Upcoming Events
Helping Hands: The Mississippi Delta Food Community
Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MAJoin us for a preview of the documentary Helping Hands followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Jack Thomas Spears on the resilience of the Mississippi Delta’s food community and how neighbors are fighting food insecurity despite the challenges. Light Refreshments will be provided. Poverty in the Delta has been written on, researched, and is now the...
Radiological Emergency Management
VirtualJoin us for a webinar on the Radiological Emergency Management program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education, hosted by Program Director Steven B. Goldman, EdD. Mr. Goldman will share valuable insights into the program, outlining what participants can expect to learn and achieve. As radiological threats continue to pose global challenges, this...
Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon
Countway Room 102Health and climate data are crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this public data is maintained and kept available for us now and in the future. Join us for this climate and health datathon and learn how to save our data while having fun connecting with fellow data enthusiasts!...
IID Seminars: Jonathan Li
IID Seminar series. Research and medical professionals come to the department to talk about their focus of expertise.
Building Foundations: Addressing Housing Insecurity to Improve Child Health
VirtualAbstract: The ongoing housing affordability crisis in the US poses significant challenges to the wellbeing of children. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of the relationship between housing instability and children's health drawing on a range of recent studies. I will also describe evidence from both quasi-experimental and experimental research to demonstrate how...
Noticing Nature
Kresge 202AOn Wednesday, April 16th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, we invite all Harvard students, faculty, and staff to join us for a workshop exploring the role of nature in well-being. This event will be led by Center Student Steering Committee member Niharika Jhingan, MPH '26. Explore the connection between nature and well-being, learn about...
Enhancing worker health and well-being at Novo Nordisk through organizational interventions
FXB G12 or online 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MassachusettsThe Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, and the Education and Research Center invite you to a jointly sponsored seminar on Thursday April 17th, 2025, from 11:00 am – noon eastern time, in FXB G10 at the Harvard Chan School or online. This seminar on enhancing...
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Digital data for demographic estimation: Applications to the study of environmental hazards”
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJenna Nobles, PhD, professor of demography, University of California-Berkeley, presents at this Social Demography Seminar. The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods...
Breathing easier: The pursuit of clean air
The Studio & OnlinePresented jointly with C-CHANGE A staggering 99 percent of the world’s people live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution. Dirty air has been linked to dementia, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory illnesses—and millions of premature deaths each year. And climate change is only worsening the problem. This panel brings together experts in clinical...
ID Epi Seminar Series – Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
ID Epi Seminar Series Mathieu Maheu-Giroux - The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes
Financing universal health coverage through social health insurance: Kenya’s experience
Building 1 – Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United StatesWatch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 17, Wanza Mbole, DSL, MBA, BSc, will present, "Financing universal health coverage through social health insurance: Kenya’s experience". Wanza Mbole is a LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. This seminar will be held in Building...