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Collaboration between Harvard University and NKUA

Collaboration between Harvard University and NKUA

The Rector of NKUA, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Harvard University in the United States and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Signed by the Chair of the NKUA’s School of Medicine, Professor Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, and the Dean for Academic Affairs at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor Jane J. Kim, this MoU involves collaboration between the Departments of Epidemiology of the two Universities on educational and research issues. It calls for the establishment of a summer course in Clinical Epidemiology and a collaboration among academics and students on topics including medical research, epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, nutritional epidemiology, and epidemiology of infectious diseases.

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Graduation ceremony at Harvard University with Professor A. Hofman (first from left to right) and Prof P. Lagiou (second from right to left) surrounded by faculty members from the Department of Epidemiology.

Regarding the MoU, the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, stressed, among other things that: ‘Our University, following its continued policy of extroversion and internationalization, signed a related Memorandum of Understanding with the world’s greatest academic Institution, Harvard University in the United States’. ‘Through this collaboration, Greek students will have the opportunity to get training in their field from the best in the world, while our academic staff will be able to participate in joint research projects with Harvard University in both Greece and the United States’. The Rector also emphasized that ‘The fact that Harvard University decided to collaborate with a public University in Greece, even if this is the oldest and biggest such Institution nationwide, is the strongest argument for the quality of studies provided by our country’s public Universities. American top Universities, as we all know, are very reluctant to create partnerships beyond the borders of the United States’. The Chair of the NKUA’s School of Medicine, Professor Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, noted that his School has a long history in collaboration with Harvard University, in which the late leading Professor Dimitrios Trichopoulos played a catalytic role. The Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor Albert Hofman, expressed his satisfaction with the signing of the Memorandum and stated that it offers unique opportunities for important research collaborations and exchanges of students and young scientists in the fields of Medicine and Public Health. On her part, the Director of the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Medical Statistics at the NKUA’s School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr Pagona Lagiou, stated that the Memorandum formalizes in the best way a long-standing collaboration between the Departments of Epidemiology of the two Universities and lays solid foundations for the strengthening and expansion of this relationship. She also highlighted that the whole project was successful thanks to the support of the University Authorities and the Administration of the Schools at Harvard and NKUA.

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1837, was initially housed in a renovated Ottoman building on the northeastern side of the Acropolis. This building has since been restored and now functions as the University Museum. Originally named the "Othonian University," after Otto, the first king of Greece, it consisted of four academic departments and 52 students. As the first university of the newly established Greek state, as well as of the broader Balkan and Mediterranean region, it assumed an important socio-historical role, which was pivotal in the development of specific forms of knowledge and culture within the country.

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