![A white “SNAP welcomed here" sign on a store window. On it’s left is a credit card accepted sign with logos, and a yellow “We welcome snap EBT Customers” flyer.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth-Snap_FoodStamps_f.jpg)
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![A white “SNAP welcomed here" sign on a store window. On it’s left is a credit card accepted sign with logos, and a yellow “We welcome snap EBT Customers” flyer.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth-Snap_FoodStamps_f.jpg)
![3D illustration: A full grocery basket with lit candles reading “SNAP60”. Confetti is in the background.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth_Snap-60-food-stamps_f2.jpg)
As food stamps turn 60, four reasons to celebrate
The program reduces food insecurity and poverty.
![A woman in a green sweater with a red shopping basket chooses alcohol in a supermarket.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth_Examination_Global-alcohol_f.jpg)
As drinking habits shift, global alcohol industry fights to stay ahead
Excess drinking causes millions of deaths each year.
![Illustration: Diptych of a hand holding a wine glass that’s getting filled and an inverse of wine being poured out.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth_Alcohol_Health_f-1200x650.jpg)
Is alcohol good or bad for you? Yes.
It’s all more nuanced than headlines (including this one) suggest.
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Environmental Health
![Top half of comic panel: Two figures, left says "With climate change, these hurricanes are only going to get worse!" Right says "Same with wildfires, heat waves, rising sea levels..."](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HPH_editorial-cartoon_mosquito-diseases_f.jpg)
Climate change bites
An editorial cartoon by Jenna Luecke
![A man with his back to the camera carries a child, head covered with a towel to protect from the heat, in Jammu, India.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_India-climate-change_heat-wave_f.jpg)
Climate change isn’t India’s fault, but it is India’s responsibility
Flaming air conditioners, eggs boiling in the sand, and other signs of deadly heat
![An “Extreme Heat, Stay Cool, Drink Water” digital highway sign above a busy interstate.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPH-Undark_f.jpg)
Why “climate resilience” isn’t actually a solution
The Department of Health and Human Services’ resilience policy undermines efforts to prevent climate disaster.
Equity
![Two hands hold a small ceramic dish with dried flora and a bird feather. The figure is wearing a bright blue sweater.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HPH_EMERY_HealingLodge_Jul2024-059_F.jpg)
A Wabanaki organization forges its own approach to addiction treatment
Its treatment and recovery centers are designed for Indigenous people recovering from substance use disorder and healing from trauma.
![Bright, flat, various-colored circles create abstract human figures in rows.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_health-disparities_small-sample-size_f.jpg)
We can’t fix health disparities we don’t see
There are new ways to gather data on marginalized groups. It’s time to use them.
![Colorful, diverse illustration of healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, and medical staff.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HarvardPublicHealth_DEI_diversity-in-healthcare_f.jpg)
Good health care is rooted in evidence. So is DEI.
Outcomes improve when patients see doctors who look like them.
Global Health
![A hand holds seven Tuberculosis (TB) medication pills at a health care clinic in Delhi, India.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth_TB-india_f.jpg)
The battle against tuberculosis will be won or lost in India
Experts say the country could be a model for the world. Instead, its TB fight has floundered.
![A busy street in Kibera, Kenya. Blue pillars holding blue water pipes line the street and hang above.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth-Kibera-SHOFCO_f-1.jpg)
How Kibera’s water woes vanished into thin air
An aerial piping system brings residents clean, affordable water.
![Yellow microscopic image of yersinia pseudotuberculosis bacteria cultured in a Petri dish. Some bacteria are in single circles, other cluster together.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HarvardPublicHealth-TB-gatesfoundation-f.jpg)
A new model of drug discovery could change the game on superbugs
Where markets fail, collaboration might just succeed.
Snapshots
Bite-sized views of big ideas in public health
Mental Health
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This Detroit Islamic center offers free mental health care for anyone in need
Studies show that Muslim Americans have exponentially higher rates of mental illness, including suicide, compared to other religious groups.
![Book Cover: “Profiles in Mental Health Courage” by Patrick Kennedy and Stephen Fried. Text is in light and navy blue. Background is beige.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_Profiles_f.jpg)
A new book captures 12 Profiles of people living with mental illness
The stories are touching. What they reveal is damning.
![Book cover: “But what will people say? Navigating mental health, identity, love and family between cultures” by Sahaj Kaur Kohl, A, LGPC founder of brown girl therapy. The cover is orange with white type. Simple face outlines are drawn in red and green.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_QA-mental-health.jpg)
Why don’t we talk more about how culture affects mental health?
The overwhelming Whiteness of mental health care has shaped the way we talk about it.
Policy & Practice
![A young teen climbs over a chicken wire fence in suburban North Carolina.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth-gender-affiriming-care_NC_f.jpg)
Families in states with bans on trans care are finding hope across state lines
“I would rather have an alive kid on testosterone than a dead kid that’s not,” says one North Carolina mom.
![Illustration: People of multiple races and ages relax, exercise, walk dogs and rest in a city park. City park where people relax, train and walk dogs concept and vector illustration, isolated on white background.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth_HealthyNYC_US-life-expectancy_f.jpg)
NYC is working to help residents live longer, healthier lives
Ashwin Vasan, the city’s health commissioner, hopes to reverse declines in life expectancy with a new program.
![Construction workers dressed in bright green and orange outfits work on an apartment building. The building is clearly unfinished and covered in a plastic sheet.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_CalHousing_LarryValenzuela_01_F.jpg)
Can California’s health care providers help solve homelessness?
With new state funds, some California health care providers move to offer what homeless patients really need: housing.
Reproductive Health
![A woman, face out of view and body blurred, holds a condom with a red AIDS ribbon hanging off the corner.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/HarvardPublicHealth_Hispanic_Women_PrEP_f2.jpg)
Hispanic women are less likely to get PrEP treatment. A new intervention could change that.
Latinas make up 17 percent of U.S. women, but 21 percent of those living with HIV.
![Pregnant Black woman with long curly hair stands in a kitchen and looks out a window. Her hands rest on her belly.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HPH_19th_Adopt-a-mom_f.jpg)
Adopt-A-Mom wants to eliminate pregnancy disparities in North Carolina
The program responds to racial and insurance-based inequities in maternal care in Guilford County.
![A black-and-white illustration of a placenta.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HarvardPublicHealth_Placenta_F.jpg)
Researchers look closer at the placenta
A better understanding of the placenta may help curb maternal and fetal mortality rates, but progress is slow.
Tech & Innovation
![Christian Happi wearing an embroidered white lab-coat enters a dry lab through a set of clear double-doors at ACEGID.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_CRISPR_Christian-Happi_f2.jpg)
The cutting edge of CRISPR is in Nigeria
Christian Happi is pioneering a revolutionary approach to fighting disease.
![Graphic representation of the DNA sequence in bright blues, pinks and purples.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HarvardPublicHealth_genomics_Catalina-Lopez-Correa_F.jpg)
Genomics has broad applications, and for now, broad limitations
A scientist-turned-patient finds that access issues cloud the technology’s potential.
![Alice Park and Jennifer Doudna seated on stage for a session talk at the Aspen Ideas Health Conference.](https://harvardpublichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HPH-Aspen-Doundna-f2.jpg)
Inside CRISPR’s gene editing revolution
Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for inventing a powerful gene editing technology. What comes next for CRISPR?