all Harvard Initiative for Global Health stories

NIH renews Harvard Center for AIDS Research grant for another five years

404132862 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:22:18 -0400

The National Institutes of Health has renewed for five years - and $18.1 million - the funding for the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (Harvard CFAR).

Harvard is one of only 20 NIH CFAR sites in the U.S. and first received the designation in 2004.

Lifestyle culprit in increase in cardiovascular disease

404132862 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:43:45 -0400

Despite the perception that cardiovascular disease is a problem of industrialized countries, it is the leading cause of death everywhere except Africa, where it is eclipsed by the raging AIDS epidemic, experts gathered at Harvard Medical School (HMS) said Wednesday.

AIDS research symposium details advances

404132862 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:05:23 -0400

Harvard AIDS researchers recently detailed recent advances in the fight against the ongoing global pandemic, including new vaccine strategies, insights into the disease’s progression in the world’s hardest-hit regions, and new knowledge about the body’s immune response against infection.

Search for new tuberculosis drugs outlined

50443248 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:01:16 -0400

A new drug candidate that attacks the cell walls of tuberculosis bacteria offers a promising alternative in the fight against a disease that has been resurgent in the global age of AIDS, according to findings highlighted by a key researcher Friday (June 12) at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Training the talent in trouble spots

50443248 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:39:08 -0400

The Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) has begun a fellowship program with the aim of identifying and helping train bright young developing-world health professionals in remote regions of the world with the greatest global health challenges.

HMS, HSPH Professor Kim named Dartmouth president

50443248 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:20:46 -0500

Jim Yong Kim, tireless advocate for bringing Western standards of health care to the world’s poor and a professor of medicine and of public health at Harvard, has been named the 17th president of Dartmouth College.

Kim, whose appointment was announced Monday (March 2) at Dartmouth’s New Hampshire campus, is known globally for his work as a co-founder of the nonprofit Partners In Health, which works to improve health care in some of the world’s poorest nations, including Haiti, Peru, Lesotho, and Rwanda.

Study: Smog chops 2 months off Mexicans' lives

404132862 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:01:07 -0400

Harvard Initiative for Global Health recipient of NIH Global Health Nutrition grant

404132862 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:19:38 -0400

The Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) has been selected to receive a prestigious $400,000 Framework Programs for Global Health grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center.

Louise Ivers: 'I can’t sleep at night because of the things that I see.'

404132862 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:27:17 -0400

Louise Ivers gently lifted the 7-month-old by his forearms, hoping he would pull himself up as a healthy child a third his age might.

But his head hung limply back, eyes wide, upper body slack.

At 7 months, when a healthy child would be sitting up on his own and thinking about crawling, this baby boy was unable to control his head, unable to pull himself from the sheets. Gently, she laid him back.

HOPE in African HIV/AIDS fight

404132862 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:32:16 -0500

It was close to midnight one day this week in Durban, South Africa, when Harvard AIDS researcher Bruce D. Walker switched on his computer and made a visit to 104 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge.

Poor fall behind in birth control

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:16:23 -0400

Modern contraception has come a long way in the past 20 years, what with diaphragms, hormones, implants, intrauterine devices, condoms, spermicides, and sterilization. But the boom in birth control has been a bust for the poorest women in the world.

According to a study by researchers at Harvard University and the World Health Organization, international efforts to make pregnancy control a human right are bypassing people who live on a few dollars a day in developing nations from Bangladesh to Zimbabwe.