GHP Weekly NewsletterApril 12, 2024We are two weeks away from the Global Health Week Symposium! Learn more and register for all of our Global Health Week events below, and keep reading for other department updates.
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GHP’s Global Health Week will be held April 22 to 26, 2024! Global Health Week 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo. The 1994 ICPD redefined population and development issues by emphasizing that the protection of individual human rights, including gender equity and reproductive health and rights, must be at the heart of population and development programs. During Global Health Week, we will analyze the ICPD’s progress and setbacks, discuss current and future priorities, and explore topics not addressed in Cairo, such as climate change and LGBTQIA+ issues.
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Faculty DebateResolved: High quality evidence about what works is the most important gap in maternal health policymaking
Monday, April 22 / 1–2 pm / Building 1, Room 1110 & Zoom
Join us for a debate featuring Assistant Professor of Global Health Kevin Croke and Associate Professor of Global Health Economics Margaret McConnell! GHP student Jioni Tuck will moderate this debate about the role of evidence in maternal health policymaking.
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Virtual ConversationShifting global health paradigms and effective advocacy: Feminists making the impossible possible in Cairo
Tuesday, April 23 / 1–2 pm / Zoom
It is widely accepted that the 1994 ICPD in Cairo changed paradigms in population policies, but it is usually forgotten that the conference also contributed to a shift of paradigms in global health: from one focused on “patients” to one focused on persons with a right to health; from a uterus-based patient perspective to a holistic approach towards women as agents with multiple needs and capabilities. At the 1994 ICPD, feminists from around the world organized themselves, created alliances, and learned the art and craft of advocacy to effectively propose new alternatives from a feminist perspective. Join Carmen Barroso, participant in the 1994 ICPD and former director of the Western Hemisphere Region of International Planned Parenthood, and Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, for a conversation about shifting population and global health paradigms and the impact of advocacy and civil society engagement.
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Movie Night“The Janes” with Jacqueline Bhabha
Wednesday, April 24 / 5–8 pm / Building 1, Room 1208
Come enjoy pizza and snacks while watching “The Janes,” an HBO documentary about an underground abortion network in 1970s Chicago. Following the screening, Jacqueline Bhabha, professor of the practice of health and human rights, will moderate discussion.
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Brown Bag Seminar“I was obligated to accept”: Coercion and autonomy in global family planning programs 30 years after Cairo
Thursday, April 25 / 1–1:55 pm / Zoom
The Global Health Week Brown Bag Seminar will be presented by Leigh Senderowicz, ScD, MPH. Leigh is an assistant professor in the department of gender and women’s studies and the department of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and coloniality. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care, health equity, and reproductive freedom.
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Global Health Week Symposium
Friday, April 26 / 1:30–5pm, reception to follow / Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Join us for the Global Health Week Symposium and Poster Day! Natalia Kanem, MD, MPH, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will present the keynote address. Then, in panel 1, “The Importance of the 1994 ICPD–Cairo,” panelists Judith Bruce, Marcia Castro, Jacqueline Pitanguy, and Steven Sinding will reflect on the significance of the 1994 ICPD. In panel 2, “Cairo +30: Old Promises and New Challenges,” Brittany Charlton, Jewel Gausman, Josh Glasser, and Ana Langer will consider topics that were insufficiently covered in Cairo and discuss how to best move forward. Marcia Castro will announce poster day awards, and a reception with posters will follow from 5 to 6:30 pm. Visit our website for the agenda and speaker bios.
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Upcoming Events
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.
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HUM SAB EK (We Are One) – Exhibition Opening and Reception
Monday, April 15 / 6 pm / Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
HUM SAB EK, We Are One, is a multi-media exhibition based on a survey of over 1,000 households in Gujarat, India, and 30 hours of oral histories. It captures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poor working women and families and how they navigated the greatest public health emergency of our times. Join the opening talk and reception with members of the research team, including project leader and curator Satchit Balsari.
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Film Screening: "Conscience Point"
Tuesday, April 16 / 1–2:30 pm / Kresge 201 & Zoom
Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee for a hybrid film screening of “Conscience Point”! This documentary explores Shinnecock activists’ efforts to fight destructive development and displacement in the Hamptons. Non-pizza lunch will be provided for in-person participants.
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Takemi Program in International Health Weekly Seminar
Tuesday, April 16 / 1:30–3 pm / Building 1, Room 1208
Join David Canning and Jesse Bump for a discussion about David’s research. David Canning is the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and professor of economics and international health. To get the most out of this seminar, please be sure to arrive on time.
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QuEST Network Seminar: Re-Centralizing Health Care in Mexico and Its Challenges
Wednesday, April 17 / 8–9 am / Zoom
Join the QuEST (Quality Evidence for Health System Transformation) Network for the second of its winter 2024 research seminars, featuring Rodrigo Bazua Lobato! This research seminar is open to all QuEST Center and affiliate researches. If you would like to be included in their distribution list, please contact project coordinator Kayleigh Lawson. We also encourage you to save the date for the third seminar to be held from 8 to 9 am on May 15, in which HwaYoung Lee will present “Regional Determinants of Quality of Care for Sick Children: A Multilevel Analysis in Four Countries.” Please share and encourage your teams to join!
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Brown Bag Seminar: UNICEF’s Mental Health Acceleration Initiative: Scaling Up & Scaling Deep Evidence-Based Child, Adolescent and Caregiver Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Thursday, April 18 / 1–1:55 pm / Zoom
Join us on Zoom for the next installment of the Brown Bag Series, featuring Zeinab Hijazi, MSc, PsyD, global lead on mental health at UNICEF Headquarters, New York. Questions? Please contact Jessica Majano.
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2024 HGHI Global Health Symposium: Partnerships in Action
Thursday, April 18 / 9 am – 4:15 pm / Cambridge, MA & Zoom
The 2024 Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) Global Health Symposium will convene some of the most thoughtful health experts across Harvard and the globe to highlight innovative, action-oriented approaches aimed at achieving global health equity. The agenda will feature conversations around financing and governance for global health, the climate and health crisis, the conflicts between research, science, and service delivery, and advancing AI for global health. David Walton, MD, MPH, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, will present the opening keynote address, and the closing keynote will be presented by Rocio Saenz, MD, executive director of the Network of the Americas for Health Equity.
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The Ethics of AI in Public Health Communication
Tuesday, April 23 / 1–1:50 pm / Kresge 502 & Zoom / Lunch provided
Join Robert Jennings and Connie Moon Sehat for a discussion of their work co-chairing the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) and National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) Ethical Use of AI in Public Health Communications Working Group. This event is presented in collaboration with the Health Communication Concentration and the Stanford Health Equity Media Fellowship.
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Open Call for Applications
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2024 Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is excited to announce that registration for the Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course is now open! The course will be offered in person from July 16 to 19, 2024, in Cambridge, MA. Visit the course website to learn more and register.
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