Two HMS Center for Bioethics faculty members, Francis Shen and Vardit Ravitsky have received research funding through the National Institutes of Health. The NIH Common Fund has launched the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in biomedical and behavioral research. Shen is part of the Ethical and…

Since 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has bestowed the HAA Award to distinguished alumni in recognition of their remarkable service to Harvard University through leadership and engagement activities. Continuing this tradition, the HAA has announced six recipients of the 2022 HAA Awards: Janet Nezhad Band ’83, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’90; David Battat ’91; Marion…

The mental health system is increasingly reliant on psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) to meet the psychiatric needs of Medicare patients, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “We were surprised by the degree to which PMHNPs are the de facto mental health prescribers in parts…

The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics has announced its inaugural Beecher Teaching Awards, which recognize the exceptional teaching of medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. One award recognizes faculty teaching medical students in the Medical Ethics and Professionalism curriculum within Harvard Medical School. The second award recognizes faculty teaching in the Master of Science…

Of the 16 students across Harvard who received the 2022 New World Social Innovation Fellowship, given by the Social Innovation Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, eight are from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The fellowship provides students committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways —…

As the United States and China joust over high-risk disputes including Taiwan and Hong Kong, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School have stepped back to assess how the U.S.-China diplomatic rivalry has evolved during the 21st century as China has emerged as a dominant economic power. Their conclusion: China has abandoned its longtime mantra of keeping…

What started as a local first-year orientation activity in 2015 has evolved into an annual rallying call for civic activism across the greater Harvard community.  Through the 2022 Global Day of Service, 1,274 volunteers worked on 78 project teams supporting public service programs on five continents.  While the Global Day of Service is a symbolic…

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım as the new Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, effective Oct. 3. Currently the Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, Yoltar-Yıldırım has worked since August 2017 to organize the extensive reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum’s…

Every day people watch over a billion hours of video on YouTube. More than 500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Now more than ever, people are seeking reliable health information on the internet. This includes health care providers, who now have a new resource to reference on the world’s largest video…

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2022 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (M.B.A. 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS,…

Next week, the popular Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series kicks off its 13th year at Harvard University. The series pairs Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. This year’s Science and Cooking series will explore topics ranging from new culinary science research to nomadic…

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of five Hauser Leaders for the fall 2022 semester. Celebrating its eighth year, the Hauser Leaders Program brings distinguished leadership practitioners from across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors to CPL to engage with students, faculty, and the wider Harvard community. “At a…

Avner Halperin is a research fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, based in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and led by Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance Tarek Masoud. Halperin and colleagues Mahmoud Khweis, a tech entrepreneur focusing on the Palestinian economy, and Ely Sandler, an Israel Policy Fellow…

A group of local high school students joined Harvard mentors for a six-week program to improve their science literacy and equip them with basic life science, laboratory, and workforce skills. In partnership with the Harvard Ed Portal and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB), the inaugural High School Lab Skills Summer (HSLS) concluded…

Traveling from over 25 states and nine countries, with different levels of climate education and involvement, 122 students met for the first time on July 24 at the Youth Summit on Climate, Health, and Equity at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor and co-founder of the summit, kicked off…

In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that it will provide scholarships to cover the total cost of tuition and course fees for those with the greatest financial need — approximately 10 percent of…

When Harvard Kennedy School was approached by the Victory Institute, a national organization supporting openly LGBTQ leaders, to create an executive training fellowship, no one imagined the lasting and profoundly positive result of such a collaboration. Twenty years later, more than 200 LGBTQ state & local leaders from all over the U.S. have come to…

Before COVID-19 emerged as a global threat in 2020, institutions around the world had been trying to tackle the issue of pandemic preparedness. But those groups were underfunded, did not have clear-cut roles, and — importantly — were not working together. Now, as public health researchers and officials look ahead to future pandemics, the situation remains largely the…

In 2021, the longstanding global health goal to eradicate malaria experienced a paradigm shift: after 30 years of development, the first vaccine for the disease was endorsed by the World Health Organization. Countries are now working to incorporate this tool into the existing arsenal of malaria control measures, including insecticides for the mosquitoes carrying the parasite and drug treatments…

The Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute today announce the joint appointment of Brittany White as a visiting practitioner in residence for the 2022–2023 academic year. White, a widely respected decarceral strategist and community organizer, will spend the year in residence developing a new project to strengthen…

The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered using the world’s largest mirrors, has secured a $205 million investment from its international consortium to accelerate construction. The investment marks one of the largest funding rounds for the telescope and includes leading commitments from Harvard University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, the São Paulo…

Semiconductors, the building blocks of the modern information age, are critical components to seemingly every manufactured product from phones to cars to computers. To discuss the challenge of building new microchip manufacturing capacity, we sat down with Jason Hsu, a research fellow at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center and a former member of Taiwan’s parliament…

In late June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot put state-level caps on carbon emissions under the 1970 Clean Air Act. Such authority would, in effect, steer states away from coal and toward other types of power sources that emit less carbon. The Court said that, instead, the…

China, Vietnam, Uganda, Indonesia, and India are projected to be among the fastest-growing economies to 2030. That is the conclusion of researchers at the Growth Lab at Harvard University who presented new growth projections in the Atlas of Economic Complexity. The release provides the first detailed look at 2020 trade data, including major disruptions to…

Elena Savoia is a principal research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). She is deputy director of the Emergency Preparedness, Research, Evaluation & Practice Program (EPREP) and co-founder of the IRIS Coalition. She recently co-led a workshop for public health practitioners at the Global Health Security conference in Singapore on addressing mis-…

Samagya Banskota, former postdoctoral researcher in the David Liu Lab, has been recognized as one of the world’s top innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Banskota was celebrated for her work co-inventing a new drug-delivery system using engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) that can make precise edits to the genome. This year’s innovators were chosen…

Between the traditional 19th-century houses of London’s Islington neighborhood and the mega-development of the city’s Knowledge Quarter, home to a cluster of life science, technology, and cultural institutions as well as the bustling King’s Cross rail station, sits a 6.2-acre district known as the Regent Quarter. More than half of this site — 260,000 square…

On July 18, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative welcomed its sixth class of 40 mayors from around the world to participate in a yearlong education and professional development program. The flagship program of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, the Initiative is a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard…

The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics announced the passing of Lily Safra, its longtime friend and benefactor.  Mrs. Safra was a constant friend of Harvard’s Center for Ethics, embracing the role of principal benefactor and endowing the center in her husband’s name in 2004. In 2015, Mrs. Safra became our center’s only Edmond…