In this presentation, Dr. Azza Idris will discuss how insights from protective human monoclonal antibodies are informing the development of next-generation malaria vaccines, including approaches to de...

The Harvard Global Health Institute’s (HGHI) monthly newsletter, Global Health in Focus, examines the evolving landscape of global health, highlighting important and emerging issues that call for atte...

Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and clinician-educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, reflects on his Burke Fellowship experience and his ongoing work advancing community-centered health systems and global health equity. A 2018 Burke Fellow, Dr. Palazuelos developed a curriculum project exploring multimedia teaching in global health and social medicine, including animated video, 360° video, and virtual reality as tools to deepen learner engagement and transform medical education. His work spans academic medicine and implementation practice through roles at HMS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Partners In Health, where he has helped design and scale community-based health system initiatives across multiple settings. In this conversation, he also reflects on his leadership within the Office for Community-Centered Medical Education, where he continues to advance partnerships between medical students, faculty, and community-based organizations in Boston neighborhoods, strengthening experiential and community-engaged medical education. His Burke Fellowship project focused on building a suite of immersive teaching tools—ranging from animated social medicine content to VR/360° experiences designed to foster empathy and systems thinking in global health training. A featured example includes collaboration with PIVOT, highlighting the ethical and pedagogical opportunities of immersive storytelling in global health education. 🔗 Learn more: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/harvard-medical-school-students-boston-community-organizers-learn-together https://occme.hms.harvard.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hdDTZyGWQw https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/multi-media-teaching-in-global-health-and-social-medicine-final-takeaways-from-2018-burke-fellow-daniel-palazuelos/ 🔗 Learn more about the Burke Global Health Fellowship: https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/fellowships/hghi-burke-fellowship/

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Low-cost approaches for detecting antimicrobial resistance in bacterial infections in resource-limited settings: a scoping review

At a recent Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) LEAD Fellowship alumni workshop, 16 women leaders from across regions and sectors came together to explore what effective leadership looks like in gl...

From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year.

Across a four-part virtual discussion series convened by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) in partnership with the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School this spring, experts from aca...

This summer, nine Harvard undergraduates spent eight weeks immersed in global health research through the Harvard Global Health Institute’s Summer Undergraduate Research in Global Health (SURGH) progr...

New faculty-led working groups will examine university student mental health across cultures, explore housing and health security in Arctic communities, and advance lifesaving postpartum hemorrhage ca...

Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.

PAHO Director calls for expanded access to innovations such as oral and injectable PrEP, rapid testing, and HIV self-testing, while strengthening early diagnosis and timely treatment initiation to adv...

Recently named the undergraduate poster winner at the Harvard Global Health Institute’s (HGHI) 2026 Student Global Health Research Showcase, and a soon-to-be Fulbright Scholar heading to Germany this ...

South African biomedical researchers are spearheading new approaches to catalyze drug discovery and manufacturing

At a recent Harvard Learn, Engage, Advance, Disrupt (LEAD) Fellowship alumni workshop, 12 fellows from 10 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America joined Satchit Balsari, HGHI Steering...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated El Salvador as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of blindness.

We need to urgently build the extreme heat technology stack. Leaders need to be equipped with the knowledge of the different technology solutions.

Symposium explores evolving roles of U.S., HMS amid rapid change

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Sebastian Mocarquer with the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team about the search for earthquake survivors trapped under the rubble.

The Harvard Global Health Institute is now accepting applications for the 2026–2027 cohort of the Visiting Research Scholarship Program, which provides funding for a 6-week in-residence experience at ...

In Ituri, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), misinformation is raising the risk that Ebola patients and their contacts remain hidden from health teams.

In the recent Research & Innovation Speaker Series talk, “Combining Evidence from Observational Studies and Population Surveys to Better Predict Cardiovascular Disease Risk,” Goodarz Danaei, MD, Berna...

Health workers responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are working closely with local communities, recognising that trust is as critical as testing and treatment, to s...

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An Ebola outbreak circulating undetected for weeks or months is a collective failure of global health security, regardless of cause

At a recent symposium, malaria researchers from Harvard Chan School and beyond discussed the disease's history, current challenges, and breakthroughs.

SONA Global Academy - Advancing surgical education and innovation for all

This discussion examines whether AI can meaningfully strengthen global health systems by addressing challenges such as workforce shortages, delayed diagnostics, fragmented data systems, and outbreak p...

The Harvard Global Health Institute is proud to announce the launch of the HGHI Summer Research and Internship Program for 2026. This summer, 43 undergraduate students begin immersive research and int...

Below, Yonatan Grad, physician-scientist and infectious disease epidemiologist and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, and Director of the Cente...

“To come here is to really show to the community that they’re not alone," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at the airport late Thursday.

The Harvard Global Health Institute is pleased to announce the 2026–2027 cohort of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC), a 13-member undergraduate leadership group that will serve from Fall 2026 throu...

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is pleased to announce its 2025–2026 Visiting Research Scholar, Dr. Bartholomew Ondigo. The Visiting Research Scholars Program provides Harvard faculty with ...

In this presentation, Dr. Goodarz Danaei will discuss emerging approaches to cardiovascular risk prediction and prevention, including the use of causal inference methods and nationally representative ...

Alae Aboussad spent her undergraduate years exploring how structural and social factors shape health outcomes across communities and countries. Concentrating in Applied Mathematics on the Psychology t...

Hugh Hankenson spent his undergraduate years exploring how policy, law, and social systems shape access to health care worldwide. Through leadership roles with the Harvard Global Health Institute and ...

This session examines the state of AI in global health through a central question: What structural challenges does global health face, which of those can AI realistically help address, under what cond...

In this talk, Professor Yonatan Grad presents recent advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of gonorrhea, and discusses emerging frameworks for optimizing implementation and rollout stra...

Whether, when and for how long pandemic Vibrio cholerae forms long-term environmental reservoirs remains uncertain. We propose a new framework to evaluate possible mechanisms by which the pathogen mi...

The 2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase, held in partnership with the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, brought together an ...