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February 9

Monday Nutrition Seminar | Integrating Multi-Omics and Blood-Based ATX(N) Biomarkers to Identify Precision Dietary Paths for Alzheimer’s Prevention in Harvard Cohorts

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Location
FXB G13 & online
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02120

Time

1:00 pm 1:50 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Daniel Wang, MD, ScD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School.

Dr. Wang’s talk—”Integrating Multi-Omics and Blood-Based ATX(N) Biomarkers to Identify Precision Dietary Paths for Alzheimer’s Prevention in Harvard Cohorts”.

Registration is required in advance. Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs’ Wellbeing Project Fund.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.

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February 26

Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Credibility laundering as a vector: Change-point detection and socio-technical afterlives of reactionary demographic knowledge”

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Location
Harvard Pop Center & online
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Time

12:00 pm 1:15 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

Brian Keegan, PhD, associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Credibility laundering as a vector: Change-point detection and socio-technical afterlives of reactionary demographic knowledge.”

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

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February 19

Social Demography Seminar with Jessica Finlay

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Location
Online

Time

12:00 pm 1:15 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

VIRTUAL

Jessica Finlay, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, presents ‘Cognability: A mixed-methods approach to neighborhoods and cognitive health across the life course.’

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the University to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

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February 12

Crossroads Conversation Series

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Location
Kresge room 110
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02120-2702

Time

1:00 pm 2:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Trainings and Workshops

Join Harvard Chan faculty and alumni as they share how someone’s advice, encouragement, or challenge impacted their life, and the ways they apply those lessons today. Lunch will be provided.

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February 12

Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health

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Location
Harvard Pop Center, and online via Zoom
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Time

12:00 pm 1:15 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of population and family health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, presents “Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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February 24

CHDS Seminar with Mark Strong of University of Sheffield, UK

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Location
online

Time

1:00 pm 2:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Mark Strong of the University of Sheffield, UK, School of Medicine and Population Health, “Understanding and Managing Uncertainty in Model-Based Decision Making.” We commonly use computer models to help us make decisions in healthcare resource allocation. Should we fund a particular new drug, for example? However, even with our best model we still might make a wrong decision. This is because we can almost never eliminate uncertainty. This seminar will cover the meaning of uncertainty in a model-based decision making context, and how we can manage it, with particular reference to the quantification of the value of new information.

Mark Strong is Dean of the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is a public health physician and Professor of Public Health, and has conducted research on a wide range of topics relating to public health, health economics, health services research, epidemiology and statistics. He is a Chartered Statistician of the UK Royal Statistical Society and his core research interests relate to the quantification and management of uncertainty in healthcare decision making.

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February 12

Love Data Rodeo: A Roundup of Useful Ways to Wrangle Your Data

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Location
Lamont Library
1 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Time

12:00 pm 2:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Trainings and Workshops

Wrangle your data at the Harvard Library’s Love Data Rodeo. Celebrate Love Data Week by learning how to tame and transform your data in style!

You are cordially invited to this exciting round-up of platforms, tools, and strategies to help you successfully work with your data. During this 2-hour event, representatives of Harvard approved platforms will be on hand to provide demonstrations and share the support they can provide to help you make the most of your research data.

This event will be held in-person in the Lamont Library Forum Room. The Forum Room is located on the third floor of Lamont Library. A Harvard ID is required to enter the Lamont Library. We recommend attendees bring their laptops to more deeply engage with the resources that will be demoed. Registration is recommended, but not required.

This event is open to all Harvard students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff. There are no prerequisites or assumptions of knowledge.

February 11

Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon

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Location
Countway Library Classrooms 102 & 103 and Zoom

Time

2:00 pm 5:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Trainings and Workshops

Join Countway librarians, members of the Public Environmental Data Partners, and fellow data enthusiasts to capture and preserve our public health care data in the CAFE Harvard Dataverse Collection. Celebrate Love Data Week by ensuring access to federal environmental data.

Health and environmental data is crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this invaluable public data is maintained and kept available in its true unaltered form for us now and in the future.

This is an open, three-hour event where we will chat about the importance of data preservation and good data management, then pivot to capturing crucial public health information, reports, and datasets for preservation in Harvard Dataverse. No data science skills are needed!

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February 13

Harvard Chan i-Night 2026

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Location
Smith Campus Center
1350 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Time

6:30 pm 9:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Trainings and Workshops

The Harvard Chan Student Government Association’s i-Night is back for its 35th year!

Join us for an exciting evening of performances that celebrate and showcase the talents, cultures, and diversity of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community!

Food and refreshments will be provided! Please RSVP to inform catering needs. Families and guests are welcome to join; up to two guests are allowed per student attendee. Children under 10 do not count towards the guest list.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances begin at 7:00 p.m.

February 19

Alumni insights: Careers in entrepreneurship and innovation

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Location
The Studio & Online

Event Type

1:00 pm 1:45 pm

Presented jointly with the Office of Career and Professional Development 

Join a panel of Harvard Chan School alumni for an engaging discussion on bringing innovation and entrepreneurship to public health. Discover how they built their careers, what skills matter most, and how to apply their insights to your own professional journey in this candid conversation.  

Register for free to submit your questions.   

An on-demand video will be posted after the event. 

Speakers

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