Hackathon sparks digital, AI solutions to improve health care
More than 500 people worldwide spent two intense days developing innovative ideas to tackle health care challenges at an early April hackathon organized by the Health Systems Innovation Lab at Harvard Chan School.
Sparking innovation in global health systems
Experts at the Health Systems Innovation Lab want to help countries around the world transform how they provide care.
Hackathon seeks digital solutions to health system challenges in Latin America, Caribbean
More than 700 hackathon participants proposed technologies to build high-value health systems—which provide cost-effective care that prioritizes patients’ quality of life.
Genital herpes linked with economic, quality of life losses in low- and middle-income countries
Genital herpes is driving significant losses to both economies and quality of life in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new study co-authored by researchers from Harvard Chan School.
African nursing leaders take deep dive into how to strengthen health systems
The inaugural cohort in the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program's Certificate in Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders convened in Kenya in September for a week-long intensive course on health systems strengthening.
Artificial Intelligence’s Promise and Peril
As algorithms analyze mammograms and smartphones capture lived experiences, researchers are debating the use of ai in public health.
Getting to know … Gabriela Borin Castillo, MPH ’21
A physical therapist specializing in chronic pain, Gabriela Borin Castillo has done volunteer work with Paralympic athletes and helped build a rehabilitation clinic in Guatemala. The native Brazilian is now living in Chile and working toward her MPH…
Strong health systems fundamental to health of nations
There is no one-size-fits-all health system that will work for every country, according to Rifat Atun, professor of global health systems at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. What’s most important, he said, is that a system…
The moral and economic imperative of improving global cancer care for kids
Over the next 30 years, more than 11 million children age 14 and younger could needlessly die from cancer, with the vast majority of deaths occurring in low- and lower-middle-income countries—but millions of these deaths can be averted…
Brazil’s ‘fragile’ health care gains threatened
Progress made by Brazil’s unified health system, Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), over the past three decades is in danger of being reversed because of recent austerity measures and new policies of the Brazilian government, according to a…