GHP hosts a variety of events and symposia throughout the academic year. Please explore this page to learn more about our past events.
Thursday Brown Bag Series
The Thursday Brown Bag Series is a weekly seminar featuring current research of our faculty members and affiliates. The purpose of this series is to share, educate, and discuss the impactful research conducted by faculty, students, researchers, and special guests of the department. Past event titles and speakers are listed below. Any questions regarding the series can be directed to the department at GHP@hsph.harvard.edu.
Brown Bag Series: Spring 2024
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Zoom recording
Factors Contributing to Disaster Resilience in the Philippines
Featuring Vincenzo Bollettino, PhD, Director of the Program on Resilient Communities at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Bollettino is the Director of Resilient Communities Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He also leads HHI’s engagement in the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership. Prior to his current academic appointment, Dr. Bollettino served for five years as Executive Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Bollettino has twenty-five years of professional and academic experience in disaster preparedness and resilience, civil-military engagement in emergencies, and humanitarian leadership. He has spent that past eighteen years of his career at Harvard University in research, teaching, and administration. His current research focuses on civil military engagement during humanitarian emergencies, disaster preparedness and resilience, the professionalization of the humanitarian aid field and humanitarian leadership.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Zoom recording
A Primary Health Care-based Approach to Migrant Health Rights: A Qualitative Study from Colombia
Featuring Stefano Angeleri, PhD, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast; Visiting Scientist at FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University
Stefano Angeleri is an EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University Belfast and Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. Currently he is a visiting scientist at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Alongside academic work on human rights law, health and social rights, migration and international law, he has collaborated on research and training projects with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Jesuit Refugee Service, Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Doctors of the World and the Italian NGO Naga. Recent publications include the monograph “Irregular Migrants and the Right to Health” (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and “Parsing human rights, promoting health equity: reflections on Colombia’s response to Venezuelan migration,” Medical Law Review, Volume 31, Issue 2, Spring 2023, Pages 187–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwac053 (with Thérèse Murphy).
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Zoom recording
Trajectories of Risk: Early Marriage among Adolescent Girls in Displacement
Featuring Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD, MPH, Palestine Program Health & Human Rights Fellow at FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University
Sawsan Abdulrahim’s work centers human rights principles to illuminate and act upon social inequities in health across the life course, with a focus on refugee populations and labor migrants in the Arab region and beyond. She is the lead author of the Arab Watch Report 2023 on the Right to Health, a live document intended to inform policy and advocacy efforts toward achieving health for all in the Arab region. Her substantive research areas include migration and health; the syndemic of early marriage and mental distress in forced displacement; and aging and the wellbeing of women migrant care workers. She obtained her doctoral degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is currently Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut where she teaches courses on health promotion theory, social epidemiology, and forced migration.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Zoom recording
The impact of Violence on Community Health Workers/Agents in Brazil: Policy Implications
Featuring Anya P G F Vieira Meyer, DDS, MSc, PhD, Senior Researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – Brazil; Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
Anya P G F Vieira Meyer is a researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Ceará and a professor at Centro Universitário Christus. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and a MSC from the University of London. She was a visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley in 2015/2016. Her work mainly focusses on the assessment of knowledge, practices, care and health conditions of people in risk groups (HIV, children, elders, patients with special needs, Conditional Cash Transfer beneficiaries, etc.); evaluate health services in the area of primary care – from the perspective of users, health professionals and managers; as well as the impact of public policies, such as conditional cash transfer, on the health of the population. Currently she is evaluating the reverberance of urban violence and Covid-19 on health professionals, especially Community Health Workers, mental health and work process in several scenarios in Brazil.
This seminar is co-sponsored by Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Zoom recording
Empowering Healthier Communities: How Health Promotion Research Can Advance the Philippines’ Universal Health Care Journey
Featuring Katherine Ann V. Reyes, MD, MPP, LEAD fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Katherine Ann Reyes is a licensed Philippine physician and holds a Master of Public Policy from the National University of Singapore. She was recently appointed Program Lead to establish the Institute of Health Promotion at the National Institutes of Health University of the Philippines Manila, a key component in the implementation of the country’s UHC Law. She co-founded the Alliance for Improving Health Outcomes (AIHO), a local non-profit public health organization that has worked to improve opportunities for aspiring professionals in their field. She served as an inaugural member of the Philippine Health Technology Assessment Council and the UP Manila Committee of Research Integrity. She was also the first Board Member for the Western Pacific Region at Health Systems Global, where she helped to formalize the society’s expansion work in the region. Further, Dr. Reyes is a founding member of the Philippine Society of Public Health Physicians and a co-convener of Women in Global Health Philippines. In recognition of her work, Dr. Reyes was awarded the Gawad Lagablab for Social Upliftment by the Philippine Science High School National Alumni Association in 2021.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Zoom recording
ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare
Featuring J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation
J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA is a healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and Corey recently served as the CEO of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, the medical group practice of UVA Health composed of 1200+ physicians and advanced practice providers. Corey has authored numerous publications on the need to support the well-being of the healthcare workforce. He has served as an expert in multiple forums including as a keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator as well as provided formal testimony in the United States Congress. His advocacy efforts resulted in the first federal law focused on improving health worker well-being, Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. In 2023, Corey and his wife, Jennifer, were both awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion for Health, the highest honor the US Surgeon General can present to civilians, for their efforts at the Foundation.
Corey holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the UVA Darden School of Business. He is also the past Chair of the Board of the Charlottesville Free Clinic. Corey holds his Masters in Business Administration from the UVA Darden School of Business, his Juris Doctorate from Penn State Dickinson School of Law and his Bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Zoom recording
Presentation slides
UNICEF’s Mental Health Acceleration Initiative: Scaling up & Scaling Deep Evidence-based Child, Adolescent and Caregiver Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Featuring Zeinab Hijazi, MSc, PsyD, Global Lead on Mental Health at UNICEF Headquarters, New York
Dr. Zeinab Hijazi has over 17 years of experience supporting mental health and psychosocial programs globally across UNICEF’s 7 regions of operation. She provides program guidance and technical support across sectors and divisions to enhance UNICEF’s multi-sectoral approach to the provision of mental health & psychosocial support for children and families in humanitarian and development settings, this includes policy, data, research, innovations & advocacy work at UNICEF headquarters, and supporting coordination across sectors of health, education, and child protection to aid UNICEF country teams and partners in designing and implementing locally relevant, comprehensive and sustainable MHPSS strategies.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Zoom recording
‘I was obligated to accept’: Coercion and autonomy in global family planning programs 30 years after Cairo
Featuring Leigh Senderowicz, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (she/her) is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights, race, gender, and coloniality. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care, health equity and reproductive freedom.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Zoom recording
It Takes a Village: A Pilot Study Encouraging Women to Use Maternal Care through Community Involvement
Featuring Aleksandra Jakubowski, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University.
Dr. Jakubowski’s research lies at the intersection of health economics and public policy. She designs field experiments and uses secondary data to investigate global health inequalities, with a focus on low- and middle- income countries. She works on multidisciplinary teams and in close partnership with communities and policy makers to ensure that her research is contextualized to the local setting. Dr. Jakubowski’s work examines the complex relationship between health and socio-economic status: what is the impact of public policies on health and economic functioning of households? and what are the social and individual drivers of healthcare decisions?
Brown Bag Series: Fall 2023
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Zoom recording
A community-led approach to address gendered violence and climate change in Congo
Featuring Jocelyn Kelly, PhD, Director of the Gender, Rights and Resilience at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Zoom recording
Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts
Featuring Elisa M. Maffioli, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Zoom Recording
The Impact of Performance-Based Financing on Health Worker Motivation: Evidence from Five Countries
Featuring Eeshani Kandpal, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Zoom recording
Environmental devastation, unlawful gold mining & persecution of Indigenous ways of life in the Peruvian Amazon
Featuring Selene Manga MD, MSc, Takemi Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity board member at Doctors Without Borders, New York Office MSF- NYC
This seminar is co-sponsored by Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Evaluating the impact of home visiting for improving maternal and child health outcomes for low-income first time parents
Featuring Maggie McConnell, PhD, Associate Professor of Global Health Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
This seminar was presented in collaboration with the Social Demography Seminar Series at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Zoom recording
Sex-Selective Abortion Bans and the Birth Outcomes of Asian Immigrants
Featuring Emma Zang, PhD, Assistant Professor of sociology, biostatistics, and global affairs at Yale University
This seminar was presented in collaboration with the Social Demography Seminar Series at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Zoom Recording
Validating social network-based estimates of adult mortality with high-quality vital records: Evidence from 27 cities
Featuring Dennis Feehan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley
This seminar was presented in collaboration with the Social Demography Seminar Series at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Zoom Recording
Climate Change and Malaria – Current Global Perspectives
Featuring Abdisalan M. Noor, PhD, Visiting Professor in the Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor Abdisalan Noor (PhD) is a malaria epidemiologist and global health leader specializing in data and analytics for effective public health programs. Before joining Harvard as a Visiting Professor, Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Noor was the Head of Strategic Information for Response at the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme (GMP) in Geneva, Switzerland. Here, he led the publication of the WHO World Malaria Report and worked on the development of normative guidance and tools on malaria surveillance, strengthening surveillance systems, and sub-national tailoring of malaria interventions. While at Harvard, Noor continues to support the WHO Global Malaria Programme to publish the 2023 world malaria report.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Zoom recording
From Healing Hills to Healthcare for All: Rwanda’s Inspiring Path to Universal Coverage
Featuring Brenda Kateera, MD, MPH, LEAD fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Zoom recording
What we know and don’t know on how to effectively engage the community in health security
Featuring Marie Roseline Belizaire, MD, MPH, FETP, MSc, LEAD fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Emergency Preparedness, World Health Organization, Central African Republic
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Zoom recording
Sustainable Solutions to Climate Change
Featuring Kari C. Nadeau, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Environmental Health, John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies, and Interim Director at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Brown Bag Series: Spring 2023
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Reform for Resilience: Towards Sustainable Societies
Featuring Patricia Geli, PhD, Executive Director of the Reform for Resilience Commission & Research Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Zoom Recording
The Unlikeliest Pandemic Success Story: How the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan staged a world-class response to COVID-19
Featuring Madeline Drexler, Journalist and Author, Former Editor of Harvard Public Health magazine
PDF version of Drexler’s 2022 WHO narrative book, The People’s Pandemic: How the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan staged a world-class response to COVID-19
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Zoom Recording
Real World Experiences in Improving Healthcare
Featuring M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP, Visiting Faculty at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
M. Rashad Massoud is a leader in global healthcare improvement. In this seminar, he will discuss how he has worked over the past 30 years with many countries to improve healthcare illustrated by examples of his work and what he has learned.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Zoom Recording
Righting the wrongs? : The children of ISIS fighters in camps in Syria
Featuring Benyam Mezmur, Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Zoom Recording
Do Incentivized Routine Assessments of Clinical Protocol Compliance Improve Quality of Care? Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Featuring Günther Fink, PhD, Eckenstein-Geigy Professor of Epidemiology & Household Economics at the University of Basel
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Zoom Recording
Leveraging Improvement Science for Program Implementation
Featuring Flora Nwagagbo, LEAD fellow within the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Drawing from lessons learned in the implementation of a quality improvement (QI) initiative to improve the quality of TB/HIV services provided by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program in Nigeria, Dr. Flora highlights the use of principles of improvement science to enhance program implementation, and the role of a leadership mindset in influencing change.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
How hospitals’ goal setting, feedback, and process standardization capacity impact provider payment reforms
Featuring Sian H. Tsuei, MHSc, MD, CCFP, Doctoral Candidate, PhD in Population Health Sciences, Global Health and Population Field, Health Systems Specialization, Harvard University
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Zoom Recording
Trauma Training for Front-Line Providers and Civilians in Ukraine
Featuring Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan School, and Director of Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Zoom Recording
Implementation of UNICEF and WHO’s Care for Child Development Package: Lessons Learned from a Global Review and Key Informant Interviews
Featuring Marilyn Ahun, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Abstract: In the last decade, there has been increased global policy and program momentum to promote early childhood development. For example, ECD was included in the Sustainable Development Goals (Target 4.2, to ensure all children have access to early childhood care, development, and education). More recently, the launch of the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF) from UNICEF, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO) offers a road map for the implementation of a holistic set of inputs in health, nutrition, safety and security, early learning, and responsive care to support children’s healthy development. In this context, there is a demand for tools that can help translate global and national targets to action. The Care for Child Development (CCD) package, developed by UNICEF and the WHO, is a key tool responding to the global demand. The CCD package comprises two age-specific evidence-based recommendations for caregivers to 1) play and communicate and 2) responsively interact with their children (0–5 years) and was designed to be integrated within existing services to strengthen nurturing care for child development. The aim of this report was to provide an up-to-date global review of the implementation and evaluation of the CCD package.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Zoom Recording
Health literacy promotion as a key in long-term responses after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011
Featuring Aya Goto, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor at the Center for Integrated Science and Humanities at Fukushima Medical University, International Community Health, Fukushima Medical University Graduate School of Medicine
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Zoom Recording
Global Autism Community: Collaboration, implementation and progress toward equity and inclusion
Featuring Andy Shih, PhD, Chief Science Officer at Autism Speaks
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Zoom Recording
Negotiating the Pandemic Treaty: Challenges & Next Steps
Featuring Adam Kamradt-Scott, BN, MAIS, PhD, Dr. Jiang Yanhong Visiting Professor of Global Health Security in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Brown Bag Series: Fall 2022
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Addressing inequalities: responding to complex health transitions in rural Southern Africa
Featuring Professor Kathleen Kahn, PhD, MPH, MD, and Professor Steve Tollman, PhD, MPH, MD
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Zoom Recording
Community-Based Strategies Targeting Intimate Partner Violence in Developing Countries: A Growing Research Agenda
Featuring Jessica Leight, PhD, Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Zoom Recording
Access to Reproductive Health and the Impact in Conflict in Afghanistan
Featuring Dr. Sima Samar, Scholar at Risk within the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, former Minister of Women’s Affairs, and former Chairperson of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Zoom Recording
Biolegitimacy and Restrictive Abortion Regulations in Latin America: Overview and Perspectives
Featuring Ana C. Gonzalez, MA, MD, PhD, LEAD Fellow within the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. González is a renowned international expert and leader in the field of health and sexual and reproductive rights, the right to health, and gender equality. She has held several positions across the spectrum of her profession: as a service provider, policy formulator, researcher, international advisor, activist, and teacher on “health law” at the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. González is the former national public health director in Colombia and co-founder of La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres and the Medical Group for The Right to Decide in Colombia. She pioneered the Causa Justa movement of Colombia that established the most liberal abortion laws in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also part of the regional coalition “Articulación Feminista Marcosur” and was recently included as one of the 100 most influential people in the TIME100 list of 2022.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Zoom Recording
Assessing Factors that Impact Maternal Health Outcomes in Maroodijeh Region, Somaliland
Featuring Ifrah Abdi, BSN, MMSc-GHD, LEAD Fellow within the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ifrah Abdi is a Certified nurse-midwife and graduate of Edna Adan University Hospital in Somaliland. Ifrah has worked at Edna Adan University Hospital as a midwife for the past 18 years. In Somaliland, Ifrah trains traditional birth attendants in rural villages to help improve outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth. Ifrah presently serves as the Associate Dean of Nursing at Edna University Hospital and is a recent graduate of the Masters in Global Health Delivery Program at Harvard Medical School. Ifrah’s thesis project at HMS assessed factors that impact maternal health outcomes in Somaliland. Ifrah’s vision for Somaliland is the end of preventable maternal deaths by ensuring women can access care at every stage before, during, and after pregnancy.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Zoom Recording
Mitigation Planning and Policies Informed by COVID-19 Modeling: A Case Study of the State of Hawaii and Lessons for LMICs
Featuring Victoria Fan, ScD, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Zoom Recording
Rethinking emerging pathogen surveillance: Integrated and pragmatic real-time clinical, genomic, and immunological surveillance for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants (RTI-SURV)
Featuring Eric J. Nilles, MD, MSc, Director of the Infectious Disease & Epidemics Program at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Attending Physician at Brigham & Women’s Department of Emergency Medicine
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Zoom Recording
Global Health Security and Diplomacy in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ Era
Featuring Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, Professor and Director at Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Zoom Recording
Facing Forward – Optimising Health System Performance in Africa – Experiences from Nigeria
Featuring Dr. Oyebanji Filani, Commissioner of Health in Ekiti State, Nigeria and Chairperson of the Nigeria Health Commissioners Forum in Nigeria
Brown Bag Series: Spring 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Zoom Recording
Shared Decision-Making: Can Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives?
Featuring Berk Özler, PhD Lead Economist & Research Manager within the Development Research Group at the World Bank
Dr. Özler will discuss his research on a shared decision-making approach in family planning in which providers use a tablet-based counseling app to help clients choose a method best-suited to her needs and preferences. He will present results from a pilot adaptive experiment testing counseling approaches and price discounts for contraception on the take up of long-acting reversible contraception.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Zoom Recording
Saving Lives Through Technology: Mobile Phones and Infant Mortality
Featuring Kibrom Tafere, Economist within the Development Research Group at the World Bank
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Zoom Recording
Pharmacy-based Models of HIV PrEP Delivery for Expanded Reach and Access in Kenya
Featuring Katrina Ortblad, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor within the Cancer Prevention Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Zoom Recording
Into the Heart of Darkness: Perspectives of a Namibian Doctor During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Featuring Mareli Claassens, MBChB, PhD, LEAD Fellow within the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Zoom Recording
Decolonizing Global Health and the Role of Women Leaders
Featuring Alice Kayongo, MPH, Bridget Malewezi, MD, MPH, Julieta Kavetuna, MPhil, Mareli Claassens, MBChB, PhD, and Preethi John, PhD, LEAD Fellows within the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderated by Jesse Bump, MPH, PhD, Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Lecturer on Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Zoom Recording
The Centrality of Women’s Leadership in Global Health: Reflections from Uganda’s COVID-19 Response
Featuring Alice Kayongo, MPH, LEAD Fellow within the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Zoom Recording
Informing Post-Pandemic Economic Reform Programs in Africa: Role for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Featuring Justice Nonvignon, PhD, Head of the Health Economics Programme at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Associate Professor of Health Economics at the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, Accra
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Zoom Recording
From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War
Featuring Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Zoom Recording
Behavioral Responses to HIV self-testing in Kenya
Featuring Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Zoom Recording
Towards a New Research Agenda on China’s Internet Health Care Market
Featuring Terence C. Cheng, PhD, Research Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Zoom Recording
The (IO) Effect: International Actors and Service Delivery in Refugee Crises
Featuring Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs within the Department of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Zoom Recording
Primary Health Care Reforms in India
Featuring Dr. Rajani Ved, Director of Health at the India Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Moderated Dr. Winnie Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
This seminar is sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, India Health Systems Project and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, India Resource Center, Mumbai
Brown Bag Series: Fall 2021
September 9, 2021
The COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Deployment: The Cuban Case
Presented by Dr. Marcia Castro
Department Chair, Global Health and Population, TH Chan School of Public Health
Presented by Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo
Director of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines
Zoom recording for Dr. Castro and Dr. Vérez Bencomo’s seminar
September 16, 2021
Information, Loss Framing, and Spillovers in Pay-for-Performance Contracts: Evidence from Nigerian Primary Health Workers
Presented by Eeshani Kandpal
Economist, Development Research Group at The World Bank
Zoom recording for Eeshani Kandpal’s seminar
September 23, 2021
How does Odisha’s Health Care System Perform? Part I: Financial Risk Protection and Interaction between Public and Private Providers
Presented by Dr. Winnie Yip and team: Bijetri Bose, Jan Cooper, Annie Haakenstad, Anuska Kalita, and Liana Woskie
Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Faculty Director, Harvard China Health Partnership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Zoom recording for Winnie Yip’s seminar (Part I)
September 30, 2021
How does Odisha’s Health Care System Perform? Part II: Quality of Care
Presented by Dr. Winnie Yip and team: Bijetri Bose, Jan Cooper, Annie Haakenstad, Anuska Kalita, and Liana Woskie
Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Faculty Director, Harvard China Health Partnership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Zoom recording for Winnie Yip’s seminar (Part II)
October 7, 2021
Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
Presented by Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Consultant, Africa CDC
Zoom recording for Eugene Richardson’s seminar
October 14, 2021
Humanitarian Futures: What Will Drive Humanitarian Assistance and How Will We Respond?
Presented by Mike VanRooyen
Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, J. Stephen Bohan Professor of Emergency Medicine and Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Zoom recording for Mike VanRooyen’s seminar
October 21, 2021
How Understanding U.S. Racism is Relevant to Global Health
Presented by Mary Bassett, MD, MPH
New York State Health Commissioner, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights and FXB Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Zoom recording for Mary Bassett’s seminar
October 28, 2021
Understanding Norms and Personal Beliefs among Youth in Jordan about Sexual and Gender-based Violence through A Social Network Perspective
Presented by Dr. Jewel Gausman
Research Associate at The Women & Health Initiative in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom recording of Jewel Gausman’s seminar
November 4, 2021
A Tale of 2 Women’s Movements – Lessons Learned from Establishing Women’s Health related Professional bodies in Malawi
Presented by Bridget Malewezi, MD, MPH
Harvard 2021 Lead fellow with the Harvard Global Health Institute, Vice President of the Malawi chapter of Women in Global Health
Zoom recording of Bridget Malewezi’s seminar
November 18, 2021
Human Resources in Healthcare Vital link for achieving Universal Health Care (UHC): Indian Health System Perspective
Presented by Preethi John, PhD
Harvard LEAD Fellow for Women in Global Health 2021 Cohort, Co-Founder of Women in Global Health India, and Director Chitkara Global Health Institute, Chitkara University, Punjab, India
Zoom Recording of Preethi John’s Seminar
December 2, 2021
Who Cares for Health Worker’s Mental Health: The Namibian Front Line Health Workers Initiative
Presented by Julieta Kavetuna, MPHIL
LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom recording for this seminar is unavailable.
Brown Bag Series: Spring 2021
January 28, 2021
Shifting the Life Cycle of Women’s Health: Reflections on Hysterectomy Patterns in India
Presented by Sapna Desai, PhD
Associate, Population Council, India
Zoom Recording for Sapna Desai’s Seminar
February 18, 2021
The Value of Creating Large-Scale Bio-resources in Global Health
Presented by Rajiv Chowdhury
Associate Professor and Principal Researcher in Global Health, University of Cambridge
February 25, 2021
Addressing the Disinformation Puzzle from a Human Rights Perspective
Presented by Guilherme Canela
Chief, Section of Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, UNESCO
Zoom Recording for Guilherme Canela’s Seminar
March 4, 2021
Strengthening our Health Systems: Perspectives from Harvard LEAD Fellows
Subtopic: Civil Society Organization Support to the Bosnian Health System under COVID-19 Pandemic Circumstances: How to Maintain the HIV Response in Focus
Presented by Aida Kurtovic
LEAD Scholar, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Subtopic: Promoting Access to HIV Services among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Malawi
Presented by Cynthia Mambo
LEAD Scholar, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom Recording for Aida Kurtovic and Cynthia Mambo’s Seminar
March 11, 2021
Impact of COVID-19 on the Socio-Economic Development of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families in Laos
Presented by Sitthiroth Rasphone
Director General, Center for Development Policy Research, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Laos
Link to reports related to UNICEF’s work in Lao PDR
Zoom Recording for Sitthiroth Rasphone’s Seminar
March 25, 2021
Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Presented by Guadalupe Bedoya
Senior Economist, Development Impact Evaluation Group, World Bank
Zoom Recording for Guadalupe Bedoya’s Seminar
April 1, 2021
Protection and Mental Health Assistance for Communities Affected by COVID-19 in Peru
Presented by Carmen Contreras
LEAD Scholar, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom Recording for Carmen Contreras’ Seminar
April 8, 2021
Connecting the Health System of El Salvador with the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer Control
Presented by Soad Linneth
Scientific Director, Pediatric Cancer Program and Pediatric Cancer Registry of El Salvador
Zoom Recording for Soad Linneth Fuentes-Alabi’s Seminar
April 15, 2021
COVID-19 Policy Response and Population Mental Health in Uganda
Presented by Slawa Rokicki, PhD
Instructor, Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health
Visiting Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom Recording for Slawa Rokicki’s Seminar
April 22, 2021
Upstream Factors in Governments’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Jurisdictional Case Studies
Presented by Peter Berman
Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom Recording for Peter Berman’s Seminar
April 29, 2021
The “Cure” to Organized Crime Violence: Lessons from Chicago, Sicily, and Mexico
Presented by Sergio Aguayo
Professor, Centro de Estudios Internacionale, El Colegio de México
Fellow, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Zoom Recording for Sergio Aguayo’s Seminar
Brown Bag Series: Fall 2020
September 10, 2020
Mobile Data in the Time of COVID-19
Presented by Patrick Vinck, PhD
Research Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Population
Zoom Recording
September 17, 2020
Advantages and Limitations of Population-Based and Blood Donors Seroprevalence Studies: The COVID-19 Experience
Presented by Cesar Victora and Ester Sabino
Zoom Recording
September 24, 2020
Herd Immunity Thresholds for SARS-CoV-2 Estimated from Unfolding Epidemics
Presented by Gabriela Gomes
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Zoom Recording
Link to Paper
October 1, 2020
COVID-19 in Latin America: Situation and Lessons Learned
Presented by Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr.
Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
Zoom Recording
October 8, 2020
Students’ Experiences Working During COVID-19: Contact Tracing and a Qualitative Study on People Experiencing Homelessness
Presented by Sophia Comas, Malia Skjefte, Janella Kang, Michelle Ngirbabul, Barune Thapa, Corey Cameron, Kayleigh Bhangdia, Rhiana Fitts, Andrea Vargas Guerra, Alethea Cook
Current Students within the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom Recording
October 15, 2020
Why We Need Community Centered Approaches in Research to Tackle COVID-19
Presented by Sabina Faiz Rashid
Dean and Professor, James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University
Zoom Recording
October 22, 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Women of India
Presented by Poonam Muttreja
Executive Director, Population Foundation of India
Zoom Recording
October 29, 2020
Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stigmatized Populations: African Americans in the US, Dalits in India, and Roma in Europe
Presented by Vikram Patel, Margareta Matache, and Mary Travis Bassett
Zoom Recording
November 5, 2020
A Class Apart: COVID-19 Seroprevalence in India
Presented by Satchit Balsari and Manoj Mohanan
Zoom Recording
November 12, 2020
Modernization of Health Worker Payments in the COVID Era
Presented by Ismaila Diene, Maria May, and Wycliffe Ngwabe
Zoom Recording
November 19, 2020
Delivery of Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health Services During COVID-19
Presented by Rachel Jones, Surya Bhatta, Catherine Arsenault, and Svetlana Doubova
Zoom Recording
December 3, 2020
Innovative COVID-19 Research from Recent GHP Alumni
Presented by, Julia Raifman and Ellen Moscoe
Zoom Recording
Brown Bag Series: Spring and Summer 2020
Physicians as Persuaders: Evidence from Hospitals in China
Presented by Jia Xiang
Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
The Global Diet Quality Project: Tools and Data to Measure What the World Eats
Presented by Anna Herforth, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Genocide and Health: Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Survivors
Presented by Matthew Smith
Co-Founder and CEO of Fortify Rights
Venezuela Mixed Flow Migration Crisis and the Challenges of Assessing Vulnerability and Providing Protection
Presented by Phuong Pham, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of Evaluation and Implementation Science at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI).
PDIA (Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation) Adventures in Health
Presented by Salimah Samji, MPA/ID
Director for Building State Capability at the Center for International Development at Harvard University
Online Survey Findings for COVID-19
Presented by Phuong Pham, Ph.D, MPH, Patrick Vinck, Ph.D., and David Canning, Ph.D.
Sex and Gender Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presented by Ana Langer, MD
Director, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population
Zoom Recording
Nowcasting and COVID-19
Presented by Nicolas Menzies, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
Zoom Recording
Link to Associated Paper
COVID-19 and Mental Health: A Global Perspective
Presented by Shekhar Saxena, MD, FRCPsych and Giuseppe Raviola, MD
Zoom Recording
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agriculture and Food Security in India: Results of a 12-state Farmer Survey
Presented by Lindsay Jaacks, PhD
Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population
Zoom Recording
Link to PowerPoint
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Ethical Issues in Research on Treatment and Vaccines in the Time of COVID-19
Presented by Richard Cash, MD, MPH and Daniel Wikler, PhD
Zoom Recording
Democracy and Inequality: COVID-19 and a History of Mendocratic States
Presented by Jesse Bump, MPH, PhD
Lecturer on Global Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population
Executive Director, Takemi Program in International Health
Zoom Recording
Global Health Week and the Annual State of Global Health Symposium
Global Health Week and the Annual State of Global Health Symposium are held each spring at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and include a variety of events (including seminars, poster sessions, movie screenings, and debates). Please note that Global Health Week was canceled in 2020, 2021, and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Global Health Week 2019 and Sixth Annual State of Global Health Symposium
Global Health Week 2018 and Fifth Annual State of Global Health Symposium
Global Health Week 2017 and Fourth Annual State of Global Health Symposium
Fourth Annual State of Global Health Symposium Program
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- SPH News Article: Living in the shadows: Health of poor urban women often overlooked
- Symposium Panel Discussion Recording: Urban Health Challenges and Opportunities: The state of women’s health in cities. Panelists Marcia Castro, Gunther Fink and Lynn Freedman
- Symposium Panel Discussion Recording: Designing Urban Health Systems that Work for Women and Girls Panel Discussion with Jacqueline Bhabha, Margaret Kruk and Margaret McConnell. Moderated by Ana Langer
Third Annual State of Global Health Symposium
Second Annual State of Global Health Symposium
Inaugural State of Global Health Symposium
Additional Events
Dr. Lown's Portrait Unveiling at the Department of Global Health and Population
On World Heart Day, September 29, 2021, friends, colleagues, and family gathered virtually to honor Dr. Lown’s contributions to cardiology, global health, and humanity. A recording of Dr. Lown’s portrait unveiling at the Department of Global Health and Population is available online here.
COVID-19 in India: Critical Updates
COVID-19 in India: Critical Updates was held on April 30, 2021
A recent surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India has focused attention on this country of 1.3 billion. The seminar will explore recent epidemiologic changes, access to care, vaccine rollouts, and possible future trends.
This seminar was hosted by Dr. Richard Cash and Dr. Satchit Balsari. Guest speakers included T. Jacob John, DSc, PhD, MSc, former Professor of Clinical Virology and Microbiology, Christian Medical College, and Sujatha Rao, MPA, Former Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agriculture and Food Security in India Webinar
On May 20, 2020 the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (Hyderabad), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Public Health Foundation of India hosted a webinar to discuss preliminary results from a 12-state survey with farmers and agri-workers in India.
A recording of the webinar is available here.
Read a blog post by Lindsay Jaacks, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health, about the team and the fantastic work they’ve done so far.
Download the survey questions and PowerPoint slides.
Read the event’s press release.
Contact Amanda Powell at apowell@hsph.harvard.edu with any questions.
Inaugural Global Mental Health Open Day
The inaugural Global Mental Health Open Day (April 6 – 7, 2018) showcased the range of rich and diverse activities oriented toward global mental health across Harvard and HMS-affiliated hospitals.
Video from the opening session of this event is available here.
Network map is available here.
Visit the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative website here.
GHP@50
GHP@50 Symposium was held on April 25, 2013 to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary.
Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organization, or employers.