Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives
Join us for an informative webinar on the Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education. This session will be hosted by esteemed Program Directors Eric J. McNulty, MA, and Dr. Leonard J. Marcus, PhD.
The health care sector, like all service industries, is facing significant challenges both in the United States and globally. Health care leaders are increasingly required to take on new roles as force multipliers for their staff, community, and organization.
The program’s Meta-Leadership toolbox—featuring original content from Harvard on team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution—equips participants with the practical mindset and skills necessary to lead effectively and confidently in any situation. You can expect to see a return on your investment as soon as you return to work.
If you’re aiming to enhance your leadership capabilities in health care settings, especially during challenging times, we highly encourage you to attend this webinar to explore how the program can support your professional goals.
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Topic: A shared toxin burden: Investigating a couple’s elevated mercury levels
Speaker: Erika Anderson, MD
Discussant: Rose Goldman, MD, MPH, AFACMT
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the different types of mercury
- Identify sources of mercury in the workplace and environment
- Discuss the clinical manifestations of mercury toxicity
- List mitigation techniques for elevated mercury
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 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Location: Kresge 502 and Zoom
Register: Register to attend via Zoom here.
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Pandemic Preparedness: The Role of Virus-Restricted Vaccines and Universal Antiviral Drugs
BRIEF ABSTRACT
Pandemic Preparedness as a concept has four unknowns to deal with: 1) how often can we expect a pandemic causing excess mortality and morbidity to occur, 2) what virus will cause it?, 3) are panzoonotic infections a harbinger of a human pandemic driven by human to human transmission, and 4) does the change in climate increases the frequency of panzoonotics and pandemics? Recent data on 12,000 mammalian virus-host interactions suggest that enveloped viruses are the most likely cause of the next pandemic and among those a segmented enveloped RNA virus with a high rate of antigenic drift and shift, maximizing viral escape from immune interventions, may present the biggest threat. Currently members of the panzoonotic H5 virus family are spreading rapidly among birds and a wide range of mammal species. Evidence will be presented that a combination of an easy-to-use universal antiviral drug for the first 100 days able to prevent human-to-human transmission and a series of prime and boost virus family-specific vaccines thereafter protecting against severe human disease by consecutive and fast evolving virus strains and clades may present the best of options to prevent catastrophic events.
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Jaap Goudsmit has an MD and PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam. He was a Fogarthy Scientist at the National Institutes of Health from 1978 till 1983 and was full professor of virology at the University of Amsterdam from 1989-2000.
Jaap Goudsmit was Chief Scientific Officer of the Vaccine Company Crucell from 2000 till 2011 when the company was acquired by Johnson and Johnson in 2011 and developed an Adenovirus vaccine platform resulting in licensed vaccines against Ebola and Covid-19. Jaap Goudsmit authored over 500 scientific publications, many of whom appeared in Nature, Science and PNAS.
Jaap Goudsmit headed the Crucell Vaccine Institute (2011 – 2014) and the Janssen Prevention Center (2014 – 2017) at Johnson and Johnson. In 2017 he joined the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as adjunct professor of Epidemiology and Immunology of Infectious Diseases. Jaap Goudsmit initiated and is co-PI of the vaccine course at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Jaap Goudsmit co- founded the biotech company Leyden Labs in 2020 and was the founding Chief Scientific Officer from 2020-2025.
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Jaap Goudsmit, MD, PhD
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Data Preservation & Community Event
Event description
This preservation event will focus on compiling a list of websites that feature crucial public health information, reports, and datasets on state web pages for the Internet Archive to capture post-event. No data science skills are needed. This event is open to Harvard Chan students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff, as well as the larger concerned public health community.
Connecting with community is another important component of this event. You’ll have the chance to write postcards to government officials and a silk screening station will be set up so you can express your data preservation pride! Bring your own t-shirt or tote! A small number of free t-shirts will be provided – first come first served. Bring your laptop!
For questions: datapreservationcollective@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Attacks on children in Gaza: Injuries, trauma, and survival
Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a panel discussion about injuries specific to children in the Gaza Strip over the last year. We will be joined by Budour Hassan, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa researcher, Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who worked in Gaza in August and December 2024, and Mohammad Mansour, psychotherapist, specialized in treating trauma, sexual assault victims, and emergency intervention. The conversation will be moderated by Ayesha Kadir, pediatrician and public health consultant.
This webinar is co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Ayesha Kadir, Moderator
Budour Hassan
Dr. Mimi Syed
Mohammad Mansour
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Public health and the arts: A conversation with A.R.T.’s Diane Paulus
Presented jointly with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University
Join Diane Paulus, the Tony Award-winning Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, for a fireside chat on the power of theater to illuminate critical public health challenges. Paulus will share how A.R.T. productions including Waitress, Jagged Little Pill, and Night Side Songs have tackled timely issues like domestic violence, addiction, and palliative care to spark conversations. Join us to learn how art can help heal communities and drive deeper understanding.
Register for free to submit your questions.
An on-demand video will be posted after the event.
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Diane Paulus
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ID Epi Seminar Series – Volodymyr Minin
Apr 3, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3
The signal is not flushed away: nowcasting and forecasting using wastewater pathogen surveillance
Presented by Volodymyr Minin, Professor of Statistics, Associate Director of the Infectious Disease Science Initiative, at the University of California, Irvine
Minin is a Professor of Statistics and an Associate Director of the UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative at the University of California, Irvine. He is interested in statistical inference of stochastic models that describe complex dynamics of biological systems. Minin is most active in infectious disease epidemiology, working on Bayesian integration of multiple data sources for inference of pathogen transmission model parameters and for probabilistic forecasting of healthcare demand. His other interests include phylogenetics, population genetics, and systems biology.
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 Seminar Series – Oskar Hallatschek
Mar 27, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3
Who acquires infection from whom? Neutral allele frequency fluctuations can tell
Presented by Oskar Hallatschek, Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Leipzig University
Prof. Dr. Oskar Hallatschek, born in Germany, earned his doctorate in Berlin after studying in Heidelberg and Zurich. Following a postdoc at Harvard, he led the Max Planck Research Group on Biological Physics and Evolutionary Dynamics in Göttingen. Since 2013, he has been a faculty member in UC Berkeley’s Physics and IB. His honors include the Simons Investigator, NSF Career, and Humboldt Professor Award.
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.
A path forward for public health: A conversation with former NYC health commissioner Ashwin Vasan
More than ever, state and local governments can drive public health forward, in innovative and effective ways. Ashwin Vasan, SM ’04, former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, will explore a roadmap and provide insights for the future.
Register for free to submit your questions.
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IID Seminars: Jonathan Li
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TALK TITLE: “HIV Post-Treatment Controllers and the Dream of Living without Antiretroviral Therapy”
Dr. Li leads an active clinical and translational laboratory research program focused on viral detection, reservoirs and resistance, especially within the fields of HIV and COVID-19.
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.