The Department of Global Health and Population brings together faculty who are developing expertise in diverse and often interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Below is a snap shot of the faculty's most recent research projects, talks, working papers and publications from the last 2 years. For more information, please click on a faculty member's name and you will be redirected to his/her faculty page.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Till B
ärnighausen
Research Areas: HIV; health systems; health workers; determinants of population health
Current Project(s): causal pathways of HIV acquisition and transmission; impact of
antiretroviral therapy on HIV epidemic dynamics; optimal allocation of resources between
HIV treatment and prevention; accounting for selective survey nonparticipation in estimating
HIV prevalence; universal coverage in Tanzania and South Africa; synthesizing knowledge
in health systems research
Recent Talks
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation HIV Modelling Consortium meeting, Stellenbosch, South Africa. “A vision
for how we test, link, treat, retain and ensure good adherence in high proportions of HIV-infected persons
in treatment as-prevention programs,” November 2011.
- Copenhagen Consensus Conference, Washington DC, USA. “Strengthening health systems in sub-Saharan
Africa to respond to HIV/AIDS,” October 2011.
- UNITAID/WHO, Consultative Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. “Measuring public health impact of market
interventions and UNITAID projects,” October 2011.
- Ministry of Social Protection, Bogota, Colombia. “The global health workforce,” October 2011.
- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada. “Antiretroviral treatment-
as-prevention: ANRS 12 249 – a cluster-randomized trial in Hlabisa sub-district in KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa,” August 2011.
Recent Working Papers
- Eyal N, Bärnighausen T. Incentivizing future medical practice to underserved populations. American
Journal of Bioethics 2011 [in press].
- Bärnighausen T, Bloom DE, Humair S. Health systems and HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa:
matching intervention and program evaluation strategies. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2011 [in press].
- Anand S, Bärnighausen T. Health workers at the core of the health system: framework and research
issues. Health Policy 2011 [in press].
- Bärnighausen T, Tanser F, Malaza A, Herbst K, Newell ML. HIV status and participation in HIV
surveillance in the era of antiretroviral treatment: a study of linked population-based and clinical data in
rural South Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health 2011 [in press].
- Bärnighausen T, Kyle M, Salomon J, Waning B. Assessing the population health impact of market
interventions to improve access to antiretroviral treatment. Health Policy and Planning 2011 [in press].
Recent Publications
- Bärnighausen T, Chaiyachati K, Chimbindi N, Peoples A, Haberer J, Newell ML. Interventions to
increase antiretroviral adherence in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of evaluation studies.
Lancet Infectious Diseases 2011 [Epub ahead of print, 2011 October 25].
- Tanser F, Bärnighausen T, Hund L, Garnett G, McGrath N, Newell ML. The impact of concurrent sexual
partnerships on the rate of new HIV infections in a high prevalence, rural South African population.
Lancet 2011; 378(9787): 247-255.
- Bärnighausen T, Bloom DE, Humair S. Perspective: Going horizontal – are recent shifts in U.S. and
international funding of global health interventions advisable? New England Journal of Medicine 2011;
364(23): 2181-2183.
- Bärnighausen T, Bor J, Wandira-Kazibwe S, Canning D. Correcting HIV prevalence estimates for survey
nonparticipation using Heckman-type selection. Epidemiology 2011; 22(1): 27-35.
- Bärnighausen T, Bloom DE, Canning D, Friedman A, Levine O, O’Brien J, Privor-Dumm J, Walker D.
Rethinking the benefits and costs of childhood vaccination: the example of the Haemophilus influenza
type b vaccine. Vaccine 2011; 29(13): 2371-2380.
Course(s)
- GHP 272: Fall - Foundations of Global Health and Population (Bärnighausen, B. Bloom, Lamstein, Vollmer)
Lisa Berkman
Research Areas: inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status, different racial and ethnic groups, and social networks, support and isolation; identifying the role of social networks and support in predicting declines in physical and cognitive functioning and the onset of disease and mortality
Theresa Betancourt
Research Areas: applied cross-cultural mental health research; resilience and protective process in children exposed to violence/war; child health and human rights
Current Project(s): Protective Processes and Resilience in Rwandan Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS; A Longitudinal Study of War-Affected Youth in Sierra Leone; Assessing Mental Health Service Needs and Preferences among Somali Bantu Refugees in the Boston
Area; Child Protection: The SAFE Project
Recent Talks
- Peter C. Alderman Foundation Fourth Regional Conference on Psychotrauma, Nairobi. "Mental Health
and Resilience in Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS: The Development of a Family
Strengthening Intervention," July 2011.
- American Psychiatric Association, Honolulu. "A Follow Up Study of Risk and Protective Factors
Influencing Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Sierra Leonean Former Child Soldiers," May 2011.
- Institute of Medicine, Washington DC. "Sierra Leone’s War-Affected Youth: A Longitudinal Study of
Risk and Resilience," April 2011.
- Save the Children UK, London. "India: A Case Study – The SAFE Project and Children’s Security Impact
Statements," February 2011.
- Workshop sponsored by the FXB Center and Rwanda Ministry of Health on issues of child security, Kigali.
"The SAFE Project: Exploring Child Security, Protection, and Well-Being in Rwanda," January 2011.
Recent Working Papers
- Tol, W.A., Barbui, C., Galapatti, A., Silove, D., Betancourt, T.S., Souza, R., Golaz, A., van Ommeren, M.
(2011) Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings: Linking Practice and Research.
Lancet, 378(9802), 1581-1591.
- Betancourt, T.S., Meyers-Ohki, S.E., Charrow, A.P. & Tol, W.A. Interventions for Children Affected by
War: An Ecological Perspective on Psychosocial Support and Mental Health Care. American Journal of
Community Psychology. (in press)
- Betancourt, T. S., Newnham, E. A., Gray, A. E., Bolton, P. The psychological consequences of organized
violence in Tamaulipas, Mexico: A local perspective. (under review).
- Betancourt, T. S., McBain, R., Newnham, E. A., Brennan, R. T. Trajectories of internalizing problems in a
longitudinal study of war-affected Sierra Leonean youth: the role of conflict and post-conflict factors.
(under review).
- Betancourt, T. S., Newnham, E. A., McBain, R., Brennan, R. T. Risk and protective factors influencing
the course of post-traumatic stress disorder among Sierra Leonean former child soldiers.(under review).
Recent Publications
- Betancourt, T. S., Meyers-Ohki, S. E., Stulac, S. N., Barrera, A. E., Mushashi, C., & Beardslee, W. R.
(2011). Nothing can defeat combined hands (Abashize hamwe ntakibananira): protective processes and
resilience in Rwandan children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. Social Science & Medicine, 73(5),
693-701.
- Betancourt, T. S., Brennan, R. T., Rubin-Smith, J., Fitzmaurice, G. M., & Gilman, S. E. (2010). Sierra
Leone's former child soldiers: a longitudinal study of risk, protective factors, and mental health. Journal of
the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry., 49(6), 606-615.
- Betancourt, T. S., Borisova, I. I., Brennan, R. B., Williams, T. P., Whitfield, T. H., de la Soudiere, M.,
Williamson, J., & Gilman, S. E. (2010). Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers: a follow-up study of psychosocial
adjustment and community reintegration. Child Development, 81(4), 1077-1095.
- Betancourt, T. S., Agnew-Blais, J., Gilman, S. E., Williams, D. R., & Ellis, B. H. (2010). Past horrors,
present struggles: The role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial
adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Social Science & Medicine, 70(1), 17-26.
- Betancourt, T. S., Fawzi, M. K. S., Bruderlein, C., Desmond, C., & Kim, J. Y. (2010). Children affected by
HIV/AIDS: SAFE, a model for promoting their security, health, and development. Psychology, Health &
Medicine, 15(3), 243-265.
Course(s)
- GHP 504: Spring 1 - Applied Qualitative Methods in International Health
Barry Bloom
Research Areas: understanding mechanisms of protection against tuberculosis
Course(s)
- GHP 272: Fall - Foundations of Global Health and Population (Bloom, Bärnighausen, Lamstein, Vollmer)
David Bloom
Research Areas: economic growth; population dynamics; demography; education; and labor
Course(s)
- GHP 263: Winter Session - Grant Writing for Funding of Research and Health Care Projects
(Bloom, Dumbaugh)
Thomas Bossert
Research Areas: health system reform with special attention to evaluation of decentralization and human resources strategies; political processes of reform and the impact of political economic institutionalism on reform processes and outcomes
Current Projects(s): Political Institutionalism and Health Reform in Colombia and Chile
(David Rockefeller Faculty Fellowship); Decentralization, Capacities and Accountability in
India and Vietnam (World Bank) and in Pakistan (USAID); Clinical Training and Health
Insurance in Georgia (USAID)
Recent Talks
- “Decentralization of Health: Recent Studies of Decision Space, Capacities and Accountability,” Brown
University, April 2011.
- “Health Reform and State Capacity in Chile and Colombia,” First Global Symposium on Health Systems
Research, Montreaux, Switzerland, November 2010.
- “Decentralization of Health Systems: Recent Studies of Decision Space, Capacities and Accountability”
Lecture at University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan, April 2010.
- “Objectives and Policy Process of Health Reforms: The Harvard/Flagship Approach,” Lecture at Institute
of Public Health and Health Care Management, Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia, May 2010.
- “Reforma de Salud en los Estados Unidos: Compromisos Imperfectos” (Health Reform in the United
States: Imperfect Compromises) Three lectures given at the Servicio de Salud in San Felipe, Aconcagua,
Chile, Clínica San Carlos de Apoquindo, Santiago Chile, Fundación Jaime Guzmán, January 2010.
Recent Working Papers
- Bossert T. “Empirical Studies of an Approach to Decentralization: "Decision Space" in Decentralized
Health Systems,” in Jean-Paul Faguet, ed. Decentralization Taskforce volume for Columbia University
Press (now under review)
- Bossert T., Mitchell, A. Janjua M, "Improving decentralization for health in Pakistan,” accepted for a
special issue of World Development edited by Jean Paul Faguet
- Bossert, T. Mitchell, A. “Politics and Governance for Human Resources in Africa” Chapter for Soucat,
Agnes and Scheffler, Richard eds, Human Resources for Health in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis
Washington DC: World Bank (forthcoming, currently in copy editing)
- Mitchell, A., Bossert, T., Zinner, B. “Strengthening District Level Governance Over Maternal, Neonatal
and Chile Health: Lessons from Indonesia” in review at Health Policy and Planning
- Brinkerhoff, D.W. and Bossert T. “Governance in Health” in preparation for special symposium on
governance for an issue of Health Policy and Planning
Recent Publications
- Bossert T., Mitchell A. “Decentralization and local decision-making: Decision Space, Institutional
Capacities and Accountability in Pakistan” Social Science and Medicine 72 (2011) 39-48.
- Mitchell, A., Bossert T. “Decentralization, Governance and Health System Performance: Where you
stand depends on where you sit, Development Policy Review 28 (6) November 2010 pp. 669-691.
- Bossert T., Ono T. “Finding Affordable Health Workforce Targets in Low Income Countries”
Health Affairs 29/7: 1379-85.
- Bossert T., “Institutional Capacities and Decentralization of Health Systems in Latin America: Need
for More Evidence” Americas Quarterly, Summer 2010.
- Brune, N., Bossert T. “Building Social Capital in Post-Conflict Communities: Evidence from Nicaragua”
Social Science and Medicine, 68 (2009) 885-893.
Course(s)
- GHP 244: Fall 2 - Health Sector Reform: A Worldwide Perspective
- GHP 297: Winter Session - Field Trip: Health Reform and Community Medicine in Chile
- GHP 527: Spring - Political Economy and Ethics of Health Sector Reform (Bossert, Hsiao)
- International Health Systems Program Executive Courses: Making Decentralization Work and Strategic
Planning for Human Resources in Health (with Paul Campbell), two week training programs in June
and August every year for up to 30 participants
Claude Brüderlein
Research Areas: multidisciplinary enterprise dedicated to promoting human security by transforming institutional mindsets on conflict prevention toward people-centered strategies
Course(s)
- GHP 530: Fall/Spring - Global Health and Practice and Networks (Brüderlein, VanRooyen)
- GHP 543: Winter Session - Humanitarian Field Study: Human Trafficking (Europe)
Paul Campbell
Research Areas: financial management; strategic planning, and reimbursement
systems; health care management
Course(s)
- ID 535: Winter Session Managing Community Health Centers
- ID 536: Spring 2 - Business Planning for Health Organizations
David Canning
Research Areas: determinants of population health and demographic change; the effect changes in health and demography have on economic growth and development
Current Project(s): The Economic Impacts of Population and Reproductive Health: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; The Effect of Social Security Reform on Male Labor
Supply: National Institute of Aging
Recent Talks
- Birth Timing and the Mommy Track in the United States, Harvard Center for Population and Development
Studies, September 2011.
- Population Aging and Health Care Costs, EWC/UNFPA Policy Seminar on the Economics of Aging, New
York, September 2011.
- Challenges of Global Aging, Entitlements, and Health Expenditures, National Association of Business
Economics Annual Meeting, Dallas, September 2011.
- Economic Policy Impacts of Population Ageing, International Association for Official Statistics, Biennial
Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 2011.
Recent Publications
- Finlay Jocelyn E., Emre Ozaltin, and David Canning, "Association of Maternal Age with Infant Mortality,
Child Anthropometric Failure, Diarrhoea, and Anaemia for First Births in Low- and Middle-Income
Countries," BMJ Open, 2011, Vol. 1(2): 2, e000226 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000226, 26 pages.
- Canning, David, Abdur Razzaque, Julia Driessen, Damian G. Walker, Peter Kim Streatfield, and
Mohammad Yunus, “The Effect of Maternal Tetanus Immunization on Children's Schooling Attainment in
Matlab, Bangladesh: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial,” Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 72(9) , pp
1429-1436.
- Bärnighausen, Till, Jacob Bor, Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe, and David Canning, “Correcting HIV prevalence
estimates for survey non-participation: an application of Heckman-type selection models to the Zambian
Demographic and Health Survey,” Epidemiology, 2011, 22(1), pp 27-35.
- Canning, David and Diana Bowser, “Investing in health to improve the wellbeing of the disadvantaged:
Reversing the argument of fair society, healthy lives (The Marmot Review),” Social Science and Medicine,
2010, Vol. 71(7), pp 1223-1226.
- Akachi, Yoko and David Canning, “Health Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Evidence from Infant
Mortality Rates and Adult Heights,” Economics and Human Biology, 2010, Vol. 8(2), pp 273-288.
Richard Cash
Research Areas: development of health systems for rural and urban populations in developing countries; ethics in international health research
Course(s)
- GHP 539: Fall 1 - The Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions of Infectious Disease in Developing
Countries
- ID 262: Fall 1 - Introduction to the Practice of Global Health
- GHP 298: Winter Session - Field Trip to India
- GHP 540: Winter Session - Field Trip to Urban and Rural Bangladesh (Cash, Rahman)
Marcia Castro
Research Areas: environmental change and health; malaria transmission and control; spatial methods applied to social sciences; Amazon frontier expansion; urban health; population displacements associated with climate change
Current Project(s): Health, Poverty and Place: Modeling inequalities in Accra using RS and GIS; Understanding the malaria-poverty vicious circle; Urban malaria mapping: a new
methodology to assess spatio-temporal trends in a scenario of multiple control interventions;
Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon: driving forces of transmission and the role of climate change
Recent Talks
- FACE 70 years: Opening of Alumni seminar series. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, “Mapeando população
e mosquitos: o que a FACE tem a ver com isso?” June, 2011.
- Seminar in Honor of Prof. Jose Alberto de Carvalho. Federal University of Minas Gerais/CEDEPLAR,
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. “Spatial Demography: What’s Special about Spatial?” June 2011.
- Seminar for the Spatial Analysis Methods Student Working Group. Harvard School of Public Health,
Boston. “What’s Special about Spatial? Use of Spatial Applications in Public Health,” November, 2010.
- Workshop: Population Dynamics and Climate Change II: Building for Adaptation El Colegio de Mexico,
Mexico City. “Health implications of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazon,” October, 2010.
- The Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum Global Medical Brigades. Harvard College, Cambridge.
“Reflections on Demography, Field Work, Public Health …” September, 2010.
Recent Publications
- Sherbinin A, Castro MC, Gemenne F, Cernea M, Adamo S, Fearnside PM, Krieger G, Lahmani S,
Oliver-Smith A, Pankhurst A, Scudder T, Singer BH, Tan Y, Wannier G, Ehrhart C, Hugo G, Pandey B,
Shi G. Preparing for Resettlement Associated with Climate Change. Science 28 October 2011; 334(6055):
456-457. doi: 10.1126/science.1208821.
- Shroff Z, Castro MC. The potential impact of intermarriage on the population decline of the Parsis of
Mumbai, India. Demographic Research. 2011; 25(17): 545-564.
- Wilson ME, Fregni F, Veras MASM, Dyett J, Shei A, Ribeiro GS, David J, Castro MC, Segurado AC, Ko AI,
Reis MG. Collaborative Teaching and Learning: A Model for Building Capacity and Partnerships to Address
NTDs. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2011; 5(3): e939. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000939.
- Castro MC, Singer BH. Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon. In: Janine Selendy (ed.) Water and Sanitation
Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures. John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., 2011:401-419.
- Singer BH, Castro MC. Reassessing multiple-intervention malaria control programs of the past: lessons
for the design of contemporary interventions. In: Janine Selendy (ed.) Water and Sanitation Related Diseases
and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011:
151-165.
Course(s)
- GHP 220: Fall 2 - Introduction to Demographic Methods
- GHP 534: Spring 2 - Introduction to Spatial Methods for Public Health
Jessica Cohen
Research Areas: maternal and child health; human resources for health; impact
evaluation of health and development policies; randomized trials
Course(s)
- GHP 228: Spring - Quantitative Methods in Impact Evaluation
Goodarz Danaei
Research Areas: population level effects of chronic disease risk factors; evaluation of public health interventions and health inequalities
Current Project(s): evaluating effects of hypothetical interventions using methods of causal inference and observational data; exposure and burden of metabolic risks in the Global Burden of Diseases project; meta-analysis of prospective studies to estimate the direct effect of obesity on
cardiovascular diseases
Recent Talks
- Oral presentation, Disaster or success: trends in metabolic risk factors of cardiovascular diseases.
Cardiovascular disease forum. Harvard School of Public Health, October 2011.
- Poster presentation, Using parametric G-formula to estimate the effect of multiple lifestyle and dietary
interventions for preventing type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort. The Third North American Congress
of Epidemiology. Montreal, Canada, June 2011.
- Poster presentation, Observational data for comparative effectiveness research: an emulation of randomized
trials to estimate the effect of statins on primary prevention of coronary heart disease in the tenth annual
Epidemiology and Prevention conference of the American Heart Association. Atlanta. USA, March 2011.
Recent Working Papers
- Singh GM, Danaei G, Pelizzari P, Lin JK, Cowan MJ, Stevens GA, Farzadfar F, Khang YH, Riley LM,
Lim SS, Ezzati M, The age associations of blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose: analysis of health
examination surveys from international populations, (*These authors contributed equally to the research
and manuscript and are listed in alphabetical order). Under review.
- Danaei G, Paciorek CJ, Singh GM, Finucane MM, Lin JK, Farzadfar F, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Riley LM,
Lu U, Rao M, Ezzati M, on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases
Collaborating Group, The global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors
with national income, urbanization, and Western diet since 1980. (*These authors contributed equally to the
research and manuscript and are listed in alphabetical order.) Under review.
- Mansournia MA, Danaei G, Forouzanfar MH, Mahmoudi M, Jamali M, Mansournia N, Mohammad K.
Effect of physical activity on functional performance and knee pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis
using Marginal Structural Models: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Under review.
- Foot C, Lin JK, Danaei G, Ezzati M, Cass A, Woodward M, Perkovic V and the Renal Risk Collaboration.
Effect of Blood Pressure on Kidney Failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis in 2.7 million participants.
Submitted.
Recent Publications
- Danaei G, Rimm EB, Oza S, Kulkarni SC, Murray CJL, Ezzati M. The promise of prevention: the effects of
four preventable risk factors on national life expectancy and life expectancy disparities by race and county in
the United States. PLoS Med 2010,7(3): e1000248
- Danaei G, Finucane MM, Cowan MJ, Lu Y, Paciorek CJ, Lin JK, Robinson C, Singh GM, Farzadfar F,
Stevens GA, Riley LM, Ali M, Ezzati M, on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic
Diseases Collaborating Group (Blood Glucose), National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose
since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies. (*These authors
contributed equally to the research and manuscript and are listed in alphabetical order.) Lancet.
2011;378(9785):31-40
- Farzadfar F, Danaei G, Namdari H, Rajaratnam J, Marcus J, Khosravi A, Alikhani S, Murray CJL,
Ezzati M. National and Subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran:
comparative risk assessment. Population Health Metrics. 2011, 9(1):55
- Danaei G, García Rodríguez LA, Fernández Cantero O, Logan R, Hernán MA. Observational data for
comparative effectiveness: an emulation of randomized trials to estimate the effect of statins on primary
prevention of coronary heart disease. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. ePub ahead of print. DOI
10.1177/0962280211403603
- Danaei G, Tavakkoli M, Hernán MA, Observational studies for comparative effectiveness research need
to exclude prevalent users: Lessons from a meta-analysis of statins. American Journal of Epidemiology.
In press.
Norman Daniels
Research Areas: ethics in public health, resource allocation and priority setting; health insurance policy
Course(s)
- ID 292: Spring 2 - Justice and Resource Allocation
Wafaie Fawzi
Research Areas: design and implementation of randomized controlled trials and observational studies of maternal, neonatal and child health, and infectious diseases, with emphasis on nutritional factors
Gunther Fink
Research Areas: demographic change and economic development; human and health capital formation and economic growth
Current Project(s): Zambia Early Childhood Development Project (ZECDP); Preserving ACTs (PACT); Evaluating the Feasibility of Introducing Malaria Diagnosis in the Private Sector: Pilot
Evidence from Eastern Uganda (joint with Jessica Cohen and William Dickens)
Recent Working Papers
- "Health Insurance and Health-seeking Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Community-Based
Insurance Rollout in Rural Burkina Faso” (with Paul J Robyn, Ali Sié, Ph.D. and Rainer Sauerborn)
- "Testing for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Experimental Data: False Discovery Risks and
Correction Procedures" (with Margaret McConnell and Sebastian Vollmer)
- "Urban Mortality Transitions in Low and Middle Income Countries: The Role of Slums" (with Isabel
Günther and Kenneth Hill)
Recent Publications
- “When Urban Taps Run Dry: Sachet Water Consumption and Health Effects in Low Income Neighborhoods
of Accra, Ghana” (with Justin Stoler, John R. Weeks, Richard Appiah Otoo, Joseph A. Ampofo and Allan
G. Hill), forthcoming: Health and Place.
- “Preventing Malaria in Pregnancy through Community-directed Interventions: Evidence from Akwa Ibom
State, Nigeria” (with Joseph C Okeibunor, Bright C Orji, William Brieger, Gbenga Ishola, Emmanuel ‘Dipo
Otolorin, Barbara Rawlins, Enobong U Ndekhedehe and Nkechi Onyeneho). Malaria Journal, 2011, 10:227
- “The effect of water and sanitation on child health: evidence from the demographic and health surveys
1986–2007” (with Isabel Günther and Kenneth Hill). International Journal of Epidemiology, June 2011,
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr102
Course(s)
- GHP 525: Spring - Econometrics for Health Policy
Paul Gregg Greenough
Research Areas: applying epidemiologic methods to public health problems within conflict- and disaster-affected populations
Course(s)
- GHP 537: Spring 1 - Public Health Field Research in Complex Emergencies and Conflict
Allan Hill
Research Areas: population and health transitions in West Africa and the Middle East; fertility, health and poverty in urban populations
Current Project(s): Health, poverty and place: modeling inequalities in Accra, Ghana using remote sensing and geographical information system technology; UNFPA/IUSSP Project on Demographic Estimation: a manual with applications; strengthening the knowledge base and
monitoring framework on neonates, adolescents, youth and child protection in the Middle East
and North Africa: UNICEF/MENA Region
Recent Talks
- Urban health surprises: West African findings and necessary future research. Presentation for the Boston
University Seminar on “Urban Health Prospects”, Boston, October 2011.
Recent Working Papers
- McNally, Shawna L and Allan G Hill (2011). Depression and Obesity among Adult Women in Ghana:
A study from the Women’s Health Study of Accra. Under review.
- Fink, Günther and Allan G. Hill (2011). Fertility, Household Structure and Female Economic Activity –
Evidence from the Women’s Health Study of Accra. Under review.
- Allan G. Hill (2011). Accounting for the near-replacement fertility in Accra, Ghana. Paper for the BSPS
Conference, York 7-9 Sept 2011: Fertility and Reproductive Health Session.
Recent Publications
- Stoler, Justin, Günther Fink, John R. Weeks, Richard Appiah Otoo, Joseph A. Ampofo, Allan G. Hill
(2011) When urban taps run dry: sachet water consumption and health effects in low income
neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana. Journal of Health and Place, 17(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016
/j.healthplace.2011.09.020
- Austin, Anne M, A. G. Hill and W. Fawzi (2011) Maternal Obesity Trends in Egypt 1995-2005. Journal
of Public Health Nutrition. 14(12) October, 2011.
- Zhou Z., Dionisio K. L., Arku R. E., Quaye A., Hughes A. F., Vallarino J., Spengler J. D., Hill A.,
Agyei-Mensah S., Ezzati M. (2011) Household and community poverty, biomass use, and air pollution in
Accra, Ghana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108:11028-11033, July, 2011
(10.1073/pnas.1019183108). Originally published at http://www.pnas.org/ in June, 2011.
- Austin, A. M., Fawzi, W. and Hill, A. G. (2011), Anaemia among Egyptian Children between 2000 and
2005: trends and predictors. Maternal & Child Nutrition. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2011.00339.
- Duda RB, Anarfi J, Darko R, Adanu RMK, Seffah J, Hill Allan G. (2011). The health of the “older women”
in Accra, Ghana: results of the Women’s Health Study of Accra. J Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Volume 26,
Number 3, 299-314, DOI: 10.1007/s10823-011-9148-8
Course(s)
- GHP 535: Spring 1 - Applied Demographic Analysis
Kenneth Hill
Research Areas: demographic methods; demographic estimation for countries lacking conventional data sources; analysis of mortality trends and differentials; maternal and child mortality
Course(s)
- GHP 570: Winter Session - Population Change: Measures and Interpretation
William Hsiao
Research Areas: political economy of health and development; health policy; pharmaceutical policy
Course(s)
- GHP 527: Spring - Political Economy and Ethics of Health Sector Reform (Hsiao, Bossert)
- ID 272: Spring 1 - Financing Health Care in Developing Countries (Hsiao, Liu)
Ana Langer
Research Areas: women's health; maternal health; sexual and reproductive health; quality improvement in low-resource settings
Recent Talks
- “Innovative Delivery of Cancer Care and Control in Low-Resource Settings,” by Dr. Ana Langer.
Presentation at the Symposium on Closing the Cancer Divide: The Global Equity Imperative of
Expanding Access in Low and Middle Income Countries, October 2011.
- "Women and Healthcare in Latin America," by Dr. Ana Langer. Presentation at the 9th Latin American
Seminar on Science and Health Journalism, October 2011.
- "Turning the Tide: Maternal Mortality in the Developing World," by Dr. Ana Langer. Presentation at
HSPH Leadership Council Annual Meeting, October 2011.
- "Numbers: What is Their Importance in Reproductive Health Work? (In Spanish)," by Dr. Ana Langer.
Keynote address at the Fourth Investigative Meeting on Unplanned Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in
Mexico, October 2011.
Recent Publications
- Langer A, Knight H, Charnock A, Wegner MN and Villar J (2012). Implementing clinical interventions
within maternal health programmes. In J Hussein, AM McCaw-Binns and R Webber (Eds), Maternal and
Perinatal Health in Developing Countries. Oxfordshire, UK: CABI.
- Langer A, Frenk J, Horton R. Women and Health Initiative: integrating needs and response. The Lancet
2011; early online publication.
- Langer A. Introduction to the Special Section on Abortion Legalization in Mexico City. Studies in Family
Planning 2011; 42 (3) 156-158.
- Coeytaux F, Bingham D, Langer A. Reducing maternal mortality: a global imperative. Contraception 2011;
83 (2) 95–98.
- Betran A, Gulmezoglu AM, Robson M, Merialdi M, Souza JP, Wojdyla D, Widmer M, Carrroli G, Torloni MR,
Langer A, Narvaez A, Velasco A, Faundes A, Acosta A, Valladares E, Romero M, Zavaleta N, Reynoso S and
Bataglia V. WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health in Latin America: classifying caesarean
sections. Reproductive Health 2009, 6:18: 1-8.
Course(s)
- GHP 547: Winter Session - Field Experience in Maternal Health
- GHP 231: Spring 1 - Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Global Perspective
Jennifer Leaning
Research Areas: problems of international human rights and humanitarian law; humanitarian crises; and medical ethics in practical settings of disasters and emergencies
Course(s)
- ID 205: Spring 1 - Societal Response to Disaster
Richard Levins
Research Areas: human ecology; viability of populations and environments; special interest in the Caribbean region
Course(s)
- GHP 253: Fall 2 - Human Ecology
- GHP 261: Spring - Models of Complex Systems in Biology and Public Health (Levins, Awerbuch)
Yuanli Liu
Research Areas: health care financing; equity in health and health systems
Course(s)
- GHP 541: Winter Session - Health System Reforms in China: Seminar and Field Study
- ID 272: Spring 1 - Financing Health Care in Developing Countries (Liu, Hsiao)
Stephen Marks
Research Areas: human rights; development and international affairs; links between health and human rights; issues of human development and poverty reduction; political violence
Current Project(s): “Civil Society and Power Relations in Cambodia” (Norwegian Research Council); Research Handbook on Human Rights and Development; editing and advising for 2
volume publication (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights).
Recent Talks
- Keynote address, Commemoration of Beginning of Jindal Global Business School Academic Year, Sonipat,
Haryana. July, 2011.
- “The Neglected Human Right to Benefit from Scientific Progress: Implications for Human Development,”
Human Development and Capability Association Conference 2011: Innovation, Development & Human
Capabilities, The Hague, Netherlands. September 2011.
- Milestones in a career in health and human rights, The Oliver Wendell Holmes Society, Harvard Medical
School. September 2011.
- “Development as a Human Right,” Carr Center Latin American Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.
September 2011.
- "Promoting Human Rights From a Development Perspective," Seminar Promoting the Right to Development:
The Role of Parliament organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Bern, Switzerland. October 2011.
Recent Working Papers
- Stephen P. Marks, The Right to Essential and Emergency Surgery, paper presented at The Harvard
Symposium on the Role of Surgery in Global Health: Addressing the crisis - Anesthesia, Surgical need
and Global Health dialogue, November, 2010, 16 pp.
- Stephen P. Marks, The Politics of the Possible: the Way Ahead for the Right to Development, International
Policy Analysis, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, June 2011, 14 pp.
Recent Publications
- Stephen P. Marks, Human Rights and Development, in Sarah Joseph (ed.), International Human
Rights: A Research Handbook, Edward Elgar Publisher (UK), 2010, pp. 167-195.
- Stephen P. Marks, The Process of Creating a New Constitution in Cambodia, in Laurel E. Miller (ed.),
Framing the State in Times of Transition: Case Studies in Constitution Making, United States Institute of
Peace, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 207-244.
- Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks, Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and
Economic Dimensions, 2nd revised edition, Intersentia, 2010.
- Stephen P. Marks, “Human Rights In Development: Claims and Controversies,” in special issue of The
Bangladesh Development Studies (The BDS) published by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
(BIDS), Volume XXXIII, Numbers 1 & 2, March 2010, pp. 1-23.
- Stephen P. Marks, “Poverty and Human Rights,” in Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah, Sandesh Sivakumaran
and David Harris (eds.), Textbook on International Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Course(s)
- GHP 288: Fall 2 - Issues in Health and Human Rights
- GHP 268: Winter Session - Field Experience in Health and Human Rights
- GHP 214: Spring 2 - Health, Human Rights and the International System
- FS 42v: Fall – Freshman Seminar on Human Rights between Rhetoric and Reality
- SSCI E 102: Spring - World Poverty and Human Rights
Margaret McConnell
Research Areas: behavioral economics, with applications to poverty, health and social policy
Marc Mitchell
Research Areas: management of health care programs and organizations; evaluation of reproductive and child health programs in developing countries; primary care
Course(s)
- GHP 211: Fall 2 - Management Control in Health Organizations
- ID 550: Winter Session - Program Evaluation (Mitchell, Brown)
Michael Reich
Research Areas: political economy of health and development; health policy; pharmaceutical policy; health policy in Japan
Recent Talks
- Reflections on Rebuilding After the Great East Japan Earthquake: From the Perspective of Public Health.
Keynote Address at the Tohoku Public Health Association 60th Annual Meeting, Fukushima, Japan, July
2011 (in Japanese).
- The Role of Stewardship in Health Sector Reform in Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage. Lecture at
the Simposio Internacional CONAMED, Simposio Sobre Medicina y Salud UNAM, Hacia un Sistema de
Salud con Calidad. Facultad de Medicina UNAM, Ciudad de México, June 2011 (in Spanish).
- Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward
- Response to the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Crisis in Japan
- Three Crises for Japan
Recent Working Papers
- “Credit Claiming versus Blame Avoidance: Priority-Setting for Korea’s National Health Insurance System,”
coauthor with Minah Kang Kim, Takemi Fellow, currently under review.
- “Analyzing the History of Diarrheal Disease Control on the Global Health Agenda,” coauthor with Jesse
Bump, Takemi Fellow, currently under review.
- “Towards a Political Economy of Tobacco Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” coauthor with
Jesse Bump, Takemi Fellow, currently under review.
Recent Publications
- Pharmaceutical Reform: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (coauthor with Marc J. Roberts),
Washington, DC: The World Bank, publication date: September 1, 2011.
- Japan: Universal Health Care at 50 Years, Special Issue on Japan of the Lancet, published on line on
September 1, 2011 (co author of the introductory comment and four articles in the Series).
- “Creating Access to Health Technologies in Developing Countries” (coauthored with Laura J. Frost). In:
Richard Parker and Marni Sommer, eds., The Routledge International Handbook on Global Public Health,
2011.
- “Political Economy of Reform: The Art of the Feasible” (coauthor with Ashley M. Fox), Forthcoming in:
Alexander S. Preker et al, eds., Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course, Washington, DC:
The World Bank.
Course(s)
- GHP 229: Fall - Theories and Methods of Health Politics
- GHP 269: Spring 2 - Applied Politics and Economics I: Political Economy of Global Health Policy
- SADC Flagship Course on Pharmaceutical Reform, 10-16 July 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa, co-taught
with Professor Marc J. Roberts and African experts on pharmaceutical policy, to 67 participants from 14
SADC member states in Southern Africa. All course materials, posters, and relevant country documents
are archived at http://flagshipcourse.sarpam.net.
Joseph Rhatigan
Research Areas: the delivery of health services in resource-limited settings; global health effectiveness
Course(s)
- GHP 532: Winter Session - Introduction to Global Health Delivery (Rhatigan, Mukherjee)
- GHP 532: Summer 1 - Introduction to Global Health Delivery (Rhatigan, Farmer, Mukherjee)
Marc Roberts
Research Areas: health sector reform; health care policy and management; environmental policy; public health ethics
Joshua Salomon
Research Areas: measurement of individual and population health; modeling and forecasting health outcomes; evaluating impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions
Course(s)
- GHP 506: Spring 1 - Measuring Population Health
Michael VanRooyen
Research Areas: humanitarian assistance in countries affected by war and disaster; international emergency medicine development
Course(s)
- GHP 515: Fall - Humanitarian Studies: Theories and Practice I (VanRooyen, Kayden, Walker)
- GHP 518: Spring 2 - Humanitarian Studies: Theory and Practice II (VanRooyen, Kayden)
Daniel Wikler
Research Areas: ethics and population health; ethical issues in international public health; ethical issues in resource allocation and in health research involving human subjects
Course(s)
- GHP 293: Fall 2 - Individual and Social Responsibility for Health
- ID 250: Spring 1 - Ethical Basis of the Practice of Public Health
Grace Wyshak
Research Areas: genetics of dizygotic twinning; health promotion; women's health; technological assessment; screening tests for psychiatric disorders; and psychiatric problems among refugees
Course(s)
- GHP 356: Research Methods in Population (Doctoral only)
