How Air Quality Affects Early Childhood Development and Health
Join us for a live conversation, How Air Quality Affects Early Childhood Development and Health, on June 5 from 2 to 3 PM ET, centered on the recent working paper published by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. We’ll explore the impacts of air quality during pregnancy and early childhood, with a particular focus on indoor air, given that we typically spend more than 90% of our time inside. Panelists will share actionable solutions to improve air quality, ranging from better policies and pollutant-free products to healthier ventilation and building materials, and will offer resources for taking action in your community to ensure children and their caregivers have cleaner air to breathe.
The discussion will be led by Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, the Center’s Chief Science Officer and Founding Director of the Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment (ECSCEE). It will feature Joe Allen, DSc, MPH, Associate Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and ECSCEE member Alison Lee, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine with tenure and Associate Division Chief in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Decision science for priority setting in global public health today
Join the Department of Global Health and Population on Monday, June 9, for a seminar featuring Stéphane Verguet, Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population. Stéphane Verguet will present, “Decision science for priority setting in global public health today”.
This hybrid seminar will be held in Building 1, Room 1208 and via Zoom.
Please note, a Harvard ID is required for building access.
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard
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Reducing Tobacco-Related Harm: Innovative Strategies for Health Care Providers in a Changing Policy Landscape
Join Vaughan Rees, Director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control, for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving role of nicotine products in tobacco harm reduction strategies.
While smoking rates have declined in some global regions, they remain high among socioeconomically disadvantaged and marginalized groups, and continue to rise in developing countries. This webinar will outline the potential benefits and risks of reduced-exposure nicotine products while maintaining a focus on protecting the health of youth. By illustrating the latest science and policy insights, this webinar will provide healthcare professionals with an understanding of a range of effective strategies to support tobacco cessation and reduce the burden of tobacco-related disease in marginalized populations.
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GenAI for Exploratory Data Analysis
Generative AI has proven to reliably and rapidly develop code and data analysis. Advancements in technology have provided in-built containers for running of generated code within the AI environment, providing a streamlined experience for rapid exploratory data analysis.
This workshop aims at providing instruction on Harvard generative AI resources, best practices, and understanding of the current state of generative AI resources at Harvard in the pursuit of exploratory data analysis.
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CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton’s presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in “Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance,” which established a theoretical model that integrates a veil of ignorance into valuation to account for both distributional concerns and public good values.
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Susan Chilton
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CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will present a consumer optimization model of how individuals’ make this trade-off and test their results using an incentivized experiment.
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Jytte Nielsen
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Leadership and Management : The Importance for Public Health Professionals
Improving environmental health and safety performance requires more than technical expertise—it demands strong leadership and management skills. Join us for a webinar hosted by Louis J. DiBerardinis, Instructor of Industrial Hygiene, to explore the essential capabilities EHS professionals need to drive meaningful change.
Drawing from real-world experience, Mr. DiBerardinis will share key leadership principles, recommendations for communicating with senior management, strategies for building effective performance systems, time management tips, and more. He’ll also introduce his upcoming course, Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals program, offered online in September and on-site in March.
If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership skills, influence organizational culture, and elevate EHS performance, we invite you to attend this webinar.
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Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century
Join us for a webinar on the Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.
Hosted by Program Director Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, PhD, the session will highlight how the program equips professionals to communicate complex health risks clearly and effectively. Dr. Viswanath will share how the latest research in science and risk communication informs practical strategies for building trust, reducing public anxiety, and countering misinformation.
If you’re looking to sharpen your communication skills and support informed public health decision-making, we invite you to attend this webinar to see how this program can align with your goals.
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Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
Bring your lunch and join us for a screening of the film 13th, followed by open-ended discussion. Watch the trailer here.
About the film:
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
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WGH Film Screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
WGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and the gendered impacts of war. This gripping documentary follows the courageous Liberian women who organized a nonviolent resistance to end a brutal civil war—ultimately paving the way for peace and the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
This event is co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association and the Africa Student Health Forum. All are welcome!
Dinner and refreshments will be provided!