Health Interventions, Cluster Trials, and Epidemiology
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Charles Branas.
Abstract: This lecture explores how epidemiology can more fully embrace intervention science through pragmatic and cluster randomized trials. It reviews and questions key CRT design and analytic issues and uses place-based trials to show how community programs can be rigorously tested for effects on health and safety.
Bio: Charles Branas leads the Department of Epidemiology and a CDC Research Center as a Professor at Columbia University. His research extends from urban and rural areas in the US to communities across the globe, focusing on health interventions and human geography.
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Early-Onset Cancers: From Epidemiologic Challenges to Precision Prevention
Join us on Wednesday, October 21st for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Yin Cao.
Abstract: Cancers are increasingly being diagnosed among younger adults, raising urgent questions about the causes and implications of these generational trends. This seminar will discuss key challenges in identifying the drivers and underlying biological mechanisms of early-onset cancers and explore how closer integration of epidemiologic and mechanistic studies can advance etiologic discovery. It will conclude with opportunities to translate emerging insights into earlier detection and prevention for younger generations.
Bio: Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, is a Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a molecular epidemiologist whose research focuses on the life-course determinants and prevention of early-onset cancers. Her recent work explores how population and mechanistic sciences can be brought together to advance cancer cause discovery. She co-leads an interdisciplinary Cancer Grand Challenges team focused on early-onset colorectal cancer. She received her ScD in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Yin Cao, ScD, MPH
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EcoOpportunity Green Team Meeting
Rock Painting in Countway Community Garden: An Opportunity to Connect and Build Community. Wednesday, September 30, 2-3 pm behind Countway Library. (Rain location Kresge 204.)
Brought to you by the EcoOpportunity Green Team. Email susan_bottino@harvard.edu to RSVP.
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Power and Privilege in Public Health Research and Practice
Please join the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences for our first seminar of the academic year, Power and Privilege in Public Health Research and Practice. We will be joined by Lorraine Dean, ScD, and Keliah Jacques, MSW, who will discuss their newly released book, Power, Privilege and Public Health: Theory and Practice. Please click ‘Register Today’ to RSVP to the seminar.
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Lorraine Dean, SD 2010
Keilah A. Jacques, LMSW, CPC
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Immigrant Mental Health Matters: Lunch and learn
Join us in person for a conversation surrounding Partnerships for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Wellbeing initiative. We Will hear from MPH candidate, Paula Giraldo on her experience working with the Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigration Advancement. Lunch will be provided. HUID required.
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Prompt, Run, Verify: Using LLMs for Data Analysis in Public Health
The Office of Educational Programs and Office for Student Services are partnering to present a four-part series on using AI tools.
The third workshop in this series, Prompt, Run, Verify: Using LLMs for Data Analysis in Public Health will be led by Dr. Heather Mattie, Faculty in the Department of Biostatistics.
Please bring a laptop or personal device to the workshop. Food and light refreshments will be provided. Students, staff, and faculty are all invited to join.
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Draping the Star Quilt: Lessons learned from partnering with Tribal communities to advance palliative care
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Bethany-Rose (BR) Daubman. BR will describe palliative care, discuss the need for this type of care for seriously ill patients across diverse settings, and highlight a Tribal-academic partnership to advance culturally responsive palliative care across reservation communities.
Please note that an HUID is required to attend this in-person event.
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Bethany-Rose (BR) Daubman, MD, is the director of fellowships at the Harvard Global Health Institute, co-director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Global Palliative Care Program, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. As a physician and educator, her work is focused on developing culturally responsive educational interventions to relieve suffering for vulnerable populations within the U.S., globally, and through disaster response. She has partnered with local palliative care leaders to develop educational programs and expand services in countries such as Jamaica, Uganda, and Chile. In addition to her global partnerships, BR is also working to develop culturally responsible palliative care educational programming and clinical services for American Indian Tribal communities in South Dakota in collaboration with a Community Advisory Board of enrolled Tribal members.
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Webinar: Potential Impacts of Upcoming Policy Changes on Immigrant Health
Join scholar-practitioners from three states to learn about how health policy changes may impact immigrant health in the US. This discussion-based panel will consider topics such as federal changes to Medicaid, the state-by-state variations of implementation, and implications of the new public charge rule. The discussion will conclude with opportunities for public health research and advocacy.
This webinar will be co-hosted by the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard Chan, and the Program on Immigrant Families and Unhoused Communities at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University.
All speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.
Panelists
Benjamin Sommers, MD, PhD
Patricia Santos, MD, MS
Lilia Cervantes, MD
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Margaret Sullivan, FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN
IID Seminar Series – Melis Anahatar
Title Talk
“Deep learning-enabled discovery and design of antibiotics“
Antibiotic-resistant infections are becoming an increasingly urgent public health threat, yet few structurally novel antibiotics have reached patients in recent decades, in part because discovering them through traditional methods is inefficient and expensive. This talk explores how deep learning can accelerate the antibiotic discovery process in two ways: by using AI models to rapidly screen large chemical libraries and identify promising antibacterial candidates that would otherwise be missed, and by using generative AI to design entirely new molecules that don’t yet exist in any library. Both methods can identify candidates working through mechanisms distinct from existing antibiotics with retained efficacy against multidrug-resistant strains. Together, this work illustrates the promise and remaining challenges to use AI for antibiotic discovery.
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Melis N. Anahtar, MD, PhD
Melis N. Anahtat is a physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she leads a research lab and serve as an assistant director of the Clinical Microbiology laboratory.
Research Interests
Antibiotic discovery, antimicrobial resistance, diagnostic development, machine learning, vaginal microbiome, host-microbiome interactions.
Clinical Interests
Genomic sequencing, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, molecular testing
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
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What comes after the ‘End of AIDS’?
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Jeff Imai-Eaton, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD), Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Please note that an HUID is required to attend this in-person event.
Seminar description
For the past 15 years, the vision to ‘end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030’ has unified the global HIV response and catalyzed remarkable progress toward reducing new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, particularly in eastern and southern African settings most impacted by HIV. As the 2030 milestone nears and the number of people living with HIV globally edges above 40 million, this naturally raises the question “what comes after ‘the end’?” This seminar will review progress and persistent challenges in the global HIV response, what programs have been impactful, evidence on the evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics, and the implications of these changes for long-term control of the HIV epidemic, opportunities and challenges to achieve impact with new interventions, and strategies for monitoring and surveillance of sustained progress.
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Jeff Imai-Eaton, PhD, is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a senior research fellow at the MRC Center for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. His research focuses on understanding HIV epidemic trends, transmission dynamics, and the demographic impacts of HIV in Africa. His team develop and support application of mathematical and statistical modelling tools used by HIV programs across Africa to plan and monitor national HIV responses.
