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Event Topic : Global Health

Primary Health Care Reforms in India: Field Lessons from Early Implementation

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Thu, Dec 5, 2019 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET

Location: Kresge G3, HSPH, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Rajani R. Ved is the Executive Director of National Health Systems Resource Centre in India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and a Visiting Scientist at HSPH. For over ten years, she led the establishment and institutionalization of India’s ASHA community health worker program. Currently, she […]

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Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World

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Tue, Dec 4, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:30pm, ET

“Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World”, an event jointly organized by The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Harvard Global Health Institute and presented in New Delhi, examined the connections between human, animal and environmental health, and the response to disease outbreaks in India.

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Tackling Fluorosis: Innovative technology as a solution to the spreading health crisis

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Thu, Sep 27, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

Join us for our ongoing India Seminar Series to discuss the growing challenge of Water Fluorosis, in a discussion titled, ‘Tackling Fluorosis: Innovative technology as a solution to the spreading health crisis’ There are about 66 million people in India suffering from toxic levels of fluoride in their drinking water, these are mostly poor people […]

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Outlook for public health spending in India and the role of non-health sectors in improving health

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Wed, Mar 25, 2015 from 12:30pm — 01:30pm, ET

SAI Global Health Event  Ramanan Laxminarayan, Vice President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India; Director, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington DC; Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University Professor Laxminarayan is Vice President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India. He is an economist and […]

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Health and Human Rights in Burma

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Wed, Feb 25, 2015 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

SAI Global Health Event Thomas Vallely, Senior Advisor, Mainland Southeast Asia, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School Dr. Cynthia Maung, Director, Mae Tao Clinic, Thai-Burmese Border Dr. Parveen K. Parmar, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Community Partners International Phyu Phyu Saan, Senior Researcher, Global Justice Center, New York Chair: Arthur Kleinman, Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Esther and Sidney Rabb […]

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Slum Health: Suffering and Survival in a Setting of Legal Exclusion

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Wed, May 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

A billion people, or one-seventh of the world’s population, now live in slums in developing country cities. Mumbai, India, possibly has the world’s largest population of slum dwellers: 50-60% of its population lives in informal settlements on <9% of the city’s land area. A significant proportion of those slum residents live in “non-notified” settlements that […]

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India’s Health System: Recent Findings and Developments

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Mon, Apr 14, 2014 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

Global Health Seminar ‘Indian healthcare: Reforms, results and road ahead’ Sofi Bergkvist, Managing Director, ACCESS Health International ‘Open Secret : Parallel Systems and Human Resource Management in India’s Public Health Service: A View from the Front Lines’ Jerry La Forgia, Lead Health Specialist, World Bank Chair: Peter Berman, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and […]

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Let’s Talk About Equity: Coverage of Maternal and Child Health Interventions in India

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Mon, Apr 7, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Global Health Seminar Diego Bassani, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Chair: SV Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Cosponsored with the Center for Population Development Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 […]

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Art and the Science of Facial Surgery

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Fri, Mar 14, 2014 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Global Health Seminar Dr. Paul C. Salins, Medical Director & Vice President, Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center and Narayana Hrudayalaya Multi Specialty Hospital Chair: Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University For more than 30 years, Dr. Salins has modified, rebuilt and deconstructed faces, some to create harmony, others to restore normalcy, and few to meet […]

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China and India in the Context of Global Mental Health

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Wed, Mar 5, 2014 from 04:15pm — 05:45pm, ET

Global Health Seminar Dr. Michael Phillips, Director, Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine; Executive Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine. Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental […]

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