Event Archives

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

2023 Schedule of Events 

GHP@60: Celebrating GHP’s Founding with a Symposium on Global Health Security

2023 Poster Session Participants

2019 Schedule of Events

Sixth Annual State of Global Health Symposium Program

2019 Poster Session Participants

2018 Schedule of Events

Fifth Annual State of Global Health Symposium Program

2018 Poster Session Participants

2017 Schedule of Events

Fourth Annual State of Global Health Symposium Program

• • 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

2017 Poster Session Participants

Global Health Faculty Debate Recording: Government Health Care Provision Should Be Limited to Cost-Effective Care with David Canning and Richard Cash. Moderated by Lindsay Jaacks

Event Photos 

Third Annual State of Global Health Symposium Program

Second Annual State of Global Health Symposium Program

Inaugural State of Global Health Symposium Program

Transforming Health Systems for Universal Health Care

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 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.

Link to recording of seminar on COVID-19 in India

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.

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 Symposium was held on April 25, 2013 to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary.

Click here for the GHP@50 program.