States in Front on Rising Health Care and Drug Costs
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Maureen Hensley-Quinn, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Maureen Hensley Quinn
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Leading Health & Human Services in Massachusetts and Beyond
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Marylou Sudders, Former MA Secretary of Health & Human Services and Senior Policy Advisor at Smith, Costello & Crawford, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Marylou Sudders
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Why should we care about sex disparity in cardiovascular health?
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 10, Jane Zhao, PhD, will present, “Why should we care about sex disparity in cardiovascular health?” Dr. Zhao is a Takemi Fellow in the Takemi Program in International 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. A Harvard ID is required for building access.
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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Fireside Chat with LGBTQ Health Pioneer Stewart Landers
Join the Harvard Chan School LGBTQ Working Group for conversation with Stewart Landers, JD, Associate Editor Emeritus, LGBTQ Health, American Journal of Public Health and senior director at John Snow Inc. Learn about early efforts to grow research and programs focused on LGBTQ people.
Lunch provided. RSVP.
This event is not open to the public.
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i-Night
The Harvard Chan Student Government Association is excited to invite the whole Harvard Chan community to join us for one of our most cherished traditions — ✨i-Night!✨
i-Night, short for “International Night,” has been a staple since 1989, celebrating the incredible diversity of our community through a talent and cultural showcase 🪭🪇🪩.
This year, the event will take place on Friday, February 21st from 6:30 – 8:30 PM at the Smith Campus Center in Harvard Square. Mark your calendars—no RSVP required!
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Medicaid at the Crossroads
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Cindy Mann, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Cindy Mann
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Until the End of the World: Film Screening and Q&A
Fish farming is the fastest growing sector of food production, described as the ‘sustainable answer for food security’. Aquaculture attracts billions in public and private investment, but as the world population nears the 9.7Bn predicted by 2050, is it the solution?
The Department of Environmental Health invites you to join us for a film screening of the award-winning documentary, Until the End of the World, which examines the environmental and community impacts of fish farming, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director. The Q&A will also feature leading experts in Environmental Health, Nutrition, and Marine Biology.
Until the End of the World: Film Screening and Q&A
Tuesday, February 25th from 4pm-6pm
Kresge G1 Snyder Auditorium, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
The film will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Petros Koutrakis, PhD, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Eva Douzinas, President of the Rauch Foundation.
Featured Panelists:
- Francesco De Augustinis – Director of the film and an independent investigative journalist and documentarist covering food sustainability topics.
- Alessandro Bocconcelli – Oceanographer emeritus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, co-founder of Centinela Patagonia in Chile.
- Doug Frantz & Catherine Collins – Co-authors of the book, Salmon Wars. Catherine Collins is former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a private investigator. Doug Frantz is a Pulitzer prize winner, former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and former Assistant Secretary of State under John Kerry.
- Matthew Hayek – Dr. Hayek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU. He received his PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.
About the film: The new 60 minute film by investigative journalist and award-winning film-maker, Francesco De Augustinis, ‘Until The End Of The World’, takes the viewer on a journey from central Italy through Europe, West Africa and South America, where we see the paradoxical competition of this industry versus the livelihoods of entire communities in vulnerable areas, to produce high-end products like salmon.
To RSVP, please fill out the form here.
*Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard.
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Francesco De Augustinis
*Speakers’ views do not necessarily reflect the views of the Chair, the Department, the School, or the University.
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HCSGA February General Student Body Meeting
HCSGA’s February General Student Body Meeting is this Friday, Feb. 7 from 1:15-2:15 pm in Kresge G1 & online! Come join us to voice your concerns, learn what the HCSGA has been working on, upcoming events & more! Catering will be provided to students attending in person.
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Architecture & the 21st-Century Paradigm Shift: Designing for the Subliminal Brain – for Health, Well-being & Happiness
On Wednesday, April 23rd, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the final instalment in our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring architect and author Ann Sussman.
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This talk discusses the neuroscience that reframes our understanding of how architecture impacts us, including how people non-consciously take in their surroundings, and how that influences public health and placemaking. The talk will demonstrate eye-tracking and other biometric tools which reveal non-conscious human behaviors, including how our brain is hardwired to seek out detail and avoids looking at blankness in the built environment.
The big idea? Today’s biometric tools provide a new lens to ’see’ our world, transforming our understanding of what people need to see and be in to be at their best.
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Ann Sussman, an architect, author, researcher and teacher, is passionate about understanding how buildings impact us. She serves as president of the Human Architecture + Planning Institute, (theHapi.org), a nonprofit devoted to improving the design of the built environment through education and research. Her book Cognitive Architecture, Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment (Routledge, 2015, 2021) won the 2016 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). Ann teaches a course on using biometrics in design, ‘Buildings, Biology + the Brain’, at the Boston Architectural College (BAC). She co-edited the forthcoming Handbook of Neuroscience and the Built Environment (Routledge, 2025), due out this June, which compiles 31 chapters by 50 authors on 4 continents, who are eager to bridge the arts and sciences to promote health and wellbeing worldwide.
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Ann Sussman
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Advancing the scientific study of systemic racism: Theory-driven methods for population health research”
The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.