BOSTON, MA (OCTOBER 29, 2003) — In the Spring 2003 issue of the Harvard Health Policy Review journal, MSH's William Newbrander, Paul Ickx, and Gretchen Hurley Leitch chronicle the initial steps taken by the Ministry of Health of Afghanistan to re-build their national health care system. In the Globalization, War and Public Health feature section of the Harvard Health Policy Review, MSH authors address the tremendous health needs of Afghans after more than two decades of war.