RECORDING: Bridging Disciplines, Advancing Solutions: Harvard’s Global Health Collaborations

October 21, 2025

Discover how Harvard faculty are driving innovative global health solutions through cross-campus collaboration. In this Worldwide Week event, members of HGHI’s Scholarly Working Groups share how their research tackles urgent challenges, from climate change and conflict to the resilience of health systems worldwide.

Featuring:

Megan Murray, MD, MPH, ScD – Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Project: Networking Health Care Providers Confronting Climate Change
Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Project: Increasing the Resilience of Threatened Health Systems
Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD – Nicholas T. Zervas Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School; Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Project: Choose Your Future: Climate Change, War, and Health in the Next 50–100 Years
Moderator: Louise C. Ivers, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Faculty Director, Harvard Global Health Institute

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