“Rovina’s Choice” Screening and Q&A with Atul Gawande
You are invited to a special screening of the New Yorker film “Rovina’s Choice,” a harrowing account of a mother’s efforts to save her daughter from sickness and starvation in the wake of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rovina Naboi’s devastating story represents the global impact of that decision on the world’s most vulnerable populations, and how it stopped decades of progress combating severe malnutrition and disease.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Executive Producer Atul Gawande, who served as the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) until last year.
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Managing Your Electronic Records: Shared Drives and Email
Virtual event
Does it take ages to find a file in your shared drive? Are you running out of room in your email? Save yourself and your office time and money by learning to manage your electronic records. In this workshop, we’ll help you manage your email and electronic records efficiently and effectively by giving you guidelines.
Workshops are about 45 minutes long. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (grs.harvard.edu) is helpful but not required.
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Managing Your Paper Records: Off-Site Records Storage
Run out of room for files in your office that you need to keep? The Harvard Depository records center is the perfect place for your office, department, or lab to store records that you need to keep but don’t use every day. In this online workshop, we’ll review step-by-step instructions for:
- How to set up an account
- How to pack and label boxes correctly
- How to complete transfer paperwork
- How to recall records back to your office
Workshops are about 30 minutes long. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (GRS) is helpful but not required. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities.
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Introduction to the General Records Schedule
Do you know how long you need to keep your office records, and what you should do when you no longer need them? In this workshop, we’ll help de-mystify records retention by showing you how to use and understand the Harvard University General Records Schedule (GRS).
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Film Screening: Poverty Inc. by Michael Matheson Miller
FXB Center is hosting a film screening of “Poverty Inc.” a documentary film by Michael Matheson Miller in the FXB Jonathan M Mann Conference Room. There will be refreshments provided, and this screening is open to the Harvard University Community.
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Crossroads Conversation Series
Join Harvard Chan faculty and alumni as they share how someone’s advice, encouragement, or challenge impacted their life, and the ways they apply those lessons today. Lunch will be provided.
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Love Data Rodeo: A Roundup of Useful Ways to Wrangle Your Data
Wrangle your data at the Harvard Library’s Love Data Rodeo. Celebrate Love Data Week by learning how to tame and transform your data in style!
You are cordially invited to this exciting round-up of platforms, tools, and strategies to help you successfully work with your data. During this 2-hour event, representatives of Harvard approved platforms will be on hand to provide demonstrations and share the support they can provide to help you make the most of your research data.
This event will be held in-person in the Lamont Library Forum Room. The Forum Room is located on the third floor of Lamont Library. A Harvard ID is required to enter the Lamont Library. We recommend attendees bring their laptops to more deeply engage with the resources that will be demoed. Registration is recommended, but not required.
This event is open to all Harvard students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff. There are no prerequisites or assumptions of knowledge.
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Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon
Join Countway librarians, members of the Public Environmental Data Partners, and fellow data enthusiasts to capture and preserve our public health care data in the CAFE Harvard Dataverse Collection. Celebrate Love Data Week by ensuring access to federal environmental data.
Health and environmental data is crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this invaluable public data is maintained and kept available in its true unaltered form for us now and in the future.
This is an open, three-hour event where we will chat about the importance of data preservation and good data management, then pivot to capturing crucial public health information, reports, and datasets for preservation in Harvard Dataverse. No data science skills are needed!
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Harvard Chan i-Night 2026
The Harvard Chan Student Government Association’s i-Night is back for its 35th year!
Join us for an exciting evening of performances that celebrate and showcase the talents, cultures, and diversity of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community!
Food and refreshments will be provided! Please RSVP to inform catering needs. Families and guests are welcome to join; up to two guests are allowed per student attendee. Children under 10 do not count towards the guest list.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances begin at 7:00 p.m.
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Community Coffee Hour
Join the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) on Thursday, February 5th for a Community Coffee Hour! Join us for an in-person gathering to meet the HHI team and learn more about their global work. All members of the Harvard community are welcome to join to kick off the new semester, build connections, and foster collaboration. This event will be held in-person only, at HSPH Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor) from 11a.m. -12 p.m. ET.
Please RSVP in advance here, and feel free to reach out to hhi@harvard.edu with any questions.