Expansion microscopy (4-4.5x) - Mosquito midgut infected with human malaria parasite, 13 days post infection. Did you know you have access to this cutting-edge microscopy equipment at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health? 🔬 Learn more at the following link: hsph.harvard.edu/research-res...

What are you most proud of this year? 🎥 The Harvard Chan School asked students, staff, faculty, and researchers to share their highlights, from research milestones to personal achievements. The result is a vibrant snapshot of the community. See if you can spot IID Chair Sarah Fortune 👀

Join IID professor Dr. Eric Rubin in the webinar this week 🚨⬇️ 🗣️ “How a new White House proposal could fundamentally change American science” ⏰ July 1, from 3 pm-4 pm.

✨ We’re excited to highlight a powerful TED Talk by our own Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, faculty member in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

It’s finally #FacultyFriday! Today we’re spotlighting IID professor Dr. Yonatan Grad - @yhgrad.bsky.social - a physician-scientist, epidemiologist, and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics - @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social. 👏 Learn about his recent speaking engagement below! ⬇️

⚽🌍 Yesterday afternoon, lab meetings and grant applications took a back seat as part of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases gathered to watch the World Cup match between England and Ghana.

Moments of joy with our graduates! 📸 🥳 We love seeing the excitement and celebratory spirit around campus captured in these photos. 🪩🎉 We are so proud of the monumental accomplishments of our five graduates—Samuel Zinga, Esrah Du, Morgan Martin, Paulo Manrique, and Maia Mesyngier.

We are overjoyed by IID’s lead graphic designer and scientific illustrator Lucia Ricci’s recognition as a Harvard Hero! 🥳

IID wishes everyone a healthy and happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈 Everyone deserves the right to live as their whole selves, to be loved, and to access affirming, high-quality healthcare.

Please join us in celebrating Dr. Christian Dzuvor, recipient of the 2026 Runze Huang Community Award! 👏 Selected from numerous exceptional nominees, Dr. Dzuvor was recognized for his outstanding commitment to mentorship and scientific excellence.

The recent Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health article on the Malaria in a Changing World symposium captures the excitement, innovation, and collaborative spirit that defined the meeting. 👏

Paulo Manrique, PhD'26, traveled from his home in Peru to Harvard Chan School of Public Health to further his commitment to improving lives through public health research. 🛫🎓 Follow Paulo's journey all the way to the graduation stage and beyond by reading his feature in Harvard Chan School News:

A team from the Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP), formerly known as Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, recently visited the University of Botswana (UB) to further discussions on collaboration opportunities.

In a timely Q&A, IID professor and infectious disease expert Dr. Yonatan Grad - yhgrad.bsky.social - addresses the Ebola epidemic in Central Africa.

Today, Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, IID Assistant Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented her talk at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB): “From Viral Entry to Immune Targeting: Redefining Vaccine Design for Emerging Viruses” 🗣️💉

Expansion microscopy (4-4.5x) - Mosquito midgut infected with human malaria parasite, 13 days post infection. Did you know you have access to this cutting-edge microscopy equipment at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health? 🔬 Learn more at the following link: hsph.harvard.edu/research-res...

Our heartiest congratulations to all of the students, faculty, and staff recognized with Harvard Chan School awards this graduation season! 🎉🎈

Today’s the day! 🎓 We’re cheering extra loudly for our IID graduates! Samuel, Esrah, Paulo, Morgan, and Maia, we are so proud of each of you and your commitment to impactful research in malaria and tuberculosis. 👏

It’s spring, a time of thunderstorms, flowers, and new grads! 🎓️🌼 We are so proud of our IID graduates. Harvard Chan School’s commencement is less than a week away! To all the new graduates, we applaud your hard work and welcome you into this exciting season of growth and new beginnings! 👏

We honor and celebrate public health pioneer Dr. Barry Bloom’s life with a memorial service tomorrow, May 22, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge from 10:00 am-1:00 pm.

Thank you to all who joined us in supporting Maia Mesyngier at her thesis defense today from 9 am-10 am EST. She defended her project titled, “Protective Intravenous BCG Vaccination Mediates Durable Changes to the Lung in a Tuberculosis Challenge Model.” 🫁

This #FacultyFriday, several IID faculty are participating in the symposium Malaria in a Changing World: Past Lessons, Present Challenges, and Future Solutions from 1 pm-5 pm. 🌏🦟

We’re excited to see Dr. Catherine Koofhethile, IID associate and scientist with the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, featured in Fogarty’s Global Health Matters Newsletter! 🗞️

BPH students, faculty and guests are invited to attend Morgan Martin’s dissertation defense seminar, “Exploring Pfkelch13-mediated ART resistance in a West African genetic context,” on May 6, from 2-3 pm (EST).

We’re excited to see insights from assistant IID Prof. Smita Gopinath - @gopinath.bsky.social - who was featured in The Guardian - @us.theguardian.com - article, “Wellness culture is trying to sell you products your vagina doesn’t need.”

We’re gearing up for another week of dissertation defense seminars, starting with Paulo Manrique on May 4 from 2 pm-3 pm EST.

Expansion microscopy (4-4.5x) - Mosquito midgut infected with human malaria parasite, 13 days post infection. Did you know you have access to this cutting-edge microscopy equipment at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health? 🔬 Learn more at the following link: hsph.harvard.edu/research-res...

We hinted about the Wirth Lab’s upcoming publication for #WorldMalariaDay, and this week, we're proud to share the preprint, for publication in Nature Communications - @natcomms.nature.com - "Cellular and molecular basis of Pf Coronin function in artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum."

“An evergreen lesson in malaria is that innovation is critical.” - Dr. Regina Rabinovich MD, MPH, Director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative at ISGLOBAL at the University of Barcelona and Scholar in Residence, IID, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The theme for #WorldMalariaDay calls for action: “Driven to End Malaria: Now We Can. Now We Must.” At IID, our labs are at the forefront of malaria research and scientific innovation at a critical moment. Today, we’re highlighting our malaria labs in motion and what they are working on right now ⬇️

Best of luck to Abigail Frey as she participates in the next round of the Three-Minute Thesis Competition tomorrow! We are so proud of your initiative to improve your presentation skills and increase awareness about TB. Congratulations again! 👏

Celebrating @jhmrimalaria.bsky.social's 25th anniversary🦟 The Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute, supported by @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social, works every day towards the fight against malaria. For more: publichealth.jhu.edu/malaria-rese...

💥 SPARK 💥 positivity at Harvard Chan School by: 1) Nominating a community member who has made a positive impact on your experience 2) Sharing a quick, creative idea to bring people together (in person or virtual, 10 min or less)

BPH students, faculty, and guests are invited to attend Esrah Du’s dissertation defense seminar. 🗣️ "Remarkable and suspicious cells’: Uncovering segmentation in Plasmodium oocysts by volume electron microscopy” 📆 Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 2:00 – 3:00pm (EST)

Meet Hannah Matthews: She’s a graduate student in the Corbett Lab and Jose Ordovas-Montanes lab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The 2026 Global Health Symposium hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute - @harvardgh.bsky.social - takes place tomorrow, April 16. 📆📍

With #spring (almost) in full bloom, we’re excited to share our third and final post in our Kick Off series, where we spotlight the goals, ambitions, and personal excitement of the teams that make up IID. ⭐ Selina Bopp, Senior Research Scientist ⭐

We are excited to share groundbreaking new malaria research from the Neafsey Lab, which found that Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes are evolving to invade insecticides.

Join us online on April 8th at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Rulla Tamimi on "Research Addressing Cancer Disparities in New York City" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...

Visit PopHIVE’s new measles dashboard to learn more about where outbreaks have occurred, who is getting infected, and what areas are at higher risk: https://www.pophive.org/infectious-diseases/measles

Disclaimer: This is NOT an April Fool’s Day joke! If you enjoyed the “Harvard’s public health research, in 7 words or less” video, here’s your chance to be part of the next one this April 👇

Check out our new Recent Graduate Q&A with Naiyu Chen about what it's like to be student in cancer epidemiology! ➡️ Read Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology... ➡️ Learn about our 13 areas of research: hsph.harvard.edu/department/e... #harvard #masters #cancer #epidemiology #alumni #publichealth

Public Health Research Day is one week away! Browse over 100 research posters from @brown.edu students & community partners. The poster hall opens at 1 pm on April 7th! #NPHW #NPHW2026 Learn more & RSVP ⤵️ https://events.brown.edu/public-health/event/327961-public-health-research-day-2026

The March newsletter is out! We're highlighting community events, new Center Members @penggao.bsky.social and Hannah Healy, new research and seminars, and the @harvardchanerc.bsky.social pilot RFA! Read more: hsph.me/NIEHSnews

While Women’s History Month is coming to a close, it’s important to continue celebrating women’s achievements and learning about the challenges they face, past and present. Harvard’s In Focus homepage editorial feature on the women of Harvard will remain available in their archive of past issues.

Congratulations, Abigail! 👏🥳 We are so proud of your impactful work!

For #WorldTBDay, our department took on the TB Eradicator challenge—here is our score! 🕹️ “The only disease we want to go viral.” TB Eradicators is a free, science-based arcade game where players defend their lungs from waves of bacteria attacks. 🔗 tberadicator.com

Please join us in wishing Samuel Zinga the very best ahead of his thesis defense! 👏 A graduate student in the Rubin Lab, Samuel is presenting his research, “Targeting the Clp Protease for Mycobacterial Drug Development,” today at 2 p.m.

Take three seconds to celebrate with us! Abigail Frey is the winner of the prestigious Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! 👏🎉

IID professor Dr. Eric Rubin shared his unique perspective as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine — @nejm.org — and infectious disease specialist in a panel discussion on science communication, alongside two ther editor-in-chiefs of leading nonprofit scientific journals.