Harvard School of Public Health Campaign Case Statement

HARVARD ScHool of Public HeAltH

A gift to support the cAmpAign for hArvArd school of public heAlth is A gift to improve the lives And heAlth of people everywhere. pleAse join us.

A gift to support the cAmpAign for hArvArd school of public heAlth is A gift to improve the lives And heAlth of people everywhere. pleAse join us.

powerful ideas for a healthier world

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In the 20th century, advances in knowledge about how best to protect the public’s

health helped double life expectancy. But today, our progress is under attack by

four major threats that cause disease, disability, and death around the globe:

old and new pandemics, harmful physical and social environments, poverty and

humanitarian crises, and failing health systems.

The Campaign for Harvard School of Public Health is about building on 100 years of

experience tackling big challenges like these. It is about discovering new solutions

to complex problems and acting upon this knowledge. It is about working with

friends, partners, and supporters to achieve large-scale, long-term impact.

The Campaign will drive efforts to prevent outbreaks and halt the spread of

diseases that claim millions of lives. It will advance our understanding of the

complex interactions among our own personal choices, the physical and social

spaces where we live and work, and the genetic cards dealt to each of us at birth.

It will sustain efforts to defend health as a universal human right. And it will propel

a transformation in public health education to foster effective leadership and

promote wise policies.

An investment in the people, ideas, and infrastructure of HSPH has immediate

effects both here at home and around the world, and it pays off again and again—

in the lives and dreams of individuals, and in the health and well-being of entire

societies. With your help, we will change policies, practices, and personal behavior.

We will advance scientific understanding. And we will empower new generations of

public health leaders to create a healthier world for all of us.

The pages that follow describe our four major undertakings in this Campaign, as

well as a few of the people who are tackling these threats—what they are doing

now and what they are capable of doing with your support. Please join us.

julio frenk

Dean of the Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health

T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development,

Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School

A messAge from the deAnAbout the cAmpAign

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our mission together: reverse four global health threats.

old And new pAndemics / hArmful physicAl And sociAl environments / poverty And humAnitAriAn crises / fAiling heAlth systems

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our mission together: reverse four global health threats.

old And new pAndemics / hArmful physicAl And sociAl environments / poverty And humAnitAriAn crises / fAiling heAlth systems

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Developing tools to reverse killer Diseases

Imagine a world where…

• Boarding an international flight no longer

sparks the risk of a deadly pandemic

• The underlying genetic and biological

causes of conditions such as diabetes,

cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease are better

understood and addressed

• Diseases that now kill millions—such as

AIDS, TB, and malaria—are prevented

through affordable vaccines and common

sense changes in behavior

www.hsph.harvard.edu/campaign/pandemics

uncovering root causesToday, HSPH faculty, students, researchers, and alumni are on the front lines of efforts to halt the next global pandemic. They are work-ing together to ensure that we never again suffer an outbreak on the scale of the 1918 influenza, which killed 50 million people world-wide, afflicted over 25 percent of the U.S. population, and caused average life expectancy in this country to plunge by 12 years. They are mining big data to find new clues that may one day stop TB in its tracks. And they are discovering the genetic keys to understand-ing diabetes and other chronic killers.

From obesity to AIDS, from metabolic syndrome to malaria, HSPH is challenging accepted wisdom and pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge for the common good. We are building on lifesaving work that slowed and ultimately reversed the spread of HIV/AIDS. We are harnessing cell phone technologies to better understand, and move to halt, the spread of malaria. We are revealing molecular codes that influence how and when we get sick. And perhaps most impor-tantly, we are at the forefront of efforts to identify and stop diseases that have yet to arise, long before they take hold.

initiatives seeking support include:

• predictive pandemic Modeling—finding new ways

to forecast, track, and treat pandemics

• Metabolic diseases initiative—tackling the root

biological causes and effects of inflammation,

stress, and metabolic processes that result in life-

shortening diseases

• defeating Malaria—a partnership with the U.N.

Special Envoy for Malaria

working for everyone’s heAlth

to stop the spread of malaria, hsph molecular entomol-

ogist flaminia Catteruccia is learning everything she can

about the reproductive biology of mosquitoes. she is

developing innovative ways of rendering male mosquitoes

infertile to reduce the incidence of mosquito-borne malaria,

which kills roughly one million people each year and

for which no vaccine is yet available. with mosquitoes

increasingly resistant to insecticides and other traditional

countermeasures, innovations like these have never

been more important.

on the front lines:outwitting mAlAriA

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preventing pollution, promoting healthy communities


• People make healthy food choices

in accord with sound science—and lead

longer, happier lives

• Substances that threaten our environment

and health are less prevalent in the air we

breathe, the water we drink, our homes,

and our workplaces

• Smoking, violence, and alcohol abuse

no longer threaten health in the U.S.

and beyond

www.hsph.harvard.edu/campaign/environments

Where Dna meets Daily lifeSome of the world’s biggest health challenges emerge as a result of a complex combination of factors. Genetics, poverty or relative affluence, choices we make about how we live our lives, even the physical and social spaces where we live and work—all can play a role. Chronic conditions like heart and respiratory diseases, diabetes, and certain cancers—not to mention public health crises like gun violence and suicide—are just some of the problems that can be caused and sometimes controlled by human actions.

As chronic diseases sweep through rich and poor countries alike, they are straining already over-extended health systems. These diseases—many of them tied to obesity and overweight, many tied to pollution—will take a staggering economic toll of $47 trillion on the world economy over the next two decades. And unless we take action, they are expected to kill 52 million people a year by 2030. That’s roughly the population of England. It is the equivalent of about 285 jumbo jets crashing each and every day.

Our faculty and students are in the vanguard of efforts to thwart this catastrophe, working to change individual behavior and to understand and address the big picture: both the physical causes of disease and the effects of toxic social and emotional environments, which can give rise to violence and a host of mental and other health problems.


• obesity prevention—turning the tide of the global

obesity epidemic

• health Mapping—geographic information systems

to map environmental exposures and health effects

• injury and Violence prevention—conducting

rigorous research to support evidence-based policy

approaches to reducing gun violence


if you were asked to name one person who has changed

how we eat and live, the answer could well be walter willett

Mph ’73, drph ’80, chair of hsph’s department of Nutrition.

a leading voice in national and global campaigns for health-

ier food, willett and his collaborators are widely credited

with proving that diet plays a major role in the outbreak and

prevention of ailments including cancer, cardiac disease, and

diabetes. the dangers of trans fats, the link between sugary

beverages and the global obesity epidemic, and the associa-

tion of red meat consumption with colon cancer are just a

few of the breakthrough insights we owe to willett and his

hsph colleagues.

one of the most prolific and widely cited researchers in

his field, willett’s stature in the scientific community has

accorded him an outsized role in shaping nutrition policy

and influencing individuals’ eating habits. willett is one of

the driving forces behind hsph’s the Nutrition source—

a website that provides clear, scientifically sound advice on

healthy eating to millions of visitors a year—and he has been

at the forefront of many healthy eating campaigns targeting

the leading causes of obesity and related health problems

such as diabetes.

on the front lines:A chAmpion of heAlthy eAting

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aDvancing health as a human right


• Nearly one billion people no longer go

to bed hungry every night

• Humanitarian workers have the skills

to operate consistently in effective ways

in overwhelmingly difficult conditions

• Poor women in developing countries

no longer die of preventable causes

during childbirth

www.hsph.harvard.edu/campaign/poverty-humanitarian

When Disaster strikesEven when aid dollars are flowing, humanitarian intervention doesn’t always work as it should. Tragically, despite the best intentions, aid workers often lack the training, coordination, and systems needed to identify and implement effective and culturally appropriate aid. The Humanitarian Academy—the first comprehensive educational pro-gram for aid workers offered by a major global university—is teaching humanitarian workers to operate effectively in crisis situations and training the future leaders of aid agencies and government programs.

Meanwhile, every two minutes, a woman dies in the act of giving life. Every year, about 3.1 million newborns die and 1.2 million are stillborn due to complications during delivery. Almost all of these deaths are preventable. The Women and Health Initiative at HSPH is working to change the forces that threaten the lives and livelihoods of women and families around the world. Collaborating with international aid groups, local agencies in several countries, and numerous programs across Harvard, the Initiative coordinates, convenes, informs, and advocates on behalf of women’s and children’s health as well as women in their roles as health care providers.


• Global Nutrition—roll-out of proven nutritional

interventions to improve health despite poverty

and deprivation

• women and health—a portfolio of initiatives

to improve health conditions for mothers and

children worldwide and advance women’s roles

in health systems

• harvard humanitarian academy—building

knowledge and skills for people on the front lines

of humanitarian relief work


theresa Betancourt, sd ’03, has dedicated her life to

helping the world’s most abused and traumatized children.

an hsph alumna who is now associate professor of child

health and human rights at the school, Betancourt has

been working in some of the most war-ravaged parts of the

world for more than a decade to trace the emotional lives

of former child soldiers and other exploited youth. she

is learning what it takes to promote resilience and healing,

and working to identify the conditions that move deeply

scarred children into meaningful and productive lives.

“we need to devise lasting systems of care [in war-torn

countries], instead of leaving behind a dust cloud that

disappears when the humanitarian actors leave,” she says.

her work, which draws on both large-scale numerical

analyses and direct, one-on-one interviews with affected

youth, helps guide the interventions of countless profes-

sionals working across local and international aid organiza-

tions, united Nations agencies, and government programs.

on the front lines:lessons in resilience

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leaDing change, changing leaDers


• Public health learning as a lifelong enterprise

helps enlightened leaders save lives

• Affordable, high-quality health care innova-

tions rapidly advance from laboratories

to people’s lives, and disparities in care

are eliminated

• Health officials worldwide learn quickly

about proven policies and interventions

that work

www.hsph.harvard.edu/campaign/health-systems

leaDership for a healthier WorlDWe need better results for the money we spend on health care. Yet even powerful ideas to transform health systems in the U.S. and around the world will only be as effective as the people who put them into action. This is why HSPH is dedicated both to leading change and changing the leaders of health systems.

Our faculty are identifying ways to prevent costly and life-threatening medical errors, determining which prevention programs and medical treatments deliver better care more efficiently, and ensuring that access to affordable care is viewed universally as a right, not a privilege. Simultaneously, HSPH is reaching health leaders globally at all stages of their careers. For example, new programs for Ministers of Health and of Finance have brought more than 40 current cabinet- level leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the School in just two years. Working with Harvard’s Kennedy School and the African Development Bank, programs like these, and their built-in intensive follow-up, are designed to help these leaders achieve specific policy goals by equipping them with new information, resources, and connections.


• Ministerial leadership program—executive

education for public health leaders around the world

• health systems innovation—better, safer, and

less expensive health care through innovations

in electronic health records, payment policies,

checklists, malpractice reform, and other strategies

• harvardX—delivery of public health education online,

providing previously unimaginable global access


on the front lines:getting things right in the operAting room

powerful ideas aren’t always complicated. one remarkably simple

intervention devised by hsph professor and alumnus atul Gawande—

a brief checklist for surgeons, similar to the safety checklists used by

airplane pilots—has already prevented tens of thousands of deaths and

injuries in dozens of countries around the globe. Beginning in 2007,

Gawande, Md ’95, Mph ’99, led the safe surgery saves lives program at

the world health organization (who), which created the who surgical

safety Checklist based on his pioneering work at hsph. in a worldwide

pilot study, the safety checklist was shown to reduce deaths and

complications following surgery by more than a third. today, Gawande

and others have launched ariadne labs, a joint center at hsph and

Brigham and women’s hospital that extends this approach to areas

such as childbirth and end-of-life care.

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We’ve changed the World before…Leading smaLLpox eradication efforts

helping to frame obamacare

Discovering a key to premature infant Deathslinking trans fats to heart disease

PinPointing key breast cancer risks

identifying risk of secondhand smoke

Making a polio vaccine possible

Making surgery safer with checklists

Protecting millions from industrial health threats

Revealing genetic clues to undeRstanding many diseases

Turning The Tide of The AidS epidemic in AfricA

IdentIfyIng value of low-cost dIagnostIc for cervIcal cancerIdentIfyIng the tIck that causes Lyme dIsease

Protecting blood suPPlies from HiVLeading the designated driver Campaign

Saving millionS from cholera deathS

calculating threat level of SarS epidemic

InspIrIng Clean aIr aCt regulatIons

…With your help, We

can do it again.

Leading smaLLpox eradication efforts

helping to frame obamacare

Discovering a key to premature infant Deathslinking trans fats to heart disease

PinPointing key breast cancer risks

identifying risk of secondhand smoke

Making a polio vaccine possible

Making surgery safer with checklists

Protecting millions from industrial health threats

Revealing genetic clues to undeRstanding many diseases

Turning The Tide of The AidS epidemic in AfricA

IdentIfyIng value of low-cost dIagnostIc for cervIcal cancerIdentIfyIng the tIck that causes Lyme dIsease

Protecting blood suPPlies from HiVLeading the designated driver Campaign

Saving millionS from cholera deathS

InventIng Iron lung

calculating threat level of SarS epidemic

InspIrIng Clean aIr aCt regulatIons

supporting scholArs And scholArships

HSPH prepares bright, dedicated people to tackle health issues affecting millions around the world. Our graduates drive the discovery and implementation of big and important ideas. But we need significantly more funding for student aid to ensure that a lack of financial resources and heavy debt burdens do not prevent the very best students from attending HSPH and pursuing a public health career when they graduate.

An investment in financial aid supports not only our students but also the countless lives these students will touch in the course of their public health careers.

working to chAnge the system

Bethany holmes, sM ’12,

health policy and Management,

had a rewarding job raising

money to help deaf children

hear. when she witnessed a

five-year-old boy learn to hear

and speak after receiving

cochlear implants, she was

deeply moved. But she was also

outraged that the u.s. health

care system makes such care

available to only a few of those

who need it. “it makes you want

to change the system so that

everyone who is suffering has

access to what they deserve,”

she said. with much needed

financial aid, Bethany came to

harvard to do just that.

“when the department chair

called me and warmly invited

me to the program and offered

me the Carson fellowship, i was

floored,” said Bethany. “that’s

when i knew i’d be coming here.”

Percentage of students who depend on grants from the

School and other sources to cover all or some of their expenses

6535%

International students

1,212 studentsEnrollment

$75,454AverAge debt loAd of hsph grAduAtes

2012 figures

CAMPAIGN PrIorITy: people

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collAborAtion Across cAmpus

the product of mAny kindnesses

“there have been few heroes in my life and dr. donald r.

hopkins is one.” with these words, u.s. president Jimmy

Carter paid tribute to hsph alumnus donald hopkins,

Mph ’70, a legendary leader in the field of disease eradi-

cation whose accomplishments include a leading role

in the elimination of smallpox.

one of 10 children, the son of a carpenter and a seam-

stress, hopkins likes to describe himself as the “product

of many kindnesses,” referring to the financial support he

received for his education. he has served as both deputy

director and acting director of the u.s. Centers for

disease Control and prevention. he has headed up health

programs at the atlanta-based Carter Center since 1987.

his 1983 book Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History

was nominated for a pulitzer prize, and his many awards

include a Macarthur “genius” grant.

hopkins’ sights are currently trained on Guinea worm

disease, a parasitic disease so intensely painful that it

has been dubbed “the fiery serpent.” in 1986, there were

an estimated 3.5 million cases. today, thanks in large part

to the eradication campaign hopkins leads at the Carter

Center, there are fewer than 600 cases worldwide and

the goal of complete eradication is within reach. “i’m

increasingly confident that it’s less and less likely that the

disease will outlive me,” the 71-year-old hopkins recently

told the New York Times.

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how public heAlth should work

when it comes to understanding and improving the environment’s effects

on health, few have had greater impact than hsph alumnus and faculty

member douglas dockery, sM ’74, sd ’79. today, dockery is chair of our

department of environmental health. But in the mid-1970s, he was a

young researcher at the school about to embark on what would become

a world-changing air pollution study. the so-called “six Cities study”—

one of the single most influential research projects in public health

history—found that the most polluted air in the u.s. translated to about

a two-year loss in life expectancy. work by dockery and his colleagues

paved the way for the nation’s Clean air act regulations on fine particulate

matter and continues to influence air quality regulation around the world.

the six Cities study is also a textbook illustration of how public health

should work: Good science shapes policy. Good policy saves lives.

AttrActing And supporting the best fAculty

In the classroom, in the lab, and in the field, our faculty members teach students and conduct research that advances the frontiers of knowledge. Our faculty also travel widely, working directly with governments and organizations to translate research into public health programs and policies.

Currently, HSPH faculty raise more than 70% of our total revenue from research grants, mostly from the U.S. government—far more than any other Harvard school. This success in winning competitive grants is impressive, but without additional sources of support for faculty, the School will be vulnerable to potential federal funding cutbacks, and our best and brightest will have to spend even more time writing grants, rather than executing powerful ideas to create a healthier world.

Looking ahead, we need to increase the number of endowed professorships, both to support and retain our most talented faculty members and to make sure that they can devote their best energies to research and teaching. We also need adequate funding to attract the best young faculty and fund their early and most creative research ideas—ideas that frequently have difficulty gaining financial support from more established sources.

CAMPAIGN PrIorITy: people

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turning the tide on Aids in AfricA

By the early 2000s, aids was increasingly viewed as a treatable

chronic disease in the developed world. But for most patients in

africa it remained a death sentence.

this was the state of things when phyllis Kanki, sd ’85, professor

of immunology and infectious diseases, spearheaded an hsph

application to the president’s emergency plan for aids relief

(pepfar), a $15-billion u.s. government program announced

during then-president George w. Bush’s 2003 state of the

union address. Kanki’s application led to generous pepfar

support for hsph’s work with government ministries, universities,

and non-governmental organizations in Nigeria, Botswana,

and tanzania.

ten years later, the legacy is enormous: Newly refurbished and

equipped clinics and labs, thousands of trained health care

workers, and treatment of more than 160,000 people who would

otherwise not have received lifesaving aids drugs. “everyone

was surprised by what we were able to do,” said Kanki. “in the

grant application, we said that we would enable 100,000 people

to obtain treatment in Nigeria. that number seemed astronomical

at the time, but in the end, we far exceeded it.” Moreover, the

impact of the work by Kanki and her colleagues extends far

beyond the aids crisis, in the form of resources, strategies, and

guidance for addressing other treatable infectious diseases,

including tuberculosis, malaria, and chronic diseases such as

cancer and diabetes. “pepfar changed the way we think about

what public health can accomplish,” dean Julio frenk concluded.

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trAnsforming public heAlth educAtion

Education at HSPH has never been more vibrant. Our traditional degree programs are undergoing a renaissance, incorporating exciting innovations and experiential approaches to teaching and learning. A new Doctor of Public Health program will launch in 2014, and a re-envisioned Master’s degree program is also planned. We are expanding our executive education programs to serve current and future public health leaders with unique leadership programs for every career stage. And we are reaching tens of thousands of new students around the globe with online learning opportunities through edX, Harvard’s joint venture with MIT, which has now been joined by dozens of other leading universities from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. But these efforts need resources for faculty, field programs, technological innovation, and physical space—the building blocks of a 21st-century educational experience.

CAMPAIGN PrIorITy: ideAs

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leArning. to chAnge the world.

the talented individuals educated at hsph

advance knowledge through groundbreaking

research. they educate new generations

of students. they transform lives as

leaders in government, non-governmental

agencies, private firms, and health care

systems. to succeed, today’s students

need both in-depth knowledge in special-

ized areas of public health and a wealth of

practical skills that enable them to work

nimbly and collaboratively across the wide

range of disciplines involved in improving

the world’s health. in short, they must

become “t-shaped” public health leaders.

we are re-envisioning our approach to

educating public health professionals to

meet the changing needs of these students,

help them build practical skills, and prepare

them to work effectively in the field. we are

replacing lectures with case work and field

studies, team-based learning, simulations,

and other experience-oriented opportuni-

ties. we are harnessing the latest advances

in educational technology. and above all,

we are building a faculty that is well-versed

in innovative teaching methods, public

communications, and leadership skills, all

of which are vital to achieving broad impact

in public health.

with your support, this transformation

has the potential to reshape not just the

school, but the entire field of public health

education.

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AdvAncing reseArch

HSPH is an engine for innovation and discovery, extending the limits of human knowledge, and putting that knowledge to work to produce visionary ideas and cost-effective solutions that improve the lives of people everywhere. Through rigorous research sustained over years and even decades, we are connect-ing great minds with big problems and working to overcome many of today’s greatest threats to human health.

An investment in HSPH is an investment in large-scale, long-term impact. Today, as it has for the past 100 years, research at HSPH is changing the world.

Ramon Sanchez, SD ’11, sees the future of energy production—and cleaner, healthier skies—in microalgae.

CAMPAIGN PrIorITy: ideAs

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driving innovAtion

The Dean’s Fund for Innovation offers a critical source of unrestricted funding for the School, allowing the Dean to invest in pioneering new initiatives, educational improvements, and junior faculty research. It enables the School to take advantage of fast-moving opportunities such as the recent launch of HarvardX and provide bridge funding when it is needed to sustain important research.

With your help, the Dean’s Fund for Innovation supports our ongoing activities, makes the School more nimble in responding to emerging challenges and opportunities, and fosters new discoveries that lead to improved health for people across the globe.

70%of HSPH total revenue comes from research grants, mostly from the U.S. government—far more than any other Harvard school

percentAge of totAl revenue from endowment distribution

14%Harvard School of Public Health

33%All Harvard schools (average)

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big dAtA

Our ability to generate data has moved light-years ahead of where it was only a few years ago, and the amount of digital information now available to us is essentially unimaginable.

Buried in all these data are clues for everything from how to prevent tuberculosis to how to cut health care costs.

Faculty in our departments of biostatistics, epidemiology, and genetics and complex diseases are at the forefront of the burgeoning field of “big data” and their work forms the bed-rock of much of the School’s research. But they require both technological resources and significant financial support to translate these countless terabytes of information into meaningful public health interventions.

Support for biostatistics, epidemiology, and genetics research and faculty strengthens the building blocks of all public health research and reinforces the School’s scientific and intellectual foundations.

“if you think About the scientific revolutions thAt hAve

occurred in history, they’ve been driven by one thing—

the AvAilAbility of dAtA. from copernicus to quAntum

mechAnics, from dArwin to the humAn genome project,

it’s dAtA thAt drives innovAtion.”

John Quackenbush, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics

CAMPAIGN PrIorITy: infrAstructure

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A cAmpus for the 21st century

People engaged in 21st-century learning and research need 21st- century facilities and technology to do their best work. However, the School’s aging buildings and technological infrastructure require renewal if we are to continue to attract and retain the best students and faculty.

Some of the best opportunities available to leave a lasting mark in this Campaign surround the creation of a campus that is worthy of Harvard School of Public Health, built to foster continued innova-tion and global engagement and to ensure that its second century of impact is as remarkable as its first.

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imAgine A world in which health is treated as a right, not a privilege. Where the threat of pandemics is mitigated by scientific interven-tion. Where communities bond over smart choices in nutrition, exercise, and preven-tive medicine. Where the costs of health care actually decrease in direct proportion to the improved health of the world. These are some of our goals—and they point to areas where Harvard School of Public Health is having a critical real-world impact today. But contin-uing to change the course of history requires more than determination, and the Harvard name on our door. it Also requires you.

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A messAge from the cAmpAign co-chAirs

The Campaign for Harvard School of Public Health is an historic effort to

transform HSPH and to achieve sweeping results in the wider world. Focused on

turning back four major threats to public health around the globe—old and new

pandemics, harmful physical and social environments, poverty and humanitarian

crises, and failing health systems—the Campaign will support the people, ideas,

and infrastructure HSPH needs to translate research into world-changing

influence and impact.

The faculty and students at Harvard School of Public Health are dedicated to

solving some of society’s most daunting and important problems. They recognize

the importance of mobilizing expertise within the School and across Harvard to

achieve lasting change. That is why we have enthusiastically volunteered to help

Dean Julio Frank lead the capital campaign effort. The Campaign can seed exciting

new collaborations and bold new ideas that will reverse killer diseases, prevent

pollution, and promote healthier communities. Furthermore, the Campaign will

enable HSPH to lead change and change leaders while advancing the work of

everyone at the School to promote health as a human right.

We are honored to be working on this Campaign effort with fellow Harvard Business

School alumnus, richard Menschel, and his wife ronay, who will serve as honorary

co-chairs after successfully leading the School’s last campaign. The Menschels

have identified HSPH as one of their top philanthropic priorities for more than

20 years—and it is no wonder. In supporting HSPH you are investing in an

institution with a long track record of using evidence-based research to create a

safer, healthier world. you leverage the immense talent assembled at the School

to improve millions of people’s lives.

We are proud to support the School and help Dean Frenk accomplish HSPH’s

goals. We hope you will join us—and invest in the people and ideas that are truly

changing the world.

jonAthAn lAvine, mbA ’92 And jeAnnie lAvine, Ab ’88, mbA ’92

Co-Chairs, Campaign for Harvard School of Public Health

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The Harvard School of Public Health has always recognized the global nature of

knowledge, collaboration, and action, pushing the frontiers of discovery forward

and translating rigorous research into action and influence that change the world.

At the same time, the School plays an important integrative role across the

University. Bringing ideas and people together, it draws on the remarkable

strengths that exist at Harvard, posing questions and developing answers that

have the potential to shape a better future for all of us.

The public health moment in which we are living poses many challenges. We have

an unsurpassed capacity to rise to them. When you support the Harvard School of

Public Health today, you invest in a healthier and safer world tomorrow.

drew fAust

President of Harvard University

Lincoln Professor of History

A messAge from hArvArd university president drew fAust

for more information on how you can support the campaign for harvard school of public health, visit the campaign website:

www.hsph.hArvArd.edu/cAmpAign

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for more information on how you can support the campaign for harvard school of public health, visit the campaign website:

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