Public Interested Conference 2025
Public Interested is a campus-wide program organized by the Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship and collaboratively planned by the Harvard Alumni Association, Advanced Leadership Initiative, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard Innovation Labs, Institute of Politics, Mignone Center for Career Success, Office for the Arts, Office for Sustainability, Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, and the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. This program offers several outstanding ways for students and alums to explore public interest careers, make connections, and discuss social issues. Public Interested will take place on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Breakout networking discussions include: advising on public interest careers, education, environmental justice, immigration reform, political engagement and advocacy, public and global health, public interest law and criminal justice reform, and safety nets: housing access and food security.
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Sharrelle Barber SD '14 Director of the Ubuntu Center at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health
Jerren Chang MBA '21, MPP '21, President and CEO, Partners in Democracy
Marion Dry AB '73, Chair and Co-Founder of ClassACT HR73
Jahnavi Raos ALM '00, ALM '01, MPA '24, Co-President, Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment
Rob Watson AB '09, EdM '18, MPA '21, Executive Director, EdRedesign Lab at HGSE; Lecturer on Education, HGSE
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ID Epi Seminar Series – Gili Regev-Yochay
Feb 27, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3
The Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute (SPRI) – From Pandemic Preparedness to a West Nile Virus mAb
Presented by Gili Regev-Yochay, Professor, Director of the Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Gili Regev-Yochay, is a full Professor at the Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine. She is the Director of the Sheba Pandemic preparedness Research Institute (SPRI) and the Head of the Infection Prevention & Control Unit at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. During the COVID-19 pandemic she was a local, national and global opinion leader in the field. Her research on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, correlates of protection and the immune response has led to major policy decisions and to the establishment of SPRI.
Combating the Health Effects of Extreme Heat in Urban India
*Please note this event has been canceled*.
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On March 27, Amruta Nori-Sarma, PhD,will present “Combating the Health Effects of Extreme Heat in Urban India.” Dr. Nori-Sarma is Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This seminar will be held in Building 1, Room 1208. Online participation will be available via Zoom.
The Thursday Brown Bag Series is a weekly seminar series featuring current research of faculty, affiliates, and guests of the department. Any questions regarding the series can be directed to the department at GHP@hsph.harvard.edu.
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard
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Population Research Exchange: “Revisiting the relationship between marriage and childbearing in low-fertility East Asia: Evidence from Japan”
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Fumiya Uchikoshi, PhD
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Impacts of pandemic-era food assistance policies on health and health equity”
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Rita Hamad, MD, PhD
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ID Epi Seminar Series – Gesine Meyer-Rath
Mar 13, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge 502
The economic impact of the HIV response: How do we know if it’s been worth it?
Presented by Gesine Meyer-Rath, Research Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and HE2RO, University of the Witwatersrand
Prof. Gesine Meyer-Rath is a medical doctor and health economist working on the economics of infectious disease interventions in low- and middle-income settings. She is a Research Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and a Principal Researcher at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) at the University of the Witwatersrand. She focusses on modeling methods for economic evaluation and translating research into recommendations for public policy, in particular for HIV and TB in South Africa.
Each spring, the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics hosts an annual seminar series, featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling.
Speakers will share their own perspectives and do not speak for Harvard.
ID Epi Seminar Series – Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade
Mar 6, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3
Optimizing antibiotic treatment for children with diarrhea in low-resource settings: promoting access and limiting excess
Presented by Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Dr. Rogawski McQuade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health. Her training is in infectious disease epidemiology and her research interests are in pediatric enteric disease in low-resource settings. Specifically, she focuses on the complex interactions between early childhood diarrhea, enteric infections, environmental enteropathy, antibiotic use, and their effects on child health and development. She also studies the impact of enteric vaccines and strategies to optimize antibiotic treatment for diarrhea.
Each spring, the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics hosts an annual seminar series, featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling.
Speakers will share their own perspectives and do not speak for Harvard.
Climate, Fossil Fuel Pollution and Respiratory Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention
Abstract: Dr. Mary Rice will discuss research on climate stressors including combustion pollution, weather extremes and aeroallergens on the respiratory health of children and adults in Project Viva, the Framingham Heart Study, the ALA Lung Health Cohort and clinical studies of patients with chronic lung disease in Boston. She will introduce her vision for the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) and discuss opportunities for faculty and student engagement and collaboration.
Bio: Dr. Mary B. Rice MD MPH is the director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) and the Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a pulmonary critical care physician and the director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Institute for Lung Health, where she is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of research for the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.
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Mary B. Rice, MD, MPH
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Speakers will share their own perspectives and do not speak for Harvard.
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If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to us at chc@hsph.harvard.edu.