Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University, co-authored this opinion piece in collaboration with Clayton M. Christensen, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, senior research fellow at Innosight Institute.

President Obama has awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to T. Berry Brazelton, HMS clinical professor of pediatrics, emeritus at Boston Children’s Hospital, for his groundbreaking work in pediatrics.

Harvard researchers are using scientific tools more often deployed to probe major health problems to understand the recent evolution of humans. Study leaders include Pardis Sabeti, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at FAS; Bruce Morgan, HMS associate professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Cliff Tabin, head of the HMS Department of Genetics.