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HHI Responds to Earthquake Devastation in Haiti

In response to the Haiti earthquake disaster, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is playing a lead role in supporting the coordination of the Harvard-wide response including that of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals within Partners Health Care System. By leveraging HHI’s unique position as an academic and research center with long-standing ties to leading medical and public health personnel, HHI has been able to facilitate the deployment of more than 70 surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists and nurses to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake.

To read more about HHI’s response to the Haiti earthquake, please visit our Earthquake in Haiti page.

To find out how to volunteer, visit our Volunteer in Haiti page.

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Burden of Surgical Disease

Led by Fellow Kelly McQueen, the 3rd annual Working Group Meeting will be held March 10-12 at Vanderbilt University. 

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Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group Meeting

March 10th-12th, 2010
Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
Nashville, TN
The Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group (BoSD WG) was founded in 2007 to advocate for surgical intervention within global public health, advance knowledge about the large unmet surgical need in low and middle income countries, encourage evaluation of surgery and reporting of outcomes, and expand the literature on this growing global crisis.

The focus of the BoSD WG includes:

  • Surgical Definitions, Outcomes and Evaluation
  • Defining Global Unmet Surgical Need
  • The Global Anesthesia Crisis
  • Emergency and Essential Surgical care, including Trauma and Emergency Obstetrical Care
  • Effective Surgical Coverage
  • Humanitarian Delivery of Surgical Services
  • Education and Training of Surgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia Providers

This event is hosted by the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. The event is being planned by HHI Fellow Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH. For more information, please click here.

To download a press release about the event, click here. 

 

Home Is Where You Find It: How an AIDS Orphan's Story Can Promote Social Change

Monday, March 29, 2010, 6:00-8:00pm
Center for Government and International Studies
South Building, Belfer Case Study Room
1730 Cambridge Street 

HHI and the Cultural Agents Initiative will be hosting Dr. Neal Baer for the third seminar in their 2009-2010 series. Dr. Baer will be screening a film chronicling the story of an AIDS orphan in Mozambique. There will be a discussion and Q & A directly following the film. This event is open to the public.