2016
Right in their backyard
Heller News Release
December 22, 2016
How three prominent Heller researchers and an alumna lend their strong voices to the cause of affordable housing in their hometown of Newton, Mass.
Hacking bias in the tech industry
Heller News Release
December 21, 2016
Freada Kapor Klein, PhD'84, co-founder of Project Include, brings research to bear on diversity and inclusion efforts in Silicon Valley.
A Herculean tradition
Heller News Release
December 21, 2016
The Team Consulting Project comes full circle for one Heller MBA alumna.
Perspectives: My journey to belong and empower others to find their space in the world
Heller News Release
December 21, 2016
Tam Emerson, director of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program, reflects on her recent visit to Columbia--her first time back since being adopted from Bogotá almost 30 years ago at the age of six months.
Heller team advances to regional semi-final following inaugural Hult Prize@ Brandeis University
Heller News Release
December 16, 2016
Nearly 50 Brandeis students competed in a day-long business pitch competition, creating innovative social enterprises to restore rights and dignity to refugees.
Inside Man
Heller News Release
December 09, 2016
Originally appearing in the winter 2016 Heller Magazine, this profile focuses on sustainable international development student Edwin Pool's desire to be an agent of change for a sustainable future.
Heller to offer new course on immigrant integration in the U.S.
Heller News Release
December 08, 2016
In this Q&A, Susan Eaton describes the new class she and Jessica Santos designed and will co-teach this spring.
Heller Social Policy Debate: Inequality of Income and Wealth
Heller News Release
December 05, 2016
Watch footage of the first in the Heller Social Policy Debate series, in which participants consider current critical social policy issues.
A Q&A with the winning social entrepreneurs from this year’s Heller Startup Challenge
Heller News Release
November 29, 2016
An interview with two winning teams: Team WorkAround (first place) and Team REST (runner-up) to learn more about their startup ideas and their experience at the Heller Startup Challenge.
VA officials promise action in response to PhD student’s findings of shameful quality of inpatient psychiatric care
Heller News Release
November 28, 2016
Morgan Shields, first-year PhD student at the Heller School, is conducting research to learn more about the quality of care provided at inpatient psychiatric facilities.
Kenyan youth leader comes to Heller
Heller News Release
November 22, 2016
The MA Program in Sustainable International Development will host Raphael Obonyo, recently named as one of five runners-up for the 2016 U.N. Person of the Year Award in Kenya, as a Visiting Scholar in February 2017.
Now that recreational marijuana will be legal in Massachusetts, what will the impact be?
Heller News Release
November 21, 2016
The new law goes into effect on Dec. 15, but questions remain about both the health implications and the introduction of commercial marijuana dispensaries in local communities. Julie Johnson, PhD’15, offers her take.
Alumna spotlight: Enka Tsendjav, MA SID’11, brings a sustainable development framework to the Mongolian media
Heller News Release
November 02, 2016
When Enka decided to enroll in Heller’s sustainable international development program, she never imagined it would lead to a career in the media.
Heller on the Hill
Heller News Release
October 25, 2016
An interview with Erin Robinson, MPP’16, legislative fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated in U.S. Sen. Cory Booker’s office
Taking a closer look at the impact of combat exposure among Army women
Heller News Release
October 20, 2016
In a new paper published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, Heller School researchers Rachel Sayko Adams and Mary Jo Larson reveal their findings on the consequences of combat exposure on U.S. Army women who have returned home from deployment.
Anita Hill responds to Donald Trump tape
Heller News Release
October 13, 2016
Anita Hill's recent op-ed in the Boston Globe and commentary on CBS and PBS NewsHour reminds viewers that Donald Trump's boasting about sexual assault should inspire concern and support for victims.
How to give wisely for disaster relief after Hurricane Matthew
Heller News Release
October 10, 2016
Laurence Simon, director of the Center for Global Development and Sustainability, offers five lessons and five questions.
New $2.5 million research center to support parents with disabilities
Heller News Release
September 21, 2016
The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy will be home to Parents Empowering Parents.
Coordinating care and corrections
Heller News Release
September 21, 2016
Diana Bowser joins national project to bring together the juvenile justice and behavioral health systems.
Increasing inclusive care
Heller News Release
September 21, 2016
Monika Mitra researches disparities in prenatal and maternal health care for women with physical disabilities.
Elevating the conversation on caste
Heller News Release
September 21, 2016
The Center for Global Development and Sustainability organizes the first academic program in the U.S. focused on social exclusion in India and South Asia.
Did the ACA impact behavioral health treatment disparities?
Heller News Release
September 21, 2016
PhD candidate Tim Creedon studies the effect of insurance expansion on access to mental health and substance abuse treatment.
The case for culture change
Heller News Release
September 21, 2016
Jody Hoffer Gittell’s new book investigates how organizations use relational coordination to achieve change.
Can global warming impact happiness?
Heller News Release
August 10, 2016
Clemens Noelke’s recent study shows that higher temperatures reduce emotional well-being.
Indigenizing development and enhancing traditional knowledge
Heller News Release
July 06, 2016
A Q&A with Gabriela Corbera, MA SID'17, on her participation in Columbia University's Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy Fellowship.
Heller team places second in Tibetan Innovation Challenge
Heller News Release
June 28, 2016
Three students propose an entrepreneurial business plan to improve the agricultural capacity of Tibetan refugee communities in India with an organic achar pickling cooperative.
Increasing inclusive care
Heller News Release
June 27, 2016
Monika Mitra researches disparities in prenatal and maternal healthcare for women with physical disabilities.
Stories of justice prevail at commencement 2016
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read the graduate speakers' speeches and see pictures from commencement weekend.
MA COEX Commencement Speaker: Ghinwa Alsalman Hneide, MA COEX'16
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of her speech.
MA SID Commencement Speaker: Rodrigo Moran, MA SID'16
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of his speech.
MBA Commencement Speaker: Emilia Dunham, MBA/MPP'16
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of her speech.
MPP Commencement Speaker: Brian Kennedy, MPP'16
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of his speech.
MS Commencement Speaker: Pamela Titi, MS'16
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of her speech.
PhD Commencement Speaker: Michelle Shain, PhD'16
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of her speech.
Graduate Speaker, Brandeis University Commencement: Naveed Noormal, MA COEX'15
Heller News Release
May 22, 2016
Read a transcript of his speech.
PhD student Robyn Powell speaks at the White House
Heller News Release
May 12, 2016
Powell, a lawyer and co-founder of the Disabled Parenting Project, spoke at the White House's forum on the civil rights of parents with disabilities.
Dengue fever’s economic ‘bite’ estimated in Lancet Infectious Disease article
Heller News Release
May 02, 2016
Donald Shepard and a group of Schneider Institutes for Health Policy researchers find that the mosquito-borne disease has an annual global economic cost of $8.9 billion.
Do Waltham and Greenfield, Mass. enable healthy aging?
Heller News Release
May 02, 2016
Walter Leutz leads volunteer co-researchers in study of healthy aging in two Massachusetts towns.
Cultivating resilience among Bolivian farmers
Heller News Release
April 29, 2016
Rosemarie Caward, SID’17, shares her practicum experience with Catholic Relief Services with video and photography.
International policymakers, scholars and practitioners gather for GDS conference on caste, inequality and economic growth in South Asia
Heller News Release
April 29, 2016
This year's conference focuses on issues of growth and modernization.
And opportunity for all
Heller News Release
March 25, 2016
Researchers from the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy talk about the tool they developed for the White House's Opportunity Project.
Follow the money
Heller News Release
March 24, 2016
Examining a number of intertwining factors, a new paper follows the trajectory of treatment dollars being funneled to substance use disorders
On the frontlines
Heller News Release
March 21, 2016
Cynthia Tschampl's research seeks to strengthen tuberculosis treatment systems in Massachusetts.
Heller ranked among nation’s top graduate schools for social policy and public affairs
Heller News Release
March 16, 2016
Heller is ranked in the top 10 for social policy and the top 50 for public affairs in the latest U.S. News & World graduate school rankings
A Painful Price
Heller News Release
March 16, 2016
Professor Donald Shepard's research on the economic costs of suicide suggest that previous estimates severely underestimated the frequency and severity of this phenomena.
New EMBA for physicians program off to a healthy start
Heller News Release
February 29, 2016
Jon Chilingerian and a diverse team of Heller faculty are training 36 doctors in the new science of medicine and management.
Heller Forward Welcomes Spring With Community Day
Heller News Release
February 24, 2016
On January 12, students came together to further the discussion at Heller about diversity and the concepts of power and privilege experienced both inside and outside the classroom.
Robyn Powell receives Paul G. Hearne Leadership Award
Heller News Release
February 19, 2016
PhD student Robyn Powell received the award from the American Association of People with Disabilities for her work as team leader and cofounder of the Disabled Parenting Project.
How health systems respond to Zika
Heller News Release
February 04, 2016
Diana Bowser, director of the MS in global health policy and management program, discusses the framework that countries need to have in place to stem the growth of this public health crisis.
Constitutionality and LGBTQ rights in India
Heller News Release
February 02, 2016
On Al Jazeera America, professor Raj Sampath discusses the Indian Supreme Court's recent hearing on a law that criminalizes homosexuality.
A conversation with Arlene Gormley, Heller student and children’s book author
Heller News Release
February 01, 2016
Arlene Gormley, MA-SID’16, has self-published a children’s book called “2030 Not a Fairytale” that explains the United Nations’ goals for sustainable development.
Solving complex social challenges with relational coordination
Heller News Release
January 25, 2016
Professor Jody Hoffer Gittell presents data and insights from her forthcoming book about relational coordination and culture change.
Heller is home to expertise on the opioid crisis
Heller News Release
January 21, 2016
Andrew Kolodny discusses the epidemic on the national scale, while Constance Horgan and Sharon Reif from the Institute for Behavioral Health discuss the bills currently under consideration in Massachusetts.
How student debt impacts the racial wealth gap
Heller News Release
January 19, 2016
IASP researchers team up with Demos to examine the issue in the latest Racial Wealth Audit report.
Nurse practitioner patients less costly to Medicare than physician patients
Heller News Release
January 07, 2016
First national study contradicts previous research on health care costs.