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Women's health: Rape of the Congo
In her role as gender-based violence research coordinator at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2008 HSPH graduate Jocelyn Kelly traveled to war-torn Eastern Congo in 2009 and early 2010 to conduct interviews with perpetrators of sexual violence and mass…
HSPH Dean Frenk joins world leaders in Millennium Development Advocacy Group
October 6, 2010 -- HSPH Dean Julio Frenk is a member of the MDG Advocacy Group, a task force of global leaders charged promoting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) -- global targets for eradicating poverty,…
Global health news: HSPH alum on the challenges of leading Afghanistan's public health efforts
Dr. Suraya Dalil, who graduated from HSPH with a masters in health care management in 2005, serves as Acting Minister of Public Health in Afghanistan. Dalil, who attended medical school in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, returned to…
HSPH students gather for worldwide webcast linked to Millennium Development Goals
Students from across Harvard gathered in an HSPH classroom on September 20, 2010, to watch a live webcast of TEDxChange’s “The Future We Make,” an event convened by Melinda French Gates on the 10th anniversary of the Millennium…
Improving global health care requires "vigorous exploration of the future"
September 17, 2010 -- Improving the global health care system of the future requires taking action now and focusing on the diverse set of issues that will shape the system of the future, Enrique Ruelas, an international expert…
Aftermath of a world at war: Photojournalists' exhibit records tragic results of remote conflicts
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is sponsoring the traveling exhibit "Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines." The International Committee of the Red Cross commissioned five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency to document the aftermath…
Rebuilding shattered lives
[Fall 2010] When an earthquake struck in Chile, HSPH alum Karen Anderson and the community health group she founded were the first on the scene—and they’re still there. At 3:34 a.m. on February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude…
Idjwi island: Oasis of change
[Fall 2010] On Africa's long-forsaken Idjwi island, HSPH students are building a health care system from the ground up. Lake Kivu sits between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its serene waves giving little hint of…
Global health news: In Pakistan, controlling water is key
Pakistan is a nation built around a single river, the 1,800-mile Indus. Earlier this summer, rains sent floodwaters raging down the river, killing more than 1,600 and destroying more than a million homes, along with bridges, roads, power…
Global health news: Healthy, educated youths key to future of Nigeria
Nigeria must provide its burgeoning youth population with opportunities for health, education and jobs to avoid social, economic and security disaster in the next 20 years, according to the “Next Generation Nigeria” report commissioned by the British Council,…