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Global Health and Social Medicine

Global Health and Social Medicine

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Irrigating the Clinical Desert

June 23, 2021

Paul Farmer on the chronic roots of acute health crises

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Mental Health Gets a Boost in Texas

June 15, 2021

$10 Million Lone Star Prize includes support for scale-up of HMS EMPOWER initiative

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Fighting Chaos with Care

April 1, 2021

Why community trust, engagement must be cornerstones of pandemic response

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Anti-Racist Epidemiology

February 10, 2021

Research suggests reparations for slavery could have reduced U.S COVID-19 infections and deaths

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Getting It Right

February 9, 2021

To improve global surgery, first build strong teams

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The Forgotten Ones

January 12, 2021

Treatment of immigrants detained during pandemic explored

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Rethinking Health and Human Rights

December 16, 2020

Paul Farmer awarded Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture

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Promising Progress

August 5, 2020

New generation of drugs show early efficacy against drug-resistant TB

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COVID-19 and the Most Vulnerable

July 1, 2020

Understanding social determinants of pandemic key to better care, researchers, clinicians say

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Striking Link

May 13, 2020

Gene variant is common in Peru, absent from European genomes

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Scientists@Home

May 1, 2020

As most labs shift to remote work, HMS researchers find ways to keep the science going

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COVID-19 Context Clues

April 21, 2020

Social medicine offers insight into pandemic’s path, roadmap to more resilient future

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