Bridging Disciplines, Advancing Solutions: Harvard’s Global Health Collaborations

As part of Harvard Worldwide Week, this event showcases the impact of the Harvard Global Health Institute’s Scholarly Working Group (SWG) Program, an initiative that brings together faculty across Harvard’s schools, departments, and centers to collaborate on pressing global health challenges. Harvard faculty from current and past SWGs will share how the program has fostered interdisciplinary dialogue, generated key research deliverables, and sparked innovative events and convenings. From advancing health justice in conflict zones to responding to the health threats of climate change and beyond, these working groups exemplify how cross-campus collaboration enhances Harvard’s global health efforts.  Join us to learn how the SWG Program supports intellectual partnerships, builds research communities, and drives forward-thinking solutions in global health within Harvard and beyond.

This event is free and open to the public.

Agenda

Networking Health Care Providers Confronting Climate Change
Megan Murray, MD, MPH, ScD

Choose Your Future: Climate Change, War, and Health in the Next 50-100 Years
Tina Duhaime, MD

Increasing the Resilience of Threatened Health Systems
Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH

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Featured Panelists

Megan Murray, M.D., Sc.D.
Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health

Megan Murray, MD, MPH, ScD is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician with over 25 years of experience in the management of TB programs and TB epidemiology, as well as the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious diseases. She is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she leads the Global Health Research Core, a multidisciplinary group of researchers who work with the Global Health Delivery Partnership faculty and staff to develop its mission to link research to the teaching and service activities of the Partnership. She is also a Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and the Director of Research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity and its sister organization, Partners In Health. Dr. Murray has conducted field studies in Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Ukraine, Russia and the US, and has previously worked in Kenya, Niger and Pakistan. Her current interests include identifying ways to reduce the suffering caused by the health impacts of climate change, especially in low and middle income countries. Dr. Murray led the Harvard Global Health Scholarly Working Group titled the Climate Change and Health Collaborative.

Ann-Christine Duhaime, M.D.
Nicholas T. Zervas Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Duhaime is a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. Her research has focused on traumatic brain injury and recovery in children, and more recently on climate change, war, and health. Her longstanding interest in the relationship between brain, behavior and environmental issues was explored in her 2022 book, Minding the Climate (Harvard University Press). She serves as Associate Director of the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, as Faculty Associate at Harvard Salata Institute and at the Harvard Global Health Institute, and as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Climate Change and Health. Dr. Duhaime led the Harvard Global Health Scholarly Working Group on Climate Change, War, and Health: Effects of Intergenerational Global Health Adaptation.

Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also serves as the Director of the Health Security Policy Academy in the Division of Global Health Equity. Her professional affiliations extend to being a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society and a member of the Steering Committee for the Massachusetts Consortia of Pathogen Readiness. Dr. Bourdeaux conducts research and fieldwork focused on health systems and institutions in conflict affected states. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health, international security, and domestic and global health policy. Dr. Bourdeaux leads the Harvard Global Health Scholarly Working Group titled Increasing the Resilience of Threatened Health Systems.

About the Harvard Global Health Institute’s Scholarly Working Groups

The Harvard Global Health Institute’s Scholarly Working Groups are designed to encourage a collaborative environment, promote inter-faculty gatherings, and explore and accelerate research areas in topics critical to the advancement of “Health for All”. Each Scholarly Working Group includes faculty from at least two schools across Harvard University. Through these working groups, we aim to catalyze ideas, inspire the writing of grants, policy briefs, or working papers, or build networks to advance a program of work.

Through our events and programs, the Harvard Global Health Institute provides a platform for different perspectives and debates within the field of global health through a variety of media. The views expressed in these events and programs are solely those of the speakers, authors, researchers, and participating audience. As such, they do not speak for the institute or the university.