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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.”

Are you a Harvard undergrad interested in global health and COVID-19?

Calling all Harvard undergrads! Register now for HGHI’s exciting new course Confronting COVID-19: Science, History, Policy (Gen Ed 1170) [...]

Time to Radically Rethink Testing

Cheap and rapid antigen testing can help to identify and prevent outbreak of COVID-19, even if test sensitivity never matches that of qPCR. Dr. Ashish K. Jha pens an op-ed for TIME. [...]

Path to Zero & Schools: Achieving Pandemic Resilient Teaching and Learning Spaces

UPDATE: Please see new guidance, “Schools and the Path to Zero: Strategies for Pandemic Resilience in the Face of High Community Spread”, published December 18, 2020. July 20th, 2020 Finding ways to get kids back to school safely as the virus continues to spread across the nation is a daunting task. Our new guidance helps [...]

Path to Zero: Utilizing Interstate Compacts to Unleash Testing Capacity

Severe testing shortages and processing delays are hampering the COVID-19 response. Here is how to rapidly build the arsenal of timely tests we need to suppress and defeat the coronavirus. [...]

Cases and Deaths Are Surging in Southern States NOT Because of Vacationers From the North

The numbers of cases of and deaths from COVID-19 are surging in the south because states relaxed COVID-19 restrictions too soon, and not, as suggested yesterday by Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, because of an influx of northern vacationers after Memorial Day. [...]

Dr. Ashish K. Jha says US withdrawal from WHO is devastating loss in battle against COVID-19

Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, on June 30, 2020 testified before members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that U.S., withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) “will harm not only the health of people around the world, but also US leadership and scientific prowess. And ultimately […] will harm [...]

New Testing Targets

As COVID-19 outbreaks grow more severe, most U.S. states still fall far short on testing. From mitigation to suppression: in collaboration with NPR, HGHI is publishing new state testing targets for July. This new data shows only 18 states meet minimum targets for mitigation, and only three reach suppression level testing. [...]

Evidence Roundup: Why positive test rates need to fall below 3%

By Divya Siddarth, Harvard Safra Center COVID Initiative, Rebecca Katz, Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, Ellie Graeden, Talus Analytics, Danielle Allen, Harvard Safra Center, and Thomas Tsai, HGHI [...]