Dean’s Report FY23
To pursue a mission as ambitious as improving the health and well-being of all people, Harvard Medical School needs legions of like-minded collaborators. Thankfully, we count numerous loyal philanthropic supporters among our allies, and their contributions are helping HMS serve humanity by advancing science, medicine, and education.
In fiscal year 2023, these generous donors — 3,971 alumni, friends, volunteers, faculty, staff, foundations, and corporations — gave more than $328 million to the School, driving the work of our faculty, staff, postdocs, and students.
Ernesto Bertarelli, MBA ’93, is propelling basic scientific discovery, therapeutic science, and a culture of entrepreneurship at HMS by bolstering the creation of an expansive space on the west Quad for convening and collaboration.
Cummings Foundation is building on the efforts of the late Paul Farmer, MD ’88, PhD ’90, by supporting a new collaboration between HMS and the University of Global Health Equity that promotes the development of sustainable, equitable health systems which improve health care delivery to disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations around the world. An anonymous donor established the Paul Farmer Professorship and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine, forever endowing the post and providing vital discretionary funds for future department heads to use toward achieving global health equity.
Laurence E. Paul, AB ’86, MD ’90, and his wife, Kathleen, are extending their commitment to ensuring scholarships for all deserving students entering the field of medicine, without regard for their ability to pay. An unrestricted bequest from Robert Kleiger, MD ’60, gives Dean George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD, the flexibility to direct resources where they are needed most.
Striving to upgrade the health care sector in his homeland of Tunisia, Hazem Ben-Gacem, AB ’92, has created a fellowship fund to support the country’s residents who are accepted into postgraduate master’s degree programs at HMS. Thanks to the generosity of Chiang Li, MD ’98, faculty of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology are designing and implementing a novel curriculum to prepare physician innovators for the future.
With the unwavering support of our dedicated benefactors, we are confident that HMS will persist in its pivotal role of safeguarding and enhancing human health.