Faculty

Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

Marc Lipsitch warns against experimentation with modified H5N1 virus

Modified H5N1 could infect a billion people if it escapes the lab.

by David Levin

Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies

Sociologist Bruce Western rethinks incarceration in America

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics

On activism, litigation, and social change in America

by Michael J. Klarman

Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin

Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956

by Mark J. Plotkin

The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided

How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart

by Alice Park

Harvard pediatrician Brazelton honored for his commitment to public service

The Harvard pediatrician is honored for his commitment to public service.

Fighting AIDS with Harvard's PEPFAR programs in Bostwana, Tanzania, and Nigeria

A symposium at Harvard School of Public Health reflects on the school's PEPFAR-funded programs in Tanzania, Botswana, and Nigeria.

Harvard faculty experts discuss gun violence as a public-health matter

Four Harvard experts convened at the School of Public Health to debate public-health approaches to the topic of gun violence.

White House awards Barry Mazur, Harvard mathematician, National Medal of Science

Gade University Professor, eminent mathematician, recognized by President Obama.

HarvardX offers Justice, Classics courses

New Harvard online courses go beyond quantitative subjects to include "Justice," ancient Greece