Vamba Lolleh is no stranger to using digital health tools for infectious disease response and contract tracing. Yet as COVID-19 spreads, he filled us in on how many of the lessons learned haven’t been as seamless to carry out as hoped. Continue reading [...]

Calling all Harvard undergrads! Register now for HGHI’s exciting new course Confronting COVID-19: Science, History, Policy (Gen Ed 1170) Continue reading [...]

The Preprint Sifter is a new Twitter tool that tracks down Tweets from leading epidemiologists, virologists, public health and other experts who are posting, vetting and verifying COVID-19 related preprint papers. Continue reading [...]

An Interview with Sathy Rajasekharan, Jacaranda Health When the first COVID-19 cases began to spring up in Kenya, the government quickly responded with an array of infection prevention measures. While travel restrictions and curfews would help reduce the spread of the disease, there was a several-week gap that left pregnant women and new mothers confused Continue reading [...]

People worldwide are facing ongoing uncertainty and stress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic instability, and racial injustice. The cumulative burden of current events further threatens mental health and well-being worldwide. GMH@Harvard Ambassador Board members spoke with Elisha London, co-founder and CEO of United for Global Mental Health about what does it mean to invest in mental health. How do we - as individuals, communities and societies take action. Continue reading [...]

An interview with Mahadia Tunga, Tanzania dLab “There’s a digital divide being witnessed in Africa,” said Mahadia Tunga, Co-Founder and Director of Capacity Development at the Tanzania Data Lab (dLab). While the divide is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how differential access to the internet can shape who receives access to education, and Continue reading [...]