World Outreach

GLOBAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE

Providing Innovative Solutions

Researchers and clinicians in the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, led by Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and co-founder of Partners In Health, continue to advance worldwide health research by studying some of the globe’s leading infectious killers, such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Programmatic initiatives designed to train the next generation of global health leaders involve the entire HMS community—mentored medical students, teaching hospitals, residents, graduate students and fellows—and produce a vibrant research corps that supports faculty and the School’s humanitarian effort.

Infectious diseases HMS faculty and researchers have assisted world communities in combating Ebola (Liberia and Sierra Leone), tuberculosis (Peru), cholera (Haiti) and HIV/AIDS (Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Rwanda and Uganda), which put millions of children and adults at risk.

Rwanda HMS is entering the fifth year of the Rwanda Human Resources for Health program, which is designed to help build the education infrastructure and workforce necessary to create a highquality, sustainable health care system that addresses the country’s most challenging health care obstacles, including a limited number of skilled workers, substandard facilities and equipment, and inadequate facilities management.

Middle East A partnership between HMS and Dubai authorities resulted in the HMS Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai, which offers new ways to address the most pressing health care delivery challenges in Dubai and the region. The center’s main areas of focus are surgical care, mental health, infectious diseases, obesity and diabetes.

Surgery access In response to the HMS-authored recommendations of The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery to improve access to safe, timely and affordable surgery for 5 billion people worldwide, representatives from 17 countries met in Dubai in 2016 for implementation discussions guided by HMS faculty.

Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery The most recent group of 12 health professionals entering the two-year MMSc program included 10 international students, many of whom were from resource-poor settings, including two physicians supported by the Liberian government. In addition to completing HMS coursework, the students are developing models designed to create better health care systems in their home countries. In the past five years, 36 students have enrolled in the program.

HMS, together with Partners In Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is part of a multiorganizational effort working to improve treatment strategies for multidrugresistant tuberculosis in Peru. Assistant Professor of Medicine Michael L. Rich and Kwonjune Seung, HMS instructor in medicine, are part of the endTB project. Pictured, right: Field technician Yecela Rodríguez works with Francisco, a patient.

Opposite page: Thailand’s Kohn Kaen University has renewed and expanded its participation in HMX Fundamentals, an online curriculum for prehealth career students, created by the HMS Office for External Education.

Dean’s Report 2016–2017

EXTERNAL EDUCATION

Medical Knowledge Goes Global

Innovative teaching strategies are emerging from the HMS Office for External Education, led by David Roberts, dean for external education, extending the reach of HMS medical expertise to an ever-expanding group of new learners around the globe.

Executive Education This year, the first HMS Executive Education program provided weeklong sessions to 40 Google executives who work in areas such as search, clinical genomics and informatics. Their experiences at HMS gave them an inside look at issues that arise at the intersection of technology, medicine and health care. Additional intensive, customized programs for local, national and international companies are scheduled for the coming year.

HMX Fundamentals HMS is reaching even greater numbers of students globally through this online learning platform. In one instance, medical and prehealth career students at Khon Kaen University in Thailand are learning fundamental concepts in health sciences through the use of narrated videos, interactive modules and state-of-the-art biomedical visualization. Lessons are reinforced in forums with faculty moderators leading discussions and advanced students facilitating topics. University grants are supporting research into how to expand this innovative pedagogical approach to develop future programs.

Global reach Through a combination of online and in-person workshops and seminars, HMS has, to date, offered blended-earning opportunities to more than 1,500 physicians, scientists and health care professionals around the world, focusing on clinical research, leadership, and cancer biology and therapeutics. Other courses cover quality, safety and informatics training. An expansion of the School’s blended-learning programs is underway in China through workshops at the Harvard Center Shanghai.

Continuing Medical Education In addition to more than 200 programs and courses on a vast array of clinical topics, HMS is creating an online platform to deliver recorded content to physicians worldwide via webcasting and other digital techniques.

Consumer education The consumerfacing Harvard Health Publications is continuing to develop new multimedia health-related content that features HMS world-class faculty and promotes wellness concepts for both individuals and companies. Many new types of educational programs are planned, including an open online course via HarvardX on the opioid crisis.

CENTER FOR PRIMARY CARE

A Leading Voice in Primary Care

The HMS Center for Primary Care, launched in 2009 under the leadership of Russell Phillips, the HMS William Applebaum Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has become a national leader in promoting innovations in primary care. Among the Center’s achievements: • Introduction of the Physician as Leader course • Development of a blueprint for primary care education that is being used to guide curricular change at HMS, which was published in Academic Medicine • Development of a learning collaborative consisting of 28 academic primary care practices where 300,000 patients are served by primary care staff and 500 resident trainees, with new team-based approaches that are expanding into behavioral health • Establishment of the InciteHealth program, which granted fellowships to 20 emerging physician-entrepreneurs • Creation of the Abundance Agents of

Change Challenge Grant program, which helps HMS students develop innovations in health care delivery in partnership with community health centers • Formation of new curricula built on original case studies of high-performing organizations for leaders of health systems • Development of a microsimulation model for assessing the financial impact of team-based care and new payment models on primary care practices n

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Achievements at Harvard Medical School, 2007–2016 I Jeffrey S. Flier, Dean

EDUCATION

• Pathways curriculum • Program in Graduate Education • Scholars in Medicine • Six master’s degree programs • PhD program cohesion • Therapeutics in Life Science Research

Program • Department of Global Health and

Social Medicine • Department of Biomedical Informatics • Office for Academic and Clinical Affairs • Office for External Education • Center for Bioethics • Five Quad chairs appointed: Biological

Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Biomedical Informatics, Cell Biology, Global Health and Social Medicine, and Neurobiology • Two new clinical departments:

Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery • Special advisor on entrepreneurship appointed

COMMUNITY

• Diversity inclusion programs • Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship • Faculty promotions process streamlined • New faculty and staff recognition awards • Community Values Initiative • Facilities renovations: 10-year master plan, Clinical Skills Center, learning suites • IT enhancements: data capacity, storage and movement

HEALTH CARE

• Center for Primary Care • HMS Center for Global Health

Delivery–Dubai • National leadership in health care policy • Worldwide research and training programs in infectious diseases, surgery, mental health, obesity and diabetes • Global Clinical Scholars Research

Training Program • Continuing Medical Education online course expansion

RESEARCH

• Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center • Harvard Institute of Therapeutic Science and Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology • Transinstitutional initiatives: Bertarelli

• Student financial aid increased • Middle-income initiative launched • Work-stream management and procurement efficiencies enacted • Increase in affiliates’ annual HMS operations contributions, beginning at $12 million per year, rising to $30 million per year • The World Is Waiting: The Campaign for Harvard Medicine saw $584 million raised, 78 percent of goal as of June 30, 2016

Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Harvard Ludwig Center; Harvard Stem Cell Institute; HMS–Portugal Program in Translational Research and Information; Leder Human Biology and Translational Medicine Program; Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired

Engineering • Harvard Office of Technology Development initiatives: entrepreneurship and industry partnerships • New Conflicts of Interest and

Commitment policies • Evergrande Center for Immunologic

Diseases at Brigham and Women’s • Harvard Cancer Collaborative • HMS Center for Glycoscience

FINANCE

Dean’s Report 2016–2017

The Longwood Symphony Orchestra, performing at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. The LSO presents public concerts each year that raise funds for nonprofit organizations aiding medically underserved communities.