A new interdisciplinary program in child protection at Harvard School of Public Health was recognized at the UNICEF Children’s Champion Award Dinner in Boston on October 30, 2014. G. Barrie Landry, a board member of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, received the organization’s Helenka Pantaleoni Humanitarian Award for her role in helping launch the program. A $1 million grant from Landry and the Barrie Landry Charitable Foundation last year financed its initial development.
Jointly developed by UNICEF and HSPH’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, the program offers five courses which can be taken as a sub-concentration by master’s students. It aims to grow a cadre of qualified child protection policymakers and field workers, and enhance the professionalization of the field. Two courses launched last spring, with all five courses starting this fall.
Learn more about the HSPH-UNICEF Child Protection Curriculum
Read The Harvard Crimson coverage: UNICEF dinner lauds new joint public health program
Read Harvard Gazette article: New hope for imperiled children