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...would be wonderful for us if there were programs in Allston involving the human genome and cutting-edge technology, as well as links to the important research activities of the Harvard hospitals. But perhaps most exciting, the opportunity to teach and inspire Harvard undergraduates to think about problems of public health nationally and globally would be an exciting extension of our faculty’s commitment to education at all levels and would open new worlds to the brightest young people on the planet...
...challenge is to realize the full potential of these opportunities, to bring together a geographically dispersed faculty in one location to serve the future institutional needs of the School and the educational needs of its students. The Allston Master Plan filed with the City of Boston includes the Harvard School of Public Health as one of the professional schools to be located in Allston along with the Graduate School of Education. At HSPH, faculty committees are working hard on developing the best strategy for the School to take advantage of such a move to Allston, while retaining our longstanding relationships...
...envision new interfaculty initiatives both for the School and the University that relocation to Allston would facilitate, including a number of interdisciplinary and interfaculty centers of intellectual activity. We can imagine a center for health policy that draws together the unique expertise at Harvard of domestic and global health policy and economics; and a center for quantitative health sciences linking the social sciences, statistics, and computer science expertise with biostatistics, epidemiology, and social determinants of disease. One can see collaborative centers for global infectious diseases and vaccines or for advancing study of genes and environment...
...question, why would it be appropriate for the School of Public Health to occupy a key place in Allston, I would argue that its unique interdisciplinary character and mission make it an ideal “connector.” But perhaps the case was best summarized by former University President Lawrence H. Summers,:“I have asked the community to explore and think about the relocation of the public health school and many of its primary activities to the Allston campus, where it will occupy a role at the center of the University. I have suggested that...
...face of political obstacles, Harvard has strengthened its commitment to stem cell research. This spring the University announced its first cross-school department, which will focus in part on stem-cell biology. And when a new 500,000-square foot science complex opens across the River in Allston, the Stem Cell Institute will finally have a permanent base of operations...