Visiting Scholars
The Harvard Global Health Institute’s Visiting Research Scholars program provides Harvard faculty with an opportunity to strengthen collaboration with international researchers in global health. Through a six-week, in-person residency in Cambridge, MA, the program fosters deeper academic engagement and advances joint research initiatives.
2024 – 2025 HGHI Visiting Scholars
Professor Camila Gianella | Peru
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Director of the Master’s in Political Sciences and International Relations at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Professor Camila Gianella received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Bergen. She holds an MSc from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a degree in psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where she is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Director of the Master’s in Political Sciences and International Relations. Professor Gianella’s research interests include the right to health, analysis of health systems and policies, sexual and reproductive rights and health, and socio-legal mobilization.
Dr. Wonderful Choga | Botswana
A medical researcher and bioinformatician at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership
Dr. Wonderful Choga is a medical researcher and bioinformatician at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership in Botswana. He holds a PhD in Medical Sciences and MSc in Medicine (Human Genetics). Dr. Choga is based at the Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP), a collaboration between the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Ministry of Health of the Government of Botswana. Dr. Choga’s expertise spans computational biology, immunoinformatic, evolutionary biology, and host-pathogen interaction dynamics, with a particular focus on analyzing bacterial and viral genomes, including HIV, hepatitis viruses, and respiratory pathogens. In addition to his research contributions (>50 publications; >2900 citations), he is at the forefront of bioinformatics education, both regionally and internationally.
In partnership with Professor Alicia Yamin at The Petri Flom Center at the Harvard Law School and Professor Yonatan Grad in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the 2024 – 2025 research scholars will advance their global health research work, which ranges from a project that examines how forms of institutional corruption affect the delivery of mental health care to advancing bioinformatics for comprehensive pathogen detection and analysis using metagenomic data.
If you have questions about the Visiting Scholars program, please email HGHI_fellowships@harvard.edu.