Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Priceless benefits: Effects of school spending on child mortality”
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Happiness in Motion: The Power of Exercise
On Tuesday, February 25th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join us for a well-being workshop led by Student Steering Committee member Laura Torrent, MPH '26. Join this interactive workshop to reflect on your relationship with exercise and explore how it connects to happiness and well-being....
Policy Relevant Effects in Infectious Disease Studies
VirtualAbstract: The treatment of one individual often affects the outcomes of others. A canonical example occurs in infectious disease settings, where vaccinating one individual can reduce disease transmission and thereby influence the health outcomes of others. This type of interference implies that individuals cannot plausibly be treated as independent and identically distributed (iid). Extensive methodological...
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Advancing the scientific study of systemic racism: Theory-driven methods for population health research”
9 Bow Street Cambridge, and onlineThe 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 to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers...
The future of journalism: How creators are changing the news
FXB G12 and ZoomJoin us for a discussion about how content creators are shifting the news landscape with Ryan Kellett, Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow and former VP of Audience at Axios Media. Lunch will be...
How to Make People Immortal and Why it is Not a Good Idea: Improving the Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases
Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesAbstract: The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of...
What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: How Developmental Environments Shape Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
On Wednesday, March 5th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr....
Doctoral Final Oral Examination: Kevin Linn
Kresge Room 439 Richard Siegrist will chair.
U.S. v Skrmetti: Arguments and Consequences for Transgender Health Care
Join us! Alejandra Caraballo will discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti will impact access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people. Lunch will be served....