Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Greg Drescher; Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH. The speakers will present on “Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances” on November 10, 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. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.
Speaker Information
Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD
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CHDS Seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) provides a direct method for measuring patient risk preferences and incorporating these into cost-effectiveness estimates. In this presentation, we will discuss: 1) the rationale for GRACE as a way of explaining discordance between traditional cost-effectiveness analysis (TCEA) and the behavior of patients and payers; 2) the economic theory behind GRACE; 3) empirical estimates of GRACE-based utility over health; and 4) a practical approach for estimating GRACE using only inputs from standard TCEA models.
Speaker Information
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD
Organizers
Things we have learned about TB transmission and progression from our cohort studies in Lima, Peru
Title Talk
“Things we have learned about TB transmission and progression from our cohort studies in Lima, Peru”
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
Speaker Information
My collaborators and I have been studying TB transmission and progression in Peru through a series of cohort studies we have conducted in Peru over the past 20 years. These have uncovered both host and pathogen related factors that affect the spread of TB in that setting. I will describe the design and outcomes of these studies highlighting some unexpected findings.
Inherited trauma, inherited equity: Reparations as a determinant of health
Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for a virtual conversation between Dr. L’Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc, and FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, to explore the intersection of reparative justice and racial trauma’s legacy. Is there a pathway to healing for the descendants of the enslaved? For instance, reparations can serve as a transformative health intervention for Black men in Jackson, Mississippi, illuminating how structural repair can advance collective well-being across the South.
Speaker Information
Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Dr. L'Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc
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FXB Center work in progress seminar – Out of sight, out of mind: Myanmar’s invisible crisis
Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University for a virtual work-in-progress seminar to hear from Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and Director of the Southeast Asia Human Rights Project at Harvard University’s Asia Center. The conversation will be moderated by FXB’s Director of Research, Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc. Harvard ID required to attend.
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Please note: this start time for this week’s Grand Rounds has changed from 1:10 to 3:10 PM. This is just a one-time change.
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds.
Topic: Prevention of Laboratory Animal Allergy: A Case of Anaphylaxis after Laboratory Rat Bite
Presenter: Jeremy Berger, DO, MPH, MS, Second-year resident in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Discussant: Gregg Stave, MD, JD, MPH, Medical Professor, Duke University
Location: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Building 1, Room 1302 and Zoom.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss how to control Laboratory Animal Allergy Exposures using a structured hierarchy of controls.
- Explain how to identify cases of Laboratory Animal Allergy in your patients.
- Describe medical surveillance steps to assess workers for Laboratory Animal Allergy.
Register: Please click here to register to attend via Zoom.
CMEs for US licensed physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Chan Education and Research Center. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designates this live activity for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity
Speaker Information
Gregg Stave
Organizers
Celebrating the life of Richard Cash
Join the Department of Global Health and Population to celebrate the life and legacy of Richard Cash.
Richard was widely recognized for his contributions to developing oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a technique that has since been credited with saving millions of lives and has been described by The Lancet as “potentially the most significant medical advance of the century.” Beyond his public health impact, Richard influenced innumerable students, colleagues, and friends over his nearly five decades at the School. Throughout his career, he remained dedicated to working with communities to find simple, accessible, and effective solutions.
At this memorial, we will celebrate Richard’s life by hearing from panel of experts about Richard’s impact on the field of public health and from close friends, family, and colleagues about how he touched their lives. We will unveil a commissioned portrait, which will later be hung in the Department of Global Health and Population, and hold a small reception in the Kresge Cafeteria.
Please note that registration is required to attend this event.
For those wishing to honor Richard’s legacy, please donate the Richard Cash Memorial Fund.
Panelists
Lincoln Chen
Tim Evans
David Nalin
Malabika Sarker
Moderator
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Monday Nutrition Seminar | From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience
Please join the Department of Nutrition and Department of Global Health and Population for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Dr. Francesca Scazzina, Professor in Human Nutrition at the University of Parma, Italy. Dr. Scazzina will present her talk on “From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience” on November 3, 2025 at 1:00pm ET. This lecture 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 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.
Speaker Information
Francesca Scazzina, PhD
Organizers
Role of viral proteases in shaping virus-host interactions
Title Talk
“Role of viral proteases in shaping virus-host interactions”
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
Speaker Information
Viruses have evolved sophisticated strategies to subvert host antiviral defenses and create conditions favorable for their replication. Our work focuses on how viral proteases selectively cleave host proteins that play key roles in innate immune responses. To systematically uncover these virus-host interactions, we have developed a systems biology platform that enables the global identification of proteolytic events during viral infection. We are using this platform to identify host proteins with previously unrecognized antiviral functions, offering new insights into how viruses disarm cellular defense pathways.
MELD Seminar
The Department of Environmental Health invites you to next the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar.
Title: Maternal Arsenic Reprograms the Placenta–Lung Axis and Increases Offspring Asthma Risk
Speaker: Wan-Yee Tang, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Engineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
*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.