Public health history course holds lessons for today
A new course at Harvard Chan School focuses on the history of public health, highlighting longstanding issues such as vaccine hesitancy, how life expectancy has been measured and used, tensions in the relationship between the fields of public…
Takemi Program celebrates 40 years with symposium on digital health
More than 90 current and former fellows from the Takemi Program in International Health converged at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in October for a two-day celebration marking the program’s 40th anniversary.
A call to end visa discrimination
Last year, there were several high-profile instances of health professionals from Africa being denied visas to enter countries that were hosting global health conferences they’d been invited to. In response, there have been increasing calls to hold the…
Jesse Bump, Nancy Turnbull receive inaugural Sastry Awards for outstanding teaching
Jesse Bump and Nancy Turnbull are the 2022 recipients of a new award recognizing outstanding teaching in public health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Former UN ambassador Samantha Power shares personal experiences, professional perspective
At Harvard Chan School, Samantha Power spoke about the UN, the U.S. role in the world, fake news, balancing personal and professional life—and hope.
Preparing for future pandemics by learning from the past
October 3, 2018—In past pandemics, infrastructure failures and problematic language in the media have undercut efforts to contain disease, according to Harvard’s Allan Brandt. Brandt, professor of the history of science and Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the…
Is global health aid distributed fairly?
Billions of dollars in global health aid are distributed around the world each year. But the process by which that funding is distributed is frequently difficult to understand.
