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.
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Boston, MA 02115
News
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Building better global food systems
The 10th annual Nutrition and Global Health Symposium focused on the challenges of building better global food systems to meet local needs.
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Why ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the U.S.
A panel of faculty and students delved into the potential causes of increasing “deaths of despair”—deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.
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Can the world eradicate malaria by 2050?
Can the world eradicate malaria by 2050? That was the focus of a point-counterpoint discussion at Harvard Chan School, part of Worldwide Week at Harvard.
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Off the Cuff: Public Health Shortchanged
The country’s public health expenditures are projected to fall to 2.4 percent of total health expenditures by 2023, putting us embarrassingly behind our peers.
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Hypertension poorly managed in low- and middle-income countries
Health systems in low- and middle-income countries poorly prepared for increasing number of people with high blood pressure, with many untreated.
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Three public health interventions could prevent 94 million premature deaths
Effort to lower people’s blood pressure, cut their sodium intake, and eliminate trans fat from their diet could dramatically reduce premature deaths.
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Nearly half of childhood cancers worldwide undiagnosed
Nearly half of all childhood cancers are not being diagnosed globally.
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Off the Cuff: 21st-Century Barefoot Doctors
Fifty years ago, during the Cultural Revolution in China, a cadre of “barefoot doctors” were dispatched to provide basic health care for their rural communities. Winnie Yip believes the program continues to hold lessons for today.
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A simple solution that has saved millions
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] A solution of table salt, sodium bicarbonate, glucose, and water. This simple elixir, known as oral rehydration solution (ORS), has saved tens of millions of people…
