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HGHI, HU CFAR Host Virtual Grand Rounds on Lessons from HIV for Global Equity During Pandemics

Ongoing global Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutic inequities threaten to prolong and exacerbate the pandemic for all countries. As advocates, academics, and policymakers alike call for the U.S. and other wealthy nations to share these lifesaving resources with the world, it is prudent to consider the lessons learned from the HIV pandemic that can be translated

Dr. Ashish Jha addresses Congress, urging Feds to do more on testing, support states

May 13, 2020

#Pandemics

Participating in a virtual briefing for members of the House Coronavirus Oversight Committee, Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), said the federal government must do more to increase testing, support states to help increase testing, and to encourage innovative, new tests to identify those testing positive for COVID-19. [...]

Modeling Uncertainty: How to make sense of changing predictions

May 10, 2020

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By Benjamin Jacobson and Stefanie Friedhoff, HGHI In a pandemic, hard evidence is a precious commodity. At a time when we have a critical need for answers, data and clear evidence to support better decision making are only slowly forthcoming. There is so much we still don’t know about the virus, its features, how it [...]

HGHI and NPR publish new state testing targets

May 7, 2020

#Pandemics

By Ashish K. Jha, Benjamin Jacobson, Stefanie Friedhoff and Thomas Tsai, HGHI Ten days ago, the Harvard Global Health Institute published data looking at how many tests each state should be doing as part of their strategy to begin a slow re-opening around May 1, based on the size of their coronavirus outbreak at the time (see [...]

The Economic Costs of COVID-19

May 6, 2020

#Drivers of Health #Health Systems

By Kate Raphael The measures taken in the United States in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus have dire economic consequences, the worst the country has seen since the Great Depression. Unemployment has skyrocketed, and many Americans find themselves unable to provide for their basic needs. However, this hardship has affected the U.S. [...]

Analysis: Find out if your state falls short on testing needed to open up in early May

April 27, 2020

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More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing to even consider starting to relax stay-at-home orders after May 1, according to a new analysis by the Harvard Global Health Institute and STAT. [...]

“Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Time for a Polysocial Risk Score”

April 22, 2020

#Drivers of Health #Health Systems

By Kate Raphael What determines health? That question drives all our work, and while we’ve observed a lot of progress in untangling the many answers to that question, we have very few tools for measuring different health effects. In a recent JAMA Viewpoint, authors Jose Figueroa, Austin Frakt, and Ashish Jha have proposed an approach to [...]

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