Spring 2024 Cohort
Advancing Global Health Justice
The Advancing Global Health Justice Scholarly Working Group is led by Alicia Yamin, Lecturer on Law and the Director of the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; and Senior Adviser on Human Rights and Health Policy at Partners In Health. This group focuses on the architecture of governance for global health and the background rules against which developments in global health occur.
This group hosted an event “Power and Money in Global Health: A conversation with Tim Schwab” in February 2024.
Working Group Members
Mary Bassett, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joia Mukherjee, Harvard Medical School
Eugene Richardson, Harvard Medical School
Jesse Bump, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Climate Change and Health Collaborative
Led by Megan Murray, Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health and Director of Research, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, the Climate Change and Health Collaborative Scholarly Working Group is working to build a cross-disciplinary network that addresses the health impacts of climate change in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This group aims to leverage existing collaborations between Harvard faculty, global health organizations, and NGO representatives, to explore practical interventions that can mitigate the effects of extreme weather events and climate-related health crises. This group held a full day workshop with 40 climate and health experts, researchers and community advocates from 14 countries and regions to discuss the health impacts of climate change intensification.
Working Group Members
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Harvard Medical School
Vikram Patel, Harvard Medical School
Matt Bonds, Harvard Medical School
Ann Miller, Harvard Medical School
Lucas Trout, Harvard Medical School
Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Harvard Medical School
Satchit Balsari, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Caroline Buckee, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Peter Huybers, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Cholera: State of the Science
Co-led by Louise Ivers, Faculty Director at the Harvard Global Health Institute and Executive Director of the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jason Harris, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Associate Chief for Academic Faculty Affairs and Development in the MGH Department of Pediatrics, the Cholera: State of the Science Working Group convened a symposium at Harvard in 2024, bringing together over 50 leading experts from 20 organizations based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Zambia, Bangladesh, Canada, and the United States. Participants gathered to share and discuss the latest advancements and findings in cholera research.
Working Group Members
Jason Harris, Harvard Medical School
Access to Cancer Therapeutics in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) Through a Voluntary Licensing Strategy
Led by Aparna Parikh, Director of the Global Cancer Care Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Access to Cancer Therapeutics Scholarly Working Group aims to explore the expanded use of voluntary licensing (VL) for cancer therapeutics in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This initiative brings together faculty from Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School. By the end of the project, the team will host a full-day hybrid workshop to assess the feasibility of VL expansion and gather input from Harvard faculty, industry leaders, and global health advocates.
Working Group Members
Clifford Samuel, Harvard Law School
David Jungpa Lee, Harvard Medical School
Keith Flaherty, Harvard Medical School
Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School
William Fisher, Harvard Law School
V. Kasturi Rangan, Harvard Business School