Harvard AI courses on EdX
Harvard University offers a wide range of high-quality online courses on edX, combining academic excellence with real-world relevance. Known for its interdisciplinary approach, Harvard focuses on the ethical, societal, and human-centered dimensions of artificial intelligence. From AI in healthcare to data ethics and policy, Harvard’s edX programs are ideal for professionals, policymakers, and learners who want to understand and apply AI responsibly.
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Here are some courses from Harvard you can find on EdX.
CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
Duration
7 weeks (self-paced)
- 10-30 hours per week
About this course
This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, machine learning, large language models, and other topics in artificial intelligence as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. By course’s end, students emerge with experience in libraries for machine learning as well as knowledge of artificial intelligence principles that enable them to design intelligent systems of their own.
Data Science: Machine Learning
Duration
- Sep 09 - Dec 17
- 8 weeks
- 2-4 hours per week
About this course
Perhaps the most popular data science methodologies come from machine learning. What distinguishes machine learning from other computer guided decision processes is that it builds prediction algorithms using data. Some of the most popular products that use machine learning include the handwriting readers implemented by the postal service, speech recognition, movie recommendation systems, and spam detectors.
In this course,part of our Professional Certificate Program in Data Science, you will learn popular machine learning algorithms, principal component analysis, and regularization by building a movie recommendation system.
You will learn about training data, and how to use a set of data to discover potentially predictive relationships. As you build the movie recommendation system, you will learn how to train algorithms using training data so you can predict the outcome for future datasets. You will also learn about overtraining and techniques to avoid it such as cross-validation. All of these skills are fundamental to machine learning.
Global Health Delivery (Executive Education Course)
Duration
- Start Sep 3, 2025
- 10 weeks
- 8-10 hours per week
About this course
The greatest challenge to effectively managing and improving healthcare delivery isn’t availability, but access. Join a global health community in this online short course from Harvard's Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL), in association with HarvardX, as you analyze the influence that power and social structures have in shaping disease response. Through real-world case studies, you’ll investigate international approaches to fighting Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and MDR-TB, and understand the burden of mental health. You’ll evaluate how ideologies, problem framing, and the choice of metrics shape health policy.
With guidance from expert university faculty, you’ll design your own global health intervention for actual implementation across public and private settings. Over the course of 10 weeks online, this program will also equip you with the managerial and soft skills to complement your medical knowledge, and you’ll ultimately leave with a premier certificate from Harvard’s VPAL, in association with HarvardX.
This online short course is for anyone with a passion for healthcare innovation who is looking for solutions to better serve their communities. This includes professional clinicians and public health practitioners as well as established global health leaders such as advisors, policymakers, and government officials. This program would also be relevant for investors and donors of global health initiatives, or those working in a multilateral organization, bilateral agency, NPO, or NGO.
Course curriculum
Explore the possibilities and constraints of healthcare delivery as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.
Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1: Introduction to the biosocial
Module 2: Why ideas matter: Social theory in global health
Module 3: The history of global health and colonial legacy
Module 4: Political economy and foreign aid
Module 5: The global AIDS movement
Module 6: Challenges in healthcare delivery: Lessons from Liberia and Haiti
Module 7: Building an effective rural health delivery model in Rwanda
Module 8: Critical perspectives on metrics of disease
Module 9: The unique challenges of mental health
Module 10: Values and global health
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