The Good Well being Kiosk is a public well being schooling mission of the Zhu Household Middle for International Most cancers Prevention on the Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being. The white spinning blocks convey sensible data for decreasing your threat of most cancers, whereas the blue blocks name for a fast sport of tic-tac-toe and the bench gives a spot to relaxation.
Serious about internet hosting the Good Well being Kiosk? E-mail cgcp@hsph.harvard.edu for extra data.
What’s the aim?
Greater than 18 million folks all through the world will discover out this yr that they’ve most cancers.
We need to scale back that quantity.
The danger of many sorts of most cancers – similar to pores and skin most cancers, or cancers linked to extra weight – may be diminished by means of behaviors similar to avoiding publicity to the solar, or consuming a nutritious diet wealthy in produce, entire grains, and lean proteins. The kiosk gives easy, sensible ideas about actions you’ll be able to take in the present day to scale back your most cancers threat – whereas offering a spot to sit down and relaxation or get pleasure from a sport of tic-tac-toe. QR codes on every block result in trusted assets for getting help or studying extra about every subject, similar to help providers for quitting smoking.
What are the sources of knowledge discovered on the kiosk?
The most cancers prevention data conveyed on the kiosk comes instantly from the next sources:
American Affiliation for Most cancers Analysis
American Most cancers Society
American Institute for Most cancers Analysis
American Lung Affiliation
Most cancers Analysis UK
Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention
Commonwealth of Massachusetts/mass.gov
Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute
Hepatitis B Basis
Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Nationwide Institute on Drug Abuse
Minnesota Division of Public Well being
Pores and skin Most cancers Basis
College of Texas MD Anderson Most cancers Middle
US Division of Well being & Human Companies/Smokefree.gov
World Most cancers Analysis Fund Worldwide
World Well being Group
The dietary suggestions had been vetted by Mingyang Music, ScD, Affiliate Professor of Scientific Epidemiology and Vitamin, Division of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being.
The place will the kiosk go?
The Good Well being Kiosk made its debut simply previous to World Most cancers Week (February 5 – February 9, 2024) in Sebastian’s Cafe on the campus of the Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being. From there, it is possible for you to to comply with its journey to different areas of campus, town of Boston, and past with the hashtag #GoodHealthKiosk by means of the Zhu Middle social media accounts:
Twitter @HSPHCancer
Instagram harvardchancancer
LinkedIn Harvard Chan Zhu Household Middle for International Most cancers Prevention
Why does the Kiosk appear to be a… desk?
The preliminary inspiration for the Good Well being Kiosk got here from Inexperienced Newton’s Local weather Kiosk. Designed by artist and set-designer Andrew Breithaupt, the Local weather Kiosk presents suggestions for decreasing one’s environmental influence by means of vitality utilization, transportation selections, food plan, house upkeep, and related subjects.
Trustworthy to its objective, over 90% of the supplies used within the Local weather Kiosk had been reclaimed and sourced domestically (because of the generosity of Sage Builders LLC).
As a result of decreasing the incidence of most cancers on this planet extends past particular person behaviors to mitigating and avoiding environmental air pollution, we, too, wished to make use of reclaimed supplies for the Good Well being Kiosk.
Fortunately, Harvard College cares deeply about sustainability and commits to preserving usable supplies out of the landfill by means of the Harvard Recycling and Surplus Middle. The Middle is a clearing home for furnishings, workplace provides, textiles, and different items that, having served the College, at the moment are prepared for repurposing.
Among the many file cupboards and desk chairs, Harvard dormitory desks are a mainstay on the Recycling and Surplus Middle. Dormitory desks are ordinarily a tough commodity for the Middle to rehome attributable to their dimension and the sheer variety of them that grow to be accessible at one time. However as they’re created out of a tough, strong wooden, they proved a perfect materials for repurposing right into a kiosk! We’re delighted that we might give these desks a brand new life as a part of a kiosk that educates the general public about most cancers prevention.
To look at a brief video created by the artist on the transformation course of, click on right here.
The ultimate kiosk design displays enter from the Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being neighborhood. The Faculty’s college, workers, and college students evaluated renderings of a number of completely different designs and shade schemes, and we chosen the design and scheme that had been most favored by the neighborhood.
Fall 2023: Harvard College dormitory desks on their solution to the workshop to grow to be the Good Well being Kiosk.
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Concerning the artist:
Andrew Breithaupt is an illustrator, set designer/builder, and educator. A local of Canada, Andrew educated in technical illustration at Sheridan Faculty and was on the school at each Sheridan and West Valley Schools. He now enjoys a thriving freelance profession in design and fabrication.
Concerning the Harvard Recycling and Surplus Middle:
The Harvard Recycling and Surplus Middle collects furnishings, workplace provides, gear, textiles and extra from across the College for repurposing. Positioned at 156 Western Avenue in Allston (behind Swiss Bakers), the Middle is open to the general public from 10am-1pm each Thursday. Objects are free and accessible on a first-come, first-served foundation. Comply with the Harvard Recycling and Surplus Middle on Fb.
Concerning the Zhu Household Middle International Most cancers Prevention:
The interdisciplinary Zhu Household Middle for International Most cancers Prevention on the Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being is devoted to prevention schooling and analysis throughout the most cancers continuum. The middle focuses on main prevention (together with way of life and habits modifications), secondary prevention (together with screening and early detection), and tertiary prevention (together with most cancers survivorship and illness monitoring).
Our mission is to help groundbreaking analysis that develops and implements novel strategies, applied sciences, and instruments to additional the interpretation of this work into medical and public well being follow. By forming cross-collaborative partnerships amongst researchers, physicians, thought-leaders, pharma, tutorial collaborators, philanthropists, know-how firms, and innovators, we try to speed up progress throughout the area and optimize the pathways of care.
We’re motivated by the assumption that every one populations worldwide ought to profit from state-of-the-art cancer-prevention methods.
How can I study extra about decreasing my threat for most cancers?
For dependable, science-backed details about what does and doesn’t trigger most cancers, seek the advice of the Zhu Middle’s Most cancers FactFinder web site.
For in-depth details about most cancers and cancer-prevention, attempt these sources:
American Affiliation for Most cancers Analysis
American Institute for Most cancers Analysis
Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention
Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute
Worldwide Company for Analysis on Most cancers
Nationwide Most cancers Institute
Nationwide Institute for Environmental Well being Sciences
Union for Worldwide Most cancers Management
World Most cancers Analysis Fund
Within the meantime, sit and loosen up, play a sport of tic-tac-toe, and study extra about easy steps you’ll be able to take to scale back your threat of most cancers.
Acknowledgments:
The Zhu Household Middle for International Most cancers Prevention want to thank the next people and organizations:
Andrew Breithaupt
Inexperienced Newton
The Harvard Recycling and Surplus Middle, and Recycling Companies Supervisor Dailey Brannin
The Sebastian’s Cafe workers and Normal Supervisor Paul Doherty
The Harvard Chan Faculty of Public Well being custodial and operations workers
Mingyang Music, ScD, Epidemiology Division, Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being
The Harvard T.H. Chan Faculty of Public Well being neighborhood
