GHP Weekly NewsletterMarch 1, 2024Welcome back to another edition of the GHP weekly newsletter! Please keep reading for new community updates, events, publications, and open opportunities in GHP.
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Giving Day is Wednesday, March 6!
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Giving Day is Wednesday, March 6! Each year, this day provides an opportunity to make a tremendous impact and advance the School’s mission to build a world where everyone can thrive. This year, Giving Day gifts will go twice as far thanks to a generous alum-led dollar-for-dollar challenge in support of student financial aid. By coming together, we can double our impact on the School and continue working toward health, dignity, and justice for every human being. Please support, elevate, and celebrate the Harvard Chan community on Giving Day and beyond! To learn more or get a head start and contribute early, visit the Giving Day website.
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2023 Takemi Memorial Award for Research in Seizon and Life Sciences Presented in Tokyo
On February 24, the Takemi Memorial Trust for Research in Seizon and Life Sciences honored Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, with the 2023 Takemi Memorial Award for Research in Seizon and Life Sciences in a commemorative symposium in Tokyo. Fineberg delivered a keynote address entitled “Mega-Challenges and International Collaboration in Science, Education, and Health.” Emeritus Professor Michael R. Reich attended the symposium as a member of the Award Selection Committee and, as part of the ceremony, presented “Ethical Principles for Planetary Health—A Preliminary Inquiry.”
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Fineberg previously served as dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, provost of Harvard University, and president of the Institute of Medicine (now the Academy of Medicine). The Takemi Award recognized him for his “international leadership in promoting interdisciplinary research and science-based policymaking in medicine, public health, social sciences, and ethics, as educator, researcher, and leader” and his “outstanding achievements in the embodiment and practice of Dr. Taro Takemi’s philosophy of Seizon and Life Sciences and decades of support for Harvard University’s Takemi Program in International Health since its inception.” For more information on the event, check out the event page or contact health@jcie.or.jp.
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Aya Goto Hosts Visitors from the Japan National Institute of Public Health
Earlier this week, Tomofumi Sone, president of the Japan National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), and Munehito Machida, MPH '05, director of the NIPH’s Department of Public Health Policy, Global Health, visited the Harvard Chan School! Their visit was part of the activities of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) Special Study Project, which aims to advise on how academia and government should work together to generate and use evidence to inform policy decisions in the event of a health crisis. They worked with Aya Goto, director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Taro Takemi Professor of the Practice of International Community Health, to interview department chair and Andelot Professor of Demography Marcia Castro and six fellows, gathering information on country-specific responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. During their two-day visit, Machida mentored two graduate students he knew from his work at the MHLW and the public health physician training provided at NIPH. Machida noted, “Through the interviews, we were able to gain a better understanding of what Japan needs to develop and improve in the future, such as IT in public health, openness of data necessary for policy making, and collaboration with international organizations.”
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Today! Career Trajectories in Public Health: Public Health Entrepreneurship
Friday, March 1 / 1–2 pm / Zoom
Join us for a conversation featuring Karen Zeribi, MHS, and Katie Donohue McMillan, MPH, moderated by Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP, visiting faculty. Karen Zeribi is the founder of Shift, a collaborative improvement organization dedicated to accelerating social change, and Katie Donohue McMillan is the CEO and founder of Well Made Health, LLC, a digital health company founded in 2020. Karen and Katie will share their experiences working in public health entrepreneurship and hold a Q&A with attendees.
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Today! Harvard Humanitarian Development and Health Diplomacy Student Association Happy Hour
Friday, March 1 / 4–6 pm / Time Out Market, 406 Park Dr.
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Global Recommendations for Small Vulnerable Newborn Feeding: Moving Recommendations to Research and Practice
Monday, March 4 / 1–2 pm / Kresge 502 or Zoom
Join the Nutrition and Global Health Program for their next monthly seminar! Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH, and Linda Vesel, PhD, MPH, will present the current challenges, global recommendations, and research priorities related to the feeding of small vulnerable newborns in low-resource settings. Katherine Semrau is the director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Linda Vesel is the scientific lead at the BetterBirth Program and a senior research scientist at Harvard Chan School.
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Takemi Program in International Health Weekly Seminar
Tuesday, March 5 / 1:30–3 pm / Building 1, Room 1208
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Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity
Wednesday, March 6 / 11 am / Zoom
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Empowering Girls in Africa: A Q&A with Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Maada Bio
Wednesday, March 6 / 11:30 am / The Studio, 10th Floor Kresge / Lunch vouchers provided
In this fireside chat, Fatima Maada Bio, first lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, will discuss the critical importance of empowering girls and women to shape Africa’s future. The discussion will be moderated by Jesse Bump, lecturer on global health policy and executive director of the Takemi Program.
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Brown Bag Seminar: Trajectories of Risk: Early Marriage Among Adolescent Girls in Displacement
Thursday, March 7 / 1–1:55 pm / Building 1, Room 1208 & Zoom
Join us for the next installment in the Brown Bag Series, featuring Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD, MPH, Palestine Program for Health & Human Rights Fellow at FXB Center for Health & Human Rights. Question? Please contact Jessica Majano.
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People’s Voice Survey Satellite Session at CUGH 2024
Thursday, March 7 / 1–4 pm / San Bernardino Room, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles
Are you attending the CUGH 2024 in Los Angeles? Join Margaret Kruk, Todd Lewis, and Patricia García for a highly participatory People’s Voice Survey satellite session! The session will be oriented around the People’s Voice survey, a new tool recently fielded in 19 high-, middle-, and low-income countries to gauge perceptions of health care quality and population confidence in the health system. Participants will learn more about key findings and practice adapting a segment of the survey for a test country, administering select survey questions, and developing key indicators and headline findings for health system stakeholders.
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A meta-analytic review of the implementation characteristics in parenting interventions to promote early child development, GHP authors: Marilyn Ahun, Nazia Binte Ali, Elizabeth Hentschel, Joshua Jeong, Emily Franchett, and Aisha K. Yousafzai, published in Annals of the New York Academy of Science
Editorial: An outlook on urobiome: advances in understanding the role of urobiome in urological health and disease and its potential in biotherapeutics, GHP author: Ramadhani Chambuso, published in Frontiers in Urology
Equity and gender mainstreaming in public policy: A scoping review protocol, GHP authors: Michelle Amri and Jesse Bump, published in PLOS One
Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution? GHP authors: Winnie Yip and William Hsiao, published in Social Science & Medicine
Perspectives on development and advancement of new tuberculosis vaccines, GHP author: Christopher da Costa, published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
The uneven distribution of medical resources for severe diseases in China: An analysis of the disparity in inter-city patient mobility, GHP alumni authors: Xiangnan Wang and Xuanyi Nie, published in Applied Geography
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Open Calls for Applications
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HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) has opened applications for the 2024–2025 HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship for junior faculty members across the University. There are two categories of awards. The research award provides $75,000 to conduct foundational research that prepares the junior faculty member to be an independent investigator or conduct exploratory work on groundbreaking questions seldom supported by traditional funding sources. The curriculum development and teaching award provides $25,000 to apply innovative pedagogy to course development and teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level. All application materials are due by 5 pm on March 8, 2024. More information can be found on the HGHI Burke Fellowship website.
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Call for Nominations: Armen H. Tashjian Jr. Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research
The Armen H. Tashjian Jr. Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research was established to recognize scholars early in their careers who are pursuing novel areas of discovery in endocrine and related areas of research. This year’s recipient will be selected from nominees who are postdoctoral fellows or research associates with an appointment at the Harvard Chan School pursuing innovative research ideas in basic biomedical science relevant to endocrinology and metabolism. The award recipient will receive a prize of $7,122 and be invited to provide an award lecture and be acknowledged at a reception on May 14. Nominations, including the candidate’s CV and a 1-page description of the nominee’s research and merit, should be submitted by the postdoc or research associate’s mentor via email to Tom Kelleher by March 8, 2024.
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International Health Systems Program Course: Strengthening Human Resources for Health
This in-person, one-week program offers the necessary tools and skills to understand, assess, and formulate effective strategies aimed at enhancing human resources for health. Throughout the course, which will take place from May 1 to 7, 2024, participants will craft a strategic plan for human resources and crisis management tailored to their country or organization's needs. Addressing the critical need for skilled health workers across all levels and the strengthening of educational and management systems, this course employs a financial perspective to achieve these objectives. Applications are due April 1, 2024. For more information, please contact ihsp@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Academic PositionsInternships and Internal Student Positions
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