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SUMMARY:Housing and Policy in an Aging World
DESCRIPTION:Ann Forsyth\, Professor of Urban Planning\, Harvard Graduate School of Design; and Principal Investigator\, Health and Places Initiative (HAPI) \nAshish Jha\, Professor of Health Policy\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard Global Health Institute; and Internal Medicine physician\, VA Boston Healthcare System \nEmi Kiyota\, 2017 Loeb Fellow and President and Founder of Ibasho\, which partners with local organizations and communities to design and create socially integrated and sustainable communities that value their elders \nJennifer Molinsky\, JCHS Senior Research Associate; Lecturer\, Harvard Graduate School of Design; and Co-Author of Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Households 2015-2035 (moderator) \nAs the baby boom generation ages\, the US population aged 65 and over is expected to grow from 48 million to 79 million\, one in five Americans will be older than 65\, and one in three households will be headed by someone older than 65. Surveys indicate that most of these people want to remain in the current homes for as long as possible. However\, the country currently lacks the accessible housing units and supportive social services needed to accommodate these desires. Panelists will discuss the projected growth in older Americans and explore how policymakers\, planners\, and public health professionals could work to address the challenges that growth will produce. \nGraduate School of Design (map)\nGund Hall\, Stubbins Room \nCo-sponsored by the GSD Department of Urban Planning and Design\, the Harvard Urban Planning Organization\, the Harvard Global Health Institute\, the HKS Taubman Center for State and Local Government\, and the Loeb Fellowship.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/housing-and-policy-in-an-aging-world/
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SUMMARY:The Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Activity Description \nBe part of the first symposium to bring together the leading health institutions around Greater Boston to tackle the effects of the climate crisis on clinical practice. \n  \nThrough this afternoon discussion: \nLearn how the climate crisis is altering clinical practice across specialties. \nHear from clinicians and hospital leaders across the Boston medical community. \nDelve into strategies for addressing the effects of climate change on patients’ health. \nTogether we can develop bold\, effective strategies to protect our patients\, improve our delivery of care\, and ensure the resiliency of our health care systems. \n  \nLearning Objectives \nUpon completion of this activity\, participants will be able to: \nDemonstrate the connections between greenhouse gas emissions and health outcomes \nApply their understanding of climate effects on health to understand opportunities to improve resilience in clinical practice \nRecognize the unique responsibility of clinicians to communicate about the health impacts of climate change \n  \nTarget Audience \nThis activity is intended for the health care community: clinicians\, clinical leaders\, hospital leaders\, health professional students\, lay public engaged in climate crisis advocacy\, media. \n  \nAccreditation \nPartners HealthCare System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. \nThe Partners HealthCare System designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. \n  \nCourse Directors \nAaron Bernstein\, MD\, MPH\nCenter for Climate\, Health\, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, Harvard Global Health Institute\, Boston Children’s Hospital \nRenee N. Salas\, MD\, MPH\, MS\nHarvard Global Health Institute\, Harvard C-CHANGE\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, Harvard Medical School  \nCaren Solomon\, MD\, MPH\nThe New England Journal of Medicine\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital \nProgram Agenda \n12:30 PM – Registration & Coffee \n1:00 PM| Welcome Remarks\nEric Rubin\, MD\, PhD\, Editor-in-Chief\, The New England Journal of Medicine\nDavid Golan\, MD\, PhD\, Dean for Research Operations and Global Programs\, Harvard Medical School \n1:15 PM| Opening Keynote\nRenee N. Salas\, MD\, MPH\, MS\, Harvard Global Health Institute\, Harvard C-CHANGE\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, Harvard Medical School \n1:40 PM| Clinical Practice Implications and Solutions\nModerator: Ashish K. Jha\, MD\, MPH\, Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute \nGaurab Basu\, MD\, MPH\, Primary Care\, Cambridge Health Alliance\nGary Belkin\, MD\, PhD\, MPH\, Psychiatry\, Visiting Scientist for Harvard C-CHANGE\nRegina LaRocque\, MD\, MPH\, Infectious Disease\, Massachusetts General Hospital\nLucy Marcil\,MD\, MPH\, Pediatrics\, Boston Medical Center\nMary Rice\, MD\, MPH\, Pulmonary and Critical Care\, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center \n3:10 PM – Coffee & Networking Break \n3:30 PM| Opportunities for Improving Practice in the Era of the Climate Crisis\nModerator: Gina McCarthy\, Board of Advisors\, Harvard C-CHANGE \nNicholas S. Hill\, MD\, Chief\, Pulmonary\, Critical Care and Sleep Division\, Tufts University School of Medicine\nBernard Jones\, EdM\, Vice President\, Public Policy\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital\nPatrice Nicholas\, DNSc\, DHL\, MPH\, RN\, NP-C\, FAAN\, Director\, Center for Climate Change\, Climate Justice\, and Health at MGH Institute of Health Professions\nKathleen E. Walsh\, MPH\, President & CEO\, Boston Medical Center \n4:30 PM| The Power of Action by Health Professionals\nCaren Solomon\, MD\, MPH\, The New England Journal of Medicine\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital \n4:45 PM| Closing Keynote: Where do we go from here?\nAaron Bernstein\, MD\, MPH\, Harvard C-CHANGE\, Harvard Global Health Institute\, Boston Children’s Hospital \n5:00 PM – Adjournment of Educational Activity \n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM| Reception & Networking
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/the-climate-crisis-and-clinical-practice-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Protecting Global Health Progress in the Era of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:How can global investments drive the response to climate change? Can investment management protect or hurt global health progress? Join us for a discussion about the value of global investment in fighting today’s climate emergency with one of the world’s leading voices on the issue\, Dr. Howard Frumkin. \nAs Chair of the “Our Planet\, Our Health” (OPOH) program at the Wellcome Trust\, one of the largest foundations in Europe funding research\, Dr. Frumkin has for years worked in global and planetary health. He is a trained physician and epidemiologist\, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR)\, and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. During his tenure NCEH/ATSDR created programs in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design; launched training programs for college students\, doctoral students\, and post-docs; expanded its Biomonitoring and Environmental Public Health Tracking programs; and launched its National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures. \nDo not miss out on an compelling conversation on how we can invest in our future.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/protecting-global-health-progress-in-the-era-of-climate-change/
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SUMMARY:The Burke Fellowship at 10: A Celebration of Innovation in Medical Research & Teaching
DESCRIPTION:The 10th Anniversary event will bring together past and present Burke Fellows to share the impact of the fellowship on their respective careers. We’ll hear from fellows whose interests have led them to study how economics impacts malaria prevention\, treatment and diagnosis; to develop curricula to teach medical students about the root causes of health disparities; and to lead clinical trials of shortened treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis. \nThis year’s diverse group of awardees represents medicine\, business\, and public health. The three 2019-2020 Burke Fellows are working on critical issues\, from bridging the gap between the hype and reality of artificial intelligence in low- and middle-income countries\, to understanding the tradeoffs that the poor make when faced with constraints of both time and money\, to understanding how issues of cost effectiveness affect equity and distribution of resources.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/the-burke-fellowship-at-10-a-celebration-of-innovation-in-medical-research-teaching/
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SUMMARY:Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change 2019 U.S. Launch
DESCRIPTION:AGENDA\n9:30AM\nRegistration and Coffee \n10:00 AM\nWelcome Remarks  \nGeorges C. Benjamin\, MD\, Executive Director\, American Public Health Association \nKeynote Addresses  \n19th U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy\, MD\, MBA \nCongresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson\, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Science\, Space and Technology \n10:30 AM\nPresentation of the 2019 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Global Report and Companion 2019 Lancet Countdown U.S. Policy Brief \nJeremy Hess\, MD\, MPH\, Author\, Global Report & Senior Author\, U.S. Policy Brief; Director\, Center for Health and the Global Environment\, University of Washington  \nRenee N. Salas\, MD\, MPH\, MS\, Lead Author\, U.S. Policy Brief; Harvard Global Health Institute\, C-CHANGE at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health\, Harvard Medical School \n11:00 AM\nPlenary Panel: Climate\, Health\, and Equity Opportunities \nIntroduction \nMelissa Lott\, PhD\, Global Lancet Countdown & Senior Research Scholar\, Center on Global Energy Policy\, Columbia University \nModerator \nMaya Earls\, Reporting Fellow\, ClimateWire \nPanelists \nAdrienne Hollis\, PhD\, JD\, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist\, Union of Concerned Scientists \nNarasimha Rao\, PhD\, MS\, Assistant Professor of Energy Systems\, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies \nSamantha Ahdoot\, MD\, Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics \nDaphne Frias\, North American Regional Focal Point For SDG 16 at the United Nation Major Group for Youth and Children \n12:00 PM\nCLOSING REMARKS\nJonathan Patz\, MD\, MPH\, Professor and John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nAlice Chen\, MD\, Former Executive Director of Doctors for America \n 12:20 PM\nNetworking Lunch
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/lancet-countdown-tracking-progress-on-health-and-climate-change-2019-u-s-launch/
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SUMMARY:Public Health Crisis at the Border: The Mexican Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The Trump Administration’s new ‘remain in Mexico’ policy is causing an influx of migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the border. By the time they reach the border\, many migrants are traumatized\, have untreated chronic diseases and are in need of medical treatment. In response to this dynamic situation\, The Harvard Global Health Institute\, The Woodrow Wilson Center\, Boston College School of Social Work\, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies\, and Harvard University Mexican Association of Students\, will convene key policymakers\, experts and frontline workers to discuss the current conditions on the border\, extrapolate applicable lessons learned from other crises\, and identify approaches to ensuring basic health coverage for this vulnerable population. This event is the second in a series\, following ‘The Public Health Crisis on the U.S Border: A Call for Action’ hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute. \n  \nAGENDA  \nWelcome Remarks  \nKeynote Speaker \nDr. J. Eduardo González-Fagoaga\, PhD\, MS\, Assistant Professor\, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health\, Phoenix\, The University of Arizona \nDr. J. Eduardo Gonzalez-Fagoaga is an Assistant Professor at the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at The University of Arizona. He has worked for over 15 years on Demography and Public Health research in the US-Mexico border area. Dr. González-Fagoaga has extensive experience in sampling design\, implementation\, and statistical analysis for the Mexican Surveys of Migration along the northern and southern borders. His background in migration and binational health-related research projects has involved surveying Mexicans in the U.S. who have been recruited through non-migrant relatives in Mexico. Dr. González-Fagoaga is part of a binational research team\, whose aim is to develop several surveys focused on HIV risk and access to health services among Mexican migrants traveling through the North border of Mexico\, including migrants returning to Mexico via deportation. \nPanel 1: Understanding the Needs on the Ground: Voices from the Frontline of the Northern Mexican Border \nSpeakers include:  \nAdolfo Flores\, National Security Correspondent for Immigration\, Buzzfeed News \nAdolfo Flores is the National Security Correspondent for Immigration for Buzzfeed News. He covers stories related to immigration detention\, asylum\, and deportation – amongst other issues. Flores has traveled throughout Mexico with two caravans of immigrants and has spent months on the Mexican side of the border with immigrants and asylum-seekers. He has witnessed the conditions of people sent back to Mexico as a result of Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)\, in Tijuana\, Ciudad Juarez\, and Matamoros. In recent months\, Flores has spent time in Matamoros writing and speaking to health professionals about MPP returnees living in an encampment who use the Rio Grande to bathe and wash their clothes. Adolfo is a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times where he covered breaking Los Angeles and California news. He has also reported for the Pasadena Sun and Pasadena Star-News. A Los Angeles native\, Flores graduated from Cal State Northridge. \nJulie Qashu\, Emergency Medicine Nurse\, Volunteer \nJulie Qashu works as an emergency room nurse at a critical access level IV trauma center in Tucson\, Arizona. She is a longtime volunteer for organizations serving migrants along the US Mexican border\, including the Kino Border Initiative and Samaritans No More Deaths. Julie has recently worked to establish and support medical facilities and trainings for refugee communities in both Syria and Bangladesh. She has worked with the American Red Cross to coordinate services for families and victims of the September 11th attacks and with Medical Solutions to support critical access hospitals in rural settings in Washington\, Arizona\, and New Mexico. Julie earned her MPH from Hunter College and studied nursing at the Clinical Nurse Leader Program at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. \nAlejandro Olayo-Mendez\, Assistant Professor\, Boston College School of Social Work \nDr. Alejandro Olayo-Méndez is an Assistant Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work. Dr. Alejandro Olayo-Méndez has taken particular interest in the intersection of humanitarian aid and migration\, as well as questions regarding human rights\, inequality\, transit migration\, meso-level structures\, and the so-called “Migration Industry.” He has collaborated with Jesuit Refugee Service by conducting interviews with internally displaced people (IDP) in Colombia and Tamil Nadu\, India. Dr. Alejandro Olayo-Méndez has also practiced clinical work with immigrant and refugee communities in Chicago\, IL\, and Spokane\, WA. Currently\, he is preparing a project to research the effects of ‘Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)’ on Mexican communities\, humanitarian interventions\, and the lived experiences of asylum seekers at the Mexico-US Border. Dr. Alejandro Olayo-Méndez is also a Jesuit Priest from the West Coast Province in the United States. \nFather Javier Calvillo\, Director of Casa Del Migrante \nFather Francisco Javier Calvillo is a Diocesan Catholic Priest for the Dioceses of Ciudad Juarez\, Mexico.  He earned degrees in Philosophy and Theology from the Diocesan Seminary of Ciudad Juarez and has been a priest for the past 15 years. After his ordination\, he was named Secretary for the Pastoral Commission for Migrants in Ciudad Juarez.  He has been the Director of ‘Casa del Migrante de Ciudad Juarez’ for the past nine years.  In this role\, he oversees the operations of the Migrant Shelter that offers humanitarian assistance to migrants\, asylum seekers\, refugees\, and Mexican deportees. The shelter provides services such as food\, shelter\, communication\, and medical assistance. He is a liaison to organizations such as IOM\, UNHCR\, Instituto Nacional de Migracion\, and Mexican authorities. He also supervises the collaboration with Mexican and American volunteer organizations that support and advocate for migrant populations. \nIeva Jusionyte\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Social Studies\, Harvard University \nIeva Jusionyte is assistant professor of anthropology and social studies at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political-legal and medical anthropology. Based on fieldwork in the tri-border area between Argentina\, Brazil\, and Paraguay from 2008 to 2014\, her first book\, Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border\, examines how local journalists both participate in and contest global and national security discourses and practices in a region portrayed as the hub of drug and human trafficking\, contraband\, and money laundering. Her second research project focuses on security infrastructures and emergency services along the border between Sonora and Arizona. Her 2018 book\, Threshold: Emergency Responders on the U.S.-Mexico Border\, delves into the lives of first responders under heightened security on both sides of the wall. Written from the perspective of Mexican and Mexican-American firefighters and paramedics\, the book reveals what happens when politics of wounding and ethics of rescue collide. Currently she is conducting fieldwork for her latest project\, Firepower\, a multi-sited ethnographic study that follows firearms as they move through legal and political regimes that compete to define their meaning and value–from gun shows and pawn shops in Texas and Arizona to shooting ranges\, forensic labs\, and public disarmament campaigns around Mexico. Ieva also sits on the Mexico Faculty Committee at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. \nBreak \nPanel 2: What Works and What Doesn’t: Lessons Learned from Providing Care to Vulnerable Populations \nSpeakers include:  \nEunice Rendón\, Representative\, Chicanos por la Causa \nDr. Eunice Rendon serves as the Coordinator of “Migrant Agenda”\, a citizen initiative and coalition of organizations in the United States and Mexico for the empowerment and defense of the rights of migrants. She is also an international consultant on migration and security issues and is a representative in Mexico of “Chicanos por la causa.” Dr. Rendon has held several government positions.  In the Ministry of Health\, she served as Director General of International Relations as well as the Deputy Minister of Prevention and Citizen Participation of the Ministry of the Interior. She is the former director of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad\, a decentralized body of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Until April 2019\, she worked in the Ministry of Security and Protection as the Executive Deputy Minister of the National Public Security System. Dr. Rendon is an expert in migration\, violence prevention and economic recovery strategies in vulnerable populations. \nThomas Crea\, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Global Programs at the School of Social Work\, Boston College \nThomas M. Crea\, PhD\, MSW\, is an Associate Professor\, Chair of the Global Practice Concentration\, and Assistant Dean of Global Programs at the School of Social Work\, Boston College. He is a former licensed clinical social worker with previous experience as a mental health therapist for severely emotionally disturbed children\, and as a foster care adoption worker and supervisor providing home study assessments and post-placement support to families. Dr. Crea has experience in local\, national\, and international research projects\, related to social interventions for vulnerable children and families. Dr. Crea’s research focuses on the intersections of child welfare\, refugee social protection and education\, and strengthening humanitarian aid and international development programs. His research spans multiple countries\, which in addition to the U.S. have included Guatemala\, Honduras\, Kenya\, Malawi\, Palestine\, Sierra Leone\, South Africa\, and Zimbabwe. \nJacqueline Bhabha\, Director of Research\, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights\, Harvard University \nJacqueline Bhabha\, JD\, MsC is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the Jeremiah Smith\, Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School\, and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights\, Harvard’s only university wide Human Rights research center. From 1997 to 2001\, Jacqueline founded and directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997\, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration\, refugee protection\, children’s rights and citizenship. \nPaul Spiegel\, Director\, Center for Humanitarian Health\, John Hopkins University \nDr. Paul Spiegel\, a physician by training\, is internationally recognized for his research on preventing and responding to complex humanitarian emergencies. Before becoming the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health\, Dr. Spiegel was the Deputy Director of the Division of Programme Management and Support Services for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Prior to joining the UN in 2002\, Dr. Spiegel worked as a medical epidemiologist in the International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Spiegel has also worked as a medical coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde in refugee emergencies\, as well as a consultant for numerous organizations. \nKiryn Lanning\, Senior Technical Advisor for Emergencies\, Violence Prevention & Response\, International Rescue Committee \nKiryn Lanning is a Senior Technical Advisor for Emergencies with the International Rescue Committee (IRC). In this role\, she is responsible for the IRC’s emergency protection responses worldwide. She manages a team of emergency responders leading on women’s protection and empowerment\, child protection and protection rule of law programming in emergencies.  Kiryn has established and led protection programming in more than 15 countries during acute crises. Notably\, in the past five years\, she has either been directly deployed to or remotely supported every emergency response IRC has launched for mixed migration\, including in Europe\, Libya\, Colombia/Venezuela\, and from the northern triangle to the northern Mexico border. She has also led the development of the IRC’s guidance to integrate protection into Ebola response and preparedness efforts in the Great Lakes Region.  Prior to working with IRC\, Kiryn worked on emergency responses with multiple organizations based in Liberia\, South Sudan\, the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan\, and along the U.S – Mexico border in response to the large number of unaccompanied children arriving from Central America in 2013. \nClosing Remarks 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/public-health-crisis-at-the-border-the-mexican-perspective/
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SUMMARY:Health\, Law & Climate Justice for Youth: A fireside chat with Julia Olson of Our Children’s Trust
DESCRIPTION:For the first time in history\, U.S. courts are hearing a case against the federal government brought by 21 youths\, aged 8 to 19 years\, for its inaction on climate change as a violation of their constitutional rights to life\, liberty and property. \nLearn how the health community has come together to support this unprecedented case in a discussion with Julia Olson\, the lead attorney on Juliana vs the United States and Executive Director of Our Children’s Trust. \nJulia has over two decades of experience in representing grassroots conservation groups. In 2010\, she founded Our Children’s Trust to focus her work on representing young people and elevating their voices on the threat of climate change. Do not miss out on what promises to be a relevant\, insightful discussion. \nThis event will also feature Aaron Bernstein and Renee Salas of the Harvard Global Health Institute and Harvard C-CHANGE as well as Aladdine Joroff of Harvard Law School and the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/health-law-climate-justice-for-youth-a-fireside-chat-with-julia-olson-of-our-childrens-trust/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T153000
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SUMMARY:Women in the Global Health Workforce
DESCRIPTION:Today\, women account for 70 percent of the global health workforce\, but occupy only about 25 percent of high-level positions in the field. Women remain underrepresented in leadership in public health\, medicine and in health and life sciences despite their essential role in delivering quality care. \nIn an effort to address this inequality and equip and empower more women in global health – and the communities they serve –  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. \nJoin us for a panel discussion featuring the inaugural class of LEAD fellows to hear about their strategies for success as women leaders in health. We will discuss questions and topics including\, what to do when you hit the glass ceiling\, how to be resilient in the face of political pressure\, how to advocate for better pay and support structures at work\, and how to navigate your career path. We will hear about each of the Fellow’s powerful work in their communities and how they built their courage to become the leaders they are today. \n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/women-in-the-global-health-workforce/
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SUMMARY:15+ Years of PEPFAR: How US Action On HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health
DESCRIPTION:In May 2003\, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation authorizing a bold new plan to combat a fast-spreading\, deadly epidemic. In the 15+ years since\, the President’s Emergency Fund for Aids Relief – widely referred to as PEPFAR – has become the largest global health program focused on a single disease in history. Investing over $80 billion in HIV/Aids treatment\, prevention and research\, PEPFAR has saved millions of lives and put 14 million people on treatment. \nOn October 7\, 2019\, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.\, the Harvard Global Health Institute will host a one-day symposium to explore what enabled this visionary program\, and to showcase how it has transformed not just the worldwide HIV/AIDS response but global health delivery more broadly. \nThere are many lessons learned in PEPFAR’s story – from what it took to build a supply chain where there was none\, to establishing the use of generic antiretroviral therapies (ARTs) and leveraging human capacity. Join us as we convene the early architects of PEPFAR as well as experts and implementers currently leading the charge. We will take a historically informed look at what it will take to stop global transmission and share tools useful for others hoping to move the needle on vexing problems in global health. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute\, the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research\, the Center for Health Law Policy and Innovation at Harvard Law School\, and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy\, Biotechnology\, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. \n\nAGENDA \n8:30 – 9:00 am | Registration + Breakfast \n9:00 – 9:15 am | Welcome Remarks \nAshish K. Jha\, M.D.\, MPH\, Faculty Director\, Harvard Global Health Institute and K.T. Li Professor and Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nMark C. Elliott\, Ph.D.\, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \nMichelle Williams\, Dean of the Faculty\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School \nI. Glenn Cohen\, J.D.\, Faculty Director\, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy\, Biotechnology and Bioethics\, and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard University \n9:15 – 10:15 am | The Birth of PEPFAR \nAnthony S. Fauci\, M.D.\, Director\, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) \nModerated by Ingrid Katz\, M.D.\, MHS\, Associate Faculty Director\, Harvard Global Health Institute and Assistant Professor\, Harvard Medical School \n10:15 – 11:00 am | The Early Years (2003-2009): A New Epidemic That Requires \nNew Approaches  \nMark Dybul\, M.D.\, Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact\, Georgetown University and former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator for PEPFAR \nModerator: Stefanie Friedhoff\, Director of Content & Strategy\, Harvard Global Health Institute \n11:00 – 11:15 am | Break  \n11:15 am – 12:45pm | Lessons Learned I: International Perspectives  \nProsper Okonkwo\, MBBS\, FMCPH\, FWACP\, Chief Executive Officer\, APIN Public Health Initiatives\, Nigeria \nNduku Kilonzo\, Ph.D.\, Executive Director\, National Aids Control Council\, Kenya (via video-conferencing) \nNzovu Ulenga\, Ph.D.\, COO and Director of Health Systems Strengthening\, Management and Development for Health\, Tanzania \nMaureen Luba\, B.S.\, African Region Advocacy Advisor for AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)\, Malawi \nModerator: Roger I. Glass\, M.D.\, MPH\, Director\, Fogarty International Center & Associate Director for International Research\, National Institutes of Health \n12:45 – 1:30 pm | Lunch break    \n1:30 – 2:00 pm | Diving Deeper (2009 to 2013): From an Emergency Response to  \nLocal Ownership and Systems Strengthening   \nCharles Holmes\, M.D.\, MPH\, Faculty Co-Director\, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact\, Georgetown University and former Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator for PEPFAR \n2:00 – 3:30 pm | Lessons Learned II: Getting to Zero  \nPhyllis Kanki\, D.Sc.\, D.V.M.\, Mary Woodward Lasker Professor of Health Sciences\, Harvard School of Public Health \nRobert Greenwald\, J.D.\, Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director\, Harvard University Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation\, and Health Law and Policy Clinic \nShahin Lockman\, M.D.\, Associate Director\, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research \nModerator: Maureen Goodenow\, Ph.D.\, NIH Associate Director for AIDS Research and Director of the NIH Office of AIDS Research \n3:30 – 3:45 pm | Break    \n3:45 – 4:45 pm | Taking it Forward (2014+)  \nAmbassador-at-Large\, Deborah L. Birx\, M.D.\, Coordinator of the United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health \nModerated by: Kenneth H. Mayer\, M.D.\, Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute and Professor of Medicine\, Harvard Medical School \n4:45 – 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks \nBruce Walker\, M.D.\, Director\, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and Director\, Ragon Institute of MGH\, MIT and Harvard University \n5:00 – 6:00 pm | Poster Session & Reception
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/15-years-of-pepfar-how-us-action-on-hiv-aids-has-changed-global-health/
LOCATION:Focus Area – Global Mental Health Hero
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SUMMARY:Climate Change Threatens Universal Health Coverage: A Call for a Joint Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an important conversation at the Harvard Club of New York City\, in connection with the United Nations General Assembly\, about how climate change threatens the tenents of Universal Health Coverage. We will also celebrate the release of a broader collection of articles on UHC by The BMJ and Harvard Global Health Institute. \nClimate change directly threatens the basic tenants of universal health care coverage (UHC). It causes negative health outcomes\, health infrastructure disruption and workforce displacement. Given that many countries most vulnerable to climate change are also those with the lowest UHC coverage\, the need for a synchronized agenda to optimize UHC while mitigating climate change will be imperative. By engaging policymakers and experts from relevant disciplines and geographic regions\, we aim to stimulate a conversation about the interplay between climate change and UHC; the need to address them concurrently and the consequences of not doing so. \nFollowing a keynote and panel conversation\, please join the Harvard Global Health Institute and The BMJ for a reception to celebrate the release of a special collection of articles focused on UHC. The collection features underexplored perspectives in UHC such as mental health and climate change; highlights the importance of quality in UHC\, and uncovers some of the barriers to fulfilling the promise of health for all via UHC. \n  \nConfirmed speakers include: \n  \nKamran Abbasi\, Executive Editor\, The BMJ \nAshish Jha\, Faculty Director\, Harvard Global Health Institute \nRenee Salas\, Affiliated Faculty\, Harvard Global Health Institute \nIlona Kickbusch\, Director of the Global Health Programme\, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies\, Geneva \n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/climate-change-threatens-universal-health-coverage-a-call-for-a-joint-agenda/
LOCATION:Harvard Club of New York City\, United States
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SUMMARY:Drivers of Health – 2nd Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on September 11th at the Detroit Foundation Hotel at 1:00pm EDT for the next Drivers of Health event. Housing\, education\, access and quality of health care\, and how they interact to affect health\, will be the focus. \nConfirmed Speakers include: \nRoshanak Mehdipanah\, Ph.D.\, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education\, School of Public Health\, University of Michigan \nAdriana Lleras-Muney\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Economics\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nRobert Gordon\, J.D.\, Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/drivers-of-health-2nd-meeting/
LOCATION:Google Cloud
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SUMMARY:The Public Health Crisis on the U.S. Border: An Urgent Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The public health crisis on the U.S Border is escalating. Children are being held in squalid conditions; abuse is rampant and people are dying due to inadequate health services. In response to this dire situation\, the Harvard Global Health Institute is convening a multi-disciplinary panel of front-line responders and experts to provide a health perspective on the situation; identify action steps to mitigate the crisis and highlight the consequences of inaction. \nLive Stream can be found HERE \n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/the-public-health-crisis-on-the-u-s-border-an-urgent-conversation/
LOCATION:Jefferson Lab\, 250 Harvard University 17 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Women in Global Health LEAD: A Conversation with Dr. Daksha Shah
DESCRIPTION:Women in Global Health LEAD: \nA Conversation with Dr. Daksha Shah \nDr. Daksha Shah\, \nExecutive Health Officer for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) & City TB Officer\, Mumbai \nIn conversation with \nKate Dodson\, Vice President of Global Health at the United Nations Foundation \n  \nDr. Daksha Shah\, Joint Executive Health Officer for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) & City TB Officer\, is a public health expert in strategic planning and project management; currently leading the TB control program in Mumbai\, India. Dr. Shah has spearheaded private sector engagement and innovative project development for TB as a first model in the country; Developed unique CSR models for TB support; facilitated the use of Digital technology for monitoring. As a woman leader in public health\, she has been instrumental in planning and implementing NCD programs in Mumbai and campaigned for promoting healthy lifestyles for its citizens.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/women-in-global-health-lead-a-conversation-with-dr-daksha-shah/
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SUMMARY:Burke Fellow Seminar Series: The True Burden of Ebola in West Africa
DESCRIPTION: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. \nEugene Richardson\, Ph.D.\, MD\, MA \n“Estimating the True Burden of Ebola Virus Transmission During the 2013-16 Outbreak in West Africa” \nThe 2013-16 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa was the largest in recorded history and was the result of dysfunctional health services\, a highly mobile and interconnected population\, low public trust in government\, burial practices that involved contact with contagious Ebola-infected corpses\, and provision of care to infected individuals. Despite over 28\,000 reported cases\, our understanding of the epidemiology of EVD is limited\, including empirical data explaining why this outbreak was so much larger than previous ones. The overall goal of this study is to investigate the prevalence and distribution of undocumented EVD survivors in West Africa. Eugene’s main hypotheses are that there are hundreds — if not thousands — of undocumented survivors in the region and that the lack of adequate treatment facilities played a key role in deterring compliance with containment measures. \nEugene Richardson is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his MD from Cornell University Medical College and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases and geographic medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/burke-fellow-seminar-series-the-true-burden-of-ebola-in-west-africa/
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SUMMARY:US Investments in Global Health: Transforming Communities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting conversation with local global health executives paving the way to impact. Vanessa Kerry\, Marian Wentworth\, Loyce Pace and Kate Dodson will discuss with you\, global health advocacy efforts and priorities in DC and abroad\, as was recently outlined in the 2019 Global Health Council Briefing Book.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/us-investments-in-global-health-transforming-communities/
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SUMMARY:Tech & Health/Burke Fellowship Seminar: Precision Diagnosis of TB Resistance in Resource Limited Settings
DESCRIPTION:“Precision Diagnosis of TB Resistance in Resource Limited Settings“ \nAlthough 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 discuss our efforts in building a highly accurate whole genome based statistical learning method for resistance prediction\, and using it for prediction on public data as a form of surveillance. Finally I will discuss how our approach is being implemented for individual patient care and the remaining challenges facing precision antibiotic therapy of TB. \nMaha Farhat is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. She holds an MD from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and an MSc in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Maha is also a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/tech-health-burke-fellowship-seminar-precision-diagnosis-of-tb-resistance-in-resource-limited-settings/
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Student Advisory Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Attention All Global Health-Interested Students \nAre you looking for a forum for all interested global health students to have a place to connect and network? Are you in need of a central global health resource point at Harvard for introductions\, to engage in cutting-edge work\, or to be better connected in the wider global health community outside of the College? Do you enjoy free dinners? If so\, we offer just what you have been seeking!! \nWe are an institute – the nexus for global health at the University across the College\, graduate schools and our hospitals – situated under the Harvard Office of the President and Provost. We generate exciting\, evidence-based research\, create educational materials/courses\, and host A LOT of convenings to get engagement on big population-based health challenges we are facing. \nYou all are so important to our mission so a few years ago we developed the HGHI Student Advisory Committee\, or ‘SAC’. SAC is for global health interested-undergraduates to meet once/month over dinner at the HGHI office in Harvard Square and we use the opportunity to be a resource for Harvard’s global health student organizations\, as well as to hear from you about the latest conversations at the College. In addition\, we are supporting the development of a massive student global health leadership conference led by VISION on April 6-7\, 2019 and would love to include you. \nSpring 2019 HGHI Global Health SAC Meeting Schedule \nWednesday\, March 27th 5:30 – 7:00 pm; dinner will be served \nWednesday\, April 24th 5:30 – 7:00 pm; dinner will be served
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/undergraduate-student-advisory-council-meeting/
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SUMMARY:HIV Programming at Scale
DESCRIPTION:“Research to Practice: Developing and Implementing Evidence-Based HIV Programming at Scale” \nThe response to HIV has been a herculean effort across researchers\, governments\, funders\, implementers\, and communities globally and has shifted the collective thinking on how to implement interventions and services on a large scale across numerous countries while tailoring to local contexts. How can researchers ensure that their work contributes to on-the-ground change at a large scale? We’ll examine the current status of several key HIV interventions and how the connections between research and implementation can be maximized for the greatest impact. \nDr. Timothy Mah currently serves as the Acting Deputy Division Chief for the Priority Populations\, Integration\, and Rights Division in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID. In this role\, Tim provides strategic assistance on HIV programming to USAID field missions and PEPFAR country teams\, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. Tim is responsible for synthesizing cutting edge research and best practices regarding HIV prevention\, care and treatment and their application to USAID and partner programs. Tim was previously Acting Director of the USAID Health Office in South Africa\, overseeing one of the largest PEPFAR HIV portfolios in the world. \nPrior to joining USAID\, Tim was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town. Tim was also a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia. He received his Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/hiv-programming-at-scale/
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Achieving Food Security in a Changing Climate: The Role of Water Availability
DESCRIPTION:“Achieving Food Security in a Changing Climate: The Role of  Water Availability”\nUnderstanding the response of agriculture to environmental stressors is essential to adapt food systems to climate change. Although evidence of crop yield loss with extreme temperature is abundant\, quantifying the large-scale response of crop yield to water availability has proven challenging due to limited on-the-ground observations. In this work\, we utilize well-resolved observations from satellites and an ecologically-based statistical model to discern the crop yield response to daily imbalances in the water cycle. We integrate these observation-based response functions with climate model output to predict future yields. Through a series of case studies\, we demonstrate that the level of vulnerability to climate change is both region and crop specific. For example\, we find a low sensitivity of maize yield in the U.S. Midwest to climate change due to the current\, near-optimal growing conditions. However\, in Sub-Saharan Africa\, we find that increases in temperature may have profound adverse effects on agricultural\, specifically in present-day\, semi-arid regions. Identifying these vulnerable regions is critical to develop effective adaptation strategies and ensure food security in future climate scenarios. \n \nDr. Angela Rigden is a hydrologist interested in understanding connections between the water cycle\, climate\, and vegetation\, especially pertaining to agriculture. Angela completed her Ph.D. in Earth Science at Boston University under the supervision of Dr. Guido Salvucci. Her dissertation explored the sources of variability in terrestrial water cycling\, finding that vegetation plays a key role in modulating multi-decadal trends in evaporation. Angela received a B.S. in Biological Engineering from Cornell University. As Planetary Health Fellow at Harvard University\, Angela is leveraging her expertise in hydrology to explore how changes in water availability affect food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her approach synthesizes data from a wide range of observational platforms\, including satellites\, weather stations\, and agricultural surveys. She also plans to collaborate with local stakeholders in Africa to incorporate data that have hitherto not been accessible\, and interpret the implications of her findings.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-achieving-food-security-in-a-changing-climate-the-role-of-water-availability/
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SUMMARY:Harvard Global Health and Leadership HS Student Conference 2019
DESCRIPTION:The conference provides a great opportunity for high school students to learn about global health from various speakers\, conduct a community project\, participate in a case study competition\, and meet ambitious students. Students can have a Harvard student mentor for their community project and give a presentation at the conference. \nMore information here.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/harvard-global-health-and-leadership-hs-student-conference-2019/
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SUMMARY:AI in Rural India
DESCRIPTION:“How AI Can Make Precision Public Health a Reality – The Case of Saving Mothers and Babies in Rural Northern India”AI can optimize your google search\, but can it optimize a public health intervention using messy real-world data at scale? It is estimated that 830 women die every day from preventable complications related to pregnancy and childbirth and more than five million children die each year before their fifth birthday. Getting women to deliver in hospital facilities instead of delivering at home and ensuring the provision of quality of care are key to address this public health crisis. Using novel data sets and integrating several machine learning approaches\, we demonstrate how programs can develop a more precise approach to closing these gaps. Our case study is from India’s most populous state\, Uttar Pradesh where 34 percent more newborns die than in India as a whole\, and 55 percent more women die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth. The talk will also outline the challenges of working with real world data and discuss innovations that are needed not only on the AI front\, but also on the data side.\n \nDr. Sema Sgaier is Co-founder and Executive Director of Surgo Foundation\, a privately funded action tank whose mission is combining a customer obsessed agenda with systems thinking to solve complex global development problems. At Surgo\, she leads a multi-disciplinary team of data scientists\, behavioral scientists\, technologists\, and development experts. Previously at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\, Sgaier led large-scale health programs in India and Africa. She is an assistant adjunct professor of global health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and was selected as a Rising Talent by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. Sema holds a PhD in cellular and molecular biology from New York University\, a MA in neuroscience from Brown\, and a BSc in molecular biology and genetics from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul). \n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/ai-in-rural-india/
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SUMMARY:Burke Fellow Seminar Series: What Impact Do Extreme Weather Events Have on Our Health?
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nRenee Salas\, MD\, MPH\, MS \n“Impact of Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters on Healthcare Utilization\, Outcomes\, and Cost for Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries” \nGlobally\, climate change is having the biggest health impacts on populations in developing countries\, which have contributed least to the emission of the greenhouse gases stimulating this phenomenon. Specifically\, climate change is causing an increased frequency and/or severity of extreme weather events. While we know extreme weather events negatively impact health and increase the utilization of healthcare\, current studies are limited in scope and applicability. Understanding the health and healthcare impacts of climate change driven extreme weather within the U.S.\, and specifically\, population displacement has significant global health implications including informing evidence-based prevention. \nRenee Salas is a clinical instructor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and an emergency medicine physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She received her Doctor of Medicine from the innovative five-year medical school program to train physician-investigators at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She concurrently obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Subsequently\, she received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in environmental health while completing a Fellowship in Wilderness Medicine at MGH.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/burke-fellow-seminar-series-what-impact-do-extreme-weather-events-have-on-our-health/
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SUMMARY:Burke Global Health Fellowship Seminar Series: Multi-media Teaching in Global Health & Social Medicine
DESCRIPTION:“Multi-media Teaching in Global Health & Social Medicine” \nWith Dr. Daniel Palazuelos\, MD\, MPH \n \nAll 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 and innovative teaching techniques. Multi-media learning has gained traction as an important pedagogical tool. Harvard medical students have expressed a preference for being introduced to new concepts via such techniques. Daniel Palazuelos will be presenting on his Burke Fellowship project\, which combines experiences from several initial successes\, including a series of social medicine videos produced for medical students and a highly-trafficked podcast hosted on CHWcentral.org. He will explore how such materials can augment learning across the Harvard schools\, and beyond. \nDaniel Palazuelos is a global health implementer and educator who holds a variety of positions across Harvard\, including\, Associate physician in the Department of Medicine\, Assistant Director of the Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency in the Division of Global Health Equity\, Clinician-Educator Hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital\, and Cannon Society Global Health Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Daniel also serves as the Director for Community Health Systems at Partners In Health\, and as the Co-founder/Chief Strategist of Compañeros En Salud -México (PIH-Mexico). In his role for the PIH project in Mexico\, Compañeros en Salud-Mexico\, he worked to create the strategy for\, and successfully launch\, the new health care system strengthening. It is envisioned not only as a service provider for local people in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Chiapas\, but also as a platform for both U.S. and Mexican medical trainees to learn about global health and to conduct implementation research. In addition to an emphasis on extensive preparation and on-site mentorship\, this program offers collaborators the capacity to support intensive and logistically complex research efforts. Noteworthy examples include: a stepped-wedge unidirectional crossover study of the effectiveness of community health worker accompaniment on diabetes and hypertension treatment adherence and clinical outcomes\, and a user perception study of how a multifaceted educational intervention has affected local staff career choices.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/burke-global-health-fellowship-seminar-series-multi-media-teaching-in-global-health-social-medicine/
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SUMMARY:Tech & Health Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:“To AI or Not to AI: Image-Based Diagnostics for Post-Cesarean Delivery Infections in Rural Rwanda”\nIn rural Rwanda\, 11% of women who deliver via c-section develop a surgical site infection (SSI). Delays in SSI diagnosis and treatment can lead to severe morbidity and mortality among mothers. Our team is assessing ways to leverage the existing network of community health workers (CHWs) to improve post-c-section follow-up with a focus on timely identification of SSIs. We will briefly discuss an image-based diagnostic tool that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose infection based on CHW-generated photos of the c-section incision. The talk will also outline the often forgotten but extremely important questions around the utility of this AI-based diagnostic tool\, namely the appropriateness\, value-added\, feasibility\, acceptability\, and scalability of this intervention in the context of health care delivery in rural Africa. \n        \nDr. Bethany Hedt-Gauthier is a Biostatistician and an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine (Harvard Medical School) and Biostatistics (Harvard Chan School). Her primary research interests include quantifying the health needs of and evaluating programs targeting marginalized populations\, with a focus on global surgery research. Bethany was resident in Rwanda for 3.5 years and continues to support research capacity building work at Partners In Health/Rwanda\, the University of Global Health Equity\, and the University of Rwanda. She also leads research related to provision of cesarean sections and outcomes at rural district hospitals in Rwanda with co-PIs Fredrick Kateera and Robert Riviello.\n\nDr. Rich Fletcher leads the Mobile Technology Lab based at D-Lab\, which develops a variety of mobile sensors\, analytic tools\, and diagnostic algorithms to study problems in global health and behavior medicine. Rich has done field work in over a dozen developing countries and currently leads several research efforts in the area of global health\, agriculture\, environmental monitoring\, behavior medicine\, and mental health. Rich has worked for over 20 years in the field of wireless sensors and RFID\, including five years with the US Air Force and 15 years at the MIT Media Lab\, producing over a dozen US patents and several spin-off companies. In the field of medicine\, Rich Fletcher currently leads several research studies funded by NIH\, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\, USAID\, Vodafone and the Tata Trust. Bridging together the fields of engineering and medicine\, Rich’s research utilizes a variety of mobile technologies and wearable sensors for use in behavior monitoring as well as psychological and behavioral interventions.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/tech-health-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190211T160000
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SUMMARY:Biology by Design: Bioengineering & Biosecurity Approaches at Ginkgo Bioworks
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Boyle is the Head of Codebase at Ginkgo Bioworks\, a Boston-based synthetic biology company that makes and sells engineered organisms. Patrick is responsible for Ginkgo’s Codebase\, the company’s complete portfolio of reusable biological assets. Codebase includes novel strains\, enzymes\, genetic parts\, and diverse genetic repositories\, including millions of engineered DNA sequences. Codebase is being developed\, maintained\, and leveraged by Ginkgo’s Organism Engineers via dozens of strain engineering projects. Prior to leading Codebase\, Patrick founded the Design group at Ginkgo\, which now produces hundreds of millions of base pairs of DNA designs each year to support Ginkgo’s projects. At present\, more than 30% of the world’s DNA synthesis is performed for work at Ginkgo. \nPatrick also participates in a number of efforts related to the broader development of synthetic biology and biosecurity. This includes a fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security Initiative\, serving as a Technical Advisor to the Synthetic Biology for Military Environments program for the Department of Defense\, and co-authoring the 2018 “Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology” report by the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine. Prior to Ginkgo\, Patrick received his PhD from Harvard Medical School in 2012\, developing synthetic biology applications in bacteria\, yeast\, and plants in the lab of Dr. Pamela Silver. He received an SB in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/biology-by-design-bioengineering-biosecurity-approaches-at-ginkgo-bioworks/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190118T130000
DTSTAMP:20261001T201249
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SUMMARY:Tech & Health Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:“Governing the Rise of AI: A Unique Global Governance Challenge” \nThe rise of Artificial Intelligence as a general purpose technology exhibits characteristics of velocity and magnitude probably not seen in earlier major techno-industrial revolutions. The great upsides and severe downsides it generates are inextricably connected\, requiring a complex governance effort to capture opportunities while minimizing risks and spreading the gains widely. The case of healthcare lies at the center of this conundrum with an abundance of use-cases ranging from diagnostic\, prevention\, to therapy. Because the AI revolution is a global phenomenon nested in the wider digital socio-economic paradigm\, the governance effort will have to mobilize public and private actors as well as citizens internationally and transnationally in new and innovative ways. We will discuss possible pathways\, solutions\, strategies and challenges. \n \nNicolas Miailhe co-founded The Future Society in 2014 and incubated it at the Harvard  Kennedy School of Government. An independent think-and-do-tank\, The Future Society specializes in questions of impact and governance of emerging technologies\, starting with Artificial Intelligence through its “AI Initiative” launched in 2015. A recognized strategist\, thought-leader\, and implementer\, Nicolas has lectured around the world\, and advises multinationals\, governments and international organizations. He is the co-Convener of the Global Governance of AI Roundtable (GGAR) organized yearly during the World Government Summit in Dubai\, as well as a member of the AI Group of experts at OECD (AIGO)\, of the World Bank’s Digital Economy for All Initiative (DE4ALL)\, and of the Global Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI). Nicolas teaches at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po)\, at the IE School of Global and Public Affairs in Madrid\, and at the Mohamed bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai. He is also a member of three committees of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethically Aligned Design of AI and Autonomous Systems\, a Senior Visiting Research Fellow with the Program on Science\, Technology and Society at Harvard\, and a Fellow with the Center for the Governance of Change at IE Business School in Madrid.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/tech-health-seminar-series-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181205T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181205T170000
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SUMMARY:Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World Exhibition Launch in Mumbai
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating the launch of the Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World exhibition at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai.  \nFeatured speakers include: \n\nDean Michelle Williams\, Dean of the Faculty\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy Schoo\nDr. Ashish K. Jha\, Dean for Global Strategy & K.T. Li Professor of Global Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard Global Health Institute\nDr. Zarir Udwadia\, chest physician\, Hinduja and Breach Candy Hospitals
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/outbreak-epidemics-in-a-connected-world-exhibition-launch-in-mumbai/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181127T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181127T170000
DTSTAMP:20261001T201249
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Is Medical Artificial Intelligence Possible in Low-Resource Settings?
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have been around for decades. Yet a lack of access to large amounts of high quality data has historically limited applications of AI in healthcare. However\, a more recent increase in the availability of data has created an opportunity to apply AI algorithms to improve patient outcomes globally. In low and middle-income countries\, such data could be used to track disease outbreaks\, assess drivers of infectious disease transmission and track drug adherence. While there is immense potential for the use of data\, it needs to be integrated across different systems\, harmonized and curated. Liberating data from proprietary information systems and breaking down the silos between clinicians and the data scientists remain enormous barriers in the utilization of AI to address global health challenges. \nDr. Leo Anthony Celi has practiced medicine in three continents\, giving him broad perspectives in healthcare delivery. He holds a faculty position at Harvard Medical School as an intensive care specialist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As clinical research director and principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory of Computational Physiology (LCP)\, he brings together clinicians and data scientists to support research using data routinely collected in the intensive care unit (ICU). Leo founded and co-directs Sana\, a cross-disciplinary organization based at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT\, whose objective is to leverage information technology to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. At its core is an open-source mobile tele-health platform that allows for capture\, transmission and archiving of complex medical data\, in addition to patient demographic and clinical information. Sana is the inaugural recipient of both the mHealth (Mobile Health) Alliance Award from the United Nations Foundation and the Wireless Innovation Award from the Vodafone Foundation in 2010. The software has since been implemented around the globe including India\, Kenya\, Lebanon\, Haiti\, Mongolia\, Uganda\, Brazil\, Ethiopia\, Argentina\, and South Africa.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-is-medical-artificial-intelligence-possible-in-low-resource-settings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181119T170000
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SUMMARY:50 Years of ORT: Cashing in on the Poor Mans’ Gatorade
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating Dr. Richard Cash! \n  \nDr. Cash is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  \n2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)\, a simple solution that continues to save millions of lives worldwide. To celebrate this milestone in public health\, and to honor the scientific contributions of Dr. Richard Cash\, a pioneer in ORT\, we are hosting a special event on Monday\, November 19th at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Speakers will reflect on the impact of ORT\, what we can learn from it’s success\, and on how Richard’s leadership is making a difference.   \nConfirmed speakers include: \nDr. Edward Ryan\, Massachusetts General Hospital \nDr. David Nalin\, Albany Medical College \nDr. Lincoln Chen\, China Medical Board \nProfessor Marcia Castro\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nDean Ashish Jha\, Harvard Global Health Institute \nProfessor Wafaie Fawzi\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nDr. Richard Cash\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nProfessor Barry Bloom\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nProfessor Megan Murray\, Harvard Medical School \nDr. Christopher Duggan\, Boston Children’s Hospital \nDr. Jon Rohde\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nA reception will follow at 6:00pm.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/50-years-of-ort-cashing-in-on-the-poor-mans-gatorade/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T170000
DTSTAMP:20261001T201249
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Mapping and Repairing the Brain: Implications for Global Health
DESCRIPTION:Technology & Health \nSeminar Series 2018-19 \n “Mapping and Repairing the Brain: Implications for Global Health” \nwith Dr. Ed Boyden \nSynthetic Neurobiology Group\, MIT \n\nBrain disorders affect more than a billion people worldwide. Yet cures are few and treatment options inadequate. Traditional ways of examining the brain\, such as using an fMRI\, have poor resolution and are unable to pinpoint the exact molecular changes causing disease. However\, novel technologies are being developed that let scientist peer inside the brain like never before. This includes tools that allow cells and molecules to be imaged with nanoscale precision\, as well technologies to enable the activation and silencing of brain activity with light. These technologies\, while designed for the brain\, also are starting to have impact on the fields of cancer\, immunity\, and infectious disease\, and thus may generally help with the understanding and confrontation of global health challenges. \nDr. Boyden is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT\, associate professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT’s Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research\, and was recently selected to be an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2018). He leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group\, which develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain\, and applies them systematically to reveal ground truth principles of biological function as well as to repair these systems.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-mapping-and-repairing-the-brain-implications-for-global-health/
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