I'm looking forward to welcoming everyone at STAT's virtual Future Summit tomorrow till Thurs from noon to 3 EST. Dazzling lineup of guests, including George Church, Seth Rogen (!), Ugur Sahin, the BioNTech billionaire, and Novartis’ new R&D chief Fiona Marshall.

More than 2.2 billion people worldwide lack access to safely managed water—and yet a meager three percent of climate finance is invested in building sustainable #WaterInfrastructure. Joan Rose of MSU CANR says it’s time to reverse that trend. harvardpublichealth.org/bench-science/…

Very cool initiative Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Thrilled with this news! Looking forward to working with you, Andrea Baccarelli. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

STAT turns 8 today! In my letter to readers, I'm uncharacteristically blunt about our business model. statnews.com/2023/11/04/sta… via STAT

Extremely disturbing. And needs to be seen. Don’t look away. This country has a gun problem that no other country has. There are widely- supported common-sense solutions. washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

It’s easy to treat the media as a punching bag. But look to the nation’s local newsrooms. For little money or recognition, reporters in 2023 stood up to power brokers who tried to bully them into silence, exposed corrupt officials and even saved lives. Proof, from every state:

“Dreaming Big” Subject line of first message from our new Dean Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Andrea Baccarelli. THIS is the frame of mind to start the new year. I’m ready and excited for 2024.

Join HPH and The Studio at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for Public Health in Action, a new series pairing discussion events with journalism. From January to May, we’ll examine mental health programs across the U.S. that deliver real results. Watch the trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=xwbdyp…

It's not just bottled water. The average American eats, drinks, and breathes in more than 70,000 microplastic particles every year. Sometimes, they stick around in the body. harvardpublichealth.org/environmental-…

For far too many people, mental health care seems out of reach—unaffordable, unavailable, or ineffective. But fresh thinking is changing the conversation. GREAT new series kicking off Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Details: harvardpublichealth.org/action/#h-seri…

"I think we are, in fact, living in a relatively simple moment in the history of AI, and that we should brace ourselves for a significantly more complex future." Terrific essay by @andrewlbeam, for Harvard Public Health magazine harvardpublichealth.org/tech-innovatio…

In a new essay in Harvard Public Health magazine, I argue that we'll soon see the creation of an army of LLMs designed to control the conversation on all controversial public health topics. If you think things are complicated now, buckle up. Link: harvardpublichealth.org/tech-innovatio… Key points 👇

NEW from Amanda Yarnell Yuning Liu and I: our field experiment aiming to "influence the influencers" to promote evidence-based mental health content on TikTok is now published in nature 's Scientific Reports. Free to read/download here! link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Awesome to see the Studio team @harvardchansph get ready for ⁦Sen. Bernie Sanders⁩ event this afternoon

Awesome to see the Studio team @harvardchansph get ready for Bernie Sanders event this afternoon

What a good (and talented) man. propublica.org/article/marsha…

Wow!! Huge congratulations to Usha Lee McFarling — such exceptional work, and such a wonderful honor.

We are THRILLED by the recognition for the impactful series by Casey Ross Bob Herman