Reducing Tobacco-Related Harm: Innovative Strategies for Health Care Providers in a Changing Policy Landscape
Join Vaughan Rees, Director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control, for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving role of nicotine products in tobacco harm reduction strategies.
While smoking rates have declined in some global regions, they remain high among socioeconomically disadvantaged and marginalized groups, and continue to rise in developing countries. This webinar will outline the potential benefits and risks of reduced-exposure nicotine products while maintaining a focus on protecting the health of youth. By illustrating the latest science and policy insights, this webinar will provide healthcare professionals with an understanding of a range of effective strategies to support tobacco cessation and reduce the burden of tobacco-related disease in marginalized populations.
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CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton’s presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in “Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance,” which established a theoretical model that integrates a veil of ignorance into valuation to account for both distributional concerns and public good values.
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Susan Chilton
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CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will present a consumer optimization model of how individuals’ make this trade-off and test their results using an incentivized experiment.
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Jytte Nielsen
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Leadership and Management : The Importance for Public Health Professionals
Improving environmental health and safety performance requires more than technical expertise—it demands strong leadership and management skills. Join us for a webinar hosted by Louis J. DiBerardinis, Instructor of Industrial Hygiene, to explore the essential capabilities EHS professionals need to drive meaningful change.
Drawing from real-world experience, Mr. DiBerardinis will share key leadership principles, recommendations for communicating with senior management, strategies for building effective performance systems, time management tips, and more. He’ll also introduce his upcoming course, Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals program, offered online in September and on-site in March.
If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership skills, influence organizational culture, and elevate EHS performance, we invite you to attend this webinar.
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Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century
Join us for a webinar on the Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.
Hosted by Program Director Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, PhD, the session will highlight how the program equips professionals to communicate complex health risks clearly and effectively. Dr. Viswanath will share how the latest research in science and risk communication informs practical strategies for building trust, reducing public anxiety, and countering misinformation.
If you’re looking to sharpen your communication skills and support informed public health decision-making, we invite you to attend this webinar to see how this program can align with your goals.
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Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
Bring your lunch and join us for a screening of the film 13th, followed by open-ended discussion. Watch the trailer here.
About the film:
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
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WGH Film Screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
WGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and the gendered impacts of war. This gripping documentary follows the courageous Liberian women who organized a nonviolent resistance to end a brutal civil war—ultimately paving the way for peace and the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
This event is co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association and the Africa Student Health Forum. All are welcome!
Dinner and refreshments will be provided!
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MELD Seminar
Please join the Department of Environmental Health for the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar Series.
Date: May 6, 2025, 9:30am – 10:30am
Location: Building 1, Room 1302
Topic: Infrared Molecular Fingerprinting and Proteomic Profiling of Firefighters: Assessing Occupational Exposure-Related Biochemical Alterations
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Olivia Kline, BSc
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ERC Alumni Seminar: Enhancing our understanding of lung cancer in Asia — A Singapore perspective
Join the Harvard Chan Education & Research Center for this seminar from an ERC alumna:
Title: Enhancing our understanding of lung cancer in Asia — A Singapore perspective
Presenter: Wei Jie Seow, BSc, MSc, ScD, Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Identify key risk factors contributing to lung cancer in Asia.
- Compare the risk factors for lung cancer in Western versus Asian populations.
- Discuss the use of risk prediction models to identify high-risk groups for lung cancer screening.
Location: Kresge 502 and Online via Zoom.
Register: Click here to register to attend via Zoom.
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Wei Jie Seow
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Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Title: Human exposure to airborne pathogens and secondary contaminants associated with germicidal UV lights disinfection.
Presenter: Seongjun Park, PhD, Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to
- Discuss the pros and cons of applying germicidal UV systems indoors.
- Describe the formation of secondary contaminants by the germicidal UV lights.
- Explain the effects of building operating conditions on indoor air quality.
- Explain the effects of germicidal UV system operating conditions on indoor air quality.
Location: Kresge 502 and Online via Zoom.
Register: Click here to register to attend via Zoom.