Global Health Photo Exhibition
Steven Harvey, PhD
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Professor Steven Harvey is a social scientist whose research delves into the intricate relationship between public health interventions and the sociocultural, economic, and political contexts that shape their success. With a deep understanding that health is often just one of many priorities for beneficiary communities, Prof. Harvey explores how factors like peer pressure, infrastructure, and climate interplay with interventions aimed at promoting behaviors like mosquito net usage or HIV testing. His principal contexts have been malaria and maternal health, focusing on developing culturally appropriate strategies and empowering community health workers across countries like Peru, Benin, Ghana, and Zambia. Prof. Harvey champions qualitative methods, particularly observation, to capture the nuances that interviews often miss.
