Presented jointly with the Center for Health Communication
In an era of deep political polarization, how can we build bipartisan support for public health? During this fireside chat, Nir Menachemi, dean of the Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University, will share important insights for winning over allies based on scientific evidence. He will also share his personal experience forging successful partnerships with policymakers in Florida, Alabama, and Indiana to increase investment in public health.
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An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
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Nir Menachemi
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Integrating big data across state-level health databases to evaluate ambient heat, pesticide exposures, and ADHD with Melissa Furlong, PhD
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Melissa Furlong, PhD, of the University of Arizona. Dr. Furlong will discuss “Integrating big data across state-level health databases to evaluate ambient heat, pesticide exposures, and ADHD.”
Dr. Furlong is an environmental epidemiologist who studies the chronic health effects of environmental contaminants, with an emphasis on pesticides and neurological outcomes. She is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona. She holds a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master’s in Public Policy from Duke University, and a B.S. in Psychology and Neuroscience, also from Duke University. She is the recipient of a Pathway to Independence Award from NIEHS (K99/R00).
Dr. Furlong is the Co-Director of Research Focus Group 1 and on the Internal Advisory Board of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center. Her primary research interests include developing and implementing novel approaches in big data to investigate associations between environmental contaminants and longitudinal chronic health outcomes, particularly neurological health. She uses a variety of methodological approaches to achieve these goals, including the use of -OMICs technologies (particularly metabolomics and epigenomics), as well as developing and linking large exposure databases with state-wide health outcomes databases, including Medicaid. With researchers in Atmospheric Sciences and Geography, she is developing a geo-spatial model of atmospheric dispersions of pesticide applications in the state of Arizona to estimate exposure to pesticide drift during critical windows of development. She also uses metabolomic and epigenetic approaches to study long-term, subclinical health effects of occupational and environmental exposures in firefighters.
This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register here.
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Dr. Melissa Furlong
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Are we already FAIR? – The future of data sharing
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Iris Pigeot,
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ID Epi Spring Seminar Series – Jessica Metcalf
Infection dynamics and control in a changing world
Presented by Jessica Metcalf, Professor at Princeton University.
Jessica Metcalf demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology and infectious disease dynamics, currently working on the intersection between climate drivers and infectious disease dynamics in a range of pathogens.
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 Spring Seminar Series – Ted Cohen
Spatial and genomic epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova
Presented by Ted Cohen, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at Yale School of Public Health.
Dr. Cohen is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose primary research focus is tuberculosis. He is particularly interested in understanding how drug-resistance and medical comorbidities such as HIV frustrate current efforts to control tuberculosis epidemics, with a goal of developing more effective approaches to limit the morbidity caused by this pathogen.
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.
Air pollution and COPD: From epidemiology to intervention with Dr. Mary Rice
Join us for a UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center Science Seminar with Mary Rice, MD, MPH. Dr. Rice will speak on Air pollution and COPD: From epidemiology to intervention.
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Date: January 21, 2025
Time: 3-4 pm ET (12-1 pm PT)
Location: Zoom (Meeting ID 992 7828 8529 and Passcode 111314)
About the speaker: Dr. Mary Rice researches how environmental exposures, especially air pollution and climate change, impact the respiratory health of children and adults and the development of interventions to mitigate these health effects. She is a pulmonary critical care physician and the Director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Institute for Lung Health, where she is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.
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ID Epi Spring Seminar Series – Paul Zivich
Effects of Influenza Vaccination Among University Students Using Target Maximum Likelihood for Interference
Presented by Paul Zivich, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Paul Zivich is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His interests are in causal inference with potential outcomes and the computational aspects of epidemiology. His work has ranged from fusion study designs to assessing the performance of estimators through simulation studies to free and open-source software to collection of contact network data with electronic sensors to application of causal inference in the context of infectious disease and social epidemiology.
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.
Gambling has gone digital. Online casino games are legal in several states, and online sports betting in dozens more. But behind the flashy marketing and sign-up bonuses, what are the costs of having “a casino in your pocket” 24/7? In this discussion, our panel of experts will examine the forces driving the rise of online gambling, the emotional, health and economic harms of problem gambling, and how policy change and treatment can reduce the burden.
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An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
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Laura Haefeli
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Climate change begins in the OR: Our unsustainable future in healthcare with Kelly Wright, MD
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Kelly Wright, MD of Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Wright will discuss “Climate change begins in the OR: Our unsustainable future in healthcare.”
Dr. Wright is the Director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She did her residency at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals and her fellowship in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts. She currently serves Cedars-Sinai in several capacities, including implementing enhanced recovery after surgery, increasing telehealth utilization, and decreasing hospital waste production. Additionally, she runs the endometriosis center at Cedars-Sinai, combining bench research and high-volume surgical care to learn more about the disease. She is interested in promoting gender equity for women surgeons and their patients.
This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register here.
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Dr. Kelly Wright, MD, FACOG, FACS
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U.S. v Skrmetti: Arguments and Consequences for Transgender Health Care
Join us! Alejandra Caraballo will discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti will impact access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people.
Lunch will be served.
This event is open to the public. Registration is required.
Public parking is limited, so use of public transportation or ride services is recommended.
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston; François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) building, Room G-12
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Alejandra Caraballo, JD
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Co-sponsored by: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Women, Gender, and Health Interdisciplinary Concentration & Department of Epidemiology & Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Harvard Medical School Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs & Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership; Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life; SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative; Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity at Dana-Farber
Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers who are invited to share their scholarly research and perspectives; they do not speak for the School or Harvard University.