disparities across the Americas—and explains how addressing the social determinants of health can help narrow disparities.

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Global Leaders Discuss How to Achieve Change in Health and Health Equity at the PAHO Commission Meeting (Morehouse School of Medicine)

Urging a response to "deaths of despair" (Harvard Gazette)

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Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health, and Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece

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Why do we age? Surprising revelations from a worm (Harvard Public Health magazine)

Uncovering a 'smoking gun' in age-related disease (Harvard Chan School news)

Manipulating mitochondrial networks could promote healthy aging (Harvard Chan School news)

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Firearms research (Harvard Injury Control Research Center)

Lethal means and suicide (Harvard Injury Control Research Center)

Learn more about the new Harvard Chan research collaborative, GHP Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases (HPACC), which aims to address the significant unmet need for care of diabetes, hypertension, and other conditions in low- and middle-income countries.

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Listen to our podcast with Frank Sacks on the American Heart Association Advisory on saturated fats (Harvard Chan School news)

Higher consumption of unsaturated fats linked with lower mortality (Harvard Chan School news)

Little to no association between butter consumption and chronic disease or total mortality (Tufts University)

Fats and cholesterol (Nutrition Source)

Different Dietary Fat, Different Risk of Mortality (Nutrition Source)

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The Aging Game (Harvard Public Health magazine)

Light in the Shadows (Harvard Public Health magazine)

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Read Miguel Hernan's free book on causal inference

Enroll in the free HarvardX course, Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions

For the past three-plus years those two scientists,  Robert Farese and Tobias Walther, have done something almost unheard of in public health: run a joint lab. Their work largely focuses on understanding how our cells store and then synthesize fat—a process known as lipid metabolism. It's work that has wide-ranging implications for a variety of diseases. During an in-depth conversation Farese and Walther shared insight on their work, the joys and challenges of running a lab together, and the importance of basic scientific research.

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Science by a power of two (Harvard Chan School news)

Bob and Tobi's Excellent Adventure (Harvard Public Health magazine)

In this week's episode, we'll take a look at how researchers are using lessons from behavioral economics to see if they can influence women to give birth at the higher quality facilities—and in turn receive better care. We'll speak with Jessica Cohen, associate professor of global health, about her research, which draws on knowledge about human psychology to better understand how people make decisions. The key question at the center of her new study: Can behavioral "nudges" in the form of cash transfers lead to better maternity care?

Later in the episode, you'll hear from Roman Pabayo, research fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, about his review of research on the effects of unconditional cash transfers.

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Measuring The Impact Of Cash Transfers And Behavioral "Nudges" On Maternity Care In Nairobi, Kenya (Health Affairs)

Public healthonomics (Harvard Public Health magazine)

Unconditional cash transfers for reducing poverty: effect on health services use and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries  (Cochrane)

Later in the episode, we’ll tell you about research examining the effectiveness of strategies to increase physical activity on a large scale.

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Nuts for the Heart (Nutrition Source)

Community-wide intervention and population-level physical activity: a 5-year cluster randomized trial (International Journal of Epidemiology)

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Fact sheet on eating disorders (PDF)

CDC Eating Disorders Health Monitoring Project

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Sustainable eating tips

Holiday meal recipes that prioritize plants

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The Science of Flavor: How to perfectly roast Brussels sprouts (Nutrition Source)

A complete guide to the benefits of Brussels sprouts (Nutrition Source)

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Cellular 'message in a bottle' may path to new way of treating diseases (Harvard Chan School news)

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Physicians’ opioid prescribing patterns linked to patients’ risk for long-term drug use (Harvard Chan School news)

Changing the language of addiction (Harvard Chan: This Week in Health podcast)

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Visit healthcare.gov to sign up for insurance beginning November 1.

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Visit the Harvard Chan School's Nutrition Source

Tips for sustainable eating (Harvard Chan School Nutrition Source)

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Tackling gun control as a public health problem (Boston Globe op-ed)

The Harvard Injury Control Research Center

Even as more gun buyers undergo background checks, millions still don’t (Harvard Chan School news)

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Listen to our previous podcast, Disaster recovery, to learn more about the best ways to support relief efforts.

Want to help after a disaster? Give your cash, not your clothing (The Guardian)

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Visit our website, hsph.me/thisweekinhealth to see a list of healthy options available under the Box Tops program.

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In this week's podcast we're focusing on disaster recovery from two angles. First, Eric McNulty, director of research and professional programs at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School, will explain why the recovery from a disaster like Harvey is so difficult. And in the second part of the episode, we'll explore the best ways to help support the recovery effort. Julia Brooks, legal research associate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, will explain why it's almost always better to donate cash, instead of clothes or supplies.

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Read The Conversation article: Why giving cash, not clothing, is usually best after disasters

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Unregulated economic growth could lead to irreversible environmental destruction (Harvard Chan School news)

Read the full report on environmental health in emerging markets (PDF)

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Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs

Hospital management practices may put women at risk for C-sections, complications during childbirth (Harvard Chan School news)

In the second part of the podcast, we speak with Morgan Shields, SM '16, who recently authored a paper raising concerns about the psychiatric care that veterans receive.

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Words matter when describing addiction (Harvard Chan School news)

An urgent call for a national surveillance system for inpatient psychiatric facilities (Health Affairs)

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Read the full American Heart Association advisory

A guide to different types of fat (Harvard Chan Nutrition Source)

Ask the expert: healthy fats (Harvard Chan Nutrition Source)

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Resources on dry cleaning chemicals

Guides to the dry cleaning industry from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Information on PERC from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Facts about the dry cleaning industry from the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Washington, one of Ceballos' research collaborators.

Download a fact sheet on alternative chemicals from The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute.

Read more about the findings from Rubin and his team.

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For more information on Zika virus, including tips for prevention and mosquito control, check out resources from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the WHO.

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Read the Lancet paper, "Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions."

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Read the full report, "Emergency within an Emergency: The Growing Epidemic of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Children in Greece."

Learn more about the new push to realize Roma rights.

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Read a Q&A with Dominici and Parkes about the new Data Science Initiative.

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Listen to part one, Seafood is an "irrational" economy.

Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program.

Visit Barton Seaver's website.

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Listen to past episodes from our series on climate change and health.

Watch the full recording of the Climate & Health Meeting.

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Listen to part one and part two of our series on climate change and health.

Watch the full recording of the Climate & Health Meeting.

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Listen to part one of our series on climate change and health

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Visit our page on climate change and health to learn more.

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Learn about our upcoming Facebook Live on the global refugee and migrant crisis.

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Lack of conclusive evidence on marijuana’s health effects poses public health risk

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Can volunteering lead to better health?

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Q&A: The future of public health under President Trump

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The Science of Flavor: How to perfectly roast Brussels sprouts (Nutrition Source)

A complete guide to the benefits of Brussels sprouts (Nutrition Source)

November 17, 2016 — In our new podcast series, Harvard Chan: This Week in Health, we’ll bring you top health headlines—from wellness tips to important global health trends. You’ll also hear insight from Harvard Chan experts. In this week’s episode: It may be hard to have a truly healthy Thanksgiving, but we have some tips to make your holiday feast more environmentally friendly.

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Visit the Onnela Lab's website

Watch the Forum webcast on health care and the presidential election

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Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness

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Take a quiz on the impact of extended Medicaid coverage

Use this tool see if you're eligible for a health insurance premium subsidy

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Words matter when describing addiction (Harvard Chan School news)

An urgent call for a national surveillance system for inpatient psychiatric facilities (Health Affairs)

October 6, 2016 — In our new podcast series, Harvard Chan: This Week in Health, we’ll bring you top health headlines—from wellness tips to important global health trends. You’ll also hear insight from Harvard Chan experts. In this week’s episode: Researchers are taking a critical look at some health care practices in low- and middle-income countries.

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Many births in Africa taking place at low-quality health facilities (Harvard Chan School news)

Training And Supervision Did Not Meaningfully Improve Quality Of Care For Pregnant Women Or Sick Children In Sub-Saharan Africa (Health Affairs)

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September 16, 2016 — In our new podcast series, Harvard Chan: This Week in Health, we’ll bring you top health headlines—from wellness tips to important global health trends. You’ll also hear insight from Harvard Chan experts. In this week's episode: Meet a researcher who's fighting to preserve the life-saving power of antibiotics, plus a disturbing spike in violence linked to police officers and security guards, and the link between C-sections and obesity risk among children.

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National Preparedness Leadership Initiative

Recent research on terrorism and health from Dana Garfin

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August 26, 2016 — In our new podcast series, Harvard Chan: This Week in Health, we’ll bring you top health headlines—from wellness tips to important global health trends. You’ll also hear insight from Harvard Chan experts. In this week’s episode: Why racial disparities could affect one common genetic test, plus new sugar recommendations for kids and teens, and the link between job satisfaction and health.

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August 19, 2016 — In our new podcast series, Harvard Chan: This Week in Health, we’ll bring you top health headlines—from wellness tips to important global health trends. You’ll also hear insight from Harvard Chan experts. In this week’s episode: The push to understand the critical early years of a child's life, plus why changes in diet may be to blame for China's epidemic of heart attack and stroke, and as the Rio Olympics come to an end, we see if Zika fears ever materialized.

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Read more about Teresa Chahine's work

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Read the study by Lucas Davis and Paul Gertler on the global growth of air conditioning.

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Call for police killings, police deaths to be reported as notifiable weekly public health data

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See the full list of bike innovations

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Higher consumption of unsaturated fats linked with lower mortality

Little to no association between butter consumption and chronic disease or total mortality (Tufts University)

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Read the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Watch Atul Gawande's testimony on end-of-life care or read a full transcript of his remarks here.