Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations
Join us for a webinar on the Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.
Program Director Lou DiBerardinis will share how this program helps professionals design and manage laboratories that prioritize health, safety, and sustainability while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
If you’re looking to enhance your understanding of safe and effective lab design—from new construction to renovation and decommissioning—this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.
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Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care
Join us for a webinar on the Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.
Program Director Ted Witherell will share how this program helps health care leaders build confidence and skill in managing conflict, providing feedback, and navigating complex negotiations.
If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership and communication skills to handle challenging conversations more effectively, this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.
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CHDS Seminar With Kayoko Shioda of Boston University
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Kayoko Shioda of Boston University, “Target Trial Emulation for Vaccine Dosing Schedule Evaluation.” Target trial emulation (TTE) is a causal inference framework that uses observational data to emulate a randomized trial. It has become a valuable tool for evaluating treatments and health interventions when randomized trials are not feasible. However, applying TTE to infectious diseases requires caution due to transmission-related interference. In this talk, Dr. Shioda will illustrate how TTE can identify optimal vaccine dosing schedules, including for COVID-19, and discuss current methodological limitations and possible solutions.
Dr. Shioda is an infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian focusing on two research areas: (1) One Health and climate change, and (2) vaccine epidemiology. For vaccine epidemiology, she aims to inform vaccine policy by developing novel analytic methods for intervention evaluation, especially in resource-limited settings where public health data often have various challenges that make it difficult to draw reliable conclusions. She has collaborated with partners across local, national, and international organizations in more than 30 countries worldwide.PhD, DVM, MPH
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Kayoko Shioda, PhD, DVM, MPH
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Social Connection and Health Across Adulthood and Later Life
Please join us for an SBS seminar session led by Visiting Professor, Dr. Anthony Ong, as he discusses the importance of social connection, a central determinant of health across the life course. This talk synthesizes evidence on age-related patterns in loneliness and social isolation, the ways pandemic conditions disrupted connection, and why mismatches between objective isolation and subjective loneliness (social asymmetry) carry distinct health risks. Comments on the construct of cumulative social advantage—a multidimensional profile of sustained connections across family, community, religious/civic, and emotional domains—will be made, showing that stronger profiles are associated with slower biological aging and a lower inflammatory burden.
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Anthony Ong
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Brown Bag Seminar: Can remote personalized digital counseling improve postpartum contraceptive use?
Ibou Dieye is a PhD candidate in health policy (economics track) at Harvard University. His research lies at the intersection of health economics, public policy, and behavioral economics. He uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study how government financing reforms and emerging digital tools can improve access to and quality of health care in developing countries. He is also interested in how factors outside the health sector shape health outcomes. Before starting his PhD, he studied Applied Mathematics and Economics at Macalester College and worked at Analysis Group as an analyst and data scientist specializing in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).
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Presented jointly with the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University
Inspired by the world premiere musical, Wonder, performing December 9th through February 8th at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), this panel discussion explores the power of empathy and kindness in the face of bullying. Drawing on Wonder’s story of Auggie Pullman—a young boy with a facial difference navigating a new school—the conversation will examine the challenges of social belonging and the importance of creating inclusive environments where differences are celebrated. This event will feature a sharing of a song from the musical composed by Ian Axel and Chad King, the GRAMMY Award-winning duo behind A Great Big World.
Register for free to submit your questions.
An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
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MELD Seminar: Peng Gao
The Department of Environmental Health invites you to next the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar.
Title: Integrating Exposomics and Multi-omics to Investigate the Etiology of Complex Respiratory Diseases
Speaker: Peng Gao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposomics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Location: Building 1, Room 1302
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Please save the date for the next Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds. More details TBA soon.
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Guest Lecture: Emotion Regulation Across Generations
Emotion Regulation Across Generations: Evidence-Based Interventions and Personal Practice
Learn how Archana Basu, PhD, and her team in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital are supporting families through evidence-based interventions that target intergenerational emotion regulation strategies as part of their Integrated Primary Care program.
Location: Epi Library (Kresge 907) and on Zoom
We encourage Harvard affiliates to join us in-person for pizza and a chance to win a raffle! All are welcome to attend virtually! Register here.
Description: This presentation has two goals. First, Dr. Basu will present trauma- and adversity-related epidemiological data for children and youth, including data from two psychotherapy programs that are part of the Broad Trauma Initiative at Massachusetts General Hospital. Second, presenters will discuss attendees’ experiences with some of the emotion regulation skills that are a part of the psychotherapy programs and engage attendees in hands-on practice with emotion regulation strategies.
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Archana Basu
Dana Allswede
Mia Owens
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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MS, MA, Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Secondary Faculty at the Department of Molecular Metabolism, Director of Harvard-Chan Research Kitchen at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Peterson will present her talk on ” Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging” on November 17, 2025 at 1:00pm ET. This seminar will take place in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).
The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. Friday, November 14 to request a visitor pass to access the building.
Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.