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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News
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Understanding contraceptive decision-making in sub-Saharan Africa
Valencia Lambert, SM ’24, brings a passion for community partnerships to her work addressing women’s reproductive health and infectious-disease outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Sparking innovation in global health systems
Experts at the Health Systems Innovation Lab want to help countries around the world transform how they provide care.
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Preeclampsia and preterm birth risk may be reduced by calcium dose lower than current WHO standard
To help prevent preeclampsia and preterm birth, low-dose calcium supplementation may be as effective as the World Health Organization’s recommendation of high-dose calcium supplementation, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School and collaborators in India and Tanzania.
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Public health history course holds lessons for today
A new course at Harvard Chan School focuses on the history of public health, highlighting longstanding issues such as vaccine hesitancy, how life expectancy has been measured and used, tensions in the relationship between the fields of public health and medicine, and evolving approaches to determining the causes of disease.
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Training humanitarian response leaders in the Middle East and Africa
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative collaborated with the World Health Organization to bring its humanitarian response intensive course to Jordan.
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Stalled progress toward eliminating child marriage in India
Child marriage has declined in India—but across the country, one in five girls and nearly one in six boys are still married as children, and in recent years the practice has become more prevalent in some states/union territories, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
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Tackling malaria in Brazil
Since the start of her career, Marcia Castro has sought to use her research to inform policy change.
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Increasing workplace flexibility associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease
Increasing workplace flexibility may lower employees’ risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School and Penn State University.
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Brazilian favelas NGO shares strategies for social entrepreneurship, pandemic response
To fill gaps in the Brazilian government’s COVID-19 response, the organization G10 Favelas implemented emergency actions to support residents, including mobilizing a cadre of volunteer “street presidents” to provide health and nutrition assistance.
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Takemi Program celebrates 40 years with symposium on digital health
More than 90 current and former fellows from the Takemi Program in International Health converged at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in October for a two-day celebration marking the program’s 40th anniversary.
