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Heller in the News
July 16, 2024
Nitazenes, opioids often more potent than fentanyl, emerge as new overdose threat in Mass.
Traci Green, director of Heller's Opioid Policy Research Collaborative, is quoted in a WBUR story.
Heller in the News
July 10, 2024
‘Data gaps’ limit understanding of how racial wealth gap affects generations differently
In the Boston Globe, Tatjana Meschede comments on the difficulty of obtaining data on wealth indicators.
Heller in the News
June 30, 2024
Six things to know about the state’s deal with Uber and Lyft
In the Boston Globe, David Weil comments on Massachusetts' deal to improve pay and benefits for Uber and Lyft drivers.
Heller in the News
June 13, 2024
Fantasyland General
In the American Prospect, Robert Kuttner writes about the lack of transparency in hospital pricing.
Heller in the News
June 05, 2024
Anarchy rules on Boston streets. Here’s one way to stop it.
In a Boston Globe op-ed, Robert Kuttner discusses the use of automated video traffic cameras.
Heller in the News
June 05, 2024
Research Supports the Need to Recognize the Right to Free Early Childhood Education and Free Secondary Education
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is among the scholars, experts, and researchers on the education, development, wellbeing, and rights of children and adolescents who signed a letter expressing their support for a new optional protocol to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child focused on the right to free education.
Heller in the News
June 03, 2024
Geeking Out With...Manning Zhang
Brandeis' Graduate School of Arts and Sciences speaks with PhD student Manning Zhang about her research.
Heller in the News
May 28, 2024
The Support Our Public Services Briefly Had—and Still Need
In the American Prospect, Robert Kuttner writes that President Biden can make better ongoing support for popular public services a theme of his re-election campaign.
Heller in the News
May 23, 2024
Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission wants to change how workers report sexual harassment
The nonprofit organization has launched MyConnext, an online resource and reporting tool that will allow workers at five major entertainment business organizations to get help with reporting incidents of harassment, discrimination, and abuse.
Heller News Release
May 22, 2024
Seven Heller Students Awarded Prestigious Fellowship Programs
The Harvard Kennedy School Rappaport Public Policy Fellowship, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, and the Eli J. & Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program will all welcome Heller students for their 2024 fellowship cohorts.
Heller in the News
May 22, 2024
Brandeis StreetCheck Project Keeps Close Eye On Street Drug Supply
Traci Green, director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative, discusses OPRC's StreetCheck Project on WBZ Radio.
Heller News Release
May 20, 2024
MPP Commencement Speaker: Katherine Nace, MPP’24
Representing the Master of Public Policy program, Katherine Nace, MPP’24, talked about the she insights gained from talking with her colleagues about the MPP program.