Upcoming Events
Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Please join this special double OSH seminar with two presenters and topics: Topic 1: “Understanding Mental Health in Residency – The Perspective of Program Leadership” Speaker: Aditya Nellore, MD Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: Topic 2: “Asthma and small airway dysfunction in post-deployment veterans” Speaker: Christopher Leopardi, DO, MPH Learning Objectives: Participants will...
13th Annual Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop
The Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop is an annual event for undergraduates or students in a post baccalaureate program from underrepresented groups who have an interest in public health and/or mathematical modeling, and are studying quantitative disciplines and/or public health at their home institutions. Organizers
SBS Alumni Panel: Exploring Career Pathways Outside of Academia
Join us for a session with HSB-MPH and SBS doctoral alumni as they share their journeys in diverse career paths beyond academia! Learn how they applied their education and skills in impactful roles in various industries. We will also be joined by Alison McAlear from the Office of Career Services to provide helpful resources. Whether you're planning your next...
CHDS Seminar with Maddalena Ferranna
The Welfare Burden of Type 1 Diabetes About the Seminar Common methods to estimate the full health and economic burden of diseases include the cost-of-illness approach and the value-per-statistical-life approach. Both methodologies have well-known drawbacks, including the dependence on income and the treatment of inequities. This presentation discusses an alternative methodology for estimating the full...
The power of public health storytelling
The Studio & OnlinePresented jointly with the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health How can storytelling raise awareness of urgent public health issues — and begin to shape a meaningful response? This panel of skilled storytellers will share insights from their own experience and offer ideas about how journalists, authors, and...
State Health Insurance Exchanges in the New Era
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Mila Kofman, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu. Speaker Information Sponsored By:
IID Seminar: MAPS vaccines against bacterial pathogens
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event will be hybrid and we will have lunch for those that are present. Speaker Information
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 warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time...
What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: How Developmental Environments Shape Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
On March 5th, 2025, we held the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lindsey Burghardt of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. Event Description: This talk discussed how, beginning well before birth, children's development and lifelong health is shaped by the full range of experiences and exposures...
Harvard Pop Center Population Research Exchange
In-Person & OnlineOnur Altindag, PhD, associate professor of economics, Bentley University, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Mental health effects of having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease.”...