Longwood Festival
Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want...
Upcoming Events
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Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MassachusettsBring your lunch and join us for a screening of the film 13th, followed by open-ended discussion. Watch the trailer here. About the film:Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director...
Trust and ethics in public health
The Studio & OnlineThe landmark Belmont Report articulated key principles to protect humans in scientific studies. This distinguished panel of bioethics experts will examine the impacts of those guidelines, particularly on communities of color.
CHDS Seminar: Answering Causal Questions Through Decision Analytical Models
VirtualJoin the Center for Health Decision Science for a Seminar with Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf from Erasmus MC for a virtual seminar showing that many decision analytical models are inherently causal in nature. They explicitly present decision analytical models as causal models, highlighting that, the more a decision model deviates from its underlying causal...
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Why Medicaid matters: A conversation with former NC Gov. Roy Cooper
The Studio & OnlineBefore leaving the office of Governor due to term limits earlier this year, Roy Cooper expanded North Carolina’s Medicaid program, enrolling more than 650,000 residents, many in rural areas. He also worked with hospitals to create a medical debt relief program aimed at helping nearly 2 million residents get out from under the weight of...
Epidemiology of Autism: Substantive Results and Methodological Issues
HSPH, Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, United StatesAbstract: Since the mid 1960’s, 165 prevalence surveys of autism were conducted worldwide and their main findings will first be summarized. While the contribution of genetic factors to autism etiology is high, the increase in autism prevalence has raised concerns about additional contribution of environmental factors. Autism risk has been statistically associated with myriads of...
WGH Film Screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MAWGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and the gendered impacts of war. This gripping documentary follows the courageous Liberian women who organized a nonviolent resistance to end a brutal civil war—ultimately paving...
2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony
Klarman Hall Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02163Join the Harvard Innovation Labs for our annual celebration of innovation, community, and entrepreneurship at Harvard. We’ll hear live pitches from 25 finalist ventures and reveal which will receive a share of $517,000 in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation. Get excited for this year's event by watching highlights from last year. We’ll hear live...
ID Epi Seminar Series – Erin Mordecai
ID Epi Seminar Series Erin Mordecai - More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases
From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone
*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom* Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Jalikatu Mustapha, MMed, MSc, BMBS, will present, “From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in...
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Medical Information and Misinformation – The Role of Epidemiology
HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesThe Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine The 9th Symposium Join us as three preeminent speakers address topics on the intersection of health, misinformation, and epidemiology adapting to a rapidly changing information landscape. Produced by the Department of Epidemiology with co-sponsors the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Health Communications.This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person...
CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will...
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