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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

Virtual

Abstract:   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...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

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 States

Abstract: 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...