Enrollment began this month in Lima, Peru, in the first-ever, collaborative Partners In Health/Socios En Salud/Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital (PIH/SES/HMS/BWH) randomized clinical trial to improve tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
The Program in Global Non-communicable Disease and Social Change is pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of the NCD Synergies Network , which will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on July 15-16, 2013.
GHDonline, part of the Global Health Delivery Project, recently opened the US Communities Initiative to create opportunities for health care professionals across the United States to share resources, ideas, and information in virtual communities.
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho spoke to the HMS community on March 11, 2013 about how Rwanda's public sector has prioritized health outcomes among the poorest and most vulnerable.
On February 28, 2013, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health presented a conversation among Lord Nigel Crisp, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk, and Professor Paul Farmer titled "The coming transformation in global health."
Felicia Knaul, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, has had two books published in 2013: Beauty without the Breast and the volume she edited with Rebeca Wong and Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, Financing Health in Latin America, Volume 1: Household Spending and Impoverishment.
The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health announces the 8th Annual International Bioethics Conference, Universal Health Coverage in Low-Income Countries: Ethical Issues, to be held on April 18 and 19, 2013, at the Inn at Longwood Medical, 342 Longwood Avenue, Boston.
On December 9, 2012, Paul Farmer received a Research in Action Award from the Treatment Action Group, an independent AIDS research and policy think tank which was celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Salmaan Keshavjee wrote "Leading by example: Bold steps are needed to stop tuberculosis deaths among patients living with HIV" for Science Speaks’ Blueprint series, in which clinicians, researchers and advocates address the key elements they would like to see in the global AIDS response blueprint.