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2 months ago | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Paul Adepoju |Jo Zixuan Zhou
Written by Paul Adepoju Read Time 6 min Imagine a world where hope for healing the planet fuels action. Public health and climate solutions are two sides of the same coin, and people work within their communities to address climate challenges. In What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson envisions such a world and gives readers a blueprint to achieve it. Packed with hard truths, visionary ideas, and a call to reimagine how we care for our planet and each...
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
The number of women who reported using cannabis while they were pregnant doubled between 2002 and 2017. Emerging research has found that children who have had prenatal exposure are more likely to struggle with mental health issues in adolescence. Harvard Public Health spoke with David Baranger, a neuroscientist and postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, who contributed to a new study that suggests why. —Skylar Rowley Have an idea for a Snapshot?
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
Researchers found that reparation payments to Black adults could lower premature mortality by 29 percent. Harvard Public Health spoke with Jourdyn Lawrence, an epidemiologist at Drexel University, about her group’s recent publication. —Leah Rosenbaum(Study in American Journal of Epidemiology, November 2024)
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
Melina Kibbe never thought much about females in her studies of cardiovascular disease treatments; male animals and cells were considered the standard. “It never even dawned on me to question it,” Kibbe says. Then, when a colleague asked her one day “What about the females?” Kibbe realized she had no answer. She had never considered studying female rats in her experiments.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
<h1>Even great data couldn’t solve the UK’s COVID woes</h1><p>The UK had arguably the best public health data in the world, but nearly 250,000 people still died.</p><p>Written by Holly Else</p><p>This <a rel="canonical" href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practice/good-data-wasnt-enough-to-stop-uk-covid-deaths/">article</a> originally appeared in <a href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/">Harvard Public Health magazine</a>.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
Republish this article <h1>Five great health books for kids</h1><p>A mom working in public health shares five picks</p><p>Written by Nicole Rura</p><p>This <a rel="canonical" href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practice/five-great-health-books-for-kids/">article</a> originally appeared in <a href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/">Harvard Public Health magazine</a>.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
From mental health to social connections and reproductive health to worker safety, the best public health books of 2024 tackle some of the field’s most pressing challenges. Our staff has selected reads that offer groundbreaking research, personal stories, and actionable advice. Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation makes the case for getting kids more interested in real life and less interested in their phones.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
In 2024, Harvard Public Health drew record numbers of visitors, many of them coming to read these stories that represent the best of our public health journalism. Headlines on alcohol are everywhere these days—but they’re far from capturing the nuance of alcohol’s relationship to health. That’s why Eric B. Rimm and Kenneth Mukamal, two scientists who have been studying alcohol for a long time, wrote this op-ed on the need for more research about the effects of alcohol on human health.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
<h1>Making the invisible visible</h1><p>How better data, more access, and community-based solutions can drive health equity</p><p>Written by Michael Blanding</p><p>This <a rel="canonical" href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/equity/follow-up-to-unequal-treatment-report-has-plan-for-health-inequity/">article</a> originally appeared in <a href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/">Harvard Public Health magazine</a>.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jo Zixuan Zhou
Few of our consumption choices are straightforward these days: Milk-milk or oat milk? Sugar, stevia, or monk fruit? Similarly, marijuana isn’t the straightforward, laid-back plant some might recall from the past. It’s evolved significantly—and not necessarily for the better. ANational Institutes of Health (NIH) study found that long-term marijuana use increases the likelihood of mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, in people who are genetically predisposed.
