On February 19, 2012, 41 faculty and students from Burundi, Haiti, Rwanda, and the United States gathered at the Rwinkwavu Hospital Training Center to launch the Global Health Delivery course, led by Harvard Medical School faculty in conjunction with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda.
The Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change (PIDSC) and the Committee on African Studies (CAS) present a series of brief talks by prominent experts, followed by discussion with the audience, on "Famine in the Horn of Africa" on Monday, February 6, 2012, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Radcliffe Gym, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge.
GHSM faculty members Giuseppe Raviola, Anne Becker, and Paul Farmer contributed to recent commentaries published in the Lancet in a special series on global mental health.
The American Journal of Public Health [June 2011:101(6)] published the editorial by Louise Ivers*: “Strengthening the Health System While Investing in Haiti.”
On April 4 and 5, 2011 the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School hosted the inaugural symposium of the Programs in Global Health and Social Change.
“A Push to Fight Cancer in the Developing World,” featured in the special issue of Science on the “Cancer Crusade at 40” (March 25, 2011), describes the mission and work of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries (GTF.CCC), including a broad call-to-action on the issue published in the Lancet last year.
GHSM faculty members Mildred Solomon and Scott Podolsky have brought the exhibitDeadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race to the Countway Library as of April 4.
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is co-hosting two events related to health financing for universal coverage, both on Thursday, April 7.
The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health present No Woman, No Cry, a documentary film by Christy Turlington Burns.
In an interview published in the March 2011 issue of Scientific American, Paul Farmer discusses the need to improve treatment of cancer among lower and middle income populations