Field Trip to Fukushima

Harvard HSPH

GHP 549 introduces students to the lived experiences and "build back better" efforts to rebuild the community after a major disaster, namely the Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred in 2011 after the Great East Japan Earthquakes. Students will be assigned to ongoing health-related issues in the community, learn and discuss the acute and long-term responses to the disaster, and present their proposed strategies for the future to local professionals. Students walk through the past…