Tag: Dyann Wirth

  • Campus & Community

    7 projects win Global Institute grants

    Seven projects that feature interdisciplinary, cross-collaborative research and span five Harvard Schools will receive grants from the Harvard Global Institute.

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    Faith-based approach in battling malaria

    Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Chan School came together to discuss how education, trust, and acknowledging the role of faith in community members’ lives is crucial to helping curtail malaria in Africa.

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    Seeking new momentum in malaria fight

    Harvard Business School hosted a weeklong leadership workshop supporting global efforts to eradicate malaria.

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    Malaria workshop at Harvard.
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    Coordinating against malaria

    Leaders in the global fight to eradicate malaria are at Harvard this week for a leadership training course that explores many facets of the scientific underpinnings of the effort to eradicate malaria from the planet.

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    An opening for measles

    In the wake of the recent measles outbreak, a panel of experts convened at Harvard Law School to discuss the ethical, legal, and public health issues around vaccination.

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    Sick with measles, again

    Dyann Wirth, chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, discusses what’s behind the resurgence of measles in the United States.

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    Ebola’s ripple effects

    The fight to end the Ebola epidemic is not just about saving lives, it’s also about heading off a potentially broader humanitarian crisis, according to a Harvard Kennedy School panel.

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    Hitting malaria from all sides

    The Harvard Malaria Forum explored the status of the global fight against malaria, focusing on how businesses can aid government and nonprofit efforts against the global killer.

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    Training leaders for malaria fight

    A group of mid-career officials gathered at Harvard Business School for an intensive course focused on educating a generation of leaders for the global campaign to eradicate malaria.

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  • Campus & Community

    A boost to international learning

    Eight faculty led programs designed to give students international experience have received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.

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    Plotting the demise of malaria

    Authorities on malaria from around the world came to Harvard Medical School to participate in a forum discussing a change in strategy in the battle against malaria, moving from control to eradication.

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    Working to snip malaria drug resistance

    Useful genetic maps showing the inner workings of drug-resistant malaria parasites, and where they live around the world, are being created as part of a major drive against the persistent tropical disease.

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  • Science & Tech

    Harvard science depth, breadth is on display

    Five prominent Harvard scientists illuminated the cutting edge of Harvard science, predicting new treatments for old diseases, describing new ways to think about the universe, and hailing advances in our…

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  • Campus & Community

    HSPH, Broad map malaria genetic diversity

    Researchers have created the first map of genetic diversity of the malaria parasite, providing new insights in the fight against a public health scourge that kills one person every 30 seconds.

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    Harvard researchers complete genomic sequence of deadly malaria parasite

    Malaria is the world’s most serious parasitic tropical disease and kills more people than any communicable disease except for tuberculosis. There is more human malaria in Africa today than at…

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    Deadliest form of malaria is younger than previously believed

    Malaria kills more people than any other communicable disease except for tuberculosis. It is the world’s most serious parasitic tropical disease, resulting in 1 million to 3 million deaths annually.…

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