i-Night

The Harvard Chan Student Government Association is excited to invite the whole Harvard Chan community to join us for one of our most cherished traditions — ✨i-Night!✨
i-Night, short for “International Night,” has been a staple since 1989, celebrating the incredible diversity of our community through a talent and cultural showcase 🪭🪇🪩.
This year, the event will take place on Friday, February 21st from 6:30 – 8:30 PM at the Smith Campus Center in Harvard Square. Mark your calendars—no RSVP required!
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Until the End of the World: Film Screening and Q&A

Fish farming is the fastest growing sector of food production, described as the ‘sustainable answer for food security’. Aquaculture attracts billions in public and private investment, but as the world population nears the 9.7Bn predicted by 2050, is it the solution?
The Department of Environmental Health invites you to join us for a film screening of the award-winning documentary, Until the End of the World, which examines the environmental and community impacts of fish farming, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director. The Q&A will also feature leading experts in Environmental Health, Nutrition, and Marine Biology.
Until the End of the World: Film Screening and Q&A
Tuesday, February 25th from 4pm-6pm
Kresge G1 Snyder Auditorium, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
The film will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Petros Koutrakis, PhD, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Eva Douzinas, President of the Rauch Foundation.
Featured Panelists:
- Francesco De Augustinis – Director of the film and an independent investigative journalist and documentarist covering food sustainability topics.
- Alessandro Bocconcelli – Oceanographer emeritus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, co-founder of Centinela Patagonia in Chile.
- Doug Frantz & Catherine Collins – Co-authors of the book, Salmon Wars. Catherine Collins is former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a private investigator. Doug Frantz is a Pulitzer prize winner, former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and former Assistant Secretary of State under John Kerry.
- Matthew Hayek – Dr. Hayek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU. He received his PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.
About the film: The new 60 minute film by investigative journalist and award-winning film-maker, Francesco De Augustinis, ‘Until The End Of The World’, takes the viewer on a journey from central Italy through Europe, West Africa and South America, where we see the paradoxical competition of this industry versus the livelihoods of entire communities in vulnerable areas, to produce high-end products like salmon.
To RSVP, please fill out the form here.
*Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard.
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Francesco De Augustinis
*Speakers’ views do not necessarily reflect the views of the Chair, the Department, the School, or the University.
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HCSGA February General Student Body Meeting
HCSGA’s February General Student Body Meeting is this Friday, Feb. 7 from 1:15-2:15 pm in Kresge G1 & online! Come join us to voice your concerns, learn what the HCSGA has been working on, upcoming events & more! Catering will be provided to students attending in person.
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Architecture & the 21st-Century Paradigm Shift: Designing for the Subliminal Brain – for Health, Well-being & Happiness

On Wednesday, April 23rd, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the final instalment in our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring architect and author Ann Sussman.
Event Description:
This talk discusses the neuroscience that reframes our understanding of how architecture impacts us, including how people non-consciously take-in their surroundings, and how that influences public health and placemaking. The talk will demonstrate eye-tracking and other biometric tools which reveal non-conscious human behaviors, including how our brain is hardwired to seek out detail and avoids looking at blankness in the built environment.
The big idea? Today’s biometric tools provide a new lens to ’see’ our world, transforming our understanding of what people need to see and be in to be at their best.
Speaker Bio:
Ann Sussman, an architect, author, researcher and teacher, is passionate about understanding how buildings impact us. She serves as president of the Human Architecture + Planning Institute, (theHapi.org), a nonprofit devoted to improving the design of the built environment through education and research. Her book Cognitive Architecture, Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment (Routledge, 2015, 2021) won the 2016 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). Ann teaches a course on using biometrics in design, ‘Buildings, Biology + the Brain’, at the Boston Architectural College (BAC). She co-edited the forthcoming Handbook of Neuroscience and the Built Environment (Routledge, 2025), due out this June, which compiles 31 chapters by 50 authors on 4 continents, who are eager to bridge the arts and sciences to promote health and wellbeing worldwide.
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Ann Sussman

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Advancing the scientific study of systemic racism: Theory-driven methods for population health research”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the 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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Tyson Brown, PhD
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Priceless benefits: Effects of school spending on child mortality”

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Emily Rauscher, PhD
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Women’s socioeconomic advantage over their partners and relationship dissolution: A 29-country study”

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, PhD, Alber-Klingelfhofer Presidential Associate Professor, department of sociology, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Women’s socioeconomic advantage over their partners and relationship dissolution: A 29-country study.”
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Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Population Research Exchange (hybrid): “The impact of structural sexism on health and healthcare: Current evidence and future research priorities”

Patricia Homan, PhD, associate professor of sociology and director of research and strategic initiatives for the public health program, Florida State University; and visiting scholar at the GenderSci Lab, History of Science Department, Harvard University, presents “The impact of structural sexism on health and healthcare: Current evidence and future research priorities.” This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University.
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Patricia Homan, PhD
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Data-Thon: Data Preservation Event

Join us for an event focused on preserving vital public health datasets and information that are rapidly disappearing from US government websites. These resources are crucial for researchers worldwide, enabling them to generate credible insights and inform decisions in clinical care, health policy, health equity, and resource allocation. Learn how you can contribute to safeguarding public health data by identifying at-risk datasets and websites, implementing preservation measures, and ensuring proper documentation to keep information publicly accessible.
Data science skills are not necessary, but please bring your enthusiasm and your patience – we will be testing this process in real-time while fostering a supportive community!
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Do you have a question about cancer prevention, fitness, or food? Stop by our “Ask the Expert” table on World Cancer Day, February 4th between 11:30am and 1:30pm for an informal conversation with our experts while you are getting your lunch. No registration necessary! Enjoy free snacks!