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.
Last week, the Health Systems Innovation Lab traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to conduct a research development workshop. The workshop brought together 25 researchers from eight countries working on type…
Stillbirths occur at a higher rate in the U.S. than previously reported, and a substantial share of them had no clinical risk factor, according to a new study from Harvard Chan School and Mass General Brigham.
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…
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