The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (C-Change) focuses on translating and disseminating research from Harvard faculty and students to inform actions that improve public health. The Center communicates the impacts of climate change on the health of families, especially children; analyses the health, equity, and economic benefits of climate solutions; turns climate science into action by connecting researchers... Read more about C-Change

The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University was founded in 2009 with a dual mission: to contribute to the accelerated discovery of an HIV/AIDS vaccine and to establish itself as a world leader in the collaborative study of immunology. Institute research aims to significantly contribute to a global effort to successfully develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine, and is organized around focused programs in the following areas: adaptive...

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The Berkman Center for Internet and Society combines scholarship with practical action through an “entrepreneurial nonprofit” interest in the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace—and the “need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.” It integrates research of faculty, fellows, students, and affiliates in law, governance, architecture, and health. Current Berkman projects that have components directly relevant to global health and global health education include The Kinder and Braver World...

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The Harvard Integrated Life Sciences Program (HILS) is a federation of the University's life sciences PhD programs, departments, and subject areas. It facilitates cross-disciplinary academic and research collaboration, supports student work “outside the box,” and encourages extracurricular participation by students, faculty, and staff. HILS helps students take advantage of science...

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The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) is a University-wide institute located physically within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Reflecting a hybrid model unusual in academia, it is both the University’s largest social science research center and an integral part of the Harvard administration. IQSS builds cutting-edge social science infrastructure, fosters a flourishing community of social scientists, and “does whatever it can to help students, faculty, and staff leverage each...

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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering uses “nature’s design principles to develop bio-inspired materials and devices that will transform medicine and create a more sustainable world.” As an alliance among Harvard’s Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts & Sciences, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts...

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), provides leaders with policy-relevant knowledge about issues where science, technology, environmental policy, and international affairs intersect. Among its current programs, those with direct bearing on global health include the programs on environment and natural resources; science, technology, and public policy; agricultural innovation in Africa; science, technology, and globalization; and the...

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Unique among biomedical research institutions, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard encompasses three types of organizational units: core member laboratories, programs, and platforms. Scientists within these units work closely together, and with other collaborators around the world, to tackle critical problems in human biology and disease.

The culture and environment at the Broad is designed to encourage creativity and to engage all participants—undergraduate and graduate...

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The Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) is a unique community of scientists and clinical experts seeking to bring new treatments to the clinic and new life to patients with a range of chronic illnesses. Recognizing that the many societal issues—including legal, political, and economic questions—raised by stem cell research require an interdisciplinary approach, the HSCI draws in faculty not only from the biomedical sciences but also from Harvard's professional schools, including Harvard Law School,...

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