Tag: Department of Global Health and Population

  • Nation & World

    Weapons for battling viruses

    Bangladesh has used stepped-up surveillance, an understanding of transmission routes, and expert advice on cultural and traditional practices to devise interventions against Nipah, an Ebola-like virus with a high mortality rate.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Giants behind, challenges ahead

    Fifty years after its founding, the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population took time for reflection and a look ahead on April 25 during an all-day symposium at the School.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    For a health reform model, try Brazil

    Scholars and public health experts gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to examine Brazil’s progress toward meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development goals, and to see if there are lessons that can be applied to other countries.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Three crises for Japan

    Addressing a forum on Japan’s crises, Harvard analysts describe how public trust in relief efforts, logistical obstacles to aid, and foreign sensitivity to Japanese culture are all keys to an effective disaster response.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    FXB Center’s new director

    Jennifer Leaning, a public health expert with extensive field experience in human rights crises, has been named director of the University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

    2 minutes