We teach students how to effectively respond to key health challenges impacting populations around the world through outstanding teaching and research. Our expertise includes health systems and economics, global nutrition, maternal and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases, and humanitarian studies and population ethics.
Progress towards universal access to safe, affordable surgical care is dangerously off track as at least 160 million patients are unable to receive surgery each year, a recent study reveals….
Several ventures developed in the course ID552: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Care were represented in Harvard’s 2025 President’s Innovation Challenge, showcasing the creativity and impact of students’ ideas. Among…
A new microsimulation study from Harvard Chan School shows substantial childhood enrollment in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program and hints at the potential impacts of recent Medicaid policy changes.
On August 21, 2025, recent PhD graduate Dorit Stein convened a policy dialogue as the final dissemination event for her dissertation project on the health and financial risk protection impacts…
We are pleased to share highlights from the recent Conference on Adolescent Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (CAH-SSA) and Africa Research, Implementation Science, and Education (ARISE) Network meetings, held in June in Lagos, Nigeria.
Angelica, a personalized AI agent designed to support pediatric patients and their families, won this year’s Venture Building Program.
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