Tag: Harvard Institute for Global Health

  • Health

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Paul Farmer appointed University Professor

    Harvard names humanitarian leader Paul Farmer a University Professor, awarding him its highest faculty honor.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Where surgery is lacking

    Authorities on global health and surgery gathered Nov. 5 to discuss how to address the lack of trained surgeons and adequate operating rooms in developing nations.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Pres. Faust calls global health one of her main priorities for Harvard;

    Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at…

    6–10 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Faust calls global health one of her main priorities

    Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…

    7–10 minutes
  • Health

    NIH renews Harvard Center for AIDS Research grant for another five years

    The National Institutes of Health has renewed for five years – and $18.1 million – the funding for the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (Harvard CFAR). Harvard is one of only 20 NIH CFAR sites in the U.S. and first received the designation in 2004. The award, under the umbrella of the Harvard Initiative…

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Lifestyle culprit in increase in cardiovascular disease

    Despite the perception that cardiovascular disease is a problem of industrialized countries, it is the leading cause of death everywhere except Africa, where it is eclipsed by the raging AIDS epidemic, experts gathered at Harvard Medical School (HMS) said Wednesday. Authorities on cardiovascular disease from around the world attended a daylong conference sponsored by the…

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Harvard Initiative for Global Health recipient of NIH Global Health Nutrition grant

    The Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) has been selected to receive a prestigious $400,000 Framework Programs for Global Health grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center. The three year award will be supplemented by an additional $300,000 grant from the University and support HIGH’s development of a curriculum in nutrition and…

    2–3 minutes
  • Health

    Louise Ivers: ‘I can’t sleep at night because of the things that I see.’

    Louise Ivers gently lifted the 7-month-old by his forearms, hoping he would pull himself up as a healthy child a third his age might. But his head hung limply back, eyes wide, upper body slack. At 7 months, when a healthy child would be sitting up on his own and thinking about crawling, this baby…

    8–11 minutes
  • Health

    HOPE in African HIV/AIDS fight

    It was close to midnight one day this week in Durban, South Africa, when Harvard AIDS researcher Bruce D. Walker switched on his computer and made a visit to 104 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge. That’s the address of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH), a multidisciplinary group that supports interfaculty research on worldwide…

    5–7 minutes