Dr. Maha Farhat

Associate Professor

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Biography

Maha Farhat holds an MD from McGill University Faculty of Medicine and an MSc in Biostatistics from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, specifically in the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Farhat's research focuses on the development and application of methods that associate genotype with phenotype in infectious disease pathogens, with a strong emphasis on translational diagnostics and surveillance in resource-poor settings. Her work has particularly concentrated on the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, covering a spectrum that includes computational analysis and field studies. Dr. Farhat has been a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on large projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the NIAID BD2K initiative. Her research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Decision Making, Evolutionary Genetics, and Microbial Genomics.

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Requirements for Harvard University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Total
Required:80
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field
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Specialization Notes

Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).