HCSA leader Gabriela Rosa aims to elevate student voices
Gabriela Rosa is a student in Harvard Chan School’s Doctor of Public Health Program and the new president of the Harvard Chan Student Association. She’s also a fertility expert, a watercolor painter, and a weightlifter.
Alumni Weekend 2023 focuses on equity, justice in health care
Roughly 150 Harvard Chan School alumni gathered in late September for reconnecting, networking, and learning at the annual Alumni Weekend. The focus of the event was “The Right to Health: Equity and Justice for All.”
A healer’s journey
Lin Abdul Rahman, DrPH ’24, has spent a career advocating for children who have suffered sexual abuse—even as she has healed from her own childhood trauma.
Students bring inspiration, innovative solutions to public health problems
Harvard Chan School's Public Health Innovation x Technology Student Forum creates virtual and in-person opportunities for students to get together for inspiration and discussion about new ideas to solve public health problems.
With free health clinic, student brings health care to Rhode Island’s underserved
Akosua Dankwah, DrPH ’22, is applying what she’s learned to help the WTL Health Clinic expand its mission.
Program to help business leaders address public health challenges
A new certificate program for business leaders will focus on why incorporating public health considerations as a key part of their work can help people, communities, and the planet—and help businesses thrive at the same time.
Students lend helping hand to India’s COVID-19 efforts
Working with a professor, a Worcester, Mass. hospital, and Indian friends and colleagues, two students helped secure desperately needed oxygen concentrators for COVID-19 patients to use at home in India.
For kids facing long hospital stays, a happier ‘reality’
Jean Jung is working on a project to help hospitalized kids connect with each other—through virtual reality.
Student fieldwork helps anchor Worcester-based health care system in community
August 13, 2019 – Two doctor of public health (DrPH) students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health worked with UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) in Worcester, Mass. to develop an ambitious new strategy aimed at addressing…
At Women in Leadership conference, students gain advice on advancing their careers
April 16, 2014 -- Make time in your schedule for mentorship. Get over the fear of self-promotion. And by all means, learn principles of finance. These were some of the leadership lessons that nearly 100 students and alumnae…
