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 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
Check out Lindsay’s webinar on this topic!
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 March 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 the 2020 Global Health Week was canceled 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.
