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Fogarty Global Health Training Program	HSPH (GHP)	Boston University School of Public Health, Norwestern Medicine, University of New Mexico	The HBNU Fogarty Global Health Training Program offers 12-month mentored research fellowships in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) designed to address some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. The fellowship is available to U.S. pre- and post-doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral fellows from LMICs.	Non-Communicable Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Maternal Health, Child Health and Development, LMICs, HIV/AIDS, Mental Health, Research Methods
International Health Systems Program	HSPH (GHP)		The International Health Systems Program (IHSP) in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health is a multidisciplinary team of faculty, scholars, and experts working to improve health care systems in developing countries to improve health and living standards for the poor and disadvantaged. IHSP brings together economics, clinical and public health science, politics, ethics and management to increase knowledge of how health systems work; through research; share this knowledge through teaching, training, technical dissemination and publications; and apply this knowledge by providing technical assistance improving the health status of those most in need.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Economics, Health Policy, Health Management
Lown Scholars Program			The Lown Scholars Program was established in honor of Dr. Bernard Lown, a world-renowned cardiologist and activist, whose career has advanced public health globally. The Program is designed to create an international cadre of talented health professionals who will use public health tools and strategies to prevent cardiovascular diseases and promote cardiovascular health in developing countries, as defined by the United Nations.	Non-Communicable Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases
Nutrition and Global Health Program			The Nutrition and Global Health Program is a collaborative effort between the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Global Health and Population, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and conducting research about nutrition in a global context. The group has a particular focus on the relationship between nutrition and infectious and noncommunicable diseases, nutrition and human growth and economic development, nutrition in humanitarian crisis situations, and also the dynamic interplay between epidemiologic, nutritional, and demographic transitions around the globe.	Nutrition, Health Infrastructure, Demography and Population Dynamics, Health and Human Rights, Non-Communicable Disease, Infectious Disease, Humanitarian Crisis, Development
Program on the Global Demography of Aging			The Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) at Harvard University, led by David E. Bloom, received funding from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health to carry out research on important themes related to global aging and health, with an emphasis on issues in the developing world. A key overarching theme focuses the expertise available at various schools at Harvard toward one of the pressing health questions of global aging, namely understanding the changing patterns of adult morbidity and mortality, including their measurements and causes, demographic and economic implications, and policies and programs for addressing and mitigating such implications.	Demography and Population Dynamics, Aging, Mortality, Epidemiology
Takemi Program in International Health			The Takemi Program in International Health seeks to improve health and health systems around the world by welcoming mid-career health professionals and scholars to the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health to conduct path breaking research and develop their leadership skills. Takemi Fellows examine problems of mobilizing, allocating, and managing scarce resources to improve health, and of designing effective strategies for disease control and prevention and health promotion, with a focus on low and middle-income countries.	Health Infrastructure, Health Policy, Research Methods
Program on Human Rights and Development	HSPH		The Program on Human Rights in Development (PHRD) is concerned with the realization of human rights in the context of poverty reduction and development strategies. Through teaching, research and publications, PHRD seeks to deepen understanding of the economic, legal, political, and ethical issues involved in integrating human rights into policies and programs of development.	Health and Human Rights, Health Infrastructure, Technology and Health, Tobacco Control, Development, Technological Innovation, Health Policy
Cancer Risk and Disparities Program	DF/HCC	DFCI, HMS, BIDMC, Children's, BWH, HSPH, MGH	The DF/HCC Cancer Risk and Disparities Program supports research that will lead to a reduction of cancer risk and disparities across the lifespan. The Program’s role is to elucidate underlying reasons certain individuals and populations bear excess risk of cancer and to devise interventions to lower risk.	Non-Communicable Diseases, Cancer, Cancer Risk
Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program	HSPH, HKS, GSE	Big Win Philanthropy, Gates Foundation, GE Foungation, Merck KGaA	The Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program is designed to enhance leadership effectiveness and political acumen, and develop planning and execution capacity among Ministers. It supports them to pursue bold human development goals, particularly where these leaders represent geographies that are experiencing large growth in their child and adolescent populations.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Policy
Science, Religion and Culture Program	Ahmed Ragab \| HDS		The Science, Religion, and Culture Program (SRC) at Harvard Divinity School conducts interdisciplinary research and convenes forums to inform public and scholarly conversations on the interaction of scientific, religious, and cultural constructs around the world. Focusing on the anthropological, historical, philosophical, and theological dimensions, SRC investigate science and religion beyond given categories, carefully unpacking the production and consumption of these discourses and their interactions in many different socio-historical contexts.	Environment and Health, Technology and Health, Medical Ethics
Global Infectious Disease Summer Program	Edward Ryan, Rocio Hurtado, James Maguire		This program is designed for students, public health officers, clinicians, and scientists who are seeking advanced training in infectious diseases that disproportionally affect individuals in resource-limited areas, especially in issues of control and prevention.	Infectious Diseases, Vector-Borne Illnesses
Program in Health Systems Strengthening and Social Change	HMS			Health Infrastructure, Health Systems
Program in Global Surgery and Social Change	HMS		The Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) is a collaborative effort between the Harvard teaching hospitals, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Partners In Health (PIH). Our strategy is two-fold: Global Surgical Systems Strengthening through Research, Advocacy, and Implementation Science, using the Framework of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery; and To Produce Leaders in Global Surgical and Health Systems through Research, Advocacy, and Care Delivery. Through the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowships and Research Associate positions, it aims to empower surgeons, surgical trainees and medical students around the world with the skills they need to improve the health of some of the world's most impoverished people.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Quality, Surgery, Medical Education and Training
Program in Global Health Policy and Social Change	HMS		The Program in Global Health Policy and Social Change aims to help develop the needed partnerships among the fields of global health, public policy, and diplomacy.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Policy, Medical Education and Training
Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change	Andrew Ellner \| HMS		The Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change takes a multidisciplinary approach to innovating new approaches to primary health care delivery and training, engaging experts from a variety of disciplines, including behavioral economics, management science, and systems engineering. We seek new models of care delivery that effectively, efficiently, and equitably serve all people, and models of training that enable students to develop skills in management, program design, and advocacy that will help them lead the health systems of the future.	Health Infrastructure, Primary Care, Health Services Delivery, Medical Education and Training
Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change	Gene Bukhman \| HMS		The Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change (PGNCDSC), housed in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, brings together scholars, researchers, educators, and health care practitioners to address the endemic noncommunicable disease and injury (NCDI) burden of the world’s poorest people.	Non-Communicable Diseases, Diabetes, Cancer, Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, Mental Health
Program in Global Newborn Health and Social Change	Sadath Sayeed \| HMS		The Program in Global Newborn Health and Social Change, housed within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is an interdisciplinary initiative that seeks not merely to understand, but also to solve, some of the most pressing health-related challenges facing infants born into adverse social circumstances.	Child Health and Development, Neonatal Health
Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change	Giuseppe Raviola \| HMS		The Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change, housed in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, brings together scholars, researchers, educators, and health care practitioners to address the global burden of mental disorders, with a focus on improving and expanding mental health care to those who live on less than one dollar per day.	Non-Communicable Diseases, Depression, Substance Abuse, Schizophrenia, Anxiety Disorders, Dementia, Bipolar Disorder
Program in Global Medical Education and Social Change	Joia S. Mukherjee \| HMS		The Program in Global Medical Education and Social Change, housed within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School seeks to forge long-term academic partnerships to support the education of health professionals and to create a culture of teaching and training in public sector facilities in resource-limited settings that will serve as the nexus of teaching and scholarship for the emerging discipline of global health for decades to come.	Health Infrastructure, Medical Education and Training
Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change	Mercedes Becerra \| HMS		The Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change brings together clinicians, anthropologists, epidemiologists, and public health specialists, who approach the study of infectious diseases from the vantage point of multiple and complementary disciplines. Investigators apply ethnographic and other social science methods to understand these diseases and the responses to them at the local and global levels—from the experience of patients and families confronting illness and inadequate health care to the construction of national and global health policies.	Infectious Diseases
Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change	Chunling Lu \| HMS			Health Infrastructure, Universal Health Coverage, Financing, Health Policy
Program in Global Family Care for the Elderly and Social Change	Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen \| HMS		The Program in Global Family Care for the Elderly and Social Change focuses on advancing knowledge and learning among key stakeholders about the complex nature of the demands and problems of family care for the elderly in lower- and middle middle-income countries, and promising practice solutions to these problems at the levels of individual family, community programming, and social policy development.	Demography and Population Dynamics, Aging, Community Health Development
PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health	GSAS		As part of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the PhD Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health (BPH), established in 1993, trains students in individual fields of biological research with a focus on understanding, preventing and treating diseases affecting large populations. Students in the BPH program obtain a broad interdisciplinary knowledge of both mechanistic and quantitative approaches to biomedical research.	Infectious Diseases, Environment and Health, Non-Communicable Diseases, Demography and Population Dynamics, Aging, Cancer, Chagas Disease, Diabetes, Asthma, HIV/AIDS, Kidney Disease, Malaria, Obesity, Tuberculosis, Metabolic Syndrome, Atherosclerosis, Environmental Toxins
Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy	GSAS		he Harvard PhD in Health Policy, awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is a collaborative program among six Harvard University faculties: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. While the program is interdisciplinary in nature, students specialize in one of six concentrations: decision sciences, economics, ethics, management, methods for policy research, or political analysis.	Health Infrastructure, Health Policy, Health Economics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Decision Science, Health Systems
Strategy for Health Care Delivery	HBS		In this program, you will use a value framework—first introduced by HBS professor Michael E. Porter in his book Redefining Health Care—as a template for restructuring health care delivery around value. The process starts with providers and expands into strategies for health plans, employers, suppliers, and governmental entities. By exploring real-world implementations, you will learn how to navigate the strategic and organizational challenges inherent in evolving your health care delivery approach. This program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC).	Health Infrastructure, Health Services Delivery, Health Systems
Managing Health Care Delivery	HBS		Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the intense pressure of delivering greater value and efficiency while guaranteeing better care and services. Featuring three weeks of learning presented over eight months, this health care management program will help you innovate and build the capabilities to provide quality and compassionate care in a cost-effective and integrated manner—even in the face of rising expectations, shifting health policies, and dwindling resources. This program is offered in collaboration with the HBS Health Care Initiative.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Services Delivery
Value Measurement for Health Care	HBS		Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve patient outcomes and lower delivery costs. Value Measurement for Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks and skills to make rigorous value measurement a core part of your organization's strategic agenda.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Services Delivery, Measurement of Health Outcomes
Global Health Delivery Intensive Program	HSPH	Global Health Delivery Project (HBS, HMS, BWH)	The Global Health Delivery Intensive (GHDI) is a non-degree program offered each July during the first summer session at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Participants enroll in three courses: Epidemiological Methods for Global Health (ID505), Introduction to Global Health Care Delivery (GHP532), and Management Practices in Health Care Delivery (GHP555).	Health Infrastructure, Health Services Delivery, Healthcare Management, Epidemiology
Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine		BWH	The Division of Global Health Equity has addressed this need for a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare by launching, in 2004, a novel residency program that combines rigorous training in internal medicine with the advanced study of public health. Through the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine, dedicated young physicians are able to obtain the medical and non-clinical skills they need to improve the health of some of the world’s most impoverished people.	Health Equity
Harvard Medical School Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery	HMS		The Harvard Medical School Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery (MMSc-GHD) program provides knowledge in research, program design, and management that students need to become leaders in the emerging field of global health delivery.	Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Health Services Delivery, Health Policy, Healthcare Management, Research Methods, LMICs
Research Progam on Children and Global Adversity	Theresa Betancourt \| HSPH		The Research Program on Children and Global Adversity (RPCGA) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) was established to advance an evidence base regarding strategies and methods for improving child health service delivery and increasing protections and effective services for children in adversity.	Child Health and Development, Health Infrastructure, Health Services Delivery
Sustainability Science Program	HKS (Massavar-Rahmani Center)		The Sustainability Science Program is the hub of Harvard’s research, teaching, and interventions on the challenges of sustainable development: fostering shared prosperity and reduced poverty while protecting the environment. The Program promotes the design of institutions, policies, and practices that support sustainable development by: advancing scientific understanding of human-environment systems; improving connections between research and policy communities; and building capacity for linking knowledge with action to promote sustainability.	Environment and Health, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Healthy Systems, Health Policy
Women and Public Policy Program	HKS		The Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School closes gender gaps in economic opportunity, political participation, health and education by creating knowledge, training leaders, and informing public policy and organizational practices.	Social Determinants of Health, Health Infrastructure, Gender, Health Systems, Health Policy
Harvard Medical School Quality Leadership Program (HQUAL)	HMS		Traditionally, the thinking around quality and safety has been: if you educate the physician or clinical staff on best practices, then you have improved safety. What we see instead is that people are doing the best they can until systems fail them. How do you create an environment that prevents medical errors and the resulting iatrogenic harm? System-based solutions. HQUAL is an intensive 2-week development program for healthcare executives who want practical experience in the delivery of quality healthcare.	Health Infrastructure, Quality, Safety, Health Systems, Healthcare Management
Leadership in Medicine: Southeast Asia	Ajay K. Singh \| HMS	Sunway University, Sunway Medical Centre	Leadership in Medicine: Southeast Asia is a one-year certificate program consisting of three, four-day residential workshops (in Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia and Boston, Massachusetts, US), pre-recorded lectures and interactive webinars focused on relevant and complementary topics. The program is designed for senior and executive-level hospital, primary care, recuperative care, community and other health care facility administrators, chiefs of staff, hospital board members, chief nursing officers, department directors and other health care professionals with supervisory, management or executive-level responsibilities.	Asia, Health Infrastructure, Healthcare Management, Health Systems, Quality, Safety, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
Pediatrics Leadership Program (PLP)	Phillip Pearl (HMS, Boston Children's Hospital) \| HMS	University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health	The Pediatrics Leadership program is an innovative year-long certificate developed by the Harvard Medical School Office of Global Education and University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) in London. Designed for physicians who want to become leaders in pediatrics, or who want to strengthen their leadership skills in the field, this program will bring together an elite group of pediatricians from across the globe to foster innovation at their organizations.	Child Health and Development, Health Infrastructure, Health Systems, Medical Education and Training
Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership (SQIL)	Charles Fridman (University of Michigan Medical School), Aziz Sheikh (University of Edinburgh, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine), Ajay K. Singh (HMS) \| HMS		SQIL’s goal is for participants to attain fundamental knowledge in four key areas that comprise the Learning Health System – patient safety, quality, informatics and leadership through a blended learning format allowing participants to play a key role as leaders in their local health care system.	Health Infrastructure, Quality, Safey, Healthcare Management,
Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program	Ajay K. Singh, Kenneth B. Christopher, Ebrahim Barkoudah \| HMS		The Harvard Medical School Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT) Program provides clinicians and clinician-scientists advanced training in the methods and conduct of clinical research. The blended-learning approach of this one-year program enables clinician scientists from around the world to participate.	Research Methods
Secondary Field Global Health and Health Policy	David M. Cutler		The Secondary Field in Global Health and Health Policy is centered on the interdisciplinary exploration of health care, health policy, and health science. Through a curriculum that encourages experiential learning, the program enables students to explore a wide range of topics ranging from transnational health problems and social determinants to a concentrated focus on social responses, such as health systems and health policies. Upon completion of the secondary field, GHHP students have learned to actively engage with complex themes from a variety of perspectives, conduct health-related research, and critically think about the full spectrum of health issues, both domestic and global.	Health Infrastructure, Social Determinants of Health, Health Systems, Health Policy, Health Economics
Harvard Kennedy School Healthcare Policy Program	HKS		The Harvard Kennedy School Healthcare Policy Program has three aims: 1) Research, on access, innovation, and value in healthcare; 2) Establishing conversations between researchers, government, and industry; and 3) Preparing future generations of leaders through educational programs. The Program’s approach is multidisciplinary, engaging people from medicine, law, economics, and the natural sciences, and those with experience in business and government.	Health Infrastructure, Health Policy, Health Economics, Healthcare Management