FAQ

You can declare GHHP as your secondary once you have chosen a concentration. Find out how to declare a secondary field on my.harvard. All students are welcome to join GHHP; no applications required.

Once you officially declare, reach out or sign up for an advising meeting! You'll be added to the GHHP mailing list to stay informed about our advising resources, courses, research opportunities, etc. If you're a first or second year student, and have not declared yet but intend to pursue the GHHP Secondary, you can join our mailing list anyway! 

Possibly. You can petition to have the course count for one of your additional elective courses. Email us with the course syllabus, indicate which category it fulfills and why. 

GHHP 99 is a guided capstone offered every spring, taught by graduate students, with a regular weekly meeting time. TFs work with students in small groups to complete their health policy papers. GHHP 91 is more similar to an independent study, but where the student is working under the guidance of a faculty advisor, to write a final research paper. Meeting times are determined jointly by the student and advisor.

Yes, only one of the five courses that count for GHHP can be non-letter graded. (Exception: Two courses may be taken non-letter graded if one is a senior thesis tutorial satisfying the GHHP research requirement.)

Yes, email us with the five courses that fulfill the GHHP requirements. Be sure to indicate any courses that will double-count.

There are only four ways to fulfill the research requirement. Some students choose to use research done during the summer or Wintersession as a basis for their GHHP 91 paper written the following term; if you'd like to do that, reach out or sign up for an advising meeting. The bottom line is that the GHHP research requirement may only be completed by taking a course - either a senior thesis tutorial, GHHP 91 (or other 91R course), or GHHP 99.