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Whoever you are, wherever you are from,

Harvard welcomes you.

Harvard’s global work is the result of a simple strategy for engagement with the world: attract talented students, faculty, and researchers from everywhere, empower them to pursue their academic goals wherever they lead, and support that work energetically.
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Harvard is home to 6,700+ international degree students from 147 countries.
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7,000+ Harvard community members traveled abroad last year for study, work, research, or progress toward international goals.
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Harvard hosts 4,000+ international scholars annually, more than any other university in the United States
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50+ international
research centers
and programs can
be found on campus

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78,000+ alumni, nearly 20% of all graduates, live outside the United States
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Top 5 countries of origin of international students: China Canada India Republic of Korea United Kingdom
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Reimagining India’s Health System

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted the people of India, leading to a myriad of healthcare challenges, economic issues, and humanitarian crises. It exacerbated and highlighted the structural weaknesses in the country’s healthcare system, already characterized by a disproportionately high rate of disease, widespread risk factors, and inequities in access. The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute has partnered with leading international medical journal the Lancet to set up the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System, an ambitious interdisciplinary endeavor to lay out a roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India in the next decade. Co-chaired by Harvard Business School’s Tarun Khanna and Harvard Medical School’s Vikram Patel (along with Gagandeep Kang and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw), the Commission has brought together 23 leaders from academia, the scientific community, civil society, and the private health-care industry to spearhead this effort and collaborated with more than 100 researchers and 25 partner organizations across India. The Commission’s work is directed toward the people of India and informed by their experiences, expectations, and preferences. It has engaged with those delivering and receiving healthcare across diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to analyze the health system from the citizen’s perspective. The Commission has also created a platform for public health discussions in India through its website, webinars, and newsletter.

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Advancing Medical Education and Healthcare Delivery in Vietnam

The Partnership for Health Advancement in Viet Nam (HAIVN), a collaboration between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, has worked for more than 20 years across Vietnam to create resilient health systems that meet the dynamic needs of its population. Rooting its work in evidence and partnering with government offices, healthcare delivery organizations, and community members, HAIVN aims to provide locally relevant interventions that address health system gaps and create opportunities for sustainable innovation in care delivery. The project, led by Harvard Medical School’s Lisa Cosimi, works to strengthen medical education to better prepare the health workforce for the future; provide training, mentoring, and coaching to strengthen systems and capacity to respond to infectious- and non-communicable diseases across the country; and support Vietnam’s Ministry of Health in developing policies and regulations that promote quality medical care, reduce stigma, and improve health literacy. It recently celebrated its 20thanniversary, hosting officials from the Vietnamese government and Ministry of Health on the Longwood campus.

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Early Childhood Development in Brazil

In 2011, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) began work with the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University on what would become the Harvard-Brazil Early Childhood Development Initiative. The project, currently led by Andelot Professor of Demography Marcia C. de Castro, joined forces with academics, policymakers, and foundations throughout Brazil to convene the expertise needed to advance early childhood development research, education, policy and practice throughout the country. Under the Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância umbrella, it assembled a Brazilian Scientific Committee that synthesizes knowledge on early childhood development; translated and shared knowledge publicly via communications and major events; trained public and civil society officials to become leaders in this space; created a social innovation laboratory (iLab) that designed and tested strategies to improve vulnerable children’s lives; and launched the Brazilian Center for Early Childhood Development, a major applied research center. By enabling collaboration and scientific cooperation across borders, the initiative has generated cross-disciplinary research, trained a new generation of leaders, and bridged scientific knowledge with policy, practice, and public opinion in Brazil.

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Rebuilding Scholarly Communities Disrupted by Russia’s War in Ukraine

Russia’s war against Ukraine has had a devastating impact on the region, including within academia. Ukrainian scholars have been forced to flee the violence, while scholars from Russia and Belarus who oppose the war have been forced into silence or exile. Academics from all three countries need access to the journals, conferences, and communities necessary to do their work, as well as help to establish new roots and networks that will sustain their research and careers. Since the war’s outbreak, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has regularly gathered input from university leaders and displaced scholars to better understand their needs and the situation on the ground. The Center’s Scholars Without Borders (SWB) program, led by Executive Director Alexandra Vacroux, focuses on providing support for scholars where they are—offering intensive English classes, fellowship opportunities, virtual workshops, and online networking by field of interest. Thanks to the program’s early successes in connecting displaced job seekers with academic and research institutions in search of new talent, SWB has secured additional funding to significantly ramp up this important work.

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Harvard faculty and students drive our international activity. Working through its Schools, Centers, and a network of global offices, and collaborating with peers around the world, Harvard is advancing the frontiers of knowledge in service to humanity:

One Harvard, One World.

International Students at Harvard

Harvard’s student body has more international students each year, both as a group and as a percentage of total enrollments.

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Harvard Research: Publications with International Co-authors

As research around the globe becomes more international, our faculty are leading the way, collaborating with international colleagues at an ever-increasing rate.

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Photo credits for One Harvard One World photography: Andrew Zhang, Wong Justin Yuk Cheong, Kiana Rawji, Aranza Caballero.

Photo credits for spotlight photography: Marko Beljan, REACH Initiative, Willy Lensch, Cristian Rodriguez Chilffelle.

The Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs (OVPIA) promotes, oversees, and advances Harvard’s global engagement. The mission of the OVPIA is to support and encourage the work of Harvard students and faculty, bringing Harvard to the world and the world to Harvard.