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SUMMARY:Social Media Platform Design\, Algorithmic Systems\, and Digital Harm: A Virtual Judicial Training for Judges and Law Clerks
DESCRIPTION:Home / 404\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFasting Mimicking Diet Cycles In Multi-System Regeneration and Disease Treatment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n	From Around the School\, Lectures/Seminars/Forums\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		Register Today	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrepare for the social media algorithm issues already reaching courts\n\n\n\nCourts are increasingly asked to evaluate claims involving harms happening to social media users – especially young people. This training explains social media platform design\, algorithmic recommendation systems\, and alleged harms they are causing to children. It provides a practical\, legal framework for judicial evaluation\, including core concepts in evidence and causation of harm\, and how legal theories of products liability and speech protection may apply.  \n\n\n\nWhat the Training Covers\n\n\n\n• How engagement-based algorithms work in social media feeds—and how platform design features shape user behavior (e.g.\, infinite scroll\, autoplay\, notifications) \n\n\n\n• Predictable patterns of alleged harm (exposure\, escalation\, and engagement-related harms) \n\n\n\n• Evidence and causation: correlation vs. causation and limits of available research and platform data \n\n\n\n• Legal doctrines courts are applying\, including First Amendment considerations and Section 230 \n\n\n\n• Judicial tools and guardrails (expert testimony\, amicus briefs\, independent risk audits\, and more) \n\n\n\nWho Should Attend\n\n\n\nThe training was expressly designed for federal and state court judges and law clerks\, but everyone is welcome to attend.  \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nExpert presentations\, brief anonymous polls\, guided discussion\, and live Q&A with the virtual audience; session recorded with an edited version shared excluding discussions\, chat\, and audience attendee names. \n\n\n\nAgenda at a Glance\n\n\n\n\n12:00–1:20 PM ET — Expert presentations\, anonymous polls\, and live Q&A\n\n\n\n1:20–1:30 PM ET — Break\n\n\n\n1:30–3:00 PM ET — Expert presentations\, anonymous polls\, wrap-up\, and live Q&A\n\n\n\n\nSupport\n\n\n\nThis training is free to attend thanks to support from the American Association for Justice Robert L. Habush Endowment and the Becca Schmill Foundation. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nNancy Costello\, JD – Clinical Professor of Law; Director\, First Amendment Law Clinic\, Michigan State University College of Law; Director\, McLellan Free Speech Online Library.\n\n\n\nS. Bryn Austin\, ScD – Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School; S. Jean Emans\, MD\, Endowed Chair in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine\, Boston Children’s Hospital; Research Scientist in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine\, Boston Children’s Hospital\n\n\n\nJacob Appel\, MPA – Chief Strategist\, ORCAA Collaborative Expert Assistance Network\n\n\n\nJill R. Kavanaugh\, MLIS – Program Manager\, Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders; Boston Children’s Hospital\n\n\n\nRiley Houldsworth\, BA – JD Candidate\, Michigan State University College of Law\n\n\n\nKylee Nemetz\, JD – Litigation Attorney\n\n\n\nJudge Brock Swartzle\, JD – Michigan Court of Appeals\n\n\n\n\nQuestions?\n\n\n\n\nEmail us\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n		\n			\n				\n					\n						Unleash your potential at Harvard Chan School.					\n					In addition to our degree programs\, we offer highly targeted programs through our Advanced Learning Academy\, directed and taught by Harvard faculty. \n											\n																															\n									\n										Degree Programs									\n								\n																															\n									\n										How to Apply									\n								\n																															\n									\n										Advanced Learning Academy
URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu/eating-disorders-striped/events/social-media-algorithms-judicial-training/
LOCATION:Virtual Live Session via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Discovery to intervention: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative with Stephen G. Matthews\, PhD\, FCAHS
DESCRIPTION:Home / 404\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFasting Mimicking Diet Cycles In Multi-System Regeneration and Disease Treatment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n	From Around the School\, Lectures/Seminars/Forums\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		Register Today	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Stephen G. Matthews\, PhD\, FCAHS\, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health and Professor of Physiology\, Ob-Gyn and Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Matthews will discuss “Discovery to intervention: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative.” \n\n\n\nThis event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1\, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here \n\n\n\nTrainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar\, 2-3 pm\, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests\, career plans\, and funding opportunities. RSVP here! \n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nIt is well established that the environment during pregnancy can have a long-term impact on cardiometabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring and increase risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in later life. There is growing evidence from preclinical studies and some clinical studies that the preconception period in both females and males and the early pregnancy phase are periods of high sensitivity to environmental perturbation. The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) was developed to translate new knowledge in the area of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and improve the health of mothers\, infants and children. The HeLTI consortium includes harmonized trials in Canada\, China\, India and South Africa designed to evaluate the impact of an integrated evidence-based intervention package\, delivered through the preconception\, pregnancy and postnatal period on\, 1) reducing adiposity and obesity\, and improving neurodevelopmental and cardiometabolic development in infants and children to 5-years of age and\, 2) improving maternal health and pregnancy outcomes. All trials have completed recruitment and combine harmonized data and biospecimen collection. The HeLTI-India trial will be described in detail. Findings from the HeLTI studies will have profound implications for public health policy but will also allow determination of the mechanisms that underlie intergenerational transmission. HeLTI is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and International funding agencies (India\, China and South Africa) and is partnered with WHO. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nStephen Matthews\, PhD\, FCAHS\, is Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health\, Professor of Physiology\, Ob-Gyn and Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute\, Sinai Health. He served as Chair of the Department of Physiology (UofT; 2007-2014). He is currently Director of Research at the Alliance for Human Development\, LTRI\, and Director of the Ontario Birth Study. Matthews is also the Canadian lead PI of the CIHR/DBT-funded Healthy Life Trajectories (HeLTI) trial in India. \n\n\n\nHis fundamental research program is determining mechanisms by which early interventions and exposures can impact long-term neurologic and endocrine function in offspring across multiple generations. With a focus on epigenetics\, his research team is determining the molecular mechanisms by which this occurs. In a parallel program\, his group is investigating drug and hormone transport mechanisms in the placenta and fetal brain\, with a focus on developing novel treatments to protect the developing fetal brain. \n\n\n\nProfessor Matthews is committed to translating fundamental research to improve human health. In addition to leadership of the HeLTI-India trial and the Ontario Birth Study\, he co-founded the MAVAN program\, which followed neurocognitive development in children following adverse early experience. He has secured over $40M in research funding\, published 265 full papers and has received >300 invitations to present his work around the world. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2019).  He has served as elected President of the Society for Reproductive Investigation. In 2015\, he co-founded DOHaD Canada and served as elected President (2018-23). \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n\n	\n		\n						\n							Stephen G. Matthews\, PhD\, FCAHS						\n					\n				Professor of Physiology\, Ob-Gyn and Medicine\, University of Toronto\n			\n			\n												\n	\n\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health\n\n\n\nDepartment of Environmental Health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n		\n			\n				\n					\n						Unleash your potential at Harvard Chan School.					\n					In addition to our degree programs\, we offer highly targeted programs through our Advanced Learning Academy\, directed and taught by Harvard faculty. \n											\n																															\n									\n										Degree Programs									\n								\n																															\n									\n										How to Apply									\n								\n																															\n									\n										Advanced Learning Academy
URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu/events/discovery-to-intervention-the-healthy-life-trajectories-initiative-with-stephen-g-matthews-phd-fcahs/
LOCATION:HSPH\, Bldg. 1\, 1302 and Zoom
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SUMMARY:Doctoral Oral Qualifying Examination: Tina Purnat
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URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu/registrar/events/doctoral-oral-qualifying-examination-tina-purnat/
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