Dr. Stephens-Shields is leading the strategic initiative called the Invest In Her Campaign as part of her ambassadorship for this year’s Harvard Medical School women’s leadership course. The Invest in Her Campaign and the course are part of the She Leads Campaign. 

With temperatures heating up, people are heading to the beaches to cool off, but how does their sunscreen affect the surrounding oceans? Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, investigates this question on a new National Academies of Science Committee.

Some social media posts have misinterpreted and publicized a criticized study that claims to have identified a correlation between emergency calls for cardiac events and the vaccination rate in Israel. “Much of what I am seeing is people presenting more examples of time series for select places and times, or more scatterplots, considering this validation of a narrative of vaccine harm," commented Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD. "Many times I don’t see an acknowledgement of the limitations of these approaches … or acknowledgement that these are hypotheses that need validation.”

Social media posts this month claiming new revelations that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is only 12 percent effective against infection most likely stem from a misreading of documents made public more than a year ago, says Jeffrey Morris, PhD.