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#ICYMI: Overcoming Health Inequities for Maya Populations in Guatemala The recording is now available for this virtual event! Our featured speakers, Dr. Maxbeny Waleska López Canú, Chief Medical Officer of Wuqu’ Kawoq at Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu' Kawoq , and Dr. Peter Rohloff, co-founder and Chief Science Officer for Maya Health Alliance and Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard, discuss lessons learned from their work developing a standard of excellence for engaged, community-based care for rural indigenous communities in Guatemala. Dr. Louise Ivers MD, MPH moderates the conversation. 📌 Watch the English Translation of the recording here: https://lnkd.in/erNRXevJ 📌 Watch the Spanish Translation of the recording here: https://lnkd.in/enqgWwYQ

We're back with the second edition of our Global Health Opportunities Roundup Newsletter—this time covering October! At the end of each month, we bring you a curated collection of global health opportunities—including jobs, fellowships, grants, and other exciting announcements and recordings—that can help you elevate your impact in the field. 🔗 Check out our October edition below & subscribe here for future updates: https://lnkd.in/epV29AAN

Remembering Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, who would have been 65 years old on 10/26. Paul was a physician, an anthropologist, a prolific writer and an advocate for improving the lives of the poor. In 2012, Paul founded the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program at Harvard Medical School along with Joia Mukherjee and other faculty. Paul also co-founded the NGO Partners in Health, and they are offering ways to remember him on their website (www.pih.org). This is a video we made in tribute to Paul in 2022. https://lnkd.in/eu8rxCHP

Congratulations to Jane Sun, CEO of Trip.com, for being named in the Most Powerful Women Asia List by Fortune Magazine! 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eeDuvknp Jane Jie Sun is the founding donor of HGHI’s LEAD Fellowship Program for Promoting Women in Global Health, a leadership development opportunity at Harvard for global health leaders in LMIC’s. Ms. Sun’s commitment to empowering the next generation of women leaders has had a transformational effect on 22 fellows from 16 different countries across the globe. To learn more about the HGHI LEAD Fellowship: https://lnkd.in/eFYV6ZbF #LEADFellowship #globalhealth

The Harvard Global Health Institute is saddened to hear the news of Dr. Richard Cash's passing. "Richard lived life to the full and on his own terms – a free spirit and loving soul, a medical doctor turned public health guru, a kid from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who won a global health prize." 🔗 You can read more about his extraordinary life in his obituary found here: https://lnkd.in/e9UCDGcG

In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, we talked to Satchit Balsari of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and CrisisReady about how these climate-fueled disasters impact mortality and health — and what can be done to improve response and recovery. Watch:

COMING SOON! The application for the 2025 - 2026 Burke Global Health Fellowship will open on November 11th 2024. We will be accepting applications for three categories of awards: 📌 HGHI- Burke Global Health Fellowship Research Award 📌 HGHI- Burke Curriculum Development Award 📌 HGHI-Salata Burke Climate and Health Fellowship 🔗 Explore the eligibility, requirements, and deadlines by visiting our website: bit.ly/Burke-Fellowship

Tune in Friday for Overcoming Health Inequities for Maya Populations in Guatemala! This conversation will aim to inform how lessons learned in Guatemala could apply to improving the health outcomes in rural and Indigenous populations globally. 🔗 Register today: https://lnkd.in/d-8WmTwC 📅 Date: This Friday, October 25, 2024 ⏲ Time: 9:00am- 9:45am ET The event is free and open to the public. Part of the event will be presented in Spanish with translation to English by an interpreter through Zoom.

The Harvard Medical School community planted a tree outside the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine office to honor Paul Farmer, a pioneering HMS physician who dedicated his life to improving health care in some of the world’s most underserved communities. Friends and colleagues wrote their promises to health equity that will grow with the maple tree, which was chosen to represent Paul’s resilience and sweetness. 

We are excited to announce our upcoming Global Health Research & Innovation Series Session on Advancing Global Adolescent Health and Nutrition: Insights from the ARISE Network! Dr. Wafaie Fawzi’s will discuss his research which focuses on addressing pressing health challenges in countries such as Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, and India. His primary interests include the design and implementation of randomized controlled trials and observational studies targeting maternal, neonatal, and child health, as well as infectious diseases, with a special emphasis on the role of nutrition. Dr. Louise Ivers MD, MPH will moderate the session. 🔗 Details & register: bit.ly/Nutrition-Fawzi 📅 Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 ⏲ Time: 12:00pm- 12:45pm ET The event is free and open to the public.