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People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Harvard legacy preferences, wealth taxation, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

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Governance structures and private sector engagement in health sector in India

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

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Future Development

Are the multilaterals ready to act on pandemic prevention and other global public goods?

Kaci Kennedy McDade and Gavin Yamey

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

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Up Front

Louisiana’s innovative drug purchasing program, and what it could mean for the country

Jeffrey Cheng and David Wessel

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Reports

Newport and Camel cigarettes are stacked on a shelf inside a tobacco store in New York July 11, 2014. U.S. cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc is in talks to acquire rival Lorillard Inc in a multi-billion dollar deal that would reshape one of the world's biggest and most profitable tobacco markets, the companies said on Friday. In a statement confirming what people familiar with the matter previously told Reuters, Reynolds, No.2 player in the United States with brands including Camel and Pall Mall, said the talks were consistent with its strategy of weighing options that would help boost shareholder value. Buying Lorillard, which had a stock market value of $22.9 billion on Thursday, would give Reynolds the leading U.S. menthol cigarette Newport and its leading e-cigarette blu.Buying Lorillard, which had a stock market value of $22.9 billion on Thursday, would give Reynolds the leading U.S. menthol cigarette Newport and its leading e-cigarette blu. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA7C02A001

Report

Simulating the effects of tobacco retail restriction policies

Todd B. Combs, Virginia R. McKay, Joseph T. Ornstein, Margaret Mahoney, Kerry Cork, Deena Brosi, Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, Ross A. Hammond, and Douglas Luke

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Report

Modeling community efforts to reduce childhood obesity

Matt Kasman, Ross A. Hammond, Benjamin Heuberger, Rob Purcell, Austen Mack-Crane, Christina Economos, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender, and Melanie Nichols

Monday, August 26, 2019

Public Health

A systematic review of systems dynamics and agent-based obesity models: Evaluating obesity as part of the global syndemic

Alexandra Morshed, Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, Ross A. Hammond, and Peter S. Hovmand

Friday, July 19, 2019

DATE IMPORTED: March 06, 2019 Police officers patrol a street after a blockade set by members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel to repel security forces during an anti-fuel theft operation in Santa Rosa de Lima, in Guanajuato state, Mexico, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Mexico

AMLO’s security policy: Creative ideas, tough reality

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

A malnourished boy lies on a weighing scale at the malnutrition ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen September 11, 2018. Picture taken September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC1D4DBA52B0

Public Health

The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change: The Lancet Commission report

Blog Posts

Dr. Christelle Azier-Pohoun of BIO-MEDICAL, a center that provides medical visits for people who pass the driver's license, speaks to a patient during a consultation in Abidjan, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon. - RC1BC64E9F30

Africa in focus

Health in Africa: 5 priorities for the G-7 Biarritz Summit

Yvonne Mburu

Monday, August 19, 2019

A Congolese health worker administers ebola vaccine to a child at the Himbi Health Centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Olivia Acland - RC1FDEE57DA0

Future Development

Can public works help fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Paul M. Bisca and Paul Bance

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Dietician Krista Mangan prepares an examination room at the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) office inside a Salt Lake County health clinic in South Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2, 2013. The Salt Lake County government appropriated special funding to continue to offer certain aspects of federally funded WIC program for a week while many other WIC offices in Utah have been shut due the federal government shutdown, according to county authorities. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH BUSINESS) - GM1E9A30MYF01

Up Front

Reducing access to contraception won’t reduce the abortion rate

Katherine Guyot and Isabel V. Sawhill

Monday, July 29, 2019

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Development Seminar | Smallpox eradication: Inclusive histories as meaningful roadmaps for global health

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WEBINAR – The Flint water crisis: Lessons learned

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Opportunities for India Beyond 2019: The future of health and geopolitics

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Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century

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