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Mindfulness for Cardiovascular Health: From Behavior Change to Healthcare Integration

FXB G-13 & Zoom

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...

Complex Mixtures Working Group

HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302

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...

Causal Estimands for Clinical and Regulatory Decision Making

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Miguel Hernan. Abstract: The estimand is what we want to estimate. When conducting research for clinical and regulatory purposes, the causal estimand typically involves the causal effect of an intervention. Three frameworks have been proposed to describe the causal estimand in...

Harvard Pop Center Hybrid Social Demography Seminar with Lawrence Stacey

Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA and online via Zoom

Lawrence Stacey, assistant professor of sociology, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science, and visiting scientist at Harvard Pop Center, presents “Uneven changes in the health profiles of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ populations and the unexamined role of demographic change, 2014–2023.” Lunch will be served. Speaker Information Organizers

Why Health? Rethinking Health in a Difficult Moment

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Kresge G1 (Snyder Auditorium), Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The 178th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine Public health has made extraordinary contributions to human life. And yet, challenges to the field have emerged and gained momentum, to a point where, today opposition to public health shapes national public policy. This talk argues that the moment calls for a return to first principles. Health is...

Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine with Janelle Ayres

Kresge G2 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Ayres studies host-microbe interactions, discovering the "Cooperative Defense System"—how hosts cooperate with pathogens rather than eliminating them. Her lab has shown specific gut bacteria protect against infection-induced wasting and sickness behaviors, revealing how microbes reprogram host metabolism to promote health during disease. Speaker Information

Community-Engaged Research Working Group in Environmental Health

HSPH, Bldg. 1, Room 1110

Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on community-engaged research in environmental health! This working group brings together faculty, trainees, students, and staff to discuss the methods and practice of conducting community-engaged research with a focus on environmental health. We'll meet in person in Building 1, 1302 on December 7, 1-2:00 pm. December agenda:...

Specific Aims Review Session

Via Zoom

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...

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