The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health will hold its annual retreat on November 10 at the Arnold Arboretum. Center Members and their teams will share ongoing research, celebrate the Center's renewal, and plan for the next 5 years. This event is by invitation only. Please contact niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu for more information. Speaker Information Organizers
In this fireside chat, Donald Berwick will draw on his experience as one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care quality and improvement.
Since 2000, malaria control has averted more than two billion cases and saved nearly 13 million lives. Yet that progress has stalled, and it was never evenly shared. Some districts are approaching elimination while others carry most of the burden. Climate change, human mobility, and drug and insecticide resistance are redrawing the map of risk....
Dr. Kajimura studies bioenergetics and energy homeostasis, focusing on how adipose tissue remodels metabolism in response to diet, hormones, and temperature. His lab discovered a mitochondrial BCAA carrier and showed beige fat's metabolic benefits occur independently of UCP1, aiming to restore metabolic health through fat-specific "cold-mimetics." Speaker Information
Student Government General Body Meeting Join the Harvard Chan Student Government Association (HCSGA) on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. for our next General Body Meeting! All students are welcome to attend in person in FXB G10 or on Zoom. Food will be provided for in-person attendees. General Body Meetings are an opportunity to...
"Reduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset. Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of...
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Charles Branas. Abstract: This lecture explores how epidemiology can more fully embrace intervention science through pragmatic and cluster randomized trials. It reviews and questions key CRT design and analytic issues and uses place-based trials to show how community programs can...
Join us for the first of our MCH Symposium series on fertility with distinguished leaders from interdisciplinary fields including economics, demography, epidemiology, and sociology for a discussion on the current reproductive realities in the United States. Our guiding questions include: This event is co-sponsored with The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. This event...
Alison Gemmill, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, presents “Reproductive and maternal health in an era of policy upheaval.” Lunch will be served. Speaker Information Organizers
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Marccus Hendricks, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and (Environmental) Planning at the University of Maryland. Dr. Hendricks will discuss “Cascading and emergent water risks at the margins: Insights from the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience...
How can mindfulness move from scientific evidence to mainstream healthcare? In this seminar, Eric B. Loucks, PhD, Professor and Director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, will explore the research on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and its adaptation for improving nutrition, blood pressure, and cardiovascular health. He will also examine challenges to health insurance coverage...
Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on complex mixtures, held the last Monday of each month in HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302! 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 2026-2027...
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