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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,[3][4][5][6][7] the nation's first graduate training program in population health, which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.

Former name

Harvard School of Public Health

Private

1913 (1913)

Harvard University

Andrea Baccarelli

465[1]

984[1]

422[2]

Boston
,
Massachusetts
,
U.S.

42°20′07″N 71°06′10″W / 42.335390°N 71.102793°W / 42.335390; -71.102793

www.hsph.harvard.edu

Clinical Effectiveness (CLE)

Epidemiology (EPI)

Generalist (GEN)

Global Health and Population (GHP)

Health and Social Behavior (HSB)

Health Management (HM)

Health Policy (HP)

Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH)

Quantitative Methods (QM)

Nutrition (NUT)

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The Master of Public Health program offers ten fields of study:


Degree programs offered by specific departments:


The Harvard Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) was launched in 2014 as a multidisciplinary degree providing advanced education in public health along with mastery of skills in management, leadership, communications, and innovation thinking. The program is a cohort-based program emphasizing small-group learning and collaboration. The program is designed for three years – two years at Harvard, plus one year in a field-based doctoral project – although some students may take up to four years to complete the program. Academic training in the DrPH covers the biological, social, and economic foundations of public health, as well as essential statistical, quantitative, and methodological skills in the first year, an individualized course of study in your second year, and a field-based, capstone project called the DELTA (Doctoral Engagement in Leadership and Translation for Action) in the final year(s) of the program.[17]


PhD programs are offered under the aegis of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The , which have followed the health of over 100,000 nurses from 1976 to the present; its results have been used in hundreds of published papers.[18]

Nurses' Health Study and Nurses' Health Study II

The Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a similar study of over fifty thousand male health professionals seeking to connect diet, exercise, smoking, and medications taken to frequency of cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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The International Health Systems Program, which has provided training or technical assistance to projects in 21 countries and conducts health policy research.

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The Program in Health Care Financing, which studies the economics of ; evaluates the health care programs of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other countries; studies the effects of bringing HMO-like hospital reimbursement practices to developing countries; and applies hedonimetrics to health care.[21]

national health care programs

The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR), which studies public health and humanitarian law and policy in the context of conflict-torn regions like the Gaza Strip and transnational issues like terrorism.[23]

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The Lung Cancer S.O.S. study, examining the risk factors for and prognosis of in terms of genetics and environment.[24]

lung cancer

The College Alcohol Study, which examines the causes of college binge drinking and approaches to prevention and .[25]

harm reduction

The Program on the Global Demography of Aging, which studies policy issues related to economics of with a focus on the developing world.[26]

aging

The Superfund Basic Research Program (see ), studying toxic waste management.[27]

Superfund

The Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, to "help identify how positive aspects of living can lead to better health and a longer life" and "coordinate research across many disciplines at Harvard University" and "understanding the complex interplay between positive psychological well-being and human health."[29][30][31][32][33][34]

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which specializes in comparative health systems research and transition to the high value health systems model through targeted innovation, policy and practice. Led by Prof. Rifat Atun, the Lab uses its research, education, innovation and translation activities to work with governments, private sector, multilateral entities, and civil society to promote policy and practice, and accelerate the diffusion of health system innovations for large-scale population level impact.[35]

The Health Systems Innovation Lab

Official website

Freeview Issues programme on Malaria by the Vega Science Trust.

Professor Andrew Speilman, Professor Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health