Public Health

We examine governance structures and policies impacting public health, addressing challenges such as pandemics, access to healthcare, and health disparities.

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AfriConnect 2025

Apr. 25, 2025

From Africa Futures Project

Article

A Milestone for Global Health Equity & Security: Reaching Consensus on a Draft Pandemic Agreement

Apr. 24, 2025 by Syra Madad and Alexandra Phelan
Policy Briefs

Permafrost Thaw in Alaska: An Overlooked Climate-Health Crisis

Apr. 10, 2025 by Aruni Ranaweera and Tessa Varvares
Article

Health Care Bridges — Pathways toward Trust in Gaza and Beyond

Mar. 22, 2025 by Avner Halperin, Yasmeen Abu Fraiha and Noam Alon

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AfriConnect 2025

Apr. 25, 2025

Event Summary

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

3 minute read

A Milestone for Global Health Equity & Security: Reaching Consensus on a Draft Pandemic Agreement

Apr. 24, 2025 by Syra Madad and Alexandra Phelan

Article

3–4 Minutes

Permafrost Thaw in Alaska: An Overlooked Climate-Health Crisis

Apr. 10, 2025 by Aruni Ranaweera and Tessa Varvares

Policy Briefs

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

10 minute read

Permafrost thaw damaged this Alaska Army National Guard building.

Health Care Bridges — Pathways toward Trust in Gaza and Beyond

Mar. 22, 2025 by Avner Halperin, Yasmeen Abu Fraiha and Noam Alon

Article

from New England Journal of Medicine

5 minutes

Surgeons in binocular lenses operate the patient lying under anesthesia in the operating room

Measles Outbreak in Texas: A Preventable Tragedy and the Urgent Need for Vaccination

Feb. 28, 2025 by Syra Madad

Article

4 minutes

Human Metapneumovirus: A Familiar Seasonal Virus

Jan. 10, 2025 by Syra Madad and Gavin Harris

Article

5 minutes

A Healthcare Bridge over Troubled Conflicts: A New Model for Building Trust through Joint Healthcare Programs

November 2024 by Avner Halperin, Yasmeen Abu Fraiha and Noam Alon

Reports & Papers

Staff of Project Rozana’s program ‘Women4Women’, a physical and psychological treatment for Palestinian women and children in marginalized communities in the West Bank using telehealth.

What Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Appointment Means for Public Health

Nov. 20, 2024 by Syra Madad

Article

from Election 2024

3 minutes