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HGHI’s Inaugural Global Health Symposium: April 12th, 2023

The Harvard Global Health Institute is thrilled to announce that registration is now open for virtual attendance to our Inaugural Global Health Symposium! While in person capacity is limited, we invite our longstanding global and Harvard-based community to join us virtually on April 12th, 2023 from 9:00am to 4:00pm ET for a series of conversations centered around the theme “Global Health Equity through Community Engagement.”

Multi-media Teaching in Global Health and Social Medicine – Final Takeaways from 2018 Burke Fellow Daniel Palazuelos

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 [...]

Testing the readiness of (big) health data in India for advanced analytics and AI – Final takeaways from 2019 Burke Fellow Satchit Balsari

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 [...]

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. [...]