GHP NewsletterJune 28, 2024We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! Please keep reading for new community updates, events, publications, and open opportunities in GHP.
Our next issue will be sent out on Friday, July 26. If there is anything you’d like to see included in subsequent issues of the GHP weekly newsletter, please reach out to us at ghp@hsph.harvard.edu. We’d love to hear from you!
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2024 Executive Leadership Program on Early Childhood Development
Earlier this month, forty policymakers from Brazil traveled to Cambridge to learn about early childhood development. From June 10 to 14, Andelot Professor of Demography Marcia Castro and Professor of Child Development and Health Aisha Yousafzai led the first module of the Executive Leadership Program on Early Childhood Development, a collaboration with Núcleo Ciênca Pela Infância (NCPI), the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation, the Van Leer Foundation, Insper, and Porticus. Over the course of the week, participants learned from experts in early childhood development, worked in groups to share their experiences from different government sectors and ministries, and collaborated to develop action plans for their local communities. In the next module, participants will spend three months developing and implementing their action plans in their communities before meeting for a final module in São Paulo to share their findings and conclude the course.
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Dorit Stein Featured on Harvard Center for International Development Blog
The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) recently featured a blog post by Dorit Stein, Aliyi Walimbwa, and Freddie Ssengooba about their ongoing work in Uganda. Dorit, a PhD student in GHP, works with these colleagues from Makerere University and the Ugandan Ministry of Health to create a participatory simulation modeling exercise to examine the potential effects of Uganda’s proposed National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). To learn more about the NHIS and Dorit’s research, check out the CID blog post.
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Janaina Calu Costa Receives 2024 Dame Valerie Beral Fellowship
Janaina Calu Costa, a postdoctoral fellow in GHP, received the 2024 Dame Valerie Beral Fellowship! The fellowship, awarded by the International Epidemiological Association (IEA), provides support for early career epidemiologists to attend the World Congress of Epidemiology, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from September 24 to 27, 2024. Congratulations, Janaina!
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New Resource: eShipGlobal
Harvard Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), and Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) are rolling out a new online platform, eShipGlobal, to better manage research, hazardous, and international shipments and enable compliance with safety and export regulations. eShipGlobal is integrated with the Buy2Pay system and will allow purchasers to search and compare pricing for various shipping services. Training is recommended for all shippers and may be required depending on the types of materials one ships. For more information, check out the eShipGlobal knowledge base or visit drop-in office hours on Tuesdays at 1:30–2 pm (Zoom link) and Thursdays at 11:30 am–12 pm (Zoom link).
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Building a Better Response Project Launches Portuguese Course
The Building a Better Response (BBR) Project has released an emergency response version of the BBR eLearning course in Portuguese in solidarity with the communities in Brazil that have been affected by flooding. The course is free of charge and designed to increase the capacity of local humanitarian actors to respond to disasters. To learn more and register for the course, visit the BBR website.
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National Institutes of Health Request for Information
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Office of Global Health & Health Disparities (OGHHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have issued a request for information regarding key knowledge gaps, research needs, and opportunities to guide global health activities in neurological diseases and disorders, particularly pertaining to research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Learn more about the request for information and submit your responses by July 1, 2024.
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Upcoming Events
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.
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Dissertation Defense: Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
Wednesday, July 17 / 2 pm / Building 1, Room 1208 & Zoom
The PhD in Population Health Science & Global Health and Population Field of Study are proud to announce the dissertation defense of PhD candidate Byron Cohen! For those unable to attend in person, the defense can be viewed on Zoom with the password Summer2024.
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Open Calls for Applications
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Deadline extended! Global Perspectives on Decentralized Health Systems
This one-week course, which runs from August 5 to 9, 2024, explores the development and implementation of effective health care decentralization policies. Participants will learn to identify which functions benefit from decentralization and understand the necessary capacities at both subnational and national levels to ensure success. The course will be led by Thomas J. Bossert, senior lecturer on global health policy, emeritus. Please reach out to ihsp@hsph.harvard.edu with any questions and visit the International Health Systems Program (IHSP) website for more information. Applications are due July 12, 2024.
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High Quality Health Systems: Assessing Performance and Improving at Scale
This one-week course will run from October 21 to 25, 2024 and will review the conceptual frameworks of health systems and quality of care and discuss how these can be used to organize measurement and performance assessment. This course will be led by Margaret Kruk, professor of health systems, and Diana Bowser, associate dean for research and integrated science at the Boston College Connell School of Nursing. The application deadline is September 1, 2024. Visit the IHSP website to apply, and please reach out to ihsp@hsph.harvard.edu if you have any questions.
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2025–2026 HBNU Fogarty Global Health Fellowship
The HBNU Fogarty Global Health Training Program provides one-year mentored research fellowship opportunities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for PhD candidates, medical students, and postdoctoral candidates from the U.S. and LMICs. The program supports research in areas of interest including HIV/AIDS, non-communicable diseases, mental health, maternal and child health and nutrition, and more. Please visit the fellowship website to learn more, and if you have any questions, please contact coordinator Lizi Fine or PI Wafaie Fawzi. The application deadline is October 1, 2024.
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