Harvard Global Health Institute

What is happening in global health around Harvard this week?
1) “Cyborg” Pancreas Organoids
2) Six cancers rising faster in younger adults
3) AI and Robotics: Long-Distance Brain Surgery Within Reach
4) Is declining world population a problem?

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How Urban Planning Plays a Vital Role in Supporting Older Adults Aging in Place - Harvard Global Health Institute Professor Forsyth addresses key questions about policy, planning, and the role of the built environment in supporting culturally sensitive, socially connected, and resilient systems of care for older ...

How can urban planning support older adults aging in place?

In our latest article, Prof. Ann Forsyth, of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, answers questions on how housing, transit & public space design can boost independence, safety & connection.

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We are honored to welcome the influential voice of Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as a keynote speaker at our upcoming #HGHI2026Symposium on April 16th!

📌 Register to join us: bit.ly/2026-Global-Health-Symposium

What is happening in global health around Harvard this week?

1) The Deadly Cost of Ignoring Clinical Need
2) How to end polarization? Schools may be best hope.
3) Pregnant immigrants skipping, delaying care due to ICE fears
4) The Birth of Parallel Imaging

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Frameworks for Advancing and Governing Ethical AI in Global Health - Harvard Global Health Institute This webinar will explore how governance and ethical frameworks can keep pace with innovation, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The discussion will highlight emerging approaches to tr...

📅 Join us Feb 27th at 9 AM ET for our next Global Health Coffee Session to explore how AI can advance equity, not widen disparities.

🎙 Gabriela Ramos (former ADG, UNESCO)
🎙 Alessandro Blasimme (ETH Zürich)

Hosted with HMS Center for Bioethics.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/4siUWHN

🎉 Introducing the Program & Speaker Lineup for the 2026 Global Health Symposium!

Join us April 16, 2026, for a global conversation on innovation, equity & collective action.

900+ already registered. Join us: bit.ly/4aB1HNz

#GlobalHealthForward #HGHI2026Symposium

What’s happening around Harvard in global health this week?
1) Design Thinking Approach in Global Health
2) TB misdiagnoses are common and can be deadly
3) Regenerating Cell Type Damaged in ALS, Spinal Cord Injuries
4) 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk
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Finding Problems Worth Solving: A Design Thinking Approach in Global Health - Harvard Global Health Institute Across much of global health research, communities are frequently studied without being meaningfully involved. Instead, people are surveyed, measured, and written about from a distance. However, Satch...

Our latest article, Finding Problems Worth Solving: A Design Thinking Approach in Global Health, spotlights Dr. Satchit Balsari, as he explores how design thinking can drive more ethical, effective, and equitable global health by centering community-defined priorities.

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On Wednesday, HGHI hosted our Spring 2026 Open House, welcoming 75+ Harvard community members to connect, learn about our programs, and discuss advancing global health. We look forward to continuing these conversations! 🌍

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What’s happening around Harvard in global health this week?

1. Atul Gawande named 2025 Alumni Day speaker
2. Right to care & disability in Latin America
3. Inherited eye diseases aren’t inevitable
4. Teen “grind culture” & mental health

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RECORDING: Strategies for Improving Maternal Healthcare Delivery: Insights from Pakistan and Sub-Saharan Africa - Harvard Global Health Institute Our speakers share their perspectives on how “high-tech” tools can amplify women’s voices and “high-touch” training can center compassionate, patient-responsive care to address critical challenges acr...

#ICYMI: The recording is now available for "Strategies for Improving Maternal Healthcare Delivery."

Speakers provide insights from Pakistan & Sub-Saharan Africa on how high-tech tools & high-touch training can strengthen compassionate maternal care.

🎥 Watch here: bit.ly/3Mhvu5X

What’s happening in global health at Harvard this week?

• Students in multilateral climate governance
• WHO withdrawal & U.S. flu risk
• New U.S. health equity postdoc fellowship
• $1.4M in Harvard Impacts Labs awards

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⏰ Deadline Approaching! Applications for the Burke Fellowships are due Saturday, Jan 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST.

If you or someone in your network might be a fit, please submit your application here: bit.ly/3YNUjZg

Call for Abstracts: 2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase  - Harvard Global Health Institute The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is now accepting abstract submissions for the 2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase, a university-wide poster session featuring global health ...

📣 Call for Abstracts!
HGHI is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase, featuring global health research by Harvard undergraduate & graduate students.

🗓 Deadline: Feb 27, 2026
👉 Learn more & apply: bit.ly/4bndSjd

What’s happening around Harvard in global health this week?
- How did cancer cells become drug-resistant?
- New Molecules Point the Way Toward Treating Crohn’s Disease
- Exercise variety linked to lower risk of premature mortality
- COVID-era trick may transform drug discovery
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Experts to Discuss Pressing Global Health Issues at Annual Symposium  - Harvard Global Health Institute The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) will host its fourth annual Global Health Symposium at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, on April 16th, 2026. With the theme “Global Health Forward: Stren...

We’re pleased to announce HGHI’s 4th Annual Global Health Symposium centered around the theme, Global Health Forward: Strength Through Innovation & Collective Action, on April 16, 2026!

Open to the public & livestreamed worldwide.

Register today: bit.ly/2026-Symposi...

#GlobalHealth #HGHI

Strategies for Improving Maternal Healthcare Delivery: Insights from Pakistan and Sub-Saharan Africa - Harvard Global Health Institute This webinar highlights two complementary strategies that reflect distinct but aligned approaches to improving maternal care delivery. Together, these perspectives illustrate how “high-tech” tools tha...

Join us Jan 30th for our virtual Coffee Session on high-tech & high-touch strategies to strengthen maternal healthcare in Pakistan & sub-Saharan Africa. Featuring Maryam Mustafa & Julie Mann!

📅 9–10 AM ET | Zoom | Open to the public
👉 Register: bit.ly/4bHiJM8

What’s happening around Harvard in global health this week?
1) AI is speeding into healthcare
2) Nutrient Availability Shapes Breast Cancer’s Spread
3) New tool lets anyone audit a country’s methane claims
4) Nutrition, Food Security, and Climate-Smart Public Health

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The long-term health impacts from the LA wildfires are just becoming clear The fires affected millions of people in the region. It could take years to understand the health consequences, but ongoing research is helping to prepare people to weather the next fires more safely.

“As academics, we can test for hundreds of things all at once, which helps the community. Because what you don’t know, you don’t know, but it can still hurt you.”

—Kari Nadeau,@hsph.harvard.edu, commenting in NPR on the long-term health impacts of the 2025 LA wildfires.

🔗 Learn more: n.pr/4pL2fWR

National Academy of Medicine Launches the Building Trust in Health Science Through Community Partnership and Lived Experience Action Collaborative; Over 30 Members Will Co-Develop Community-Driven App... NAM launches a new Collaborative to build trust in health science. Community leaders, researchers and practitioners will co‑develop community‑driven approaches.

🌟 Exciting news! 🌟 Former Burke Fellow Dee Jordan, PhD, MPH, MA, joins the NAM Collaborative to build trust in health science through community partnership.

Read more: nam.edu/news-and-ins...

Introducing the Global Health Monthly Media Mix—a refreshed newsletter featuring articles, multimedia, and perspectives on global health equity.

January theme: The Role of Universities in a Changing Global Health Landscape.

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A digital collage displays statistics on child and adult deaths from various diseases due to discontinued funding, with bold numeric data and text boxes overlapping across the image. Event details are on the right, along with a headshot of Atul Gawande.

The dismantling of USAID has triggered a wave of deaths—100s of thousands already—across the world. @agawande.bsky.social, former public health leader at USAID, will unpack the reversal of recent global health gains. Learn more & register: https://loom.ly/Z_QCcQ4

In a recent Harvard Medicine News feature, Louise Ivers MD, MPH, HGHI Faculty Director, reflects on the future of global health amid funding and political challenges, emphasizing perseverance, partnership, and centering communities to advance global health equity.

🔗 Read the article: bit.ly/49iITDB

What’s happening around Harvard in global health this week?
1) Researchers now understand how a new class of antivirals works
2) Binge drinking triggers gut damage
3) Genetic difference may help explain variation in COVID severity
4) Want to speed brain research?
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What’s happening around Harvard in global health this week?

Stopping the next pandemic; Students develop ‘clicker’ for humanitarian workers; Growth of concierge & direct primary care; Health mediation and conflict resolution

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2026 Global Health Summer Internship Opportunities for Harvard Undergraduate Students are Now Open for Applications - Harvard Global Health Institute Applications to the Harvard Global Health Institute’s paid summer research and internship placements for returning Harvard undergraduates are now open. Students selected for the program will receive a...

Applications are now open for HGHI’s paid Summer 2026 Global Health Internships & Research opportunities for returning Harvard undergrads! 🌍

🗓 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026

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Impact on Global Mental Health Care Delivery and Research - Harvard Global Health Institute At the Paul Farmer Symposium, held in November 2025 at the Harvard Medical School and organized by the non-profit co-founded by the late HMS professor Paul Farmer, Partners In Health, global health le...

More than 1B people worldwide live with a mental health condition, yet most lack adequate care. At the Paul Farmer Symposium at Harvard Medical School, leaders explored how research, innovation, and community-led models can close this gap. 🎥 bit.ly/4qaGHnc

We’re thrilled to share that our former Student Advisory Committee member and Harvard alumna, Edith “Tomi” Siyanbade, has been awarded the 2026 Marshall Scholarship! 🎉

Her work in global health spans biotechnology, vaccine design, education, and health infrastructure.

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What’s happening in global health this week?

- Who gets a say at FDA public drug-approval hearings
- Harvard Students Named Rhodes and Marshall Scholars
- West Africa experts look to the ocean to pay for climate adaptation
- Report outlines lead’s harms, costs

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What’s happening at Harvard in global health this week?
1) ‘This is it. This is exactly what I want to do.’
2) A green edge to global growth
3) Fighting Breast Cancer in Rural America
4) Richard Cash remembered as public health pioneer

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