--- title: Harvard School of Public Health Receives $350 Million Donation description: $350 million from Hong Kong group canonical: https://time.com/3303267/harvard-school-of-public-health/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-08T13:36:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:03:18.578Z article:section: Health og:title: Harvard School of Public Health Receives $350 Million Donation og:description: $350 million from Hong Kong group og:url: https://time.com/3303267/harvard-school-of-public-health/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harvard School of Public Health Receives $350 Million Donation twitter:description: $350 million from Hong Kong group twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Harvard Gets Biggest Gift Ever for Public Health School by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 8, 2014 1:36 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 8, 2014 1:36 PM UTC Harvard University announced Monday that its School of Public Health has received a $350 million gift from a prominent Hong Kong group, the largest-ever single donation in the university’s 378-year history. The university announced the donation from the Morningside Foundation, which was established by the late T.H Chan, who earned his masters and doctorate at Harvard. In honor of the gift, the school is changing its name to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Morningside Foundation supports higher education through scholarships and professorships in both Asia and North America. Harvard said the money will support faculty and students working to reverse four different global threats: old and new pandemics from Ebola to obesity, harmful physical and social environments due to water pollution or gun violence, poverty and humanitarian crises, and failing health systems worldwide. “This extraordinary gift from the Chan family will enable Harvard’s School of Public Health to tackle intractable health problems and to translate rigorous research into action and policy worldwide,” Harvard University president Drew Faust said in a statement. “The Chan family’s generosity sends a signal to the world: this is the public health moment.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3303267/harvard-school-of-public-health/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3303267/harvard-school-of-public-health/"},"headline":"Harvard Gets Biggest Gift Ever for Public Health School","datePublished":"2014-09-08T13:36:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:03:18.578Z","description":"$350 million from Hong Kong group","url":"https://time.com/3303267/harvard-school-of-public-health/","keywords":["Research","Harvard","donation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/research/","name":"Research"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3303267/harvard-school-of-public-health/","name":"Harvard Gets Biggest Gift Ever for Public Health School"}}]}] ```