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...report stated that one group of initiatives—Global Health, Quantitative Health and Social Sciences, and Health Policy—should be located “within or immediately adjacent” to the Harvard School of Public Health’s (SPH) future campus in Allston...
Bureaucratic oversight is often a necessary evil at a university. The administration’s unprecedented takeover of a federal grant given to a researcher at the School of Public Health (SPH) is a perfect example of this. In February of 2004, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Phyllis Kanki received a $107 million grant to address AIDS in Africa as part of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The grant is meant to pay for the treatment of thousands of AIDS patients in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania. But last summer, University officials imposed a centralized...
University officials seem to be recognizing their ills, and both Hyman and SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom have said that the gag order will soon be rescinded. We applaud the administration for this move and encourage them to look for a solution that will provide both the oversight necessary and address Kanki’s grievances. If Harvard is to remain perched atop the research food chain, it must take steps to ensure that the balance between its own interests and the interests of its researchers never tips too far out of kilter...
...official from the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) said yesterday that Mass. Hall’s control of a Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) grant may infringe upon the academic freedom of the professor who was awarded the grant...
...professors have expressed anger at what they see as the displacement of Kanki’s role. In particular, professors have been irked by a letter that SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom sent to Kanki last August, outlining the new administrative structure of the grant and telling her that she must report to an executive director...