Tracking disease at the world’s largest religious festival
The Jana Swasthya Project is using a new mobile health surveillance system to help keep the millions of visitors healthy while they’re at the festival.
Category : Faculty
Shahab Ahmed
SAI is deeply saddened to share the news that Shahab Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard, passed away.
Webinar: Understanding human life through data
SAI hosted its first webinar of the semester on September 15 titled ‘Using Cell Phones to Study Behavior: From Individuals to Entire Nations’ with JP Onnela, HSPH.
Sept 22 – Sept. 25: Rahul Roy Film Festival
The events will feature screenings and panel discussions.
The Jana Swasthya Project at the 2015 Kumbh Mela: Ushering in India’s Mobile Health Revolution
The cornerstone of the project is a unique interactive visual analytic tool that provides critical disease surveillance data to health officials in real time
Harnessing the power of communities to save lives
On September 3, TraumaLink co-founders Jon Moussally and Ryan Fu, both graduates of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, gave a lunchtime lecture at Harvard on their work in Bangladesh. They discussed how they have been able to develop the first pre-hospital...
Fall 2015 webinar series: Using Mobile Technology to Change Societies
The first webinar, on September 15, will focus on using cell phones to study behavior.
Sept. 17: Welcome Back Chaat Party
Celebrate the start of the school year with SAI!
Contemporary Developing Countries course begins
The course is co-taught by several SAI faculty who say the interdisciplinary perspective will help students develop innovative solutions to social problems.
Teaching Fellow needed: Societies of the World 47: Contemporary Developing Countries Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems
The course focuses on several categories of social and economic problems faced by developing countries with specific focus on the realms of education, health, and urbanization.
Seed for Change Competition
Grant prizes will be awarded to interdisciplinary student projects that positively impact societal, economic, and environmental issues in India
Fall course: Religion and Politics: India, 1800-2015
History 60U: Religion and Politics: India, 1800-2015 Undergraduate Seminar Instructor: Mou Banerjee (moubanerjee@fas.harvard.edu), Former SAI Graduate Student Associate Fall 2015, Tuesdays: 2-4 PM Course site Course objectives: This course is a historical...