The Kiosk/HSPH Enewsletter - May 12, 2011

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Simulation tests the mettle of humanitarian aid workers-in-training Kiosk issue archive HSPH home page After spending two weeks in the classroom learning the Latest HSPH news nuts and bolts of humanitarian coverage work, from conducting a rapid HSPH videos and health assessment and podcasts managing the logistics of a field operation to Download our app for iPhone and understanding human rights Android law and the drivers of gender- based violence, students discovered how difficult it can be to HSPH calendar transfer classroom learning to the field. Read more Harvard Public Service on the Map

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Dean Frenk invites members of the community to share their ideas on new efficiencies for the operation of the School. All Forum hosts US Attorney General Eric Holder ideas are welcome, US Attorney General Eric Holder discussed youth violence at a no matter how recent Forum event with HSPH's Jay Winsten. Watch on- modest or how demand video or read the Harvard Gazette article. ambitious. Submit an idea Alum describes the role of private sector in A public health professional who works in private industry can play as important a role in improving the human condition as New research those who work in academia, medicine, and similar fields, sheds light on HSPH alum Gerald Chan said in a Dean's Distinguished obesity, Lecture. Read more or watch webcast. metabolic disorders Gawande New Yorker article on end-of-life care wins National Magazine Award Atul Gawande, associate professor in HSPH's Department of Health Policy and Management and a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has won a National Magazine Award for his story "Letting Go," which appeared in the August 2, 2010, issue of . Gawande is a contributor to the In a new paper magazine. Read more appearing in the May 2, 2011 issue of the journal Did you know? Nature, HSPH's Gökhan S. National Bike to Work Week is May 16- Hotamisligil and 20 colleagues report The Kiosk/HSPH Enewsletter - May 12, 2011

Learn more about Longwood Medical Area their latest findings Bike Week events and the MassCommuter in their ongoing Challenge. obesity research. Read more and listen to a Heat waves tied to climate change podcast. could increase urban fatalities Event highlights Scientists predict that global climate change will generate more heat waves in Quantifying the decades ahead, but few studies have Exposure to quantified the negative health effects of Airborne Nano- these events. In a new study that looked Particles at Copy at how heat waves may impact people Centers in the living in a major U.S. city, HSPH researchers and colleagues Area estimate that the city of Chicago, Ill., could have 166 to 2,217 additional annual heat-related deaths in the years May 13 2081-2100. Read more 12:30-1:20 PM Kresge 502 Rapid population growth poses Open to public daunting challenges for Africa Speaker: The world's population is predicted to reach 10.1 billion by Shahir Masri, 2100, according to a United Nations report released May 3. master's student in Much of the growth is expected to occur in Africa, where the the Exposure, population could triple to 3.6 billion by the end of the Epidemiology, and century. The figures for Africa are the most "disconcerting Risk Program aspect" of the UN report, according to HSPH Prof. David Bloom. He joined four other experts for an online discussion Event sponsors: of the report on The Times website. Read more HSPH Dept. of Environmental Health, Harvard Experts lay out future of health IT at NIEHS Center for PHAT conference Environmental Health, Harvard- David Blumenthal of Harvard Medical NIOSH Education School and Massachusetts General Research Center Hospital, who spent two years as the national coordinator for health information technology under President , was the keynote speaker at this year's Public Health & Technology conference. Read more