Harvard Chan School Day of Service
We have lined up more than 20 service projects on campus and across Boston to address social determinants of health.
Most projects will take place on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, but we also have some activities the previous weekend—and, new this year, we will be hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025.
Please carefully review the dates, times, and locations before signing up — and mark the information on your calendar! Click here for more information: hsph.me/dos-signup
You will be responsible for your own transportation to the project sites; most are easily accessible on public transit.
You can sign up for more than one project, but please be mindful that slots are limited, so please sign up only for activities you have every intention of joining.
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Hands-on masterclass: Social video strategy, filming, and editing
Join us for a special workshop where you will learn how to craft, film, and edit compelling social-video content that communicates public health in a way that drives engagement. This hands-on masterclass will be led by Kate Speer: mental health advocate, marketing executive, and content creator and strategist. This workshop is ideal for students and professionals looking to sharpen their skills in video storytelling, health communication, and social media impact.
Lunch will be served.
The speaker will share her own perspectives; she does not speak for Harvard.
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Humans of Harvard Chan: Storytelling Slam
What does belonging mean to you?
Join us for “Humans of Harvard Chan,” a storytelling slam that aims to explore what belonging means through the power of lived experience. Whether it’s a moment of connection, a struggle to fit in, or finding home in an unexpected place—this is your chance to share a 3–5 minute story about belonging.
All Harvard Chan community members—students, staff, faculty, and academic appointees—are invited to speak or simply come listen. Storytellers and story-listeners alike are essential.
Come for the stories. Stay for the connection. Everyone is welcome.
The event is an in-person event only in Kresge G4 Suite Lounge (Ground Floor).
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Community Exposures and Health Training
The Community Exposures and Health (CEH) Training is a two-day intensive course featuring lectures on key concepts in solution-oriented, community environmental health research. Lectures will cover topics ranging from exposure assessment techniques to epidemiologic methods, community engagement practices, health policy applications, and statistical analytic approaches for doing environmental health science that is in partnership with and relevant for improving community health. Visit the event site for more information.
Registration is required to attend. Scholarships are available:
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Joan Casey, PhD
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GenAI for Exploratory Data Analysis
Generative AI has proven to reliably and rapidly develop code and data analysis. Advancements in technology have provided in-built containers for running of generated code within the AI environment, providing a streamlined experience for rapid exploratory data analysis.
This workshop aims at providing instruction on Harvard generative AI resources, best practices, and understanding of the current state of generative AI resources at Harvard in the pursuit of exploratory data analysis.
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Harvard International Office: Summer Travel Planning
Harvard students considering international travel for the summer are encouraged to attend an online meeting with Elizabeth Capuano of the Harvard International Office. Please register for the Zoom meeting using the registration link.
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Elizabeth Capuano, assistant director
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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.
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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 or goals.
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.). All funding opportunities are welcome – from NIH to foundations to private industry! For non-USG grants, please share as much information as possible about the funding opportunity and grant requirements. Email the link to the funding opportunity to niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu.
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 (October 17) with the following information:
- Name (first and last)
- Affiliation
- Sponsor/mentor
- Funder and type of grant/award you are applying for (with link to the funding opportunity)
- New submission or resubmission
- Anticipated submission date
- Title of your project
- Attach your Specific Aims or goals document and, if a resubmission, your introduction page (MS Word is preferred)
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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 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)
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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. Seats are limited, so RSVP today!
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Rifka Verma
