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December 2019
The Burke Fellowship at 10: A Celebration of Innovation in Medical Research & Teaching
The 10th Anniversary event will bring together past and present Burke Fellows to share the impact of the fellowship on their respective careers.
Find out more »October 2019
Women in the Global Health Workforce
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.
Find out more »September 2019
Drivers of Health – 2nd Meeting
Please join us on September 11th at the Detroit Foundation Hotel for the next Drivers of Health event. The focus will be on housing, education, access and quality of health care, and how they interact to affect health.
Find out more »June 2019
Women in Global Health LEAD: A Conversation with Dr. Daksha Shah
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.
Find out more »May 2019
Burke Fellow Seminar Series: The True Burden of Ebola in West Africa
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.
Find out more »April 2019
Tech & Health/Burke Fellowship Seminar: Precision Diagnosis of TB Resistance in Resource Limited Settings
"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…
Find out more »March 2019
Burke Fellow Seminar Series: What Impact Do Extreme Weather Events Have on Our Health?
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…
Find out more »February 2019
Burke Global Health Fellowship Seminar Series: Multi-media Teaching in Global Health & Social Medicine
"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…
Find out more »June 2017
Burke Global Health Fellowship Research Symposium
The Burke Global Health Fellowship provides funding for Harvard junior faculty to support innovative research, and curriculum development and teaching in global health. On June 19th Harvard Global Health Institute will be hosting a symposium hosting past Burke fellows presenting on their research: Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD; Ingrid Katz, MD, MHSc; Raj Panjabi, MD, MPH; Pardis Sabeti, MD, DPhil; Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH; Lydia Pace, MD, MPH; and Alex Tsai, MD, PhD.
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