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As climate change continues to reshape our environment, its impact on infectious diseases is becoming harder to ignore. Changing temperatures and shifting ecosystems are expanding the range of disease-carrying vectors and creating new opportunities for pathogens to spread. This is especially concerning at the wildlife-human interface, where climate pressures and human encroachment blur the boundaries…Continue Reading From the Field: Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Iquitos, Peru

From the Director: Happy New Year! To start off 2025, I wanted to highlight Molly Franke’s research and campaign to mitigate HIV-related stigma in Peru. Despite tremendous advances in HIV treatment and prevention, gaps in HIV service delivery continue to exist in many parts of the world, and HIV-related stigma remains an important barrier to…Continue Reading Mitigating HIV-related Stigma in Peru

In the News: From the Director: Last fall, I wrote about our first Global Health and Climate Change workshop that involved multiple Core members and which was sponsored by Harvard’s Salata institute. In June, we held a second Climate Change and Health Workshop, this time as one of the inaugural 2024 Harvard Global Health Institute’s…Continue Reading Second Climate Change & Health Workshop

In the News: From the Director: By the end of March 2023, the impacts of climate change resonated deeply within the network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that we work with. In Malawi and Madagascar, Cyclone Freddy had a profound effect on areas where Partners in Health and Pivot operate, respectively. They faced an increase in…Continue Reading New Area of Focus: Our Climate and Health Work

From the Director: This month, some of our team has been conducting a course in Rwanda on the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. The course was funded by a grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and is designed to increase familiarity in the principles and practice of epidemic modeling and its role in…Continue Reading Mathematical Modeling Course in Rwanda

Transforming Universities for Equity and Impact in Global Health CUGH Virtual Satellite SessionApril 6, 2023, 9am-12pm EDT Registration: Click Here Please email for more information: Eve_Estrada@hms.harvard.edu…Continue Reading Transforming Universities for Equity and Impact in Global Health

From the Director: Adolescence can be a hard time for most people but for kids living with HIV, it can be especially precarious. Not only do HIV-infected adolescents experience the biological and psychosocial challenges common to that age group, but they also need to manage the often-difficult transition from pediatric to adult HIV care. It…Continue Reading Improving HIV Care for Adolescents

From the Director: I am so excited to be able to inaugurate our Global Health Research Core’s website by announcing that Bethany Hedt-Gauthier and her team just won first place in the National Institute of Health’s Technology Accelerator Challenge for Maternal Health! The prize recognizes the group’s work in developing a mobile app that allows…Continue Reading Innovation Prize Awarded to mHealth Team