Harvard Initiative on Global Health Quality "HIGHQ"

05/15/2017

Our post on "paying for quality in China" up on the ISQua - Advancing Patient Safety & Quality site today!

How would you improve quality of care in rural China?

Case study by Liana Woskie and Jose Figueroa

05/18/2016

Today we launched HospitalAdvisor - an online site where Hong Kong patients can engage and share their experiences with clinical care

Check it out! https://twitter.com/HospAdvisor_HK

04/26/2016

Hey all, we are thrilled to share our call for papers with on effective . This call for papers marks the start to a two year partnership with the BMJ in which we will elicit and feature diverse academic work on the challenges of really achieving UHC. What's working, what's not.. we want to hear about it all.

http://goo.gl/0JvNvd

Editorial Delivering on the promise of universal health coverage BMJ 2016; 353 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2216 (Published 26 April 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;353:i2216 Article Related content Metrics Responses Peer review Get access to this article and to all of thebmj.com for 14 daysSign…

02/23/2016

In Boston and free for lunch tomorrow? Join us for a conversation with professor Ashish Jha & Mosoka Fallah on Ebola in Liberia & a vision for what's next. The session will be from 12:30 - 1:30 at 42 Church St (Harvard Square, Cambridge MA).

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/F4Mokw

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01/22/2016

Join us next week (Jan 25th) for a Global Health Delivery Project Expert Panel: "Practical Evaluation Designs for Improving the Quality of Health Care Implementation" !

http://goo.gl/CLnbiS

GHDonline and Health Systems Global (HSG) are teaming up to bring you an exciting Expert Panel on evaluation approaches to implementing health care improvements. “Implementation Science” is an increasingly hot topic for those interested in understanding what it takes to close the gap between clinica…

11/23/2015

This morning the Harvard Global Health Institute / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Prospective & Current Students Independent panel came out. Global Health Corps Alum authored & Lancet published - this calls for serious reform to the WHO and a rethinking of our global governance infrastructure to ensure something like this does not happen again.

A panel of global health experts has strongly criticized the World Health Organization, saying it mishandled the response to the Ebola outbreak in ...

11/04/2015

Looking for something to do on Thursday evening? Join us for a conversation on this with Ashish Jha of at in Allston. We'll be chatting about a new (free) course we're launching on edX
http://edportal.harvard.edu/event/faculty-speaker-ashish-jha-lessons-ebola

09/09/2015

If you're in Boston join us tomorrow! No need to register, just stop by!

August 3, 2015 On Thursday, September 10, 2015, the Harvard Global Health Institute will host a day-long symposium at the Radcliffe Gymnasium in Cambridge on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Institute. The symposium will explore the role of universities in addressing the most pressing g…

07/22/2015

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07/20/2015

"Last week, Marshall Allan and Olga Pierce, two journalists at ProPublica, published a surgeon report card detailing complication rates of 17,000 individual surgeons from across the nation. A product of many years of work, it benefitted from the input of a large number of experts (as well as folks like me). The report card has received a lot of attention … and a lot of criticism. Why the attention? Because people want information about how to pick a good surgeon. Why the criticism? Because the report card has plenty of limitations."

https://blogs.sph.harvard.edu/ashish-jha/the-propublica-report-card-a-step-in-the-right-direction/

A controversial report card Last week, Marshall Allan and Olga Pierce, two journalists at ProPublica, published a surgeon report card detailing complication rates of 17,000 individual surgeons from...

07/16/2015

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07/09/2015

Ashish's new website is up and running! For more information about his publications and courses, check out: http://ashishkjha.com/

A physician, health policy researcher, and advocate for the notion that an ounce of data is worth a thousand pounds of opinion. Ashish is the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, his work frequently being published in JAMA and other notable medical journals, as well as on his Harvard b…