Pathways to Global Health is an informal monthly series for Harvard undergraduate students to connect with global health experts and learn about their career journey. We are excited to have Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, 2023 Burke Global Health Fellow, as our speaker. Topic: Health tech in resource-deprived settings, ultrasound diagnostics, community-based intervention design Dr. Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an internal medicine physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a fellow in point-of-care ultrasonography through the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Allan-Blitz earned his undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary studies with a colloquium in Happiness from New York University, his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He was also the chief resident of the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity. He subsequently obtained his master’s in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Allan-Blitz’s research focuses on bridging the diagnostic equity gap in resource-limited settings, either through implementing existing technology such as point-of-care ultrasound, designing and leading educational curricula, or developing novel low-cost molecular diagnostic assays. His work has been conducted across Peru, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Madagascar, and rural Australia. *This event is for Harvard undergraduate students only. Lunch will be served.

Pathways to Global Health is an informal monthly series for Harvard undergraduate students to connect with global health experts and learn about their career journey. We are excited to have Maria Nardell, MD, MPH, 2023 Burke Global Health Fellow, as our speaker. Topic: Migration, HIV healthcare, intervention design, & community engagement Maria Nardell, MD, MPH is a researcher in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a hospitalist physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is interested in improving healthcare engagement for migrants and other vulnerable populations globally and locally. Her current projects focus on HIV care and prevention for migrants in South Africa, and she has also worked in Rwanda, Kenya, Namibia, and India. Her research has been supported by the Connors Center Global Women’s Health Fellowship (BWH), NIAID T32 Training Fellowship (MGH), a Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Developmental Award, and a Hearst Young Investigator’s Award (BWH). As a Burke Global Health Fellow, she will explore preferences for HIV prevention services among migrant men in South Africa in order to design a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) program for them. In addition to her research interests, she enjoys supporting the professional development and wellbeing of students, trainees and faculty through mentoring, coaching, and storytelling initiatives. *This event is for Harvard undergraduate students only. Registration is required. Lunch will be served.

Join us for a Global Health Internship Showcase, where students from the Harvard Global Health Institute Summer Programs will present about their transformative summer research and internship experiences in Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Rwanda, England, and more!  

Engage in profound conversations around the WHO theme, “Mental Health is a Universal Human Right.” Our event features two remarkable authors: Jeremy Nobel, author of ‘Project Unlonely,’ discussing ‘Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection,’ and Michele Lamont, author of ‘Seeing Others,’ shedding light on ‘How Recognition Works and How it Can Help Heal a Divided World.’ Following these thought-provoking talks, immerse yourself in ‘The Listener,’ a compelling film that addresses the pressing issues of brokenness and loneliness, introduced by the director himself, Steve Buscemi. Afterward, don’t miss our insightful panel discussion moderated by Barbara Van Dahlen, the CEO of WeBe Life foundation, with Dr. Vikram Patel, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Steve Buscemi.