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.
If most people in the U.S. took aspirin within hours of experiencing severe chest pain, it could delay more than 13,000 heart attack deaths every year, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
A symposium sponsored by Harvard Chan School’s Department of Global Health and Population examined the impact of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, a highly influential gathering in Cairo of delegates from 179 nations that served as a significant strategic turning point for population and development programs.
Students and humanitarian professionals from around the world recently came together for an annual simulation exercise that provides training in global crisis response.
The Roma Program at Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, marked International Roma Day (April 8) with its 12th annual conference.
The Department of Global Health and Population (GHP) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is presenting Global Health Week from April 22 to 26. The event will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt.
More than 500 people worldwide spent two intense days developing innovative ideas to tackle health care challenges at an early April hackathon organized by the Health Systems Innovation Lab at Harvard Chan School.
Racial and ethnic disparities in tuberculosis incidence persist among the U.S.-born population, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
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