Based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity leads in the development of a growing scientific field at the intersection of social medicine, health-system design, service delivery, and advocacy.
The Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity—a joint initiative of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Program in Global NCDs and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and Partners In Health—is based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Center serves as one of two co-secretariats for the NCDI Poverty Network; Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, serves as the other. The Network’s co-chairs are Dr. Gene Bukhman, the Center’s executive director, and Dr. Ana Mocumbi, an associate professor in cardiology at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane.
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