THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: The Brazilian Crisis and More Facebook Live Q&A with Marcia Castro, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly with The World from PRX & GBH As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, is experiencing a deepening crisis. Read More…
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Surging Cases, Rapid Diagnostics, and New Vaccines Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH Tuesday, December 1, 2020 With spiking coronavirus cases, America is looking to measures such as COVID-19 vaccines and the first, FDA-approved rapid COVID-19 self-testing Read More…
Facebook Live Q&A with Michael Mina, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & WGBH Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Early in the pandemic’s spread in the U.S., the lack of adequate testing Read More…
This segment is part of our Coronavirus Pandemic Series. Facebook Live Q&A with K. “Vish” Viswanath, Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & WGBH Read More…
This segment is part of our Coronavirus Pandemic Series. Facebook Live Q&A with Joseph Allen, Director of the Healthy Buildings Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & WGBH Tuesday, May 12, 2020 As some Americans Read More…
This segment is part of our Coronavirus Pandemic Series. The Coronavirus Pandemic: Hospital Frontlines During the Surge Facebook Live Q&A with Dr. Paul Biddinger, Director, MGH Center for Disaster Medicine Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & WGBH Post your questions for the Read More…
This segment is part of our Coronavirus Pandemic Series. The Coronavirus Pandemic: What We Know Now Facebook Live Q&A with Dr. Caroline Buckee, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & WGBH Post Read More…
The Spread of Hate and Racism: Confronting a Growing Public Crisis Presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH Brief Video Highlight February 13, 2019 In 2017, reports of hate crimes in the United States increased for the third consecutive year, according to the FBI. In addition to physical acts, such actions and other messages Read More…
THE MODERN SLAVE TRADE: Public Health Impacts Presented in Collaboration with PRI’S The World & WGBH A global scourge, human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that traps millions of people in lives of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Political instability and extremism leave people, especially women and children, vulnerable to predation. In this Read More…
Since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, last year, the U.S. has seen the growth of a new social movement that has focused national attention on policing tactics, criminal justice, and the continued health and social inequalities confronting black Americans today. Legislation that would require states to notify the U.S. Justice Department of Read More…
