At the Harvard Global Health Institute’s 3rd Annual Reception on October 30, 2018, Harvard’s newly inaugurated President, Lawrence Bacow and HGHI Faculty Director Ashish Jha talked about coming together in a divided world, about the importance of access to the basic necessities of life for all, and about the need to challenge conventional wisdom. “To focus on the world’s Continue reading [...]

By Megan Diamond, Program Manager, HGHI Caller: ‘Hi, I would like to reserve a table for Wednesday, the 7th’ Hostess: ‘For 7 people?’ Caller: ‘Um, it’s for 4 people’ Hostess: ‘4 people.. when? Today? Tonight?’ Caller: ‘Wednesday, at 6pm’ After playing a one-minute audio clip of a restaurant reservation call during a recent seminar at the Harvard Global Health Institute, Sara Continue reading [...]

The 2007 and 2011 Lancet Series on global mental health helped make mental health care a greater priority worldwide and led to the launch of the Movement for Global Mental Health. Continue reading [...]

Harvard Global Health Institute Calls for Independent Monitoring of Disease Outbreak Preparedness at the 71st World Health Assembly Continue reading [...]

The International Health Economics Association, iHEA, closed its elections yesterday. With 55.4% of the votes,Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, became the new president-elect. Dr. Yip has an extensive body of work on systemic health system interventions with a Continue reading [...]

On November 28th and 29th of 2017 the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the T.H. Chan School of Pubic Health (HSPH) held a two-day conference at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Mumbai Center. The event brought together key healthcare leaders from across India’s public and private sectors to define a shared agenda for measuring Continue reading [...]