Fall 2024 Cohort

Led by Margaret Bourdeaux, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and BWH’s Division of Global Health Equity, the Scholarly Working Group Increasing the Resilience of Threatened Health Systems will investigate how health systems can prevent, prepare for, and mitigate disruptions from armed conflict, hybrid warfare and climate change-related crises. The group plans to create a standardized health systems vulnerability assessment tool, publish detailed threat scenarios pertaining to armed conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation, and produce a white paper on climate-related threats to health system core operational processes.

Working Group Members

Vanessa Kerry, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Richard Serino, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peter Golganiceanu, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Led by Flaminia Catteruccia, Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Environmental Pressures on Malaria Scholarly Working Group aims to raise awareness of complex environmental pressures that hinder current malaria control strategies. The group will generate a position paper and symposia on the urgent need to transition toward more sustainable control and eradication strategies.

The position paper will help malaria health professionals, business leaders, and policy leaders understand the need to transition toward more sustainable and environmentally friendly malaria control strategies. It will incorporate data and insights from the group’s dialogues drawing from diverse research disciplines in the basic and applied sciences as well as behavior and social sciences, business, economics, and public policy with relevant social/cultural considerations from experts in malaria-endemic countries.

Working Group Members

Matthew Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School
Abdisalan Noor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dan Neafsey, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Led by Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime, Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, is the Climate Change, War, and Health: Effects of Intergenerational Global Health Adaptation Scholarly Working Group. This cross-disciplinary group of researchers will design methods for accurately cataloging, predicting, and determining strategies to obviate the unique, long-term, and intergenerational health effects caused by war in a time of accelerating climate change.

Working Group Members

Marc Weisskopf, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Margaret Bourdeaux, Harvard Medical School
Barrak Alahmad, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lindsey Burghardt, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jennifer Leaning, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovations for Global Health Scholarly Working Group is co-led by Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Adeline A. Boatin, Assistant Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and an Attending at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The objective of the Scholarly Working Group is to foster cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and cutting-edge research on AI and DI to develop end-to-end solutions aiming to improve health equity. An explicit goal of the group is to identify and engage members of the global health community within Harvard who are interested in leveraging AI/DI to improve healthcare delivery.

Working Group Members

Matt Bonds, Harvard Medical School
Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Temidayo Fadelu, Harvard Medical School
Khahlil Louisy, Harvard Kennedy School
Milind Tambe, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences