Call for Proposals – Deadline Approaching! Harvard faculty members are invited to apply for funding to support interdisciplinary teams addressing critical global health challenges.
🚨 Applications are due May 3, 2026, at 11:59 PM.
Apply here: globalhealth.harvard.edu/engage-with-...
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Last Thursday, our 4th Global Health Symposium convened leaders across sectors in Cambridge, MA to tackle a defining challenge: advancing health equity in a fractured, resource-constrained world.
Read the post-event article: bit.ly/4ez2diN
AI is transforming health systems, but are we measuring real impact fast enough?
Join our webinar on evaluating AI in health, from rigorous assessment frameworks to accountability in scale-up.
📅 April 24 | 9–10 AM ET | Zoom
📌 Register: bit.ly/4cTgMwq
Thank you to all of our speakers & attendees for joining the #HGHI2026Symposium. 🌍 Insightful discussions on equity, resilience, workforce & governance.
Visit Harvard Global Health Institute YouTube for recordings & highlights: www.youtube.com/@harvardglob...
Now live! Our last panel at the #HGHI2026Symposium on global health governance through a Latin American lens.
This session explores health system fragmentation, inequality, and post-pandemic challenges.
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“Global health is poetry in practice.” - Evan Wang (王潇)
We had the privilege of hearing a poetry reading by the National Youth Poet Laureate and Harvard student, Evan Wang, at the #HGHI2026Symposium reminding us that global health is lived experience, voice, and humanity.
Now live at the #HGHI2026Symposium: Training Tomorrow’s Health Workforce: The Role of Academic Partnerships in Health Systems Strengthening.
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From risk to resilience. Now live: A conversation on emergency preparedness in Africa with Dick Chamla and Louise Ivers MD, MPH at the #HGHI2026Symposium.
🎥 Join us via YouTube livestream: bit.ly/2026-Symposi...
❓ Submit questions: bit.ly/3OfWO5s
How do we make fair decisions when resources are limited?
Panel 2 at the #HGHI2026Symposium is now live: “Priority Setting, Solidarity, and Global Justice When Resources Are Scarce”.
🎥 Join us via livestream: bit.ly/2026-Symposi...
“If you want to make change at the country level, you have to simplify the architecture and put the hard questions at the center of the equation.”
Keynote Address by @sanianishtar.bsky.social, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance at the #HGHI2026Symposium.
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Now live: Keynote Address by Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
A critical perspective on global vaccination, equity, and the future of international health partnerships at the #HGHI2026Symposium.
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We’re kicking off the #HGHI2026Symposium!
Join us as Louise Ivers MD, MPH sets the stage for a day focused on equity, resilience, and global collaboration.
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❓ Submit questions: bit.ly/3OfWO5s
The 2026 Global Health Symposium hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute - @harvardgh.bsky.social - takes place tomorrow, April 16. 📆📍
2 DAYS TO GO! We hope you can join us online for our Global Health Symposium.
Register today: bit.ly/2026-Global-Health-Symposium
What's happening in global health around Harvard this week?
1) Astronaut health research aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission
2) The Inter-American Court & the Climate Fight
3) Early Herald of Cancer Cachexia
4) Clinical insight in global health policy analysis
Read more: bit.ly/m/HarvardGH_...
1 WEEK TO GO! 🚨
Tune in April 16 for our Global Health Symposium focused on Global Health Forward: Strength Through Innovation & Collective Action.
📅 9:15 AM–3:45 PM ET
🌍 Livestreamed on YouTube
Register here: bit.ly/2026-Global-...
Harvard Center for AIDS Research Request for Proposal application deadline April 15, 2026
📢 👋 RFP in HIV/AIDS for awards beginning August 1, 2026!ℹ️ Details @ mailchi.mp/harvard/fund... 🛑 @harvardgh.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @ragoninstitute.bsky.social @mgb-id-fellows.bsky.social @danafarbernews.bsky.social @fenwayhealth.bsky.social
What is happening in global health around Harvard this week?
- AI in Global Health @harvardcid.bsky.social
- Advanced statistics & AI to improve health @hsph.harvard.edu
- The Power of Eco-Machines @gsd.harvard.edu
- What a Key EPA Repeal Means @harvardmagazine.bsky.social
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#ICYMI: Our latest Global Health Coffee Session recording is available!
“Deploying AI in Global Health: Partnerships, Power & Public Value” explores how to build equitable, locally driven AI partnerships.
🎥 Watch & resources: bit.ly/4m8qMoF
Storytelling shapes the future of global health by bridging data with lived experience and policy with humanity.
Join us at #HGHI2026Symposium for a poetry reading by Evan Wang, 2025–26 National Youth Poet Laureate.
🗓 Apr 16 | 2:10–2:30 PM ET
📌 bit.ly/2026-Global-...
What is happening in global health around Harvard this week?
1) Why Is Autism More Common in Males?
2) When parents have unstable work conditions
3) Long-Term Effects of Common Viruses
4) AI-based Framework Could Explain Why Evolution Gave Many Species the Same Smell Circuit
bit.ly/m/HarvardGH_...
Across Africa, emergency preparedness is evolving through stronger systems, coordination, and lessons from past crises.
Tune in for "From Risk to Resilience" at #HGHI2026Symposium with Dick Chamla with Louise Ivers.
🗓 April 16 | 11:30 AM ET
📌 Register: bit.ly/2026-Global-...
What is happening in global health around Harvard this week?
1) Promise vs. Product
2) Did the CDC get it right during the COVID-19 pandemic?
3) Thymus may be critical to adult health
4) Student-led Africa Health Conference
Read more: bit.ly/m/HarvardGH_...
“Effective collaboration happens because you trust and believe in each other.” — Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana
We were honored to host Rwanda’s Minister of Health at Harvard last week. A powerful discussion on leadership, data, and building equitable, resilient health systems.
🚨 Call for Proposals: HGHI Scholarly Working Groups
Offering up to $20K for interdisciplinary teams tackling global health challenges. Open to Harvard faculty + affiliates.
Collaborate, generate new ideas, and drive impact in “Health for All.”
📌 Deadline: May 3, 2026
Apply: bit.ly/4cRy8dA
Latin America faces deep health inequities, fragmented systems, and growing governance challenges post-COVID.
Join us at Panel 3 of the #HGHI2026Symposium as experts explore pathways forward.
April 16 | 2:35–3:35 PM ET
Register to join via livestream: bit.ly/2026-Global-...
#ICYMI: The recording is now available for Building Cancer Research Capacity in Africa with Timothy Rebbeck, PhD. He presents an overview of the challenges & proposed solutions concerning the disproportionately high cancer burden in African populations.
Watch here: bit.ly/47bsM9s
How can AI partnerships drive equitable, locally led innovation?
Join us online March 27th for Deploying AI in Global Health: Partnerships, Power, and Public Value featuring Chinasa T. Okolo, Ph.D. & Esther Kunda.
Co-organized by the Center for Bioethics at HMS.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/4utio6N
What is happening in global health around Harvard this week?
1) Tackling Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
2) Building protection against infectious diseases with nanostructured vaccines
3) How pollutants interact inside the body to impact health
4) Why we need Black bioethics
More: bit.ly/m/HarvardGH_...
How do collaborative training models, cross-institutional partnerships, & context-responsive education help expand and sustain the health workforce? Panelists will explore lessons from global health and medical education initiatives.
globalhealth.harvard.edu/symposium/20...
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