Healthy Conversations with Michaela Kerrisey
Michaela Kerrissey, PhD, will offer insight on Julia Minson’s HEAR framework, suggesting complementary techniques for creating space for oneself as well as others to be heard across lines of disagreement.
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Progress, Interrupted: Malaria’s Uneven Gains Amid New Threats & A Changing Funding Landscape
Since 2000, malaria control has averted more than two billion cases and saved nearly 13 million lives. Yet that progress has stalled, and it was never evenly shared. Some districts are approaching elimination while others carry most of the burden. Climate change, human mobility, and drug and insecticide resistance are redrawing the map of risk. At the same time, the funding that powered two decades of gains is contracting.
Countries are responding by moving away from blanket coverage toward subnational tailoring (SNT): using routine surveillance, modeling, and local evidence to decide which interventions go where. Targeting can stretch shrinking budgets further, but only if the data, analysts, and institutions behind it hold up. This conversation brings together four leaders working on each piece of that problem.
This event is sponsored by the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, Harvard’s Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe Initiative, and the Nigerian Student Association at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Harvard T.H. Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.
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Harvard Pop Center Hybrid Social Demography Seminar with Lawrence Stacey
Lawrence Stacey, assistant professor of sociology, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, and visiting scientist at Harvard Pop Center, presents “Uneven changes in the health profiles of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ populations and the unexamined role of demographic change, 2014–2023.”
Lunch will be served.
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Lawrence Stacey
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Harvard Pop Center Hybrid Social Demography Seminar with Alison Gemmill
Alison Gemmill, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, presents “Reproductive and maternal health in an era of policy upheaval.”
Lunch will be served.
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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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Why Health? Rethinking Health in a Difficult Moment
The 178th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine
Public health has made extraordinary contributions to human life. And yet, challenges to the field have emerged and gained momentum, to a point where, today opposition to public health shapes national public policy. This talk argues that the moment calls for a return to first principles. Health is a means to full, dignified lives, not an end in itself, and the work of health is inherently hard. We must reconcile collective wellbeing with individual liberty, populations with patients, evidence with values, and action with uncertainty. This talk also argues that the field’s own failures during the pandemic — partisan alignment, false certitude, intolerance of dissent, neglect of those most at risk — are now being repeated by its critics, with real cost to human lives. Emerging from the moment to a new, reinvigorated public health, requires listening, honesty about where data end and values begin, health for all as a practical test, and a better story about why health matters.
Sandro Galea is the Margaret C Ryan Dean, the Eugene S and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health at the Andrew M and Jane M Bursky School of Public Health and Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Washington University in St. Louis. He has been named an epidemiology innovator by Time, a top voice in healthcare by LinkedIn, and is one of the most cited social scientists in the world. His writing and work are featured regularly in national and global public media. A native of Malta, he has served as a field physician for Doctors Without Borders and has held academic and leadership positions at Boston University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
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This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person viewing options (with limited in-person seating). Seats in the main auditorium are first come, first served. There will also be a recording of the event for those who cannot attend.
This event will be recorded and photographed for the Department of Epidemiology and Harvard Chan School Communications. If you have any questions or concerns about being photographed, please contact cliebent@hsph.harvard.edu.
Stay for the reception 5:00-6:00 p.m. in Sebastian’s Cafe.
Open to the public.
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.
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A Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum
How can the American health care system be reimagined to deliver better, more affordable outcomes for patients and communities? In this fireside chat, Donald Berwick, widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care quality and improvement, will draw on his experience in clinical care, public policy, and health system leadership. He will discuss a range of topics, including the potential role of a single public payer, health care affordability, and social determinants of health.
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Donald Berwick
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About The Studio
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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Finding a Match: Donor Diversity and the Path to a Cure
Lunch and Learn event about the National Marrow Donor Program, which is a global nonprofit organization that connects patients with blood cancers and blood disorders (such as leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle cell disease) to life-saving blood stem cell and bone marrow donor. This event is to raise awareness about becoming a donor, and is being held in conjunction with a table in the Kresge Atrium where cheek swab kits will be distributed.
Presentation will be in Kresge G-1, Table will be in the Kresge Atrium.