Donald Halstead
Lecturer on Epidemiology and Director of Writing Programs
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Biography
Donald Halstead is the retired Lecturer on Epidemiology and Director of Writing Programs at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. During his 30-plus year career teaching at the school, he worked with students, postdoctoral research fellows, and faculty from all departments to improve their writing, critical thinking, and communication skills. He developed and led the faculty and postdoc NIH grant writing courses for 20 years, as well as the weekly Dissertation Writing Seminar, and taught numerous other courses and workshops. He continues to conduct grant and scientific writing workshops on a limited basis for basic, clinical, transnational, and population health scientists at academic centers in the US and abroad.