Tag: Rifat Atun

  • Nation & World

    Checkup for finance ministers

    Nine finance ministers from developing countries gathered at Loeb House to discuss the importance of health to a nation’s economic performance and explore ways for health and finance ministers to work together.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The fading of polio

    Faculty and student panel examines efforts to make polio the second human disease to be eradicated during the “Every Last Child” event at Radcliffe.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The context of health care for all

    Drawing on the experience of four nations, experts described how crises and fundamental transitions often prove the catalysts behind universal health care systems during a panel event Tuesday at Harvard’s Longwood campus.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pondering health, at home and abroad

    The world is in the midst of a global health transition, with the population growing older and primary health threats coming from chronic, not infectious, diseases, according to speakers at an Advanced Leadership Initiative think tank.

    3 minutes