About Us
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is an interdisciplinary basic science department at Harvard Medical School. Our faculty of social scientists and physicians teaches and conducts research in the social sciences and humanities applied to health and medicine. We are concerned with historical, cultural, and ethnic aspects of health care, poverty, and other social problems intimately interconnected with disease, and with the moral issues that arise in the practice of medicine today. We help to organize global health activities at Harvard Medical School. We and our partners have established the Global Health Delivery program to more effectively transfer the great array of services, knowledge, and other resources for prevention and treatment of disease to the many in need of this help, with particular emphasis on those living in resource-poor settings. Our teaching and research programs contribute to the education of medical students, postdoctoral researchers, clinicians, and other health care providers. Collaborations among physicians and social scientists worldwide lead to cross-cultural research and interventions that promote better health both in the United States and abroad.
Programs
- International Child Mental Health Program
- Program in Global Mental Health
- Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change