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Kristin Huang

About Kristin Huang

Harvard Medical School
Website: http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) mission is to create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease. Students and more than 7,500 full-time faculty in 11 academic departments located on the School's Boston campus, in one of 47 hospital-based clinical departments at 18 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, or at 30 research centers, divisions, and institutes, advance the School’s mission every day. Within HMS, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) works in close collaboration with the GHD project teams, from participating in GHDonline communities to developing the GHD academic platform.

Recent Contributions

Kristin Huang started a discussion "Help ban smoking in Harvard housing - sign this petition". in the Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases community.

Please call for Harvard to ban smoking in its graduate student housing by signing this petition: http://tinyurl.com/HarvardSmokeFreeHousing Harvard allows smoking in the majority of its graduate student housing, despite research showing 1) that children living in multiunit housing where smoking is allowed have higher levels of cotinine (a tobacco metabolite) ...
Kristin Huang replied to "Upcoming Event: The Unmet Need for Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Africa" in the Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases community.

Marie, thanks for the brilliant summary of the event. The challenges that Dr. Mwangi-Powell highlighted ring true in my brief 9-month experience in Kenya, particularly the lack of education regarding pain assessment and treatment, fear amongst health care providers, and unreliable access to narcotics. I'm particularly intrigued by her call ...

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