Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon
Health and climate data are crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this public data is maintained and kept available for us now and in the future.
Join us for this climate and health datathon and learn how to save our data while having fun connecting with fellow data enthusiasts!
We’re partnering with the Climate and Health Research Coordinating Center (CAFÉ RCC), a joint partnership between Boston University School of Public Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to host this preservation event. We will focus on the importance of data preservation and good data management and pivot to capturing crucial public health information, reports, and datasets for preservation in the CAFÉ Dataverse.
No data science skills are needed! Join when you can for as long as you can.
This event is open to all Harvard students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff, as well as the larger concerned public health community.
Organizers
Specific Aims Review Session
For Center members, their collaborators, affiliates, and trainees
Are you preparing for an upcoming environmental health-related submission? Have your Specific Aims page reviewed by our senior NIEHS Center faculty! In a friendly, constructive, small-group open session, a panel of Center members will offer critique and suggestions to improve your Specific Aims.
Proposals are welcomed that relate to the gamut of Environmental Health research (exposure assessment, community engagement and education, epidemiology, genetics and genomics, molecular biology, etc.). Please submit your draft Aims by the Friday deadline so that we can ensure reviewers include faculty with relevant areas of expertise. Open to investigators at all levels.
If you would like your document reviewed, please send an email to niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu by 5pm on the Friday before the session (November 28) with the following information:
- Name (first and last)
- Affiliation
- Sponsor/mentor
- Type of grant/award you are applying for
- New submission or resubmission
- Anticipated submission date
- Title of your project
- Attach your Specific Aims document and, if a resubmission, your introduction page (MS Word is preferred)
Speaker Information
Organizers
Specific Aims Review Session
For Center members, their collaborators, affiliates, and trainees
Are you preparing for an upcoming environmental health-related submission? Have your Specific Aims page reviewed by our senior NIEHS Center faculty! In a friendly, constructive, small-group open session, a panel of Center members will offer critique and suggestions to improve your Specific Aims.
Proposals are welcomed that relate to the gamut of Environmental Health research (exposure assessment, community engagement and education, epidemiology, genetics and genomics, molecular biology, etc.). Please submit your draft Aims by the Friday deadline – July 25 – so that we can ensure reviewers include faculty with relevant areas of expertise. Open to investigators at all levels.
If you would like your document reviewed, please send an email to niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu by 5pm on Friday, July 25 with the following information:
- Name (first and last)
- Affiliation
- Sponsor/mentor
- Type of grant/award you are applying for
- New submission or resubmission
- Anticipated submission date
- Title of your project
- Attach your Specific Aims document and, if a resubmission, your introduction page (MS Word is preferred)
Speaker Information
Organizers
The Art of Well-Being
On Tuesday, April 22nd, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join us for The Art of Well-Being: A Science-Backed Approach to Emotional Release. This interactive workshop will use evidence-based practices like mindfulness, expressive writing, and grounding exercises to help you release emotional overwhelm and reconnect with inner calm. Through simple guided activities and shared reflection, you’ll walk away with tools to feel more focused, clear-headed, and emotionally grounded.
This workshop will be led by Student Steering Committee member Rifka Verma, MPH ’25. Lunch will be provided. Seats are limited, so RSVP today!
Speaker Information
Rifka Verma
Organizers
Blooming Brushstrokes: A Spring Painting Experience
The “Blooming Brushstrokes: A Spring Painting Experience” event is designed to bring together students for an afternoon of creativity, relaxation, and team building, while celebrating the vibrant season of spring in Boston. As the city comes alive with blossoming flowers and warmer weather, this event offers a unique opportunity for students to engage in a fun, instructor-led painting session that fosters collaboration and creativity.
Note: The painting session is covered by the HCSGA. However, students are responsible for arranging their transportation. If using public transit, take the Green Line from Brigham Circle; at North Station, transfer to the Orange Line; exit the train at Assembly station. From there, it’s just an 8-minute walk to Muse PaintBar.
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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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Healing through Crafting Stories
On Wednesday, March 26th, from 1 – 1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, we invite all Harvard students, faculty, and staff to join us for a workshop exploring the role of writing in well-being, led by Student Steering Committee member Naomi Ahn, MPH ’25.
Embark on a brief journey to discover how the simple act of writing and sharing stories can nurture emotional health and resilience. Explore the powerful connection between crafting narratives and healing for both the mind and body through short, easy writing exercises.
Join us in a space of creativity, reflection, growth, and community-building through the art of storytelling. Lunch will be provided.
Disclaimer: This is not the time to feel burdened or pressured by writing long essays. You don’t need to be a fan of writing—your facilitator once disliked writing too.
Speaker Information
Naomi Ahn
Organizers
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Specific Aims Review Session
For Center members, their collaborators, affiliates, and trainees
Are you preparing for an upcoming environmental health-related submission? Have your Specific Aims page reviewed by our senior NIEHS Center faculty! In a friendly, constructive, small-group open session, a panel of Center members will offer critique and suggestions to improve your Specific Aims.
Proposals are welcomed that relate to the gamut of Environmental Health research (exposure assessment, community engagement and education, epidemiology, genetics and genomics, molecular biology, etc.). Please submit your draft Aims by the Monday deadline so that we can ensure reviewers include faculty with relevant areas of expertise. Open to investigators at all levels.
If you would like your document reviewed, please send an email to niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu by 5pm on the Monday before the session with the following information:
- Name (first and last)
- Affiliation
- Sponsor/mentor
- Type of grant/award you are applying for
- New submission or resubmission
- Anticipated submission date
- Title of your project
- Attach your Specific Aims document and, if a resubmission, your introduction page (MS Word is preferred)
Speaker Information
Organizers
Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit on Climate, Equity and Health
The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) has joined forces with Putney Pre-College, an initiative of Putney Student Travel, hosted another year of youth summer programming on climate, equity, and health in July 2024.
Channeling Climate Action into Climate Solutions
July 20 — July 27, 2024 | Location: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Students dove into issues of climate change, equity, and public health alongside peers, educators, and leading professionals from the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE). They chose an Action Focus based on their interests and explored how climate change is intertwined with public health, medicine, social justice, equity, economics, and policy. They gained perspective from scientists, health practitioners, policymakers, youth activists, climate creatives, and clean energy innovators at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis. Each student took what they learned and transformed it into a Community Action Plan, returning home ready to address these issues in their own community.
The annual Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit trains students to be leaders in their communities through workshops, field-based activities, and meetings with scientists, health and policy experts, academics, energy innovators, and more.
The Youth Summits combine Putney’s extensive history of designing educational and innovative student programs with Harvard Chan C-CHANGE’s leadership putting health and equity at the center of climate actions.
The Harvard Chan C-CHANGE summit presented an opportunity to connect with youth from across not just the US but the globe. Our summit occurred in parallel to the hottest temperatures ever recorded on earth, fires and floods battering every corner of the planet, and continual inaction from politicians and the fossil fuel industry. We did not let this stop us, paralyze us, rather we took it as an opportunity to generate community and optimism—the energy that will fuel our movement.
Finn Does, a 17 year old from San Francisco, California
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Barrak Alahmad MD, MPH, PhD
Nicholas Arisco, MS PhD
Gaurab Basu MD, MPH
Aaron Bernstein MD, MPH
Lindsey C. Burghardt, MD, MPH., FAAP
Philip Dahlin
Caleb Dresser MD, MPH
Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD
Skye Flanigan, MS
Sappho Gilbert, MPH, PhD
Osasenga Idahor
Howard Koh MD, MPH
Elise Joshi
Michael Mezz
James McKowen
Kari Nadeau, MD PhD
Nile Nair, PhD, MSc, MBBS
Ella Niederhelman
Maya Penn
Tom Polton, MS
Jeffrey Sánchez
Ramon Sanchez PhD
Elizabeth (Liz) Sherr
Jacob Simon
James Stewart
Kathryn “Katie” Tomsho, PhD MPH
Franziska Trautmann
John Quackenbush, PhD
Mary B. Rice, MD, MPH
Idongesit Sampson
K. “Vish” Viswanath, PhD
Joseph Wilson, Jr.
Tevin Wooten
Jeremy Wortzel, M.D, M.P.H., M.Phil
Harvard Chan School seeks to bring in speakers with a wide range of experiences and perspectives. They’re here to share their own insights; they do not speak for the school or the university.