Announcing Global Tufts Month: March 1-21, 2025
The theme for Global Tufts Month in 2025 is "Global Health Equity."
Top Science Stories of 2024
Tufts researchers have been delving into everything from epilepsy, cancer drugs, and regenerative medicine to social science, next-gen solar panels, and chimpanzee behavior
Anh Ngo’s Wells for Wellness
The junior founded an organization that brings clean water to families in Vietnam
Small Island Nations Have Their Say in Court
Duncan Pickard makes the case that countries party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea must do more to mitigate climate change and its catastrophic impact on oceans
Student Research Projects in Malaysia Improve Global Health Education
The Tufts Global Research Assistant Program exposes students to public health challenges abroad and affirms a passion for global health
Tufts Global In the News
FDA ruling limits which foods can be labeled 'healthy' on packaging
NBC News
Distinguished Professor, Friedman School Dean Emeritus, and FIMI Director Dariush Mozaffarian is quoted about the new FDA redefinition of healthy food, saying, “It’s a terrific advance. For the first time, FDA will be judging foods not based on a handful of negative nutrients like calories or fat or salt, but on whether the food has healthy ingredients.”
Health insurance premiums in Massachusetts are among the most expensive in the country. Why?
Boston Globe
A&S Community Health Professor of the Practice Amy Lischko is quoted at length in this article examining why more than 4 in 10 Massachusetts residents reported in 2023 that they or their families have had difficulty affording health care.
He Built a Wellness Empire While Adventuring With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
New York Times
Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian notes that functional medicine is “pretty much an unregulated space."