On this cold January day, as the sun beamed through the grey clouds, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. took the oath of office as the 46th President of the United States, expressing infinite hope and representing strong winds of change blowing through a Washington, DC, locked down, yet still proud. American flags were dancing on the steps of the Capitol and all along the great stretch of the National Mall. Today, on the very Capitol steps where two...

By Matt Nathan, M.D., and Susan Carney Lynch, Dr.PH

Dr. Howard K. Koh is one of the most influential healthcare leaders in the world today. He is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School....

By Anne Montgomery and Sarah Slocum

As the peaks and valleys of COVID-19 cases and deaths create chaos in the health care sector and dominate news feeds across the globe, the pandemic is shining an intense spotlight on nursing homes - what they do and how well they do it. The highly infectious virus is fueling conversations among families about their elderly loved ones, and fostering policy debates about additional reforms, including calls for alternatives. The voices of nursing home residents - always hard to hear- have been effectively silenced by...

By Matt Nathan, M.D.

It was summer. A very active and healthy 39-year-old gentleman was on a family yacht vacation in Canada when he suddenly came down with general malaise, severe back pain, and ultimately weakness and paralysis of his legs in a matter of days. He would lose the ability to walk on his own for the rest of his life....

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

COVID-19 has produced a health crisis, an economic crisis and a social crisis. But it has also exposed a crisis in American foreign policy leadership.

Under the influence of the information revolution and globalization, world politics has changed in a way that means that even if the United States remains the...

By Tom Hedrick

For at least the last 20 years, the United States has lagged other developed countries in the returns it gets on its K-12 education and healthcare investments. In education, the U.S. spends almost 40% more than the OECD average expenditures per full-time equivalent, yet scores only...

By Lisa Dreier

When the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading globally in early 2020, Victor Lopez-Carmen knew that it represented an existential threat to Indigenous communities. As one of the only Native American student currently at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chair of the ...