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.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization—a move that, according to Harvard Chan School’s Jesse Bump, will put the country and world at heightened risk of public health crises.
Countries worldwide, regardless of income level, can halve their rates of premature deaths by 2050 if they focus on a handful of key health priorities. That is the optimistic message of Global Health 2050, a recent report by the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health.
Ecological changes associated with deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon have significantly increased the risk of malaria transmission over the past two decades, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Chan School.
Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology and head of the Population Mental Health Lab, offers her thoughts on policies to reduce the prevalence of mental health problems.
Reducing preventable deaths from major noncommunicable diseases and injuries around the world would come with substantial economic savings, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
Harvard Chan School researchers are working with African partners to enhance adolescent health research opportunities and ultimately launch new doctoral programs at African universities.
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