2015

We’ll always have Paris: My time with the UN, Alec Baldwin and five Heller-inspired insights on social change

Heller News Release
December 22, 2015

Heller student Joshua Cramer-Montes, MA-SID/MBA'16, offers insights on his participation in the recent UN convention on climate change.

New Brandeis and Harvard center hopes to reduce the substance use problem in the U.S. by focusing on the quality, cost and availability of treatment services

Heller News Release
December 21, 2015

Center is established through a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

"While I ran to war, she ran from it": The story of a US veteran and a Syrian expatriate

Heller News Release
December 07, 2015

Phoenicia Lewis, SIDCO'16, and Wafaa Arbash, SIDCO'16, offer their unique perspectives on finding humanity amid the dust of war.

Statements of solidarity

Heller News Release
November 23, 2015

Heller faculty, staff, students and alumni support the Brandeis community members who are calling attention to issues of diversity and inclusion on campus.

Institutional transformation expert Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld joins the MBA faculty

Heller News Release
October 26, 2015

Cutcher-Gershenfeld, whose research focuses primarily on stakeholder alignment and integrated operating systems, will be teaching courses in strategy and operations

Promoting a legacy of gender equity advocacy

Heller News Release
October 26, 2015

Anita Hill’s course on gender and law provides a unique experience for Heller masters and doctoral students.

Remembering Stan Wallack

Heller News Release
October 18, 2015

Heller colleagues discuss the impact of the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy’s founding executive director, who passed away on October 7.

Heller at work: Jeanne Mansfield, MPP/MBA’15

Heller News Release
October 07, 2015

Student Jeanne Mansfield uses her summer internship to promote equitable access to healthy foods at Boston Public Market.

Oct. 15 conference will explore the role of relational coordination in building healthy workplaces and communities

Heller News Release
October 01, 2015

Jody Hoffer Gittell, executive director of the Relational Coordination Research Collaborative, explains the concept and provides some examples of its usage around the world.

Intersectionality of identity and disciplines: race, gender, sociology and development

Heller News Release
September 24, 2015

Phoenicia Lewis, MA SID/COEX'16, reflects on her recent participation in the Association of Black Sociologists conference.

Explaining the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

Heller News Release
September 21, 2015

Rajesh Sampath, associate director of the master's program in Sustainable International Development, provides an overview.

Returning faculty member Deborah Stone brings big ideas to the classroom

Heller News Release
September 09, 2015

Stone, author of a best-selling textbook on policy making, will explore concepts that unite political systems and cut across geographic and cultural boundaries.

Patients with substance use disorder aren't treated equally

Heller News Release
August 13, 2015

Andrea Acevedo, PhD'12, of the Institute for Behavioral Health examines disparities in quality of care.

Harvard’s Susan Eaton selected as new director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy

Heller News Release
August 05, 2015

Eaton will lead the Heller center in guiding foundations and individuals to realize the full power of social justice giving.

A foot in the door and a place at the table

Heller News Release
July 15, 2015

Promoting equity and inclusion for minority healthcare workers in New Hampshire.

Representing Heller at the United Nations’ Equator Initiative

Heller News Release
July 15, 2015

Josh Cramer-Montes, MA SID/MBA’16, to join the organization's communications team.

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act, what's next?

Heller News Release
June 25, 2015

Michael Doonan, director of the MPP program and executive director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, considers the ruling's impact and the road ahead.

Responding to Governor Baker's Opioid Working Group recommendations

Heller News Release
June 24, 2015

On behalf of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Center of Excellence, Tom Clark provides reactions to the working group's report and additional recommendations.

IBH partners with Pew Charitable Trusts to co-sponsor research forum on state prescription drug monitoring programs

Heller News Release
June 08, 2015

Scientists, practitioners and agency representatives discussed research applications and effectiveness of PDMPs, which are designed to halt prescription drug abuse.

Professors Stuart Altman and Rajesh Sampath discuss the Affordable Care Act

Heller News Release
June 08, 2015

Listen to the full audio recording or view excerpts from this conversation on the arguments opposing universal healthcare.

Ricardo Godoy’s 20-year study in the Bolivian Amazon

Heller News Release
June 04, 2015

The Heller anthropologist and professor discusses the decades he's spent measuring the effects of modernization on the Tsimane' indigenous society.

Heller graduates largest group of PhD students in a decade

Heller News Release
June 03, 2015

Explore the dissertations of the 25 doctoral students who walked at commencement this year.

Celebrating the Class of 2015

Heller News Release
May 17, 2015

Watch the diploma ceremony, read the graduate speakers' speeches and see pictures from commencement weekend.

IASP's Tatjana Meschede examines family financial transfers for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Heller News Release
May 11, 2015

In a new report, Meschede says that nonwhite households in Boston are significantly more likely to financially assist their relatives.

Professor Allyala Nandakumar assesses President Obama’s pick for USAID leader

Heller News Release
May 01, 2015

Nandakumar, who serves as USAID’s first chief economist, believes Gayle Smith is a strong nominee.

How to give wisely for Nepal relief

Heller News Release
April 29, 2015

Laurence Simon, director of the Center for Global Development and Sustainability, provides guidance for those who wish to contribute to Nepal earthquake recovery efforts.

Heller on the ground: SID students and alumni at the United Nations

Heller News Release
April 28, 2015

Every year, sustainable international development master's students find opportunities to advance their careers at the U.N.

An unfunded mandate: Are Massachusetts schools adopting new nutritional standards?

Heller News Release
April 10, 2015

Lindsay Rosenfeld of the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy explores the impact of this policy change on Massachusetts students and schools through the NOURISH study.

Repealing Massachusetts' film production tax credits

Heller News Release
April 06, 2015

Read Adjunct Lecturer Robert Tannenwald's tax credits testimony to the state's Joint Revenue Committee.

Civil rights advocate Julian Bond: “You’ve got to have a goal"

Heller News Release
April 03, 2015

The former Georgia legislator and NAACP director joined a panel on contemporary civil rights movements.

ICYFP's Child Opportunity Index reveals pervasive racial and ethnic inequities in America’s 100 largest metro areas

Heller News Release
March 25, 2015

High concentrations of black and Hispanic children live in neighborhoods with the lowest opportunities for healthy development.

The future of youth policy

Heller News Release
March 25, 2015

A Heller class focuses on global policy related to a large, at-risk population: adolescents and young adults.

The Heller MBA and SID Social Entrepreneurs: Tackling Nothing Less than Global Poverty

Heller News Release
March 09, 2015

For the third year in a row, a Heller-Brandeis team has advanced to the regional finals for the international Hult Prize Social Enterprise Challenge. It's just one of many instances of Heller students connecting social responsibility with entrepreneurial drive.

On the Ground: Ebola Response in Liberia

Heller News Release
March 06, 2015

Heller PhD candidate Elizabeth Glaser, who recently returned from Ebola response work in Liberia, will teach a March 20 and 21 seminar on "Ebola, Health Systems and Development" that will examine the economic and environmental tipping points that led to the disease's outbreak in West Africa.

Celebrating Ten Years of Coexistence and Conflict

Heller News Release
February 17, 2015

COEX's founding and current directors discuss the program's distinctive history and look forward to what's next.

Opioid addiction caused by overprescribing, not recreational abuse, is key driver of painkiller and heroin overdose crisis

Heller News Release
February 04, 2015

Researchers say that preventing new cases of opioid addiction caused by both medical and non-medical use and expanding access to opioid addiction treatment is the best plan to curb the epidemic.

We need a super agenda to tackle superbugs

Heller News Release
February 04, 2015

Drug resistant infections are turning into the biggest challenge that modern health systems will face in the near future. But what's the severity of the problem right now, and what can we do to address it?

Will President Obama’s working families proposals work?

Heller News Release
January 23, 2015

Pamela Joshi and Alison Earle of the Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy assess the president’s initiatives and their chances for success.

Despite great need, pool of new, innovative psychotropic drugs is running dry

Heller News Release
January 09, 2015

New study examines the medications under development, and why so few reach the market

Melanie Allen, MA-SID’15, Named a Switzer Environmental Fellow

Heller News Release
January 09, 2015

Allen is one of 20 emerging leaders recognized for driving positive environmental change.