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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.”

Improving Health System Quality in India

November 30, 2017

#Health Systems

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 [...]

Harvard Gazette “Another climate change concern: Forced migration”

October 1, 2017

#CC & Health

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 [...]

Through a Burke Global Health Fellow’s Success, her Colleagues’ Careers Blossom

May 17, 2017

#Burke Fellows

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 [...]

Human Health in a Changing Climate

April 27, 2017

#CC & Health

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.” [...]

A Race To Restore Confidence In The World Health Organization

April 6, 2017

#Pandemics

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. [...]

HGHI Burke Fellow Rajesh Panjabi of Last Mile Health Named One of 2017 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship

March 27, 2017

#Burke Fellows

Harvard Global Health Institute’s Burke Fellow Dr. Rajesh Panjabi of Last Mile Health was named one of four recipients of Skoll Foundation’s 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. [...]

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