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May 7, 2025

WGH Film Screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”

Location
Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School
677 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115

Time

5:30 pm 7:30 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

WGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and the gendered impacts of war. This gripping documentary follows the courageous Liberian women who organized a nonviolent resistance to end a brutal civil war—ultimately paving the way for peace and the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

This event is co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association and the Africa Student Health Forum. All are welcome!

Dinner and refreshments will be provided!

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May 1, 2025

Harvard International Office: Summer Travel Planning

Time

1:00 pm 1:50 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Trainings and Workshops

Harvard students considering international travel for the summer are encouraged to attend an online meeting with Elizabeth Capuano of the Harvard International Office. Please register for the Zoom meeting using the registration link.

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May 2, 2025

Longwood Festival

Longwood festival text in green writing with leaves on beige background

Time

4:00 pm 7:30 pm

Event Type

From Around the School

Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want to join in for a game of soccer, be the first team to solve a puzzle, or relax by enjoying nachos, churros, and popcorn while playing lawn games. There will be something for individuals of all backgrounds to enjoy while meeting other Longwood-based students from across graduate school!  

RSVP here: https://engage.sph.harvard.edu/event/11255968 

Open to ALL Harvard students, staff and faculty (we encourage everyone to join our activities or cheer your colleagues on!)

Food will include vegetarian options. Activities will run from 5 – 7 PM and include team soccer, team tug-of-war, team trivia and a team jig-saw-puzzle racing! 

Sign up to join an activity at the follow survey: https://forms.office.com/r/Gc9ah8Bw6r  We would also appreciate volunteers sign up at through this spreadsheet: Longwood Festival Volunteer Sign Up!

May 2, 2025

Longwood Festival

Longwood festival text in green writing with leaves on beige background

Time

4:00 pm 7:30 pm

Event Type

From Around the School

Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want to join in for a game of soccer, be the first team to solve a puzzle, or relax by enjoying nachos, churros, and popcorn while playing lawn games. There will be something for individuals of all backgrounds to enjoy while meeting other Longwood-based students from across graduate school!  

RSVP here: https://engage.sph.harvard.edu/event/11255968 

Open to ALL Harvard students, staff and faculty (we encourage everyone to join our activities or cheer your colleagues on!)

Food will include vegetarian options. Activities will run from 5 – 7 PM and include team soccer, team tug-of-war, team trivia and a team jig-saw-puzzle racing! 

Sign up to join an activity at the follow survey: https://forms.office.com/r/Gc9ah8Bw6r  We would also appreciate volunteers sign up at through this spreadsheet: Longwood Festival Volunteer Sign Up!

May 7, 2025

Why Medicaid matters: A conversation with former NC Gov. Roy Cooper

Event image of a headshot of Roy Cooper, former governor of North Carolina
Location
The Studio & Online

Event Type

1:00 pm 1:30 pm

Before leaving the office of Governor due to term limits earlier this year, Roy Cooper expanded North Carolina’s Medicaid program, enrolling more than 650,000 residents, many in rural areas. He also worked with hospitals to create a medical debt relief program aimed at helping nearly 2 million residents get out from under the weight of $4 billion in medical bills that they couldn’t afford to pay. In this conversation, Gov. Cooper will explain the value he sees in Medicaid and the potential impact of federal funding cuts to public health. He will also discuss his experience building coalitions across party lines to address healthcare needs in his state.

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Moderator

May 6, 2025

CHDS Seminar: Answering Causal Questions Through Decision Analytical Models

Headshots of Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf
Location
Virtual

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 Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf from Erasmus MC for a virtual seminar showing that many decision analytical models are inherently causal in nature. They explicitly present decision analytical models as causal models, highlighting that, the more a decision model deviates from its underlying causal structure, the more likely it is to result in a sub-optimal decision with all the consequences this entails.

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May 5, 2025

Trust and ethics in public health

A representation of The Belmont Report, a document regarding the ethical treatment of human subjects in scientific studies
Location
The Studio & Online

Time

1:00 pm 1:50 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

The landmark Belmont Report articulated key principles to protect humans in scientific studies. Nearly 50 years after the report’s publication, this distinguished panel of bioethics experts will examine the impacts of those guidelines, particularly on communities of color. What are the successes? Where are the shortcomings? And what are the actionable solutions to create a more inclusive, just, and trustworthy healthcare system for everyone? 

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Moderator

May 8, 2025

From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone

Time

1:00 pm 2:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom*

Watch here

Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Jalikatu Mustapha, MMed, MSc, BMBS, will present, “From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone”. Jalikatu Mustapha is a LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute and Deputy Minister of Health Ⅱ in Sierra Leone. This seminar will be online via Zoom only.

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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April 22, 2025

A State of Passion Documentary Screening

Flyer for doucmentary screening featuring a green background , a man sitting and a women's face in the background with documentary title in red text
Location
Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Time

6:00 pm 8:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

Join us for a screening of Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi’s documentary, “A State of Passion” which captures ongoing human rights violations and the war in Gaza through the eyes of British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah.

After 43 horrific days working around the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, Dr. Abu-Sittah emerged to shed light on the sixth war he has experienced while lending his medical expertise for humanitarian assistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he speaks of the unfathomable horrors he witnessed, from lacerated bodies to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, deliberate targeting of medics, hospital facilities, water and sewage systems, evidence of chemical weapons use, indiscriminate killing disproportionately affecting children, and widespread life-altering injuries among civilians.

April 30, 2025

Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum

Location
Building 2 – Room 102
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 United States

Time

2:00 pm 3:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

“Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum” featuring Head of Arboretum Operations and Projects Danny Schissler. Learn about Harvard’s “Museum of Trees” and what it takes to keep North America’s first public arboretum open to all. HUID required or online at https://hsph.me/arnoldarboretumsustainability.

to RSVP please email susan_bottino@harvard.edu.

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