Department of Global Health and Population
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.
665 Huntington Avenue
Building 1, 11th and 12th Floors
Boston, MA 02115
News
The GHP Weekly Newsletter shares information on new community members, upcoming events, and recent publications each Friday.
The GHP Monthly Digest includes a monthly wrap-up of department activities and publications, as well as faculty and alumni spotlights.
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African nursing leaders take deep dive into how to strengthen health systems
The inaugural cohort in the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program’s Certificate in Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders convened in Kenya in September for a week-long intensive course on health systems strengthening.
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Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, John Quackenbush elected to National Academy of Medicine
Harvard Chan School faculty members Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, and John Quackenbush were elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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2022 Harvard Chan School Alumni Awards announced
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association recently announced the recipients of the 2022 Alumni Awards, who were chosen by their peers through a nomination and voting process.
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Building healthier, more resilient societies to tackle global threats
The Reform for Resilience Commission has a lofty goal—to help ensure healthier and resilient growth everywhere amid dire global threats such as COVID-19 and climate change.
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A multidisciplinary approach to eradicating malaria
Public health leaders from around the world gathered at Harvard University for a week-long course to learn the latest developments from experts and discuss new strategies for eradicating malaria.
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New research on intensive nurse home visiting program shows no impact on birth outcomes; study is ongoing
The Nurse-Family Partnership ® (NFP), a prenatal and early child home visiting program, did not improve birth outcomes for low-income mothers in South Carolina, according to a new, ongoing study.
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Jesse Bump, Nancy Turnbull receive inaugural Sastry Awards for outstanding teaching
Jesse Bump and Nancy Turnbull are the 2022 recipients of a new award recognizing outstanding teaching in public health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Getting to know … Patience Saaka, MPH ’22
Patience Saaka is a physician from Ghana with a passion for promoting equity in health care and ending gender-based violence.
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Negotiating humanitarian access on the front lines in Ukraine
Claude Bruderlein, adjunct lecturer on global health at Harvard Chan School and senior researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, describes the challenges of humanitarian negotiations in regions affected by conflict.
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Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a massive humanitarian crisis, with mounting military and civilian casualties and more than two million people on the move to escape the violence. In this Big 3 Q&A, Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, talks about the biggest threats people are facing and how humanitarian organizations are helping.
