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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.”

It’s not about being sick: Why we need to test more healthy people to beat this virus

By Ashish K. Jha, HGHI This summer opened with a Memorial Day weekend of crowded beaches, boardwalks and pools. From California to Texas, Missouri to New Jersey, people — some with masks and social distancing, others as if coronavirus had never happened – sought the sun and sand, and time with family and friends. After more than two months [...]

The CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Here’s what you need to know

The government’s disease-fighting agency is compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same. [...]

Dr. Ashish Jha addresses Congress, urging Feds to do more on testing, support states

Participating in a virtual briefing for members of the House Coronavirus Oversight Committee, Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), said the federal government must do more to increase testing, support states to help increase testing, and to encourage innovative, new tests to identify those testing positive for COVID-19. [...]

Modeling Uncertainty: How to make sense of changing predictions

By Benjamin Jacobson and Stefanie Friedhoff, HGHI In a pandemic, hard evidence is a precious commodity. At a time when we have a critical need for answers, data and clear evidence to support better decision making are only slowly forthcoming. There is so much we still don’t know about the virus, its features, how it [...]

HGHI and NPR publish new state testing targets

By Ashish K. Jha, Benjamin Jacobson, Stefanie Friedhoff and Thomas Tsai, HGHI Ten days ago, the Harvard Global Health Institute published data looking at how many tests each state should be doing as part of their strategy to begin a slow re-opening around May 1, based on the size of their coronavirus outbreak at the time (see [...]

Analysis: Find out if your state falls short on testing needed to open up in early May

More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing to even consider starting to relax stay-at-home orders after May 1, according to a new analysis by the Harvard Global Health Institute and STAT. [...]

Why do we still need testing?

By Ashish K. Jha, Faculty Director, HGHI Over the past few days, many federal policymakers have been arguing that testing is overblown as an issue – that it is not so important or that we are doing enough. These are two separate issues. Is testing really important? And if yes, are we doing enough? [...]

Why we need at least 500,000 tests per day to open the economy — and stay open

By Ashish K. Jha, Thomas Tsai and Benjamin Jacobson, HGHI Ubiquitous testing is essential to the nation’s ability to succeed with the planned phased opening of the economy and to stay open (we explain why we need testing in this post). In our analysis below, we estimate that the number of tests needed every day is, [...]