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Standing before a crowd of over 100 at the School of Public Health (SPH), Summers urged the University to expand its global health efforts on three fronts: training students to be leaders in public health, using the University’s drawing power to focus debate on health crises and pushing Harvard to participate in new research on public health...
Summers was the keynote speaker at a forum convened to discuss how the University can best address Africa’s health troubles. He was joined by SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom and Chair of the Harvard AIDS Initiative Max Essex...
Summers also said yesterday that he will expand graduate student financial aid with the aim of ensuring the enrollment of the best students at the SPH, regardless of financial concerns...
...still not anywhere near where we have to be,” he said, though he added that Summers’ support has galvanized work at the SPH.“For the first time, we’ve gotten on the radar screen of Harvard University and its president,” he said. “This is a guy who really understands a lot about global health...
Pride M. Chigwedere, a third-year SPH student and president of the forum, opened the panel by noting that while he hopes the University can do more, it is on the forefront of global health efforts...