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.
Harvard Chan School’s Phuong Pham shares how the shuttering of USAID and other foreign aid cuts have contributed to the current spread of Ebola—and what it might mean for global health security in the future.
Please join us in congratulating Yuning Liu on successfully defending her PhD dissertation, “Understanding Digital Well-Being in Social Media Use: App-Specific Use, Goal Pursuit, and Platform Designs”! Before heading off…
A simple intervention designed to help new mothers access primary care in the year after childbirth helped substantially reduce emergency room visits for non-emergency issues, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
States that expanded requirements for prenatal syphilis screening saw increased case detection, but only in the short term, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
The world appears to be facing a substantial population decline. But experts disagree on whether or not that could spell problems for future generations.
Each year, millions of people are diagnosed with tuberculosis incorrectly, leaving their true health conditions unknown and untreated, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
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