Tag: Harvard Global Health Institute

  • Nation & World

    Only a little change for migrants at the U.S. border

    The danger President Biden faces at the U.S. border is in letting inertia built up over decades continue to deploy a mainly law-enforcement approach, rather than a humanitarian approach, to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

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    Harvard Global Health Institute and FXB Center's virtual panel on Zoom.
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    Time to resume COVID restrictions in some safe states?

    Officials in states that appear to have COVID-19 under control should keep an eye on a slow rise in cases, and take the chance to enact modest measures before case numbers begin to rise rapidly again, a Harvard expert said.

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    Testing for COVID-19.
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    The path to zero

    Harvard Global Health Institute, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and more join to launch new COVID Risk Level map for policy makers and the public.

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    Map.
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    ‘The lesson is to never forget’

    Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.

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    Emergency hospital.
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    App predicts hospital capacity

    Harvard’s Global Health Institute puts its research expertise into motion, helping hospitals assess capacity and quality of care so they can prepare for COVID-19 patients appropriately.

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    Screen shot of data from the model.
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    Bringing women to the forefront of global health

    A Harvard panel on women in the global health workforce examines ways to keep pushing for gender equity.

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    Panelists
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    The algorithm will see you now

    AI is coming to a hospital near you — but it may be in the world’s remote regions that it could impact patients most. However, experts gathered at Harvard said its potential will not be realized unless it is deployed as part of broader health care solutions, not simply as a tool in search of…

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    Ashley Nunes at the podium
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    Reducing a global killer: Traffic accidents

    The Harvard Global Health Institute, the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, and the Safe Life Foundation sponsored a half-day symposium to examine the causes of traffic accidents worldwide, and ways to reduce their number.

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    What’s behind high U.S. health care costs

    A Harvard study confirmed that the U.S. has substantially higher spending on health care, worse population health outcomes, and worse access to care than other wealthy countries; but there’s more to it than that.

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    doctor and nurse looking at chart
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    Researchers work to fill gaps in Chinese health care

    Harvard researchers are collaborating with government officials in China on an experiment aimed at improving quality of care at hospitals in some of the country’s poorer regions.

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    arvard Professor Winnie Yip and Burke Fellow Jose Figueroa
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    ‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health

    The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.

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    Framed by large photos set up for the event, Summon Chaudhury, left, and Julie Rioux attend the global health forum at the T.H. Chan School.
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    Another climate change concern: Forced migration

    Experts trace the fingerprints of climate change in the world’s mass migration crises, saying that the effects of shifting norma appear to play a role.

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    Jennifer Leaning delivers the keynote address during the Harvard Global Health Institute symposium on Climate Change, Migration and Health, inside the Knafel Center (Radcliffe Gym).
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    Targeting the ills of climate change

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped launch a new Harvard climate change and global health initiative Thursday, saying that climate change impacts almost always affect human health.

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    Politics biggest threat to malaria effort

    America’s top malaria official said that everyday politics presents one of the biggest threats against progress to eliminate the worldwide killer.

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    An indictment of Ebola response

    An independent group of 20 international experts has issued a scathing analysis of the global response to the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

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    Ebola outbreak: A system that failed

    During an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Ashish Jha examined where the global health system failed when Ebola began to spread.

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    New realities in care

    Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, says the University has the talent, resources, and leadership to steer progress in improving health around the world.

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    Bringing global health home

    The world is smaller than ever when it comes to infectious disease, a fact that means people have more at stake than ever before in each other’s health, speakers said at a symposium marking the fifth anniversary of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

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    Ready to change the world

    Lauren A. Taylor, who arrived at Harvard Divinity School in 2012 with a book contract and a desire to delve into global health partnerships, wants to change the public discourse around health care.

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    Goldie takes new post

    Sue J. Goldie, the founding faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, will become director of the new Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, and special adviser to the provost on global health education and learning.

    5 minutes
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    Chronicler of poverty

    Bearing the lessons that long-term, immersive reporting can teach, journalist Katherine Boo, who writes about poverty, spent a week at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design as a senior Loeb Fellow.

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    ‘A once-in-human-history opportunity’

    A new report chaired by Harvard economist and University Professor Lawrence Summers says that eliminating health disparities between rich and poor nations is not only possible by 2035, it’s cost-effective. The study also sets out the steps to achieve it.

    5 minutes
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    Hub away from home

    Established in 2006, the São Paulo, Brazil, office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies acts as a facilitator, connecting Harvard faculty and students with Brazilian collaborators.

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    Lessons of a temporary city

    The Maha Kumbh Mela, India’s massive gathering of Hindu pilgrims, ended in March. But for Harvard researchers across disciplines, the festival and the tent city it spawned continue to yield lessons in everything from big data to urban planning.

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    Tracking disease in a tent city

    At India’s Kumbh Mela, the largest temporary city in the world, public health researchers from Harvard and beyond staged a small but nimble operation to follow health measures and disease outbreaks. The results will hold lessons not just for future Harvard students, but for urban health planners in India and elsewhere.

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    A deadly foe

    By the end of the conference, “Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century,” a few recommendations for international controls stood out: Consider public health a basic human right, and tobacco promotion a violation of that right.

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    Inside India’s pop-up city

    Every 12 years, the Kumbh Mela, a centuries-old Hindu pilgrimage, temporarily transforms an empty floodplain in India into one of the biggest cities in the world. This month, an interdisciplinary team of Harvard professors, students, and researchers set out to map the gathering for the first time.

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    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.

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    Cutting calories before cutting in surgery

    Strongly restricted diets have already been shown to increase longevity and prolong one’s healthy years, but research highlighted at a Harvard Global Health Institute symposium at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that the benefits of such restriction may extend to more rapid recovery from surgery and an improved ability to fight disease.

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    The plight of adolescents, worldwide

    Children and youths globally are suffering from neglect and abuse, living on the streets, being recruited into militias, and contracting serious ailments. A two-day conference examined the troubles facing the world’s adolescents.

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