Global Health at HarvardX

To learn more about Global Health at HarvardX, read the course descriptions below, or visit the HarvardX website.

HarvardX is excited to continue a tradition of engaging with educators and practitioners to address today’s most pressing challenges in global health. Join us in the winter of 2015-2016 for four new global health courses:

Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, presents Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic will focus in on the recent Ebola outbreak. This course explores what happened at all level - from the local counties to the regional response and ultimately the global response. It asks the important question of what needs to be done now to prevent the next pandemic.

In Readings in Global Health, Acting Dean David Hunter of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health guides learners through a series of discussions with leading experts as they engage with current issues and challenges in global health. The backbone of this learning experience is a set of 18 reviews, co-edited by David Hunter and Harvey Fineberg, and the editorial team at the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), where it was initially published.

A team of physician-anthropologists, Arthur Kleinman, Paul Farmer, Anne Becker, and Salmaan Keshavjee present an interdisciplinary framework for understanding global health problems in Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective. This biosocial analysis goes historically deep and geographically broad to understand global health problems aim aims to identifies concrete and effective interventions.

Developed through a collaboration between HarvardX and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), PH 556x: Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A roadmap for getting results will provide learners with the valuable skills and simple, well-tested tools they need to translate promising innovations or evidence into practice. A group of expert faculty from Harvard and IHI, including Don Goldmann, MD, David M. Williams, PhD, and Don Berwick MD, MPP, FRCP will explore a scientific approach to improvement — a practical, rigorous methodology that includes a theory of change, measurable aims, and iterative, incremental small tests of change to determine if improvement concepts can be implemented effectively in practice. Faculty will present this science through the lens of improving health and health care, but will also share examples of how improvement can (and does) influence our daily lives.