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HGHI’s Inaugural Global Health Symposium: April 12th, 2023

The Harvard Global Health Institute is thrilled to announce that registration is now open for virtual attendance to our Inaugural Global Health Symposium! While in person capacity is limited, we invite our longstanding global and Harvard-based community to join us virtually on April 12th, 2023 from 9:00am to 4:00pm ET for a series of conversations centered around the theme “Global Health Equity through Community Engagement.”

Big Data Has Potential to Drive Big Decisions

July 10, 2019

#Drivers of Health #Health Systems

This is a guest post by Lynn Todman, PhD, the executive director for population health at Spectrum Health Lakeland in St. Joseph, Michigan, where she also serves on the City Commission. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leadership Fellow. Asking recently in the New York Times, “Does Your Education Level Affect Your Health?” Austin Frakt [...]

Untangling the Pathways Between Education and Health

July 8, 2019

#Drivers of Health #Health Systems

By Austin Frakt Education is strongly associated with health outcomes, but the pathways between them are less clear. Though there’s a lot we don’t know about the relationship, careful study has teased out some explanations. Causality runs in both directions. Education can provide the skills to tackle complex problems and manage health, while, on the other hand, [...]

Why Social Isolation, Poverty & Low Health Literacy Matter

July 1, 2019

#Drivers of Health #Health Systems

The following is a brief interview with David R. Nerenz, Ph.D., Director Emeritus, Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Health System. Dr. Nerenz serves on the Drivers of Health advisory committee. This is the first in a series of posts providing insights from our advisory committee [...]

What Causes AIDS Deaths? (Part 2)

June 27, 2019

#Drivers of Health #Health Systems

By Austin Frakt In the 1980s through the mid-1990s there was little the health system could do to address AIDS. Today there is a lot. Would we therefore attribute no deaths to AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s to access to health care and some of them to that factor today? On June 5, [...]

Harvard Global Health Institute Awards Three Burke Global Health Fellowships

June 26, 2019

#Pandemics

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. [...]

A Call to Action on Physician Burnout

June 26, 2019

#Global Mental Health @Harvard

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