Burke Fellows Archive

The Burke Global Health Fellowship program at the Harvard Global Health Institute provides funding for Harvard junior faculty members from across the University for innovative research and curriculum development and teaching in global health. The Fellowships are made possible through the generous support of Harvard alumna Katherine States Burke, AB ’79, and her husband, T. Continue reading [...]

Stéphane Verguet, MPP, MS, PhD, was awarded a Burke Global Health Fellowship in 2019 for a project entitled “The eDALY: Developing a distributional population health metric that incorporates health inequalities and illness-related poverty.” Protecting from the financial risks of illness and improving the distribution of population health are major health system objectives integral to achieving Continue reading [...]

The Harvard Global Health Institute has opened applications for the Burke Global Health Fellowship. This Fellowship program provides funding for Harvard junior faculty members from across the University for innovative research and curriculum development and teaching (particularly at the undergraduate level) in global health. The Burke Global Health Fellowship serves as a career catalyst, coming Continue reading [...]

Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH, is a global health implementer-educator who holds positions at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Partners In Health (PIH). In 2018, he was awarded a curriculum development grant through the Burke Global Health Fellowship. We invite you to read about his educational project and experience below.  Dan Palazuelos, November Continue reading [...]

Satchit Balsari, MBBS, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), and in Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan. Balsari’s research is focused on the application of mobile and cloud-based technologies to protect the health of populations marginalized by disasters and war. His signature initiatives Continue reading [...]

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 Continue reading [...]

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 Continue reading [...]

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

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 Continue reading [...]

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 Continue reading [...]