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The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself | Harvard Magazine

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WHEN ANDREA BACCARELLI stepped into his role as dean of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health in January 2024, he could hardly have foreseen the financial headwinds that would soon batter one of the world’s leading public health institutions. A sudden shift in federal research funding—long the bedrock of the school’s budget—has forced painful choices and urgent innovation. But Baccarelli said in a June interview that within this crisis lies an opportunity: to remake the school as an even more resilient, impactful institution. Of all Harvard’s schools, none was as vulnerable to the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding as the Chan School, whose work has helped improve the health of millions. Roughly 47 percent of the school’s revenue came directly from federal sources. An added endowment tax and threats to international student enrollment compounded the blow for a school where global reach has always been a point of pride. “We lost, overnight, $200 million,” Baccarelli said. “

Harvard in the Crosshairs | August 8, 2025 The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030. by Jonathan Shaw From The September-October 2025 Issue Dean Andrea Baccarelli | Photograph courtesy of the T.H. Chan school of public health When Andrea Baccarelli stepped into his role as dean of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health in January 2024, he could hardly have foreseen the financial headwinds that would soon batter one of the world’s leading public health institution

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