HSPH is in a global battle against HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases that affect the disadvantaged disproportionately.

INFLUENZA

HSPH Investigators Help Lead H1N1 Research and Response

Catching the flu before it catches the world

Bird Flu: Now, All Too Human

An outbreak in Sumatra shows the world is ill-prepared

Avian Flu in Africa

What does an outbreak in resource-poor Nigeria mean?

HIV/AIDS 

South Africa's Misguided AIDS Policies

A Low-Tech Way to Combat HIV/AIDS

The world is finally waking up to male circumcision.

Trafficked

Sold into slavery in the age of HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS at Year 25

Africa is the epicenter of HSPH-led drug and vaccine research

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TUBERCULOSIS

March of the TB Superstrains

HSPH research centers on “extensively drug-resistant” mutants 

Hope for a Needle-Free TB Vaccine
New "dry-spray" technology passes muster in guinea pigs 

Is Vitamin D the Missing Key to TB?

New research suggests a low-cost way to help protect people of color

TB, or Not TB?

Why is the bacterium dormant in 90% of cases--but potentially life-threatening in the rest?

MALARIA

The Wily Malaria Parasite

Genetically diverse P. falciparum strains add up to one virulent, drug resistant foe

Malaria Initiative

Visit our Malaria Initiative website for the latest on malaria research at HSPH and Harvard University

VACCINES

Polio Pioneer

Remembering HSPH Professor and Nobel Laureate Thomas Weller

Only Connect…

What can we learn from vaccines?

Avian Flu: Preparing for a Pandemic

Scientists cannot predict whether or when a mutation might occur in the H5N1 bird flu strain--or in any of 20 other avian influenza strains--that would enable it to be transmitted readily to and between humans. Developing an effective vaccine and the capacity to manufacture it in sufficient quantities must form the centerpiece of pandemic preparations.

OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Bacteria Without Borders
Scientists trace inflammatory ulcerative colitis to failure of immune “peacekeeper”

The Lessons of Oral Rehydration Therapy

The co-discoverer of a simple solution to a global killer passes all he has learned to public health's next generation

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Funding Priorities

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CDC/ Dr. Ray Butler, Janice Carr; CDC/James Gathany; CDC/ C. Goldsmith, P. Feorino, E. L. Palmer, W. R. McManus