Leadership

Aya Goto, MD, PhD

Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Taro Takemi Professor of the Practice of International Community Health
Department of Global Health and Population

Dr. Goto earned her MPH in International Health here at the Harvard Chan School and returned in 2012 as a Takemi Fellow in International Health. She earned her MD and PhD (in Public Health) from Yamagata University Graduate School of Medicine (Japan). Most recently, Dr. Goto served as professor at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) with positions in both the Center for Integrated Science and Humanities and the Graduate School of…

Michael R. Reich, PhD

Senior Advisor of the Takemi Program in International Health and Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy
Department of Global Health and Population

Dr. Reich’s research addresses the political dimensions of public health policy. His research interests include health system strengthening and reform, access to medicines and pharmaceutical policy, and the political economy of policy-making processes. On July 1, 2021, Dr. Reich became the Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Emeritus. He will be in residence at Harvard during the fall semester of 2023-24, teaching GHP 200 on “Doing Health Reform Better”…

Bump

Jesse B. Bump

Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Lecturer on Global Health Policy
Department of Global Health and Population

Jesse B. Bump is Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Lecturer on Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Member of the Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting at the University of Bergen. He holds an AB in Astronomy and History from Amherst College, a PhD in the History of…

Harvard Committee for the Takemi Program

CHARGE: 

To review and select the Takemi Fellows and to provide advice on the overall strategic planning for the Program. (Established 1983)

MEMBERS:

Marcia Castro– Professor of Demography and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Ichiro Kawachi– John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology; Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

S V Subramanian– Professor of Population Health and Geography, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Winnie Yip – Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Stéphane Verguet– Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Aisha Yousafzai – Professor of Child Development and Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Goodarz Danaei – Bernard Lown Professor of Cardiovascular Health