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Wafaie Fawzi
HSPH
The department’s research and teaching is organized into three broad clusters, with Global Health Methods underlying all: Global Health Systems, Population and Family Health, Humanitarian Studies, Ethics and Human Rights.
Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Infectious Diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases, Demography and Population Dynamics, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Migration, Aging
Jennifer Leaning, Arlan Fuller, Jacqueline Bhabha
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (Harvard FXB) envisions a world that fulfills the health and human rights of all peoples and protects them from injustices imposed by discrimination, poverty, conflict, and disaster.
Health and Human Rights, Migration, Disaster Response and Preparedness, Humanitarian Crisis
Lisa Berkman, Jason Beckfield
HSPH
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies’ mission is to improve well-being around the world by better understanding the interaction of demographic changes with social and economic development. Our goal is to produce population-based evidence that will better inform policies needed to create healthy and resilient societies.
Demography and Population Dynamics
Sue Goldie, Stephen Resch
HSPH
The mission of the Center for Health Decision Science is to promote more informed and systematic decision making in the use of health-related technologies and public health practices both in the U.S. and worldwide, through the theory and application of decision science. At the heart of the Center is our creative and committed community, consisting of faculty, visiting scholars, researchers, fellows, staff, students and trainees.
Health Infrastructure
Paul E. Farmer, Jennifer S. Puccetti
HMS
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine applies social science and humanities research to constantly improve the practice of medicine, the delivery of treatment, and the development of health care policies locally and worldwide. Major efforts include developing the science of global health delivery implementation; advancing equity in health care delivery; and educating students and researchers on biosocial determinants of disease, health care delivery, and responsible practice of medicine. The Department is the central structure to help organize global health activities, especially medical education experiences, at Harvard Medical School.
Social Determinants of Health, Health Infrastructure, Health and Human Rights, Health Services Delivery, Health Equity, Medical Ethics, Medical Education and Training
Robert D. Truog, Christine Mitchell, Edward M. Hundert, Rebecca Weintraub Mendel, Mildred Z. Solomon
HMS
The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics was launched to ensure that values and ethics are always part of medical training, laboratory and clinical research, and professional education. The Center’s mission is to bring together the rich intellectual resources of the medical school faculty with health professionals and scientists from our affiliated teaching hospitals, departments across Harvard, and colleagues from other institutions worldwide to ensure that scientific progress, medical therapeutics and health care practices proceed hand-in-hand with reflection about the profound moral questions raised by advances in the life sciences.
Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Technology and Health, Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Medical Education and Training
Sue J. Goldie
Jane R. Barrow
HSDM
The Office of Global and Community Health is responsible for developing, promoting, and sustaining initiatives in oral public health domestically and around the globe. As the home of the HSDM Global Oral Health Initiative, the Office is working with HSDM faculty and students to refine the School’s vision for global health and to coordinate its many outreach programs and curricular offerings. Such efforts include working with faculty to incorporate global health into the curriculum at the pre- and postdoctoral levels, to increase externship and research opportunities, and to integrate oral health into the Harvard University Initiative on Global Health.
Health Infrastructure, Asia, Oral Health, Medical Education and Training, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Kuwait, Mexico, Rwanda, Vietnam
Gina McCarthy, Joseph Allen, Aaron Bernstein
HSPH
The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE) translates innovative research from faculty and students across the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to inform actions that improve public health today and create a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for all.
Environment and Health, Climate Change, Sustainability
Mark C. Elliott, Richard D. McCullough, Heather A. McPherson, Krishna G. Palepu, Leah Rosovsky, Yi Wang
The Harvard Global Institute supports research initiatives that deepen Harvard’s international engagement and promote University-wide scholarship to address pressing global challenges such as climate change, migration, and transnational relations.
Environment and Health, Demography and Population Dynamics, Migration, Climate Change
Ricardo Hausmann, Andrea Carranza
HKS
The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. CID is Harvard's leading research hub focusing on how best to generate stable, shared, and sustainable prosperity in developing countries. Our ongoing mission is to apply knowledge to and revolutionize the world of development practice.
Health Infrastructure, Development
Bruce D. Walker, Facundo Batista
MGH, MIT, Harvard
The Ragon Institute was officially established in February 2009 at MGH, MIT and Harvard with a dual mission: to contribute to the accelerated discovery of an HIV/AIDS vaccine and to establish itself as a world leader in the collaborative study of immunology.
Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDs, vaccines
Dyann Wirth
HSPH
The Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) was formed in 1997 when the Departments of Cancer Biology, Molecular and Cellular Toxicology, and Tropical Public Health were merged. The department focuses on the biological, immunological, epidemiological, and ecological aspects of viral, bacterial, and protozoan diseases of animals and humans, including the vectors that transmit infectious agents.
Infectious Diseases, Environment and Health,
Bruce D. Walker
The Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (HU CFAR) provides research, education and training opportunities to HU CFAR members across Harvard University and its affiliates through services that are in direct response to member needs. The goals of the HU CFAR have resulted from twenty five years of commitment to AIDS research, education, and patient care. Areas of study by NIH-funded HU CFAR investigators include molecular virology, pathogenesis, host immune responses, epidemiology, treatment, vaccines and prevention.
Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Vaccines
Salmaan Keshavjee
HMS
Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai is addressing some of the most pressing health challenges in the region by focusing on research, medical education, and training that promises to improve health care delivery systems and patient outcomes for diseases prevalent in the United Arab Emirates, Middle East, North Africa, and neighboring regions in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The Center, established by Harvard Medical School in Boston and Dubai in 2014, is a hub for policy formulation and analysis that is optimizing the last phase of health care delivery, ensuring that care providers have the systems and tools necessary to alleviate human suffering caused by disease. The Center does not provide patient care but focuses exclusively on research and training.
Middle East, Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Medical Education and Training, Health Services Delivery
Marc Lipsitch, Caroline Buckee
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is focused on improving methods for mathematical modeling and statistical inference on infectious disease data, engagement with policy makers to use the results of transmission dynamic studies to improve decisions, and outreach to multiple constituencies to provide education about communicable disease dynamics, tools for their analysis, and opportunities for interaction with scientists in the field.
Infecious Diseases
Robert Greenwald, Emily Broad Leib, Kevin Costello
HLS
The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) advocates for legal, regulatory, and policy reforms to improve the health of underserved populations, with a focus on the needs of low-income people living with chronic illnesses and disabilities. CHLPI works with consumers, advocates, community-based organizations, health and social services professionals, food providers and producers, government officials, and others to expand access to high-quality healthcare and nutritious, affordable food; to reduce health disparities; to develop community advocacy capacity; and to promote more equitable and effective healthcare and food systems.
Health and Human Rights, Nutrition, Health Infrastructure, Food security, health equity, community health development, health systems
Food security, health equity, community health development, health systems
I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar
HLS
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School was founded in 2005 through a generous gift from Joseph H. Flom and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation. The Center’s founding mission was to promote interdisciplinary analysis and legal scholarship in these fields. Today, the Center has grown into a leading research program dedicated to the unbiased legal and ethical analysis of pressing questions facing health policymakers, medical professionals, patients, families, and others who influence and are influenced by health care and the health care system.
Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Bioethics, Health Policy
Louise Ivers, Shelly Amira
Mass General Global Health aims to improve health among the most vulnerable in our global community by leveraging the Massachusetts General Hospital 200-year legacy of innovation in medical care, education and scientific discovery. Massachusetts General Hospital works to build, improve and sustain health care delivery and healthier communities. Mass General Global Health extends the Mass General mission by supporting the global entrepreneurship of our clinical staff, students, and administrators to improve health among the most vulnerable around the world.
Health and Human Rights, Technology and Health, Health Infrastructure, Humanitarian Crisis, Primary Care, Disaster Response, Primary Care, Humanitarian Crisis, LMICs, Health Systems, Health Policy
Jack P. Shonkoff
The Center on the Developing Child’s diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and development) platform for science-based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and even demands change. We do this because society pays a huge price when children do not reach their potential, because half a century of policies and programs have not produced breakthrough outcomes, and because dramatic advances in science are ready to be used to achieve a promising future for every child.
Child Health and Development, Early Childhood Development, Innovation,
Daniel P. Schrag, Peter Huybers
The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) encourages research and education about the environment and its many interactions with human society. Through a variety of grants and fellowships, the Center supports research related to the environment at every level. By sponsoring symposia, public lectures, and informal student convocations, the Center connects people with an interest in the environment. The Center is also home to the undergraduate Environmental Science and Public Policy concentration, and the Ph.D. level Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment. HUCE does not grant degrees.
Environment and Health, Climate Change
Anthony Saich
HKS
The Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation advances excellence and innovation in governance and public policy through research, education, and public discussion. By training the very best leaders, developing powerful new ideas, and disseminating innovative solutions and institutional reforms, the Center’s goal is to meet the profound challenges facing the world’s citizens. The Ford Foundation is a founding donor of the Center.
Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Policy
HKS (Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation)
The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia convenes leaders from the academic, policymaking, business, and student communities committed to enhancing public policy research and teaching on Asia. The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia works to deepen understanding of the region, explore possibilities for innovation, and advance important initiatives that will affect millions of lives in Asia.
Asia, Health Infrastructure
Ash Carter, Eric Rosenbach
HKS
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy.
Health Infrastructure, Environment and Health, Techology and Health, Health Sector Reform, Health Systems
David Gergen, Dana H. Born, Barbara Best
HKS
Since its founding in 2000 with a generous gift from Leslie and Abigail Wexner, the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has worked to prepare its students to exercise leadership in a world responding to a rapidly expanding array of economic, political, and social challenges.
Health Infrastructure, Health Policy, Health Systems
David T. Ellwood
HKS
Health Infrastructure
Michael E. Chernew
HMS
The Mission of the Healthcare Markets & Regulation Lab is to provide the critical evidence, analyses and tools necessary to support private and public sector innovations that promote high quality health care at a sustainable cost. We seek to identify and perform feasible, transformative research to address critical and timely gaps in knowledge, and to engage policy makers and industry stakeholders in identifying, implementing, and accomplishing meaningful and lasting change. Lab research is intended to support evidence-based legislation and regulation, and to encourage the spread of evidence-based practices in the private sector.
Health Infrastructure, Health Policy, Healthcare Economics, Financing, Insurance, Medicaid, Quality Measurement
Michael VanRooyen
The mission of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is to conduct research and education on the practice of relieving human suffering in war and disaster by advancing the science and practice of humanitarian response worldwide. HHI’s aim is to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by conducting interdisciplinary, practice-based research and education that can be used by scholars, policymakers, NGOs, and others to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in order to: improve the effectiveness of humanitarian strategies for relief, protection, and prevention; instill human rights principles and practices in these strategies; and educate and train the next generation of humanitarian leaders.
Health and Human Rights, Disaster Response, Humanitarian Crisis
The Health Care Initiative impacts managerial practice and the pace of innovation by educating leaders and innovators who aspire to improve value across the health care industry. The Initiative fosters and promotes faculty research, supports the development of a portfolio of high-impact educational programs, and creates an interconnected HBS health care community.
Health Infrastructure, Healthcare Management, Health Systems
William C. Hsiao
HSPH
The Program in Health Care Financing seeks to develop a systematic framework for the evaluation of health systems, as well as perform interdisciplinary research focusing on the relationship between economic development and health. The Program has a small core staff and operates through collaborations with investigators elsewhere at Harvard and at other sites throughout the world.
Health Infrastructure, Healthcare Economics, Financing, Health Systems, Economic Development
Robert J. Blendon
HSPH
The Harvard Opinion Research Program has played a key role in over 300 public opinion surveys on health and social policy in the U.S. and nearly 30 other countries. The Program is unique in its effort to assess people’s attitudes in relationship to their knowledge, values, and experiences.
HMS, FAS
The Program in Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology is one of the core academic programs in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Medical anthropology is a subdiscipline of social anthropology focused on studies of illness, healing, medical care, and biotechnologies across societies. Research topics include Studies of Contemporary Modes of Subjectivity and Human Experience; Violence, Suffering and Humanitarian Interventions; Moral Dimensions of Medicine, Illness, and Global Health; Cultural Studies of Biomedicine and Emerging Biotechnologies; Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care Disparities; Anthropologies of Infectious Diseases and Global Health Delivery; Anthropological Studies of Major Mental Illness, Stigma, and Mental Health Services
Non-Communicable Diseases, Social Determinants of Health, Health and Human Rights, Health Equity, Mental Health, Race, Ethnicity, Humanitarian Crisis, Medical Ethics
HMS, FAS
The Harvard Program in the History of Medicine is an inter-faculty program jointly sponsored by the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The Program is strongly committed to teaching and research that places the development of medical knowledge and practice into broad social and cultural contexts. In recent years, the field of the history of medicine has undergone an important transformation.
History of Medicine
HMS, FAS
Cultural and Social Studies of Biomedicine emphasize social science research on the culture and political economy of the profession of medicine and health care globally and locally. Current research addresses critical issues in American medicine and health care as well as in global medicine and health systems. Recent research programs on American medicine address issues of disparities and inequalities in medical and psychiatric treatment and care; a major project examines the response of psychiatry’s institutions of training and care to increasingly culturally and economically diverse patient populations. Research on mental health interventions in post-tsunami, post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia, addresses how psychiatric care is to be provided in contexts of high need yet extreme scarcity of trained clinicians. Additional comparative projects address a myriad of challenges to educating and training 21st century physicians, globally and in the United States, including end of life care for patients.
Health Infrastructure, Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental Health, Health Systems,
Cindy Liu, Maria Henriksen, Sylvie Wong, Dorothy Chyung, Emily Wu, Hannah Zwiebel, Jenny Phan, Amie Kang, Jobi Yeung, Andrea Yessaillian
HMS, BIDMC
The Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program examines the role of stress and culture on the mental and emotional health of children and families.
Child Health and Development, Non-Communicable Diseases, Maternal Health, Asia, Latina America and the Caribbean, South America, Stress, Mental Health, China, Brazil
Tracy A. Balboni, Michael J Balboni, Tyler VanderWeele
The Initiative aims to be a research catalyst for an integrated model of spirituality, public health and patient care, one that fosters collaboration across Harvard University, and dialogue with spiritual communities. In light of the separation between body and soul within contemporary healthcare, the Initiative upholds stringent scientific and social-scientific methods of analysis, followed by interdisciplinary teams of empirical researchers, scholars, and theologians, based within a line of inquiry that seeks understanding of spirit, mind, and body.
