After a multi-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, GHP’s Global Health Week returns March 27 to 31, 2023. This year’s celebrations coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Department’s founding. The full schedule of events and additional information are included below.
GHP@60: Celebrating GHP’s founding with a symposium on global health security
Tuesday, March 28
2:00 to 6:00pm
Kresge Cafeteria
Register to attend: hsph.me/ghp60
Symposium agenda, speaker bios, and poster submissions available online. Read about the history of GHP here.
Watch the livestream here
GHP Faculty Debate: Globally determined principles for allocating limited vaccines – do they work?
Wednesday, March 29
1:00 to 2:00pm
Building 1, 1208
Register to attend: hsph.me/facdebate23
Richard Cash, senior lecturer on global health and Muhammad Pate, Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, will debate. Allison Portnoy, postdoctoral research fellow, Center for Health Decision Science, will moderate. Watch the livestream here.
Brown Bag Seminar
Thursday, March 30
1:00 to 2:00pm
via Zoom
This week’s Brown Bag Seminar will feature feature Sian Tsuei, MHSc, MD, CCFP, Doctoral Candidate, PhD in Population Health Sciences, Harvard University. Sian will present a talk titled “How hospitals’ goal setting, feedback, and process standardization capacity impact provider payment reforms”
Out of Breath: Film Screening and Moderated Discussion
Thursday, March 30
5:00 to 8:00pm
Building 1, 1208
Register to attend: hsph.me/outofbreath
Join us for an in-person screening of the documentary “Out of Breath,” which approaches the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of the caregivers in the Brazilian public health system. Film screening will be followed by discussion with director Helena Petta and senior lecturer on global health Richard Cash.
