Fall 2009
Reform 2.0
Every system is perfectly designed to obtain the results it produces. Ours produces poor outcomes, inadequate access and great inefficiency.
A button-sized tag on an infant’s bracelet is improving accuracy and speeding results in a pneumonia study in Pakistan.
20 snapshots of America's well-being
Mayor Bloomberg has aggressively pursued policies that have saved lives and improved the public's health
Over the next quarter-century, the National Children's Study will follow 100,000 children from birth to age 21.
Sewing seeds of transformation.
The decade-long JiVitA project—one of the largest nutrition trials of its kind—has recruited 100,000 pregnant women and their babies with a grand goal in mind: Find new ways to save lives in South Asia.
Our culture of 24/7 distractions and demands is sapping our sleep. As up to 70 million Americans report chronic sleep problems and fewer adults get sufficient pillow time, scientists are making new connections among dreams, disorders and disease.
Technology and pedagogical savvy are revolutionizing public health education. LiveTalk, anyone?
The solution to meeting the public health workforce crisis comes down to money.
Teaching faculty how to teach online
The inside story of smallpox eradication