Edition 3 – Trends in US Deaths Due to Legal Intervention Among Black and White Men, Age 15-34 Years, by County Income Level: 1960-2010

Trends in US Deaths Due to Legal Intervention Among Black and White Men, Age 15-34 Years, by County Income Level: 1960-2010 By Nancy Krieger, PhD, Mathew V. Kiang, MPH, Jarvis T. Chen, DSc, and Pamela D. Waterman, MPH Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Citation Krieger N, Kiang M, Chen J, Waterman P. Trends in U.S. deaths due […]
Edition 30 – Thinking Beyond Purpose-Built Communities: A Vision to Create Structural Change for Housing in the United States

Thinking Beyond Purpose-Built Communities: A Vision to Create Structural Change for Housing in the United States By Kate S. Meyer, MPH Citation Meyer K. Thinking beyond purpose-built communities: a vision to create structural change for housing in the United States. HPHR. 2021; 28. DOI:10.54111/0001/DD10 Thinking Beyond Purpose-Built Communities: A Vision to Create Structural Change for […]
Edition 3 – Capable Guardians

Capable Guardians By Felton Earls, M.D. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Citation Earls F. Capable guardians. Harvard Public Health Review. Winter 2015;3. 10.54111/0001/C3 Capable Guardians We, HSPH students and faculty, are living in a nation that is not flourishing. To quote Martin Luther King, “We may have come in different ships, but we are now in the same […]
Edition 3 – Police Killings, Political Impunity, Racism and the People’s Health: Issues for Our Times

Police Killings, Political Impunity, Racism and the People’s Health: Issues for Our Times By Nancy Krieger, PhD Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Citation Krieger N. Police killings, political impunity, racism and the people’s health: issues for our times. Harvard Public Health Review. Winter 2015;3. 10.54111/0001/C2 Police Killings, Political Impunity, Racism and the People’s Health: Issues for Our Times […]
Dr. Robert X. Williams: A Luminary Mentor

A Luminary Mentor By June Samuel Dr. Robert X. Williams: A Luminary Mentor The birth of a child is the rebirth of a mother. It is a monumental life event for a woman. He was a legendary doctor who was present at this monumental event with mothers, welcoming new life, only about nine thousand times! […]
Unheard Voices: A Transatlantic Comparison of Refugee and Marginalized Group’s Healthcare Experiences: A Photo Essay

Unheard Voices: A Transatlantic Comparison of Refugee and Marginalized Group’s Healthcare Experiences By Aditya Milun Mittal Unheard Voices: A Transatlantic Comparison of Refugee and Marginalized Group’s Healthcare Experiences As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes reconstruction, refugee voices are not prominent voices in that discussion. New immigrant and refugees are covered under Medicaid yet experience a […]
Frame a Moment for Healing

Frame a Moment for Healing By Jessica Q. Honig, LCSW, EdM Frame a Moment for Healing If you have thought about making art, here is a big endorsement: it’s healthy for you and the world. The product doesn’t have to look pretty. Besides, much of so-called high art closely resembles toddler art. As doors remain […]
Sofia Weiss Goitiandia makes “The Case for Interdisciplinarity”

The most personal blog post yet, as Sofia Weiss Goitiandia reflects on her own experiences to propose interdisciplinarity as a means of finding purpose and meaning in medicine.
Joanna Burke-Bajaj on moving from health-related deservingness to rights-based approaches to health

Health with Humanity By Joanna Burke-Bajaj Moving from Health-Related Deservingness to Rights-Based Approaches to Health The concept of deservingness is a social idea related to the moral judgements and biased assumptions that we make about whether or not, or to what degree, others are deserving of what they receive. In a sense, the idea of […]
Breaking the ice: A glance at therapeutic hypothermia

Zaitoon By Dr. Butool Hisam Breaking the Ice: A Glance at Therapeutic Hypothermia Dr. Anne Bagenholm rescue: Image copied from CNN Article. https://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/12/cheating.death.bagenholm/ 20 May 1999 was the chosen date for a number of people and fate itself. For Dr. Anne Bagenholm, a surgical assistant at the Narvik Hospital, Norway, it was the day she […]