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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.”

Harvard Global Health Institute Welcomes New Cohorts of Fellows

The three HGHI Fellowship Programs support emerging leaders to advance their work in global health practice, education, and research. [...]

Launched: Highly Anticipated 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Policy Brief for the U.S.

2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Policy Brief On October 25th, the highly anticipated sixth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Policy Brief was released. The Harvard Global Health Institute serves as the host institution for this work – led by HGHI affiliate faculty member and Senior Author of the Brief, Dr. [...]

Released: Highly Anticipated Annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Policy Brief for the U.S.

2021 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Policy Brief On Wednesday, October 20th at 6:30pm EST the highly anticipated fifth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Policy Brief was released. The annual global report tracks the impact of climate change on human health and is a product of more than [...]

New Report from Harvard and Global Experts Shows Investments in Nature Needed to Stop the Next Pandemic

View original post Protecting forests and changing agricultural practices are essential, cost-effective actions to prevent pandemics Boston, Mass. – As the world struggles to contain COVID-19, a group of leading, scientific experts from the U.S., Latin America, Africa, and South Asia released a report today outlining the strong scientific foundations for taking actions to stop [...]

HGHI, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Launch the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Scientific Task Force

In partnership with the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE), HGHI is excited to announce the launch of a new task force composed of experts from across the world who will work together to identify the most effective ways to prevent [...]

UHC is: Clean Air For All

The First Ever International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies Underscores the Environmental Link to Human Health UHC Benefits from Clean Air For the inaugural International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on September 7, 2020, HGHI and the One by One: Target 2030 campaign is highlighting clean air as a necessity to [...]

From the Urban Institute: What Would it Take to Reduce Inequities in Healthy Life Expectancy?

By Austin Frakt The Urban Institute recently published a report titled “What Would it Take to Reduce Inequities in Healthy Life Expectancy?” Its purpose is to articulate strategies to boost the effectiveness of the health system in addressing health-related social needs to narrow health inequities and areas of research that would help it do so. [...]

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Transparency Rule Threatens Health

Unprecedented times mandate novel collaborations: Harvard experts in the fields of medicine, law and environmental health have joined forces to share their concern about a new transparency rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [...]