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Fighting Misinformation: The Preprint Sifter

The Preprint Sifter is a new Twitter tool that tracks down Tweets from leading epidemiologists, virologists, public health and other experts who are posting, vetting and verifying COVID-19 related preprint papers.

HGHI, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Launch the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Scientific Task Force

In partnership with the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE), HGHI is excited to announce the launch of a new task force composed of experts from across the world who will work together to identify the most effective ways to prevent [...]

UHC is: Clean Air For All

The First Ever International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies Underscores the Environmental Link to Human Health UHC Benefits from Clean Air For the inaugural International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on September 7, 2020, HGHI and the One by One: Target 2030 campaign is highlighting clean air as a necessity to [...]

From the Urban Institute: What Would it Take to Reduce Inequities in Healthy Life Expectancy?

By Austin Frakt The Urban Institute recently published a report titled “What Would it Take to Reduce Inequities in Healthy Life Expectancy?” Its purpose is to articulate strategies to boost the effectiveness of the health system in addressing health-related social needs to narrow health inequities and areas of research that would help it do so. [...]

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Transparency Rule Threatens Health

Unprecedented times mandate novel collaborations: Harvard experts in the fields of medicine, law and environmental health have joined forces to share their concern about a new transparency rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [...]

Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospitals and Clinical Institutes Sign Joint Commitment to Decarbonize

Recognizing the impact of climate change on health care, Harvard Medical School and affiliated teaching hospitals and clinical institutes agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions [...]

Lancet Countdown: Climate Change threatens people’s health today

Climate change threatens the health of people around the world today. In the United States, increases in heat and heatwaves pose a serious threat to health and labor productivity. Inreases in extreme weather events significantly threaten both health and health systems. And climate change is elevating the risk of misquito-, tick- and water-borne diseases. [...]

Harvard Gazette “Another climate change concern: Forced migration”

On Thursday, September 28, 2017 the Harvard Global Health Institute hosted a symposium on Climate Change, Migration and Health. Jennifer Leaning, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gave the keynote and was followed by two panel of experts. The Harvard Gazette covered the event in [...]

Human Health in a Changing Climate

The Harvard Global Health Institute, in collaboration with the Climate Change Solutions Fund and the Harvard University Center for the Environment, hosted a symposium on the impact of climate change on health, entitled “Human Health in a Changing Climate.” [...]

Health And Climate Change: An Urgent Need For Action

Michelle Williams, Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, write about health being the human face of climate change and the unique responsibility of universities to ensure a “platform for key scientific issues that have a meaningful effect on people’s health.” [...]

Climate and Health Meeting

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, the American Public Health Association (APHA), The Climate Reality Project, Harvard Global Health Institute, the University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment and Dr. Howard Frumkin, former director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, announced a Climate & Health Meeting that will take place [...]