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pandemics
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Pandemic Preparedness – Improving Science, Technology, & Access Seminar Series: Col. Matthew Hepburn

Col. Hepburn is Program Manager of the Biological Technologies office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for making investments in emerging technologies for national security. The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) focuses on leveraging advances in engineering and information sciences to develop biotechnology for technological advantage. BTO also has a mandate to address pandemic preparedness. He will be delivering a talk regarding “DARPA’s Role in Pandemic Preparedness.”
climate change
climate change
student engagement
student engagement

climate change
migration
climate change
migration

Climate Change, Migration and Health Symposium

Climate-induced migration will be a central feature of the 21st century, with grave consequences for global health. The crisis in Syria was precipitated by a 1,000 year drought; we should expect more such crises in the years to come. On September 28, the Harvard Global Health Institute will host a symposium on Climate Change, Migration and Health. Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, will deliver the keynote address. Expert panels will address the humanitarian response to climate-induced migration, the implications for law and policy, and the imperative for improved empirical research to better understand this growing crisis. A continental breakfast will be served at 8:30am and the program will begin at 9:00am. A brown bag lunch will be provided after the program is concluded at 12:30pm.
pandemics
pandemics

Pandemic Preparedness – Improving Science, Technology, & Access Seminar Series: Ethan Settembre, Seqirus

Seqirus is the 2nd largest influenza vaccine company in the world with a rich heritage in influenza dating back to the Spanish flu pandemic (through its parent company CSL). With manufacturing plants in the US, UK, Germany and Australia, it is a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness and a major contributor to the prevention and control of influenza globally. Seqirus recently announced innovations in cell-based influenza vaccine development at commercial scale using a candidate vaccine virus (CVV) that has been isolated and grown in cells, rather than in eggs. This accelerated development of cell-based technology quadruples influenza vaccine output in just two years, strengthening US preparedness against pandemic threats. The company is also leveraging its global manufacturing network to supply pandemic stockpiles and other preparedness services to governments around the world. Ethan Settembre is the Vice President of Research at Seqirus.
climate change
climate change

health systems
health systems

health systems
health systems
health systems
health systems

Health Systems in Conflict Affected Areas

Research shows health systems and institutions often struggle to maintain functioning during periods of acute stress and suffer inadequate support for years to decades after the conclusion of a crisis. Join us as we consider new approaches to support health systems in these contexts.
fellowship
fellowship

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.
health systems
health systems

Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World

Featuring HLS Professor William Fisher Monday, June 12, 2016 at 12:00 pm Harvard Global Health Institute 42 Church Street, Cambridge MA Conference Room  RSVP required to attend in person Join the live webcast here on June 12 at 12pm (please mute your microphone) Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World This event is being sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Recent advances in several unrelated fields — miniature mass spectrometry; artificial intelligence; and drug databases – may soon radically increase the ability of public-health workers to assess the chemical composition of pharmaceutical products rapidly, cheaply, and “in the field.” This potential, in turn, offers a variety of ways in which vaccines and medicines could be distributed more efficiently to poor patients in developing countries. William Fisher, Harvard Law School Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, will discuss these possibilities and a pilot project in Namibia designed to test them.
health systems
health systems

BWH Harvard CME course: Understanding Global Healthcare Delivery

BWH Harvard CME course: Understanding Global Healthcare Delivery June 9-10, 2017 The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity is offering for a CME course in Global Healthcare Delivery on June 9-10, 2017. CME credit will be granted through Harvard Medical School. We are extremely enthusiastic about the content of the course which will bring together expert Global Health faculty from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Content will be taught by Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Joe Rhatigan, MD, Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH and Michelle Morse, MD, MPH and others. The program is designed to give practicing clinicians an introduction to best practices in the provision of health services in low-resource settings globally. The course will discuss the biosocial determinants of health and disease and explore how programs that deliver healthcare in low-resource settings address these factors to improve the health of the communities they serve. Topics covered in the program will include: the global burden of disease, HIV prevention and treatment, global tuberculosis control, non-communicable disease prevention and treatment, the role of community health workers in health service delivery, global health policy and human resource capacity building. The course will be taught through lectures and interactive case discussions that seek to provide participants with a rich understanding of the complexities of health care delivery in low-resource settings. The program will include two days of course work and case discussions as well as a “meet the faculty” reception.