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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.”

Mapping and Repairing the Brain: Implications for Global Health

November 19, 2018

#Tech & Health

By Anders Gundersen, Research Assistant, HGHI When it comes to the understanding of major disease progressions, humans have a profound grasp of the subject matter, at least more so now than at any point in history. However, our understanding of the brain and health conditions that specifically affect it lags behind what we know about the rest [...]

President Bacow at HGHI: A Willingness to Do Things Differently

October 30, 2018

#Incubator

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 [...]

Rise of AI in Healthcare Raises Important Questions About Safety, Liability and Privacy

October 24, 2018

#Tech & Health

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 [...]

Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health & Sustainable Development

October 1, 2018

#Global Mental Health @Harvard

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. [...]

Press Release: Call for Independent Monitoring

May 24, 2018

#Pandemics

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

Just Voted in as President-Elect of the International Health Economic Association (iHEA) – Congrats Winnie Yip!

December 7, 2017

#Incubator

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 [...]

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