High risk patients in Black/Latinx communities have lower cancer screening rates but a new AI tool may be able to make screening more accessible.
Dr. David Christiani explains for @fastcompany.com that these advances could help reduce cancer's impact on mortality.
buff.ly/d7eqy37
24.07.2025 15:15 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Good article by @nohaggerty.bsky.social covering our L.A. Fire Health research consortium, and the on-going issue of lead (and arsenic) in soil after the fires. 🧵
07.07.2025 12:21 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Really great interview of @carlzimmer.com about his book, AIR-BORNE, by my colleague Yonatan Gard, with some nice @hsph.harvard.edu history (and cautionary tale about the importance of basic research w utility and importance that isn't always recognized in the moment...). Link in 🧵
27.06.2025 20:14 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
‘Losing a future’: Harvard Chan researchers describe impact of federal cuts | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Faculty members from Harvard Chan School were among those featured in June media articles highlighting the widespread impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding across Harvard Unive...
Harvard Chan researchers have been sharing details about how funding cuts have severely affected their work—or stopped it altogether.
“This is larger than any individual grant,” said Glorian Sorensen, research professor of social and behavioral sciences. “What we are losing is a future.”
25.06.2025 21:10 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Don't miss the second part of our #ResearchDay on Friday, June 27, 12:30–2:30 pm, when second-year #OEM #residents will present their research projects, followed by an #award ceremony.
Register here for the Zoom link: hsph.harvard.edu/events/oemr-...
23.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tune in on Friday, June 27, 9–11:30 am for the first part of our #ResearchDay when first-year #OEM #residents will present their #Capstone projects.
Register here for the Zoom link: hsph.harvard.edu/environmenta...
23.06.2025 20:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Must read interview about the costs of gutting NIOSH
Q: What was the state of worker health and safety in the US before the OSHA Act?
A: I have to say, before 1970, it was like the Dark Ages.
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22.05.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Harvard Chan scientists participate in a rigorous application process for federal grants to conduct their vital health research. The government has now terminated nearly every single one of those grants.
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With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive
16.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 279 🔁 163 💬 13 📌 17
The MAKE AMERICA
SICK AGAIN AGENDA
Stories from Trump & RFK Jr's first 5 months
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
Trump and RFK Jr.'s "Make America Sick Agenda" is throwing community health centers into chaos, gutting life-saving research, and spreading vaccine misinformation during a measles outbreak. Read their stories at markey.senate.gov/MakeAmericaS...
14.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 126 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 3
Congratulation @joeallenjoe.bsky.social! Well deserved! 👏🏻🎉
14.05.2025 00:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Outrage as Trump’s coal expansion coupled with health cuts: ‘There won’t be anyone to work in the mines’
Agencies protecting coal miners from hazards such as ‘black lung’ among those gutted by government cuts
NIOSH—which oversees safety for coal miners, firefighters, and workers across the country—lost more than 90% of its staff due to federal layoffs. Dr. Greg Wagner shares with @Guardian “...the consequences of the loss of the agency I think will be felt for years."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
06.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Don't miss our last #OSH seminar of the academic year on Friday, 5/9, 1:10–1:50 pm!
Our guest will talk about human #exposure to airborne #pathogens and secondary contaminants associated with germicidal UV lights disinfection.
Register here for the Zoom link: hsph.harvard.edu/environmenta...
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03.05.2025 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A short yet compelling and insightful read in the May issue of Commercial Fisheries News about the crucial role played by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in protecting #workers in #fishing #communities.
#SaveNIOSH
02.05.2025 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ERC Alumni Seminar: Enhancing our understanding of lung cancer in Asia — A Singapore perspective | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Join us for a special seminar on Tuesday, May 6, 1:10–2 pm.
Our former #trainee Wei Jie Seow will give a talk on understanding #LungCancer in #Asia from a #Singapore perspective.
Register here for the Zoom link: hsph.harvard.edu/environmenta...
01.05.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great read, very insightful #SaveNIOSH
American workers deserve better than to lose their safety watchdogs thehill.com/opinion/cong...
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Join us for a new #OSH seminar on Friday, May 2, 1:10–1:50 pm. Our guest speakers will discuss #work-related #injuries and #illnesses among public sector #workers in #Massachusetts.
Register here for the Zoom link: hsph.harvard.edu/environmenta...
29.04.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump Administration ended enrollment for the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer
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