Public Health

Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy hosts a weekly speaker series throughout the academic year, as well as other special events. The spring 2016 semester featured several prominent journalists and practitioners, who discussed some of today’s most pressing topics.

The approach of the first winter storm usually raises a number of issues and problems that are of keen interest to scientists and social scientists. While snowfall accumulation often is the focus of breaking-news coverage, there are many other data-driven ways to look at storms and the challenges that cold weather present.

Scientists are still trying to gain a better understanding of the Zika virus–which the World Health Organization has called an international public health emergency–while public health officials scramble to manage outbreaks without a complete scientific picture of the disease.

From the Scholars Strategy Network, written by Sarah Elizabeth Gollust of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. This piece has been edited for Journalist’s Resource.