By Kate Raphael The measures taken in the United States in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus have dire economic consequences, the worst the country has seen since the Great Depression. Unemployment has skyrocketed, and many Americans find themselves unable to provide for their basic needs. However, this hardship has affected the U.S. Continue reading [...]

More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing to even consider starting to relax stay-at-home orders after May 1, according to a new analysis by the Harvard Global Health Institute and STAT. Continue reading [...]

By Kate Raphael What determines health? That question drives all our work, and while we’ve observed a lot of progress in untangling the many answers to that question, we have very few tools for measuring different health effects. In a recent JAMA Viewpoint, authors Jose Figueroa, Austin Frakt, and Ashish Jha have proposed an approach to Continue reading [...]

Global Mental Health Impact Story of the Week – April 20th 2020 Transforming personal distress into global human rights advocacy in mental health: my story Continue reading [...]

By Ashish K. Jha, Faculty Director, HGHI Over the past few days, many federal policymakers have been arguing that testing is overblown as an issue – that it is not so important or that we are doing enough. These are two separate issues. Is testing really important? And if yes, are we doing enough? Continue reading [...]

By Ashish K. Jha, Thomas Tsai and Benjamin Jacobson, HGHI Ubiquitous testing is essential to the nation’s ability to succeed with the planned phased opening of the economy and to stay open (we explain why we need testing in this post). In our analysis below, we estimate that the number of tests needed every day is, Continue reading [...]