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Campaign Update SPRING 2015
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“The best philanthropic giving comes from the heart, oftentimes
a grateful heart. This gift is no exception. I am grateful to this
University for the education that I received here. That education
changed my life. I am also grateful to my late father who instilled
in me the values by which I have lived my life. This gift is a way of
memorializing my father and the values that he stood for.”
GERALD CHAN, SM ’75, SD ’79, SPEAKING AT THE GIFT ANNOUNCEMENT
CEREMONY ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
On September 8, 2014, the School announced a $350 million unrestricted endowment
gift from The Morningside Foundation, established by the family of the late Mr. T.H. Chan
and spearheaded by his sons Gerald Chan, SM ’75, SD ’79, a School alumnus, and Ronnie
Chan. This gift provides a sustainable financial platform upon which the School’s work
can be built, ensuring the School’s strength into the future by supporting the people,
ideas, and infrastructure that make the School great. In honor of this extraordinary
generosity, the School was renamed the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
A TRANSFORMATIONAL GIFT
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It has been my great pleasure to get to know so many of you during my past six years as dean
of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Your deep commitment to the School and its
mission has been a continual source of inspiration, and I am proud of all we have accomplished
together. Although my tenure at the School will come to an end on August 31, the cause of public
health remains close to my heart, and I am dedicated to strengthening the School’s future and
to working with you over the next few months to ensure the success of the School’s Campaign.
This effort is much bigger than one person—and indeed much bigger than the School. The
Campaign targets critical public health issues confronting the wider world and seeks to discover
and promote solutions to four major threats to global health: old and new pandemics, harmful
physical and social environments, poverty and humanitarian crises, and failing health systems.
You have responded to this vision with great generosity. The School received an extraordinary
$350 million gift from The Morningside Foundation, and hundreds of other generous donors
contributed nearly $296 million to the Campaign as of March 31, 2015.
This generosity is a testament to your trust in this remarkable institution as it heads into its
second century—trust that the School will be around and sound for the next hundred years,
no matter its leader; that the work is vitally important; and that these efforts will continue to
have a profound impact on people worldwide. We are both humbled and inspired by this trust.
It causes all of us at the School to redouble our efforts, as no single gift—no matter how large—
can solve the serious public health problems facing the world today. These efforts require the
hard work and sustained support of many, both inside the School and outside its walls.
Your past generosity has enabled progress on so many fronts in our shared mission of creating
and nurturing healthy communities across the globe. Yet as the Ebola crisis, the obesity
epidemic, and numerous other issues demonstrate, the intertwined public health threats that
are the focus of this Campaign still loom large throughout the world. This is truly a public health
moment, with successes in the field gaining visibility nationally and internationally. The School
is seizing this moment, leveraging your support to improve millions of lives worldwide.
As I prepare to step into a new role, I remain deeply grateful that you have joined in the worthy
and rewarding work to improve the conditions of people living in poverty, people without access
to health care, people without the resources to ensure a happy and productive life for them-
selves and their children. I know that you will be in good hands with my successor, who will be
as committed as I to our life-changing work.
With heartfelt thanks for your partnership in creating a healthier world,
JULIO FRENK
Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
A MESSAGE FROM THE DEANABOUT CAMPAIGN PROGRESS
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THE CAMPAIGN FOR HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
DISCOVERING AND PROMOTING SOLUTIONS TO FOUR MAJOR GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS
POWERFUL IDEAS FOR A HEALTHIER WORLD
HarmfulPhysical& Social
Environments
FailingHealth Systems
Advancing healthas a human right
Developingtools to reversekiller diseases
Preventing pollution,promoting healthy
communities
Leading change,changing leaders
Poverty & Humanitarian
Crises
Old & NewPandemics
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The following areas present gift opportunities for all four public health threats:
*representative sample of funding opportunities
MORNINGSIDE GIFT INITIAL
SPENDING PRIORITIES:
FUNDING STILL NEEDED FOR:*
PEOPLE Students
• Institute a loan-forgiveness pilot program for graduates who go on to work in underserved communities in the U.S. or in developing countries around the world
• Increase student financial aid
Faculty
• Support sabbaticals for a number of promising junior faculty
• Supplement competitive recruitment packages to attract the next generation of talented faculty members
• Provide a small but meaningful scholarly allowance for faculty who do not receive endowment support
• Student fellowships and financial aid
• Named chair for the Dean
• Professorships for department chairs
• Junior and senior professorships/researchers in multiple fields
IDEAS • Create a fund to support groundbreaking research ideas generated by faculty and students
• Expand support for educational excellence initiatives
• Continuous curriculum innovation
• Major public health research initiatives in Africa, China, and India
• Activities to foster translation of research into policy, including the School’s Forum and Voices programs
INFRASTRUCTURE • Begin building maintenance that has been deferred
• Renovate aging laboratory space
• Renovate learning spaces
• Expand funding for big-data research, especially in biostatistics and epidemiology
• New building spaces
• Large new big-data initiatives
• Junior and senior faculty positions in quantitative science
SUSTAINABILITY • Replenish reserves depleted by the 2008–09 financial crisis and create a buffer for the future
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In today’s world, boarding an international flight can spark the risk of a deadly pandemic,
and the underlying genetic and biological causes of conditions such as diabetes, cancer,
and Alzheimer’s disease are still not understood. Diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis,
and malaria—which frequently can be prevented and treated with medications and
changes in behavior—still kill millions of people across the world. To address these
issues, the Harvard Chan School is challenging accepted wisdom and pushing forward
the frontiers of knowledge for the common good.
DEVELOPING TOOLS TO REVERSE KILLER DISEASES
OLD AND NEW PANDEMICS
Below: Sarah Fortune, the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases, discusses her work on the genetics of tuberculosis with Robert Pozen, who has supported Fortune’s research. Pozen, a former Harvard Business School faculty member, also taught in the Harvard Chan School’s DrPH program.
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Impact and opportunityHarvard Chan faculty, students, researchers, and alumni
are on the front lines of efforts to prevent the next global
pandemic. Building on lifesaving work that slowed the spread
of HIV/AIDS, the School is working to stop killer diseases in
their tracks by harnessing cutting-edge technologies, mining
big data, and discovering the genetic codes underlying such
diseases. Perhaps most important, the School is at the
forefront of efforts to identify and stop diseases long before
they have a chance to become epidemics.
Selected Funding Opportunities
• Fellowships and financial aid—invest in future leaders
tracking old and new pandemics by attracting the best
students, regardless of their ability to pay
• Junior and senior professorships—especially in the
Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases,
Genetics and Complex Diseases, Global Health and
Population, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
• Predictive pandemic modeling—finding new ways to
forecast, track, and treat pandemics
• Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe—
a partnership with the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special
Envoy for Malaria
• Center for Healthy Aging—bringing together faculty
experts from across the School to address the challenges
of aging for individuals and societies
CAMPAIGN IMPACT: RESEARCH ON
METABOLIC DISEASES
The new Sabri Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Metabolic Research addresses chronic and complex diseases of a metabolic nature, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which are a major threat to public health in the U.S. and around the world. The Center was made possible by a $24 million gift from Murat Ülker, a leading Turkish entrepreneur, on behalf of the Ülker family and in honor of the late Sabri Ülker. The funds support work led by Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons professor of genetics and metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases.
Above: Gökhan Hotamisligil presents Ali Ülker with a lab coat during the announcement of the Ülker gift.$82.84M
$24.16M
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
AS OF MARCH 31, 2015:
AMOUNT STILL NEEDED TO
REACH INITIAL TARGET:
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PREVENTING POLLUTION, PROMOTING HEALTHY COMMUNITIESSome of the world’s biggest health challenges emerge as a result of a complex
combination of factors, including genetics, poverty or relative affluence, and lifestyle
choices, among many others. 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. Harvard Chan School experts across multiple fields are
addressing these issues and discovering solutions to create healthy societies.
HARMFUL PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS
Below: Research by Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology, suggests that the decline in honeybee populations is linked to a group of pesticides. Honeybees are key to agricultural production that supports human health.
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Impact and opportunityFaculty and students at the Harvard Chan School are in the
vanguard of efforts to change individual behaviors 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.
Selected Funding Opportunities
• Fellowships and financial aid—invest in future leaders exam-
ining social and environmental factors in health by attracting
the best students, regardless of their ability to pay
• Junior and senior professorships—especially in the
Departments of Environmental Health, Social and Behavioral
Sciences, Nutrition, Global Health and Population,
Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
• Healthy Lifestyles and Chronic Disease Initiative—
turning the tide of the global obesity epidemic and slowing
the rise in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer
through a combination of basic science and behavioral
and nutrition research
• Injury Control Research Center—research to support
evidence-based policy approaches to reducing gun violence,
texting while driving, and other dangerous behaviors
• Research on air and water pollution—investigating and
mitigating heath risks associated with these hazards
and providing scientific evidence for sound environmental
and health policies
$62.55M
$47.45M
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
AS OF MARCH 31, 2015:
AMOUNT STILL NEEDED TO
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CAMPAIGN IMPACT: RESEARCH ON
CHEMICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
The School has begun a new research and education program to explore multiple chemical sensitivities—in which exposure to certain chemicals appears to trigger persistent and lifelong toxic effects in some people—thanks to a $5 million bequest from Marilyn Brachman Hoffman (above). Hoffman closely followed the work of faculty members John Spengler, an expert in indoor air pollution, and Joseph Brain, who studies the health effects of inhaled gases, particulates, and microbes. Spengler and Brain are leading the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Program for Chemicals and Health.
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ADVANCING HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHTWars, natural disasters, genocide, and other tragedies in recent years have transformed
global humanitarian aid into a $160-billion-a-year industry that employs 240,000 people
in thousands of organizations across more than 100 countries. But too often, would-be
humanitarians are ill equipped to deal with the difficult and dangerous situations they
find on the ground—armed militias, blocked roads, earthquake-damaged buildings, or
masses of displaced people on the move. Harvard Chan faculty are engaged in a range
of efforts to address these and other humanitarian issues.
POVERTY AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES
Below: Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative faculty members, developed the KoBoToolbox, a system for securely collecting research data on mobile phones that has been adopted by the U.N. for use among responders during humanitarian disasters.
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Impact and opportunityFrom documenting the plight of Rohingya refugees in the
Thailand-Burma border region, to studying the impact of
poverty and racism on health in the U.S., to equipping current
and future humanitarian leaders with the knowledge they need
to operate effectively in crisis situations, the Harvard Chan
School is working to improve the lives and health of vulnerable
people around the world.
Selected Funding Opportunities
• Fellowships and financial aid—invest in future leaders
addressing poverty and other humanitarian issues by
attracting the best students, regardless of their ability to pay
• Junior and senior professorships—especially in the
Departments of Global Health and Population, Health
Policy and Management, Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
• Women and Health Initiative—a portfolio of initiatives to
improve health conditions for mothers and children world-
wide and advance women’s roles in health systems
• François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and
Human Rights—advancing the rights and well-being of
people living in the most extreme circumstances worldwide
• Research Program on Children and Global Adversity—
applied research contributing to evidence-based
interventions to serve children and families in adversity
across the globe
CAMPAIGN IMPACT: TRAINING
HUMANITARIAN LEADERS
A $5 million grant from Jonathan Lavine, MBA ’92, and his wife, Jeannie Lavine, AB ’88, MBA ’92—co-chairs of the Campaign—will enable the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative to significantly expand its ongoing efforts to train the next generation of humanitarian leaders. Under the new Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative, some 250 students per year—an increase from 100—are now learning how to provide aid effectively, efficiently, and safely through courses, simulated trainings in rural and urban settings, and case studies. The expanded Initiative serves as the foundation for the Humanitarian Academy—the first global center of its kind—that coordinates Harvard-wide efforts in humanitarian issues and helps define a new field.$71.84M
$40.16M
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
AS OF MARCH 31, 2015:
AMOUNT STILL NEEDED TO
REACH INITIAL TARGET:
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LEADING CHANGE, CHANGING LEADERSThe Ebola epidemic in West Africa demonstrated the complex nature of health systems
and the terrible consequences of their failures. In the U.S., the health system is inefficient,
expensive, and inaccessible to millions. Transforming health systems in this country and
around the world will take both powerful ideas and effective leaders to put them into
action. The Harvard Chan School is dedicated to both leading change and changing the
leaders of health systems.
FAILING HEALTH SYSTEMS
Below: Mosoka Fallah, MPH ’12 (center), had returned to his hometown of Monrovia, Liberia, not long before Ebola struck that country. As the leader of a community health clinic, Fallah helped launch grassroots public health efforts during the epidemic by winning the trust of residents in Ebola-stricken communities like New Kru Town.
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Impact and opportunitySchool faculty are identifying ways to prevent costly and
life-threatening medical errors, determining which prevention
programs and medical treatments deliver better care more
efficiently, training ministers of health and finance to achieve
concrete health policy goals, and ensuring access to
affordable care for everyone.
Selected Funding Opportunities
• Fellowships and financial aid—invest in future leaders
focusing on health-systems reform by attracting the best
students, regardless of their ability to pay
• Junior and senior professorships—especially in the
Departments of Health Policy and Management, Global
Health and Population, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
• Ariadne Labs—creating scalable health care solutions
that produce better care at the most critical moments in
people’s lives
• Leadership programs—initiatives including the National
Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Center for Public Health
Leadership, Ministerial Leadership in Health Program, and
Leadership Studio programming
• Entrepreneurial solutions to public health problems—
joint programs with Harvard Business School to develop
commercial self-sustaining health care initiatives for
low-income populations
CAMPAIGN IMPACT: HEALTH
SYSTEMS INNOVATION
“When I make contributions,” says Mala Gaonkar (above), “I look for who is doing the strongest, most innovative work.” One focus of her philanthropy is Ariadne Labs, led by Atul Gawande, MPH ’99, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard Chan School and a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Ariadne Labs is a joint center of both institutions designed to transform how care is delivered around the world. Using rigorous scientific methodology, researchers are designing scalable solutions, such as safe-childbirth and safe-surgery checklists, that have improved health care quality, reduced costs, and helped hundreds of thousands of people avoid injury, death, and other problems in their encounters with health care providers.
$69.94M
$51.06M
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
AS OF MARCH 31, 2015:
AMOUNT STILL NEEDED TO
REACH INITIAL TARGET:
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“Dollar for dollar, public health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health accomplish more to improve people’s health and enable them to live longer, healthier lives than any other investment.”Atul Gawande, MPH ’99AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR; STAFF WRITER, THE NEW YORKER
PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
SURGEON, BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL
Photo credits Cover, row 1, left and row 3, right: Tony Rinaldo; row 1, right: courtesy of Catlin Powers; row 3, left: courtesy of Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham. Page 5: Emily Cuccarese. Page 10: Daniel Berehulak/ The New York Times/Redux. All others: Kent Dayton.
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“When we signed on as co-chairs of the
Campaign for Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health in 2013, we could not have
imagined the outpouring of generosity in
support of public health research and
education that the School would receive in
just the first year. Your continued generosity
creates a beacon of hope both here at home
and around the world.”
JONATHAN LAVINE, MBA ’ 92, AND JEANNIE LAVINE, AB ’88, MBA ’92CO-CHAIRS, CAMPAIGN FOR HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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