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Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning? 

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Join us on Wednesday, November 5 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Peter Kraft discussing Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning? Abstract: Breast cancer clusters in families, but rare, high risk pathogenic variants in known genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2 explain only a small proportion of this familial aggregation. Genome-wide...

Brown Bag Seminar: Mental health and psychosocial support for male former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq: Gaps in humanitarian response and legal obligations

Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc, obtained his medical degree from Ghent University in Belgium and completed his master of medical sciences in global health delivery at Harvard Medical School as a Fulbright and Fayat Scholar. His research, under Theresa Betancourt, focused on mental health services for former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq. Yildirim is currently...

Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children

FXB G12 or online 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

On Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 and online, all are welcome to join us for the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event will feature Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Event Description...

Metabolic flexibility and healthy aging with William Mair, PhD

HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom

Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by William Mair, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Mair will discuss “Metabolic flexibility. and healthy aging.” This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

Brown Bag Seminar: The Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program: Addressing Indigenous health care disparities and support for AIAN pathway programs

Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and emergency physician practicing clinically at Brigham Women’s Hospital, Tsehootsooi Medical Center, and Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Nation. Her current academic responsibilities include directing the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) Program based in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine...

Hands-on masterclass: Social video strategy, filming, and editing

Kresge 202 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

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...

Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern

Kresge 202 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

Join us for part two of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and Director of Communications at the World Health Organization. In this session, we’ll dig into a compelling piece of health journalism—how complex health topics are communicated to the public, what we can learn from journalistic choices, framing, and impact,...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

Brown Bag Seminar: Measuring out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data

Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Chunling Lu studied international relations (BA) and political science (MA) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and sociology (MA) and applied statistics (MS) at Syracuse University, where she also received her PhD in economics. She received postdoctoral training on health care policy analysis at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy, and joined...

Complex Mixtures Working Group

HSPH, Kresge 202A

Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on complex mixtures, held the last Monday of each month in HSPH Kresge 202A! This monthly working group meeting is held in person. Members discuss a wide range of issues related to analyzing health effects of complex mixtures of exposures in environmental health. During the 2025-2026 academic...

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