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 [...]

On Thursday, September 28, 2017 the Harvard Global Health Institute hosted a symposium on Climate Change, Migration and Health. Jennifer Leaning, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gave the keynote and was followed by two panel of experts. The Harvard Gazette covered the event in Continue reading [...]

When asked how she began a career in global health, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier thinks back to her experience as an undergraduate mathematics major. “I came to global health via numbers and data,” she says. From 1999-2003 Bethany served as a math teacher with the U.S. Peace Corps in Namibia. “The community where I lived had a Continue reading [...]

The Harvard Global Health Institute, in collaboration with the Climate Change Solutions Fund and the Harvard University Center for the Environment, hosted a symposium on the impact of climate change on health, entitled “Human Health in a Changing Climate.” Continue reading [...]

Harvard Global Health Institute’s Faculty Director, Dr. Ashish Jha writes about the next steps for the World Health Organization (WHO) and their next Director General.  Continue reading [...]