Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates

Harvard experts on law and policy say originalist view used to overturn Roe could upend the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that requires a minimal standard for inmate health care.

Christina Pazzanese • harvard
March 2, 2023 ~13 min

Doctor draws on cartoons for persuasive public health messaging

Wrestling with a health care conundrum: how to get people to listen?

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 29, 2021 ~7 min


With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’

Since the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, public health experts have noted the disproportionate toll on Black and brown Americans. Those groups are at much greater risk of getting infected than white people; they are two to three times likelier to be hospitalized, and twice as likely to die, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Brett Milano • harvard
April 22, 2021 ~18 min

Public confident they can keep themselves safe during pandemic

An ongoing survey by researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is examining public attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 23, 2020 ~7 min

Ragon Institute receives major gift to expand research into autoimmune diseases

Immunology research at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard has advanced an HIV vaccine into the clinic, and will diversify thanks to a major gift from Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon.

Mary Todd Bergman • harvard
Sept. 19, 2019 ~9 min

Harvard’s Barry Bloom and Juliette Kayyem discuss measles outbreak

Harvard public health and public safety experts recommended public education, elimination of nonmedical vaccination exemptions for schoolkids, and potentially more severe penalties as a way to get parents to comply with measles vaccination guidelines.

Alvin Powell • harvard
June 11, 2019 ~24 min

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