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Fighting Misinformation: The Preprint Sifter

The Preprint Sifter is a new Twitter tool that tracks down Tweets from leading epidemiologists, virologists, public health and other experts who are posting, vetting and verifying COVID-19 related preprint papers.

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor – Final Takeaways from 2019 Burke Fellow Ashley Whillans

2019 Burke Fellow, Ashley Whillans, PhD, MA an Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School, recently completed her fellowship in the Burke Global Health Fellowship program. We welcome you to read about her research project and experience below. Ashley Whillans, September 2020 Becoming a Burke Fellow provided the [...]

Harvard Global Health Institute Awards Five Burke Global Health Fellowships

Cambridge, MA – The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) has announced five Burke Global Health Fellowships for 2020-21. The Fellowship, made possible by Harvard alumna Katherine States Burke, AB ’79, and her husband T. Robert Burke, supports the global health research and training efforts of Harvard junior faculty. The Burke Global Health Fellowship serves as [...]

Through a Burke Global Health Fellow’s Success, her Colleagues’ Careers Blossom

When asked how she began a career in global health, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier thinks back to her experience as an undergraduate mathematics major. [...]

Meet our 2019-20 HGHI Burke Global Health Fellows

Harvard Global Health Institute Awards Three Burke Global Health Fellowships Cambridge, MA – The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) has announced three Burke Global Health Fellowships for 2019-20. The Fellowships, made possible by Harvard alumna Katherine States Burke, AB ’79, and her husband T. Robert Burke, support Harvard junior faculty engaged in global health research and [...]

Through a Burke Global Health Fellow’s Success, her Colleagues’ Careers Blossom

When asked how she began a career in global health, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier thinks back to her experience as an undergraduate mathematics major. “I came to global health via numbers and data,” she says. From 1999-2003 Bethany served as a math teacher with the U.S. Peace Corps in Namibia. “The community where I lived had a [...]

HGHI Burke Fellow Rajesh Panjabi of Last Mile Health Named One of 2017 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship

Harvard Global Health Institute’s Burke Fellow Dr. Rajesh Panjabi of Last Mile Health was named one of four recipients of Skoll Foundation’s 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. [...]