CHDS Seminar with Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf
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.
Speaker Information
Jeremy Labrecque
Maurice Korf
Organizers
Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Title: Work-related injuries and illnesses among public sector workers in Massachusetts
Presenters:
- Kathleen Grattan, MPH, Epidemiologist, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Mary Dozois, CIH CSP, Program Supervisor, Workplace Safety & Health Program for Public Employees, Department of Labor Standards
- Michael Flanagan, MPA, Director, Department of Labor Standards
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to
- Explain what an OSHA state plan is.
- Explain how a state plan functions in Massachusetts to protect the occupational safety and health of the public sector workforce.
- Describe patterns of work-related injury and illness among public sector workers in Massachusetts.
Location: Kresge 502 and Online via Zoom.
Register: Click here to register to attend via Zoom.
Speaker Information
Kathleen Grattan
Mary Dozois
Michael Flanagan
Organizers
Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview with Prof. Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, PhD, of the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Andersen will discuss “Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview.”
This event will be held via Zoom. Register here
About the speaker
Zorana Jovanovic Andersen is a Professor in Environmental Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and Former Chair of the European Respiratory Society Environment and Health Committee. Her main research areas include health effects of air pollution on respiratory disease, including asthma in children and adults, COPD, lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infections and COVID-19. Her other areas of research include air pollution and cardiometabolic diseases, dementia, and mental health, as well as climate change and health, health effects of road traffic noise, environmental exposures and aging, interaction between air pollution and physical activity, capacity building in air pollution in environmental epidemiology in Serbia and Western Balkans, among others. Prof. Andersen is passionate about advocacy on clean air and translation of knowledge from research on health effects of air pollution to policy makers at local, national, European and global level, as an active member of the Expert group on Air Pollution in Copenhagen Municipality, Danish Council for Disease Prevention, Policy Committee of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, International Network on Policy in Epidemiology, and WHO Global Air Pollution and Health Technical Advisory Group. She received the ERS mid-career Gold-Medal in Epidemiology and Environment in 2022.
Speaker Information
Organizers
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?
Speakers
Moderator
Rebecca Weintraub Brendel
About the Studio
From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone
*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom*
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
Speaker Information
Organizers
A State of Passion Documentary Screening
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.
Organizers
Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum
“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.
Speaker Information
Danny Schissler
Organizers
Global Health Week Symposium: Building Sustainable Health Systems
Global Health Week returns on April 28 to May 2!
Please join the Department of Global Health and Population’s Global Health Week Symposium on “Building Sustainable Health Systems” featuring Keynote speaker Muhamad Chatib Basri, PhD, Chairman, PT Bank Mandiri tbk. and Former Minister of Finance of Indonesia, followed by a panel discussion from international experts and Harvard faculty.
This event will be held on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM in Kresge G2.
Harvard 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.
Keynote Speaker
Muhamad Chatib Basri, PhD
Panelists
Moderator
Organizers
Innovation in time of crisis: An inside look at HHS during the first Trump Administration
Eric Hargan, who served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the first Trump administration, will share an insider’s perspective into the early U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the vital work of Operation Warp Speed to deliver a vaccine in record time. This fireside chat will also explore initiatives to improve healthcare access in rural communities through telehealth expansion and remote patient monitoring.
Register for free to submit your questions.
An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
Speaker
Eric Hargan
Moderator
About The Studio
Measuring household out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
* This seminar will be rescheduled in the fall*
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Chunling Lu, PhD, will present, “Measuring household out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data”. Dr Lu is Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Director of the Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. 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