Youth dictates susceptibility to mutations and cancer caused by a DNA damaging agent with Bevin Engelward, ScD
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Bevin Engelward, ScD, Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Engelward will discuss “Youth dictates susceptibility to mutations and cancer caused by a DNA damaging agent.”
This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register here
Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-2:30 pm, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!
About the speaker
Dr. Bevin Page Engelward is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, Director of the MIT Superfund Research Program, and Associate Chair of the MIT Faculty. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her doctoral degree in Molecular Toxicology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She joined the MIT faculty in 1997 and has been a Full Professor since 2014.
Dr. Engelward’s research focuses on how genes and environmental factors influence susceptibility to DNA damage, mutations, and cancer. Her work spans fundamental research and technology development, including creation of the first mouse model in which cells harboring sequence rearrangements fluoresce, enabling studies of mutagenesis in vivo. Her laboratory has also developed innovative cell-array technologies, including the CometChip for high-throughput analysis of DNA damage.
Dr. Engelward is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a past President of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. Her honors include the EMGS Hollaender Award, EMGS Mentor Award, and Society of Toxicology Education Award.
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Bone as a target of environmental endocrine disruptors: Insights from studies of PFAS across the life course with Jessie Buckley, PhD, MPH
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Jessie Buckley, PhD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Buckley will discuss “Bone as a target of environmental endocrine disruptors: Insights from studies of PFAS across the life course.”
This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register here
Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-2:30 pm, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!
Abstract
Environmental endocrine disruptors have been linked to a growing range of health outcomes, but their effects on skeletal health remain understudied. This presentation examines the role of PFAS as potential environmental bone toxicants using evidence from prospective studies spanning early life through adulthood. Dr. Buckley will discuss emerging findings on PFAS exposures and bone mineral density, explore critical periods of susceptibility, and consider methodological approaches for evaluating repeated exposure measures of environmental mixtures.
About the speaker
Jessie P. Buckley, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research integrates exposure science, molecular epidemiology, and quantitative methods to understand how environmental chemicals influence health across the life course. Dr. Buckley is Director of Chemical Exposure Methodology for the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Data Analysis Center and Co-Director of the Translational Research Support Core for UNC’s NIEHS P30 Center.
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Midweek Mindfulness Reset
Reduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset.
Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of your week!
We will meet virtually via Zoom every Wednesday from 11:00 –11:30 a.m. ET (and you’re welcome to stay for an optional 15 additional minutes for sharing and community building). Open to all; no experience needed.
Please note that these sessions are for relaxation and general wellness only and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. By participating, you agree to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional well‑being, and to consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.
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Midweek Mindfulness Reset
“Reduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset.
Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of your week!
We will meet virtually via Zoom every Wednesday from 11:00–11:30 a.m. ET (and you’re welcome to stay for an optional 15 additional minutes for sharing and community building). Open to all; no experience needed.
Please note that these sessions are for relaxation and general wellness only and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. By participating, you agree to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional well‑being, and to consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.”
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HCSGA Snowflake Soiree
Harvard Chan Student Government Association presents the Snowflake Soiree celebrating the Fall 2026 semester on Friday December 4, 2026!
The Harvard Chan Student Government Association (HCSGA) presents the Snowflake Soiree on Friday, December 4, 2026 from 8:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Entry to event will be possible starting at 8:30 p.m. HCSGA invites students, staff, and faculty from Harvard Chan and beyond to a festive night celebrating our community and the completion of the Fall 2026 semester!
Enjoy music, dancing, cocktail foods, cash bars, and a photo booth! Cocktail attire is encouraged.
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The Conditions of Life: Settler Colonialism, Ecology and Health
Join the FXB Center for an in-person conversation with Dr. Bram Wispelwey and Dr. Irus Braverman, moderated by Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research at the FXB Center with an introduction by Dr. David Mills, Co-Director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights. Drawing on the new Social Science & Medicine paper, “Constructing the settler colonial determination of health: Causality by other means,” this conversation brings FXB Faculty Affiliate and Co-Director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, Dr. Wispelwey and colleagues’ research on population health into dialogue with Radcliffe Fellow Dr. Irus Braverman’s scholarship on law, ecology, and dispossession in Palestine.
HUID Required. Lunch provided.
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FXB In-Person Film Screening | “Raising Parents”
In recognition of UNICEF’s “World Children’s Day” celebrated on November 20th, please join us for an in-person film screening of UNICEF’s “Raising Parents”. UNICEF’s award-winning documentary Raising Parents steps into the homes of four families across the globe. Their stories are a powerful reminder that while every parenting journey is unique, no parent is alone. The parents grow with their children as they navigate the unknown and it becomes clear what every family needs to thrive.
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Financial Aid Information Session for Veterans
On November 12 at 10:30 am, join our Financial Aid team and a Harvard Chan alum for a conversation about financial aid resources and funding options available to veteran students. Learn about available resources, hear firsthand insights from an alum, and bring your questions about financing your education at Harvard Chan.
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Everywhere and nowhere: A collaborative, patient-engaged study of factors affecting recognition and access to care for Long COVID in Brazil
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this seminar featuring Emmilie Aveling, lecturer on health research and qualitative methods. Please note that an HUID is required to attend this in-person event.
Seminar description
Long Covid is estimated to affect hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, with those worst affected by Covid-19 least able to shoulder the debilitating health and social impacts of this chronic condition. In this talk, Emmilie will describe her collaboration with interdisciplinary researchers and people with lived experience to explore the complexity, uncertainty, and epistemic and social injustices surrounding recognition and care for Long Covid in Brazil. She will discuss methods and lessons for facilitating productive collaborative research. Then, drawing particularly on qualitative findings from this mixed methods study, Emmilie will highlight the mechanisms through which Long Covid is invisibilised within an overburdened universal health system, undermining access to Long Covid care, exacerbating social injustices, and stymying the potential for people living with Long Covid to attain a dignified quality of life.
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Emma-Louise “Emmilie” Aveling, PhD, MPhil, is a lecturer on health research and qualitative methods in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She specializes in applied qualitative research, community-engaged and collaborative approaches to tackling health inequities, and delivering high-quality, person-centered care.
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Trust and Well-being with Dr. Sim Sitkin
On Wednesday, March 3rd, from 1-1:50 p.m. in FXB G13 and online, please join us for the fifth and final installment in our Trust and Well-being Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Sim Sitkin.
All are welcome. Lunch provided.
Seminar Series Focus
This seminar series explores the role of trust in promoting psychological, physical, and social well-being. At a time of declining trust in institutions, political polarization, fear-based public discourse, and rapidly changing technologies that shape how people encounter information and one another, the series considers trust not only as an individual experience but also as a central feature of collective well-being. Through conversations with leading scholars and practitioners, we will examine how trust is defined and measured across diverse social and cultural contexts; how it functions across relationships, communities, institutions, and generations; and how it is built, maintained, broken, and repaired.
The series also explores how social, political, commercial, and cultural factors shape trust, with particular attention to health equity and the histories of exclusion, discrimination, disinvestment, and institutional harm that influence whether communities feel able to trust systems. Together, we will consider how trust and trustworthiness can promote safety, belonging, resilience, civic participation, health-promoting behaviors, and flourishing while helping to build more connected, equitable, and resilient communities and systems.
Speaker Biography
Sim B. Sitkin, PhD, EdM, is Duke University’s Michael W. Krzyzewski University Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Professor of Management and Public Policy; Faculty Director, Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics; and Director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center. He is Founding Partner and President of Delta Leadership, Inc. In addition to serving in a number of administrative leadership roles at Duke, Dr. Sitkin has also been Academic Director at Duke Corporate Education and on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and the Free University of Amsterdam.
He has been elected a Fellow of Academy of Management (where he currently serves as Dean), International Network for Trust Research, Society for Organizational Behavior, the Society for Organizational Learning, and the Center for Evidence-based Management. Dr. Sitkin’s research focuses on leadership and control systems and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. He is widely known for his research on the effect of formal and informal organizational control systems and leadership on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning, M&A processes, and innovation. His most recent books are Organizational Control (2010), The Six Domains of Leadership (2016) and Routledge Companion to Trust (2017).
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Sim Sitkin, PhD, EdM
