Faculty Steering Committee: David Canning, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, and Professor of Economics and International Health Lisa Berkman, Director of the Harvard Center for Population and … Continue reading “Faculty Steering Committee”
The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission) and the Harvard Global Health Institute invite you to join in the launch of … Continue reading “High Quality Health Systems: A Global Agenda – March 13, 2017”
A Consortium of Harvard University, Boston University, Northwestern University, and University of New Mexico Announcing a new, one‐year NIH‐funded opportunity for early‐career investigators interested in working in low‐resource settings. The … Continue reading “GHP announces Fogarty Partnership for Global Health Training Fellowships”
Misalignments in health systems (i.e., situations involving conflicting incentives, behaviour, structures, or policies) among key stakeholders are likely to lead to significant waste, whether measured in terms of health for … Continue reading “Misaligned Stakeholders and Health System Underperformance”
After 50 years of vital engagement, Harvard Chan is scaling up its work in India with a new center in Mumbai The new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health India … Continue reading “New Harvard Chan Center Aims to Improve Health Conditions in Mumbai, India”
Congratulations to GHP’s Professor Michael R. Reich for receiving The Award for Lifetime Service in the field of Health Policy and Systems Research. Reich, has made distinguished contributions to research … Continue reading “Congratulations Michael R. Reich for receiving The Award for Lifetime Service in the field of Health Policy and Systems Research”
Antiretroviral therapy is not curative. Given the challenges in providing lifelong therapy to a global population of more than 35 million people living with HIV, there is intense interest in … Continue reading “International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016”
Public health leaders from China and across Africa recently gathered in Boston, joining their counterparts from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for the inaugural meeting of the … Continue reading “New China-Harvard-Africa Network enhances global health collaboration”
Congratulations to GHP Associate Professor Nir Eyal, Dr. Bernard Friedland of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Dr. Aline Umubyeyi of the University of Rwanda School of Public Health, who have … Continue reading “$1.2 million will fund research ethics training for scientists and ethics review leaders from Rwanda”
In developing countries, one-third of children 3 and 4 years old don’t reach basic milestones in cognitive and/or socioemotional growth, according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine on June 7, 2016. … Continue reading “One-third of children in low- and middle-income countries fail to reach developmental milestones”