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...School of Public Health (SPH) research center has received a $330,000 grant to establish a unique program which will study the relationship between the migration of populations and economic development, officials at SPH announced yesterday...
Researchers at SPH's Center for Population Studies organized the program, funded by the grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, because the topic of migration and economic development has recently been neglected by scholars, David Bell, director of the center, said yesterday...
...Mellon grant covers expenses for three years but SPH officials said yesterday that looking for more money or possibly expanding the current timetable would depend on the program's success...
Harvard is not expected to make any direct financial contributions to the program, but will "be making a major commitment in terms of the resources--classrooms, labs, libraries--and scholarship that we have to offer," Hiatt said. The program will likely be a significant been for SPH's overall international efforts, which have come under fire in recent years but which school officials now believe is on the upswing...
...committees have been established in both Japan and at Harvard to determine the final structure of the program, to raise funds, and to select each year's fellows. The Japanese committee includes a variety of medical scholars and business experts, while the Harvard committee is composed of professors from SPH and several areas of the University