OPIOIDS AND ADDICTION: A Governors Roundtable on State Approaches to Treatment Presented jointly with Reuters Thursday, April 12, 2018 Noon-1pm ET ForumHSPH.org President Trump recently described a plan to tackle the opioid abuse crisis that includes tougher sentencing on dealers and expanding access to treatment. The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Read More…
Brief Video Highlight THE ANDELOT SERIES ON CURRENT SCIENCE CONTROVERSIES BREAKTHROUGHS IN DISEASE TREATMENT: The Landscape Moving Forward Presented jointly with NBC News Digital Monday, November 6, 2017 Cancer. Alzheimer’s. Precision medicine. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The opioid crisis. These are all areas that stand to benefit from boosted federal funding. On the other hand, other areas Read More…
Brief Video Highlight GENE EDITING: Promises and Challenges Presented jointly with NBC News Digital May 19, 2017 In labs and in clinical trials, scientists are seeking ways to rewrite DNA, a building block of life. Tools such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), TAL effector nucleases (TALENs) and, more recently, CRISPR/Cas9 have the power to seek out Read More…
Brief Video Highlight HORMONE-ALTERING CHEMICALS: Fertility and Health Implications Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Many of the products we use every day — drinking bottles, cosmetics, furniture, toys — can contain endocrine disruptors, chemicals that affect human health by altering the body’s natural hormones. Pregnancy and fetal development represent an especially sensitive life stage that may Read More…
Brief Video Highlight THE FUTURE OF FOOD: Feeding the Planet During Climate Change The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health presented jointly with PRI’s The World & WGBH Tuesday, December 13, 2016 By 2050, a projected 9.7 billion people will inhabit the planet. How will we produce enough nutritious food to Read More…
CHEMICAL EXPOSURES AND THE BRAIN: The Flint Water Crisis and More Presented in Collaboration with PRI’s The World & WGBH Part of THE ANDELOT SERIES ON CURRENT SCIENCE CONTROVERSIES The water crisis gripping Flint, Michigan has exposed thousands of children to unsafe lead levels, triggering a federal emergency declaration and national conversation about basic public health Read More…
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health and Disease Threats Presented in Collaboration with The GroundTruth Project Part of The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris has produced a landmark agreement to slow global warming. Among the conference’s discussions, though, the health impacts of climate change have featured less prominently on Read More…
