Harvard Medical School, Blavatnik Institute for Global Health & Social Medicine

The mission of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change (PGPPSC), an initiative of the Blavatnik Institute of Global health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is to prepare multidisciplinary leaders to take on the existential challenges of health security,  to implement sound policy to protect and serve the best interests of a global population. By creating a resonant voice and policy hub for global health practitioners, PGPPSC aims to foster coordination among the deeply intertwined health, diplomacy, and security communities, to address global health threats through strong and well governed health systems. The award provides flexible support to PGPPSC as it implements COVID Academy: A Program in Policy Practice Implementation, a series of forums bringing together public health responders, policymakers, and academic experts in order to improve immediate public sector responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to collate and analyze barriers to public health delivery to improve US public health enterprise at the state-level going forward.