Global Health
Faculty of the Committee on Global Health
Paul Farmer, The Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine (Public Health) (Co-Chair)
Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology (FAS) in the Faculty of Medicine (Medical School) (Co-Chair) (on leave 2007-08)
David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography (Public Health)
Allan M. Brandt, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of the History of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (on leave fall term)
Dan W. Brock, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine (Medical School)
Nicholas A. Christakis, Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Medical School)
David M. Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Dean for the Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
David A. Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering
Myron Essex, Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences (Public Health)
Susanne J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health (Public Health)
Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine (Medical School)
Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine (Medical School)
Daniel L. Hartl, Higgins Professor of Biology
Jim Yong Kim, Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Medicine (Medical School) and Francis-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights (Public Health)
Gary King, David Florence Professor of Government
Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies
Jennifer Leaning, Professor of International Health (Public Health) and Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical School)
Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor
Bruce Walker, Professor of Medicine (Medical School)
Lucie E. White, Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law (Law School)
The Standing Committee on Global Health seeks to promote expanded and enhanced curricular, research, and advising opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students. This committee will coordinate existing course offerings related to global health, encourage the creation of new courses on global health topics as appropriate, and help to facilitate the creation of new research opportunities for undergraduates.
Global health presents a fundamentally interdisciplinary set of challenges. Harvard has a deep investment and scholarly capacity in many areas that provide critical insight to global health challenges. The scale and the complexity of these challenges extend beyond one discipline or methodology; the foundational works of the life sciences need to be bridged with a sophisticated understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural factors that influence health outcomes. The Committee on Global Health with its diverse representation from across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will provide a thoughtful and comprehensive program of study to Harvard undergraduates as they explore significant research topics in global health.