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Building the case against ultra-processed foods

Kenny Mendoza, PhD ’25, helped document the health risks of ultra-processed foods.

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Securing a federal grant: hard work that matters

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Student ventures compete in Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge

Students Shyrie Patel, of Gurus Inc., Linda Fei, of Lexi, and Sabrina Ebengho, of SAMI+ are in the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge.

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Social & Behavioral Health

Measuring a life well lived

The first wave of findings from Harvard Chan School’s Global Flourishing Study reveals trends in who’s living well, and where, and why.

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Infectious Diseases

HIV care quality has been improving for older adults

More people living with HIV and enrolled in Medicare are taking modern, less toxic antiretroviral drugs than ever before, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School. This progress may be upended by recent federal funding cuts to HIV prevention and care programs, however.

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Medical journals coming under scrutiny from Trump administration

After two medical journals received letters from a top U.S. attorney asking for responses to questions about alleged bias, scientists are expressing concern about potential Trump administration interference in the journals’ work.

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Health Policy

Potential Medicaid cuts could harm health, health providers

As Congress considers cutting billions from Medicaid, experts at Harvard Chan School say such cuts could have profound negative impacts on the health of the roughly 72 million Americans with low incomes or disabilities served by the joint federal-state health insurance program, and on the health providers who serve them.

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Gaining epidemiological skills to make campus healthier

Marykate Kenney, MPH ’25, is bringing new epidemiological skills to her role as an environmental public health officer at Harvard.

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Faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Sara Bleich and Wendy Garrett were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Health Policy

A research agenda to improve the lives of autistic people

Ari Ne’eman thinks autism research needs a big shake up—but not in the direction Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proposing.

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