SPARK is an opportunity for Harvard Chan School staff, faculty, researchers, and students to make person-to-person connections. Join us for a 10-minute activity to shake up your week and shake off the winter blues.
Brian Keegan, PhD, associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Credibility laundering as a vector: Change-point detection and socio-technical afterlives of reactionary demographic knowledge.” With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of...
How can beverages increase or decrease health risks, particularly cancer?
Maria Glymour is professor and chair of the department of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research examines how social factors experienced across the life-course, from infancy to adulthood, influence cognitive function, dementia, stroke, and other health outcomes in older adults. A separate theme of her research focuses on overcoming methodological problems encountered in analyses...
Presented by Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School Professor Franke is a global health researcher whose work brings the rigor of epidemiology to intractable infections, including tuberculosis, cholera, HIV. A primary objective of her work is to reduce suffering from infectious diseases by applying rigorous epidemiologic methods to...
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. Organizers
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to the next Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Topic 1: Association Between Diffusing Capacity and Symptoms and Small Airway Abnormalities in Deployed US Military Veterans Topic 2: Leveraging Digital Health Resources for Pregnancy Care: A Model for Provider Recommendation...
More than 50 years ago, Will Eisner’s American Visuals Studio produced “The Sad Case of Waiting-Room Willie” for the Committee on Public Medical Health Education of the Baltimore Medical Society. This fascinating case of public health advocacy has long gone unexamined, particularly in the modern context of American healthcare. The MCPHS University Center for Health...
This conversation pulls back the curtain on what really happens when Democrats and Republicans hammer out health legislation in Washington.
Come join us for an engaging seminar on immigration enforcement and its impact. Participants will learn about the extent of immigration enforcement, consider its far-reaching effects on public health and mental health, and learn about concrete resources and support available at Harvard, in surrounding communities, and beyond. We will be joined by HSPH faculty, students,...
Join us for a Book Talk with by Dr. Diana Hernández, Radcliffe Fellow and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health! Dr. Hernández will discuss Energy insecurity: Health impacts and solutions. **Following the seminar, Dr. Hernández will be available from 2-3 pm for meetings with students and trainees.** Note: Free copies of...
A free film screening about the near eradication of Guinea worm and Q&A.
ⓘ Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.
