Dr. Brooks proposes to use geospatial and genotypic analyses of transmission networks around adolescents with pulmonary TB to better characterize local TB transmission in high burden settings. These methods will elucidate important person, place, and time interactions of TB transmission in adolescents, and may inform priority areas for deployment and assessment of targeted public health interventions aimed at ending TB.
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is delighted to announce the promotion of Carole Mitnick to Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine on October 1, 2020.
Dr. Gustavo Velásquez receives awards for his research in developing safe, tolerable, and effective treatment regimens for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
On April 23, 2019, Dr. Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, was honored at a reception.
On the 60th anniversary of the Canada Gairdner Awards, the Gairdner Foundation announced the 2019 Canada Gairdner Award laureates, recognizing some of the world's most significant biomedical research and discoveries.
Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM, director of Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai, is pleased to present the Center's Progress Report detailing their efforts and accomplishments in bridging health delivery gaps.
Elsie Karmbor-Ballah, a physician and a 2018 graduate of the Global Health and Social Medicine's masters of medical sciences in global health delivery (MMSc-GHD) program, has returned to her home in Liberia where she is putting her MMSc-GHD degree to its intended use.
