Events

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the Women and Health Initiative at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have accepted four global health pioneers into the inaugural 2019 Jane Jie Sun cohort of the Women in Global Health LEAD Fellowship at Harvard University. Join us for a panel discussion featuring the inaugural class of LEAD fellows to hear about their strategies for success as women leaders in health.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Daksha Shah, Executive Health Officer for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) & City TB Officer, Mumbai as part of our Women in Global Health LEAD program.

Join former HGHI Burke Fellows Pardis Sabeti, Raj Panjabi and Margaret Bourdeaux for a new monthly seminar series to learn about their innovative research and teaching projects.

"Precision Diagnosis of TB Resistance in Resource Limited Settings" Although technologically complex health solutions do not always lend themselves easily to implementation in resource limited settings, I will make several arguments in this talk around how technology can circumvent challenges imposed by limited resources. I will discuss how genomics and specifically pathogen genomics is revolutionizing infectious disease response and treatment drawing on our work on characterizing molecular determinants of resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. I will…

What do Pardis Sabeti, Raj Panjabi and Margaret Bourdeaux have in common? They are all former HGHI Burke Fellows! Join us for a new monthly seminar series to hear from this year's Burke fellows about their innovative research and teaching projects. Renee Salas, MD, MPH, MS "Impact of Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters on Healthcare Utilization, Outcomes, and Cost for Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries" Globally, climate change is having the biggest health impacts on populations in developing countries, which have contributed…

"Multi-media Teaching in Global Health & Social Medicine" With Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH All medicine is social medicine, all health is global health; but not all medical trainees learn enough about either to put the best of each field into practice. Although Harvard has made a major commitment to offering these subjects across its many schools, including a mandatory social medicine course during the pre-clinical years at the medical school, there is room to reach even more trainees with new…