Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health traces its roots to public health activism at the beginning of the last century, a time of energetic social reform. From the start, faculty were expected to commit themselves to research as well as teaching.
Today, Harvard Chan brings together dedicated experts from many disciplines to educate new generations of global health leaders and produce powerful ideas that improve the lives and health of people everywhere. We work together as a community of leading scientists, educators, and students to take innovative ideas from the laboratory to people’s lives, not only making scientific breakthroughs, but also working to change individual behaviors, public policies, and health care practices.
We are tackling the most critical challenges facing our planet, including five frontiers of public health: conquering epidemics; confronting climate change; eliminating inequity and injustice, and overcoming the trauma and violence that follow; cultivating well-being and nutrition; and reimagining aging.
We advance critical research and education, and effectively communicate our insights to policy makers and the public at large as we mobilize as a society to face these emergent challenges. We are driving with fierce urgency to turn knowledge into action—action that will save lives.
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