Jane Barrow, MS

Jane Barrow, MS

Associate Dean for The Office of Global and Community Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Jane Barrow

Ms. Jane Barrow serves as the Community of Practice Lead. She is the Assistant Dean for The Office of Global and Community Health at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM). Ms. Barrow directs School-wide efforts in education, research, and clinical services that further the School’s strategic goals for oral public health and the integration of oral health and medicine. She is also the Executive Director of the HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine and is a lecturer in the department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at HSDM. Working with an inter-professional team of faculty and staff, her Office strives to identify the burden of oral disease, educate an interprofessional workforce, reduce oral and other non-communicable diseases with shared risk factors, and thereby strengthen health systems and improve the health of communities locally and around the world. She is currently involved in several projects that advance this mission. Ms. Barrow is a graduate of Harvard College and of the Master in Health Policy and Management program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has an extensive background in health care systems planning at the community and national levels, as well as experience in institutional strategic planning, finance, and operations.