Pathways to Global Health- A Conversation with Dr. Bogdan Chiva Giurca
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is hosting an informal conversation with Dr. Bogdan Chiva Giurca as part of our Pathways to Global Health Speaker Series this Thursday, January 21st, from 1-2 pm EST. Hear from Dr. Chiva Giurca about his career path in medicine, his advocacy for personalized care, and his work influencing national healthcare policy. Dr. Chiva Giurca also hosts an HGHI summer internship in London, which you can learn more about here! This event is a terrific opportunity to meet him, learn about his work, and hear about opportunities to intern with him this summer. More details are in the flyer below, and you can get the zoom link here.
This event is for Harvard Undergraduates only. We hope to see you Thursday!
Confronting COVID-19: Science, History, Policy Lectures Available to Watch on YouTube
The ongoing COVID-19 epidemic presents an important opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to closely observe this world-changing, historic episode and to analyze scientific, social, and political elements of the U.S. and global responses. This exciting and unprecedented course is co-led by Dr. Allan Brandt and HGHI Associate Faculty Director Ingrid Katz, and began in September 2020.
The course provides an opportunity for undergraduates at Harvard to deepen their understanding of a contemporary crisis and explicate a wide range of disciplinary methods and skills. The course brings together experts from a wide array of fields who offer approaches for understanding essential issues raised by the pandemic, including: the science of the virus; medical and public health responses; and the impact on economies, society, and culture. The course broadly considers how epidemics reveal existing social structures such as fundamental health disparities and social inequalities. Among the questions explored are: how do we balance basic freedoms and social restrictions as we face critical new threats to human health; and how do we think about risk and vulnerability in the face of uncertainty, from a both a personal and political viewpoint? As the epidemic unfolds in real time, students have an opportunity to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives for understanding epidemic disease and how it shapes and reflects powerful social forces and global systems.
Over the course of the semester, each course lecture will be recorded, captioned, and made available in the YouTube library. Please use the link provided below to watch recorded lectures on the YouTube Channel.
WATCH Full Recordings of Course Lectures Here
For more information on HGHI undergraduate courses and undergraduate global health opportunities visit here.
Calling all Harvard undergrads! Register now for HGHI’s exciting new course Confronting COVID-19: Science, History, Policy (Gen Ed 1170). This course meets a general education (Gen Ed) requirement as well as a politics of health category requirement for the secondary field in Global Health and Health Policy (GHHP)
What you can expect: A groundbreaking course, featuring more than 70 Harvard faculty guests, that explores the impact of the current global pandemic, COVID- 19. Learn more by reading the class description below.
“We are living in a world radically reshaped by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This course will investigate the wide range of questions raised by the pandemic, its impact and significance. We will also examine how diseases raise fundamental issues for science, policy, and society. In addition to assessing our scientific and medical knowledge about COVID-19, the course will utilize strategies from history, the humanities, and the social sciences to illuminate central policy and political considerations for addressing the epidemic in the U.S. and across the globe. The course will bring experts from a wide array of fields to offer approaches for understanding essential issues raised by the pandemic, including: the science of the virus; medical and public health responses; as well as its impact on economies, society, and culture. We will also broadly consider how epidemics reveal existing social structures such as fundamental health disparities and social inequalities. Among the questions we will explore are: how do we balance basic freedoms and social restrictions as we face critical new threats to human health; and how do we think about risk and vulnerability in the face of uncertainty from both a personal and political viewpoint? As this epidemic unfolds in real-time, you will have an opportunity to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives for understanding epidemic disease and how it shapes and reflects powerful social forces and global systems.”
Taught by HGHI Assistant Director Dr. Ingrid Katz and Professor Allan Brandt