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...becoming more than just a mix of elective classes. Next year, the secondary field in health policy—which was first approved in 2007—will become a joint public health and global health secondary, according to Deborah L. Whitney, the executive director of the Harvard Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy...
...given Harvard a “platform to address global health in a way we haven’t been able to before by encouraging more broad-based classes and innovative teaching techniques that allow a faculty member...to bring what she does over at the Harvard School of Public Health [for example] to the undergrads,” Getman says...
...according to David Cutler, a professor in applied economics noted for his work on the economics of health, the global health scene at Harvard was starkly different just a few years...
...There was almost nothing a student interested in global health could do in terms of studying it formally at Harvard,” Cutler says. “We had very few courses. There were faculty interested but they weren’t brought together in any serious...
Research and extracurricular opportunities in global health have grown in tandem with course offerings. The Harvard Initiative for Global Health, the Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition (HCGHAC), the Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum, and the Harvard Project for Sustainable Development are among the most visible newly established student organizations at the College...