Building Foundations: Addressing Housing Insecurity to Improve Child Health
Abstract: The ongoing housing affordability crisis in the US poses significant challenges to the wellbeing of children. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of the relationship between housing instability and children’s health drawing on a range of recent studies. I will also describe evidence from both quasi-experimental and experimental research to demonstrate how housing interventions can mitigate negative impacts and promote healthier outcomes for children.
Bio: Dr. Natalie Slopen is a social epidemiologist with a focus on child development, health equity, and life course theory. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Slopen’s research focuses on how social and environmental factors influence health and well-being in childhood and across the lifespan. Her work, encompassing both observational and experimental studies, aims to generate insights that can shape effective policies and programs to promote health equity.
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Natalie Slopen, ScD
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Epidemiologic Methods and Data Science: Stronger Together
Abstract: Epidemiologic methods often focus on a statistical model as the main step to getting “the” result. This talk will attempt to widen the perspective on epidemiologic methods. How do we develop and communicate our research plans in a team? How do the numbers from a regression model make it into a table in a manuscript? Practical examples will be shown how standard approaches from data science and free software packages can speed up our work in epidemiology and improve its reproducibility. As a corollary, epidemiology-minded data science might not just need to be a core component in the training of the next generation of epidemiologists, but can in turn also help teach epidemiologic methods.
Bio: Konrad Stopsack leads the Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS in Bremen, Germany. His applied research focuses on molecular and cancer epidemiology. His methodologic and teaching interests include application and further development of epidemiologic methods to improve reproducibility, interpretability, and efficiency of epidemiologic studies.
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Konrad H. Stopsack, MD MPH
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Solving America’s housing crisis: A Q&A with Marcia Fudge, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
At least 40 million American households—including half of all renters—spend more on housing than they can afford. Many lower-income renters are just scraping by, often sacrificing necessities like food and healthcare to pay the rent. And the number who are homeless is surging: 770,000 people, according to a 2024 count, many of whom have jobs but still can’t afford housing. Join Marcia Fudge, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, as she talks with Howard Koh, chair of Harvard Chan School’s Initiative on Health and Homelessness, about the forces driving the housing crisis and ways to make housing more affordable.
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An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
Presented jointly with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at Harvard Chan School; Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies; Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative; and the Government Performance Lab at HKS
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Building a Learning Health System: the VA-CAUSAL Enterprise (19th Kolokotrones Symposium)
CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 19th Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health!
This hybrid symposium celebrates the 100th anniversary of research for our VA-CAUSAL collaborator, the VA Office of Research & Development.
“Building a Learning Health System: the VA-CAUSAL Enterprise” will explore how VA-CAUSAL may serve as a helpful model for future learning health systems. Speakers will describe the program infrastructure, research use cases, and policy implications. The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion on the future of research to build learning health systems.
VA-CAUSAL is a causal inference research initiative within the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. The goal of VA-CAUSAL is to help transform the VA into a learning health system that expedites the translation of research into practice and supports decision-making by patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders to improve health.
Featured symposium speakers to be announced.
Event information including directions and building access will be sent directly to registered in-person attendees in the weeks leading up to the event. Zoom link will be distributed to all virtual attendees the week leading up to the event.
Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, and not for Harvard, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), or the United States government.
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Eastern Congo Teach-in at FXB
Join us for a teach-in session shedding light on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where rapid escalation of violence has resulted in the death and abuse of civilians, the massive internal displacement of 7.3 million people-of which 3.7 million are children, and food insecurity affecting 25.4 million people including 13.2 million children.
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How are people suffering from the war? Story of a displaced health professional due to conflict in Myanmar
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 3, (Cindy) Su Su Lin, MB, BS, M.Med.Sc., will present “How are people suffering from the war? Story of a displaced health professional due to conflict in Myanmar”. Cindy is LEAD Fellow (2024) at the Harvard Global Health Institute.
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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ID Epi Seminar Series – Erin Mordecai
May 8, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | FXB G12
More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases
Presented by Erin Mordecai, Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Stanford University
Erin Mordecai’s research focuses on the ecology of infectious disease. She is interested in how climate, species interactions, and global change drive infectious disease dynamics in humans and natural ecosystems. This research combines mathematical modeling and empirical work.
Erin finished her PhD in 2012 at the University of California Santa Barbara in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. She then completed a 2-year NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in the Intersection of Biology and Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Erin has been at Stanford since January 2015.
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 – Amy Wesolowski
May 1, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G2
Modeling human behavior to understanding infectious disease dynamics – examples of population-level mobility and injecting behaviors of people who use injection drugs
Presented by Amy Wesolowski, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Amy Wesolowski is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She obtained her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and was a postdoctoral fellow at HSPH and Princeton University. Her research focuses on understanding human behavior and how it relates to infectious disease transmission. She works on multiple pathogens including malaria, measles, and HCV.
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 – Trevor Bedford
Apr 24, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3
Fitness flux in SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal influenza H3N2
Presented by Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Trevor Bedford is a Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. His research program focuses on phylodynamic analysis of pathogen sequence data with the goal of making inferences that are actionable to public health. This research program spans both epidemiological and evolutionary questions and spans a number of viral systems including seasonal and avian influenza, Ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV, dengue, mpox and SARS-CoV-2.
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 – Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
Apr 17, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3
The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes
Presented by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University
Mathieu Maheu-Giroux is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.
Prior to joining McGill, Mathieu received a doctorate in Population Health from Harvard University. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematical modeling at Imperial College London.
His research focuses primarily on 1) infectious disease modeling, 2) epidemiology and surveillance, and 3) impact and economic evaluations of public health interventions.
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.