ID Epi Seminar Series – Oskar Hallatschek
Kresge G3 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesID Epi Seminar Series Oskar Hallatschek - Who acquires infection from whom? Neutral allele frequency fluctuations can tell
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Blooming Brushstrokes: A Spring Painting Experience
Muse Paint Bar 461 Artisan Way, Somerville, MAThe "Blooming Brushstrokes: A Spring Painting Experience" event is designed to bring together students for an afternoon of creativity, relaxation, and team building, while celebrating the vibrant season of spring in Boston. As the city comes alive with blossoming flowers and warmer weather, this event offers a unique opportunity for students to engage in a...
Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
VirtualJoin us for a webinar on the Emerging Women Executives in Health Care program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education, hosted by Program Director Karen A. Curley, MSW, MPH. Ms. Curley will provide insights into the program, detailing what participants can expect to learn and gain. Although women form the majority of...
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Public health and the arts: A conversation with A.R.T.’s Diane Paulus
The Studio & OnlinePresented jointly with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University Join Diane Paulus, the Tony Award-winning Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, for a fireside chat on the power of theater to illuminate critical public health challenges. Paulus will share how A.R.T. productions including Waitress,...
Pandemic Preparedness: The Role of Virus-Restricted Vaccines and Universal Antiviral Drugs
HSPH, Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, United StatesBRIEF ABSTRACT Pandemic Preparedness as a concept has four unknowns to deal with: 1) how often can we expect a pandemic causing excess mortality and morbidity to occur, 2) what virus will cause it?, 3) are panzoonotic infections a harbinger of a human pandemic driven by human to human transmission, and 4) does the change...
Population Research Exchange: “Hong Kong’s Elderly Biobank: An invaluable resource for global healthy aging promotion”
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJane Zhao, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, Hong Kong University, and Takemi Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents at this Population Research Exchange (PRX). PRX...
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Intergenerational education and cognitive performance among older adults: A comparison between rural Mexico and South Africa”
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesErika Meza, PhD, Harvard Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 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...
ID Epi Seminar Series – Volodymyr Minin
ID Epi Seminar Series Oskar Hallatschek - The signal is not flushed away: nowcasting and forecasting using wastewater pathogen surveillance
How are people suffering from the war? Story of a displaced health professional due to conflict in Myanmar
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 3, (Cindy) Su Su Lin, MB, BS, M.Med.Sc., will present “How are people suffering from the war? Story of a displaced health professional due to conflict in Myanmar”. Cindy is LEAD Fellow (2024) at the Harvard Global...
Unraveling injustice and power structures
Smith Campus Center, 10th Floor 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Massachusetts, United StatesIn partnership with the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee and the Women, Gender, and Health (WGH) Concentration and Working Group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Carr Center for...
U.S. v Skrmetti: Arguments and Consequences for Transgender Health Care
HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesJoin 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....
Fine-Mapping Causal Tissues and Genes at Disease-Associated Loci
VirtualAbstract: Complex diseases often have distinct mechanisms spanning multiple tissues. We propose Tissue-Gene Fine-Mapping (TGFM), which infers the posterior probability (PIP) for each gene-tissue pair to mediate a disease locus by analyzing summary statistics and eQTL data; TGFM also assigns PIPs to non-mediated variants. TGFM accounts for co-regulation across genes and tissues and models uncertainty...