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Global Health and Social Medicine

Global Health and Social Medicine

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Seek, Test, Treat

March 24, 2020

In nations with limited lab capacity, physicians turn to new point-of-care rapid COVID-19 tests

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Social Distance Learning

March 19, 2020

Global health experts share tips on how to stay mentally healthy during this pandemic

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Getting Ready

March 18, 2020

Empowering communities to respond to coronavirus

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A Different Kind of Healing

November 1, 2019

Psychologist Joseph Gone’s work integrates history, culture and spirituality

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Lessons From My Mother

October 22, 2019

Vikram Patel to speak on patient-centered care for chronic conditions

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Overshadowed

October 21, 2019

Local scientists from African countries often overlooked in international collaborations on global…

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The Speed of Discovery

October 17, 2019

Len Blavatnik returns to HMS, discusses philanthropy, science

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Early Trouble

September 4, 2019

Why do some people with TB develop active disease soon after infection?

George Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School, Paul Farmer, head of the HMS department of global health and social medicine, Gairdner Global Health Award winner Vikram Patel, Janet Rossant, president of the Gairdner Foundation and Ashish Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Initiative celebrate Patel's groundbreaking research in global mental health.

Mental Health Breaks Through

April 25, 2019

Gairdner Global Health Award for leadership celebrated at HMS

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Gairdner Awards for HMS Researchers

April 2, 2019

Honors recognize scientists’ transformational work in global mental health and protein science

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Behind the Scenes

March 20, 2019

Harvard Catalyst leads development of tools changing biomedical research

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Measles in Madagascar

February 27, 2019

Responding to an outbreak as vaccine shortage leaves more than 900 dead

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