Social Demography Seminar with Atheendar Venkataramani
2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Kresge 200, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Political power and mortality: Heterogeneous effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.” This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 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 work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD
Associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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Film Screening: Raising Bar
2025-11-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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A film screening and discussion about innovations in residential care for adults with IDD and autism and how public health students can contribute to this exciting movement.

There will be popcorn and candy!

This event is open to the public, but if you are not an HUID holder you will need a visitor’s pass for entrance to campus. Please email alevy1@hsph.harvard.edu if you require a visitor’s pass.

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Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances
2025-11-10 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G13, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Greg Drescher; Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH. The speakers will present on “Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances” on November 10, 2025 at 1:00pm ET.

This seminar will take place in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Greg Drescher

Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships, Industry Leadership and Impact Culinary Institute of America

Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD

Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Chair of Department of Nutrition Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD

Professor of Public Health, University of Navarra, Spain; Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD
Member, Academy of Athens; Professor Emeritus, Medical School, University of Athens

Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition; Director, Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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CHDS Seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California
2025-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) provides a direct method for measuring patient risk preferences and incorporating these into cost-effectiveness estimates. In this presentation, we will discuss: 1) the rationale for GRACE as a way of explaining discordance between traditional cost-effectiveness analysis (TCEA) and the behavior of patients and payers; 2) the economic theory behind GRACE; 3) empirical estimates of GRACE-based utility over health; and 4) a practical approach for estimating GRACE using only inputs from standard TCEA models.

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Darius Lakdawalla, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, USC Schaeffer Center; Quintiles Chair, USC Mann School; Professor, USC Price School of Public Policy

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Launch Party: 2026 President's Innovation Challenge
2025-11-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Harvard Innovation Labs, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Fl. 1, Batten Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 02163
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Join us for the exciting launch of this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC)!

Experience an evening packed with inspiration as Harvard’s brightest founders come together to ignite new ideas. Hear from Executive Director Jill Kravetz and a panel of past winners, who’ll share insider tips on crafting a standout application and making the most of your PIC experience. Mingle with student and alumni entrepreneurs, connect with advisors, and fuel your ambitions over snacks and mocktails. Open to all fully matriculated Harvard students and select alumni, the PIC is your chance to turn bold solutions into impact. Don’t miss your shot—apply by December 8, 2025! Learn more at innovationlabs.harvard.edu/pic.

The Harvard Innovation Labs is located on the first floor of Batten Hall at 125 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134. We are situated on the Harvard Business School campus, a 15-20 minute walk from Harvard Square. You can also use the Harvard shuttle. The University offers daily parking for faculty, staff, students, visitors, and guests in the HBS lot on Western Avenue. The HBS lot is available 24/7 and accepts both cash and credit card payments.

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Jill Kravetz
Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs

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The Science Behind the Cancer Prevention Studies
2025-11-12 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, November 12th for a joint seminar of the Department of Epidemiology and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, featuring Dr. Alpa Patel discussing The Science Behind the Cancer Prevention Studies.

Abstract: This talk will present a brief history of the Cancer Prevention Studies, a series of large, nationwide prospective cohort studies conducted by the American Cancer Society generationally since the 1950’s. These studies have been instrumental along with other cohorts, such as those conducted at Harvard University, in advancing cancer prevention and control as well as cancer survivorship and outcomes. This talk will present the construct of these cohorts, availability of data and biologic specimens, and key findings from each of the studies.

Bio: Dr. Alpa V. Patel earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and her Doctoral degree in Preventive Medicine with a concentration in Epidemiology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She is the Senior Vice President of Population Science at the American Cancer Society and serves as the principal investigator of the Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS) II and 3, two long-term, large-scale, epidemiologic cohort studies established by the American Cancer Society. Combined, these two cohorts include over 1.5 million participants with a variety of over 400,000 biologic samples (such as blood, buccal cells, saliva, stool, and tumor tissue). Additionally, as the co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Patel and team launched the largest ever cancer cohort of Black women in the U.S. aimed to enroll at least 100,000 Black women to understand the multi-level drivers of cancer risk and outcomes in this population. Dr. Patel is a recognized leader in cancer epidemiology with particular emphases on the role of physical inactivity, obesity, sedentary behavior and cancer as well as risk assessment and blood-based markers of cancer detection. She has published nearly 300 scientific articles and book chapters, and her research has contributed significantly to national and international cancer prevention guidelines, such as the US Physical Activity Guidelines for Health and the American Cancer Society’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines for both cancer prevention and cancer survivorship.

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Alpa Patel, PhD
Senior Vice President, Population Science, American Cancer Society

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Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G12 or online, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On November 12th, 2025, we held the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event featured Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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This talk discussed how we can raise caring, moral children in today’s world. Richard Weissbourd argued that the intense focus on achievement and happiness in child-raising has crowded out attention to children’s moral development and that all the focus on happiness is, ironically, making children less happy. He offered concrete ideas for how we can raise children who are both moral and likely to thrive. Weissbourd also discussed how moral failures in our public life pose specific threats to moral development and how we can mitigate these harms and develop in children key capacities they will need to strengthen our communities and democracy.

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Richard Weissbourd is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and he also teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses on moral development, meaning, and purpose, mental health challenges among teens and young adults, and effective schools and services for children facing risks. He directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child-raising, and to provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting in children caring, a commitment to justice and other key moral and social capacities. He leads an initiative to reform college admissions, Turning the Tide, which seeks to elevate ethical character, reduce excessive achievement pressure, and increase equity and access in the college admissions process. He is also conducting research on how older adults can better mentor young adults and teenagers in developing caring, mature romantic relationships.

He is a founder of several interventions for children facing risks, including ReadBoston and WriteBoston, city-wide literacy initiatives that were led by Mayor Menino. He is also a co-founder of a pilot school in Boston, the Lee Academy, that begins with children at 3 years old. He has advised on the city, state and federal levels on family policy, parenting and school reform and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications and blogs, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today and NPR. He is the author of The Vulnerable Child: What Really Hurts America’s Children and What We Can Do About It (Addison-Wesley, 1996), named by the American School Board Journal as one of the top 10 education books of all time. His most recent book, The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development (Houghton Mifflin 2009), was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 24 books of 2009.

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Richard Weissbourd
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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FXB Center work in progress seminar - Out of sight, out of mind: Myanmar’s invisible crisis
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University for a virtual work-in-progress seminar to hear from Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and Director of the Southeast Asia Human Rights Project at Harvard University’s Asia Center. The conversation will be moderated by FXB’s Director of Research, Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc. Harvard ID required to attend.

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Jacqueline Bhabha

Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tom Andrews

Special Rapporteur, United Nations

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Brown Bag Seminar: The Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program: Addressing Indigenous health care disparities and support for AIAN pathway programs
2025-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and emergency physician practicing clinically at Brigham Women’s Hospital, Tsehootsooi Medical Center, and Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Nation. Her current academic responsibilities include directing the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) Program based in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine Office of IDEaS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice) and serving as core faculty at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative leading the Program on Indigenous Health Disparities.

Dr. Dobiesz is the director of the FLIP Program with a mission to improve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health and eliminate existing health disparities through educational, clinical, and administrative partnerships and the development of healthcare career pathway programs. In this capacity, she works clinically and oversees BWH emergency physicians that work at Tribally managed hospitals in the Navajo Nation to increase the clinical capacity and quality of care provided in this rural and historically underserved health care context.

Her research and scholarship have focused on eliminating health disparities for AIAIN populations, developing the AIAN healthcare workforce, simulation medical education, maintaining medical education during war, and improving maternal health in emergency and low resource settings. She currently leads and collaborates on multiple projects focused on mitigating AIAN health disparities such as creating an academic medical center partnership with a Tribally managed hospital as an innovative mutually beneficial healthcare delivery model and studying the impact of healthcare career pathway programs for Native students.

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Valerie Dobiesz
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Social Demography Seminar: “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development”
2025-11-13 13:00 - 14:15 | Kresge 200, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Natalie Slopen, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development.” The event is co-sponsored by SBS.

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 work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Natalie Slopen, PhD
Associate professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Ben Johnson: Introducing Nature Health
2025-11-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for this exciting opportunity to hear about the new journal Nature Health from its chief editor, Ben Johnson. Ben will discuss the aims, scope, and themes of the journal and will answer questions from the audience.

Ben Johnson trained in infectious diseases, with an undergraduate degree in virology from the University of Warwick, UK, a PhD in influenza virus from Public Health England and the University of Reading, UK, and a postdoc on smallpox vaccines at Imperial College London. Ben has more than 15 years of experience in publishing, journalism, communications and engagement, including as an Associate Publisher at BMC, Head of Communities & Engagement at Springer Nature and Senior Magazine Editor at Nature Medicine, with responsibility for news and opinion content. He has a strong interest in research conducted in resource-limited settings, including in the global south, in how research influences health policy and in equitable strategies to involve patients and communities in research. He is based in the London office.

Visit the Nature Health website to learn more about the new journal.

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Ben Johnson
Chief Editor, Nature Health

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20th Kolokotrones Symposium - Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?
2025-11-14 13:30 - 15:30 | Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 20th Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health!

“Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?” features four expert talks and a panel discussion.

The symposium will provide an introduction to the epidemiology of autism, present what is currently known about the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, describe possible explanations for this association, and explore the challenges and opportunities to design better studies to estimate the causal effect. The symposium will conclude with an expert panel that will consider the question: where do we go from here?

NOTE: In-person attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders due to space restrictions. Online attendance is free and open to the public. Limited spots are available, so please register now to reserve your spot.

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Marc Weisskopf
Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Physiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Krista Huybrechts
Professor, Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-Director, The Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology

Brian Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University; Research Fellow, A.J. Drexel Autism Institute

Sonia Hernández-Díaz
CAUSALab, H4P, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Alec Walker
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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CAUSALab, Department of Epidemiology

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging
2025-11-17 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MS, MA, Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Secondary Faculty at the Department of Molecular Metabolism, Director of Harvard-Chan Research Kitchen at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Peterson will present her talk on ” Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging” on November 17, 2025 at 1:00pm ET. This seminar will take place in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. Friday, November 14 to request a visitor pass to access the building.

Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.

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Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MS, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Secondary Faculty, Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Harvard-Chan Research Kitchen

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Information Sick: The Decline of Journalism, the Rise in Misinformation, and the Nation's Health
2025-11-18 11:30 - 12:30 | 401 Park Drive Fl. 3, 401 Park Drive Fl. 3 West, Boston, 02215
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Award-winning journalist Joanne Kenen is the lead author of a new book on the information environment in the United States. She’ll be joined by one of her co-authors, Johns Hopkins Professor Joshua Sharfstein.

A former city, state, and federal public health official, Dr. Sharfstein has experienced and studied the consequences of these challenges for health. They’ll lead a discussion about how we got here —and what comes next.

Join us in person at Ariadne Labs or virtually!

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Joanne Kenen

Joshua Sharfstein

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Doing more with less: Financing African health systems today
2025-11-18 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and in person
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As foreign aid landscapes shift, we’ll explore whether smarter, more strategic collaboration—rather than simply more funding—is the key to sustainable, resilient healthcare in Africa. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, former Minister of Health (Ethiopia), and Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, former Minister of Economy, Finance and Development (Burkina Faso), will discuss how integrated national planning, efficient donor alignment, and strengthened governance can create health sovereignty.

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Rosine Sori-Coulibaly
Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow; Former Minister of Economy, Finance and Development, Burkina Faso

Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin

Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Former Minister of Health, Ethiopia

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Fatou Jallow
MPH Candidate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Navigating a critical moment for public health education and research
2025-11-19 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
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We invite you to a faculty panel discussion exploring the current landscape and future of public health research and education. Department Chair Sarah Fortune will discuss how IID is navigating this pivotal moment, setting priorities, and looking ahead. Yonatan Grad will share insights on emerging research opportunities, while Flaminia Catteruccia will address the critical intersection of graduate education and international research. The panel will be moderated by Bailey Bowcutt, a PhD student in the Biological Sciences in Public Health Program, who will offer her perspective on building a scientific career during these uncertain times.

This 45-minute Zoom session includes 30 minutes of conversation followed by 15 minutes for your questions. Whether you’re an alumnus or friend of the department or School, we hope you’ll join us to learn about the exciting research underway in IID and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Please register in advance.

All speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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Sarah Fortune
John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Yonatan Grad
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Flaminia Catteruccia
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

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Bailey Bowcutt
Doctor of Philosophy candidate, Biological Sciences in Public Health

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Inherited trauma, inherited equity: Reparations as a determinant of health
2025-11-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for a virtual conversation between Dr. L’Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc, and FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, to explore the intersection of reparative justice and racial trauma’s legacy. Is there a pathway to healing for the descendants of the enslaved? For instance, reparations can serve as a transformative health intervention for Black men in Jackson, Mississippi, illuminating how structural repair can advance collective well-being across the South.

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Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. L'Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc

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MassCPR Annual Symposium- Innovation Without Borders: Academia and Pharma Driving Preparedness
2025-11-19 13:00 - 17:00 | Ragon Institute, 600 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
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This year’s hybrid symposium will explore how the partnership between pharma and academia fuels breakthroughs that strengthen outbreak preparedness. Join colleagues from across the consortium, industry, public health, and academia for a lively exchange of ideas and insights. The event is sponsored by Harvard Medical School, the Maxwell Finland Fund, and the Warren Alpert Foundation.

Please register in advance:

In-Person Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/masscpr-annual-symposium-tickets-1684524450979

Zoom Registration: https://partners.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZuxtphlITFOyXhnAJH5jJg#/registration

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The Prevalence and Policy Consequences of "mRNA Vaccine Stigmatization" in the US
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Rubenstein Building – R-414-AB David Ellwood Democracy Lab
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Despite their life saving potential, many prominent voices in American public life have used their social and political platforms to spread misinformation about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy. In this talk, Dr. Motta provides new evidence that “mRNA vaccine stigmatization” is evident in the actions of policymakers across multiple levels of government. He also reviews the state of public opinion about mRNA vaccines, drawing on both original and secondary survey research. He argues that although it is presently unclear whether elites’ efforts to stigmatize mRNA vaccines has spilled over to impact broader US public opinion, there is growing reason to believe that it will. Ultimately, Motta concludes that mRNA vaccine stigmatization could come at an important cost; both by eroding public confidence in mRNA vaccination, and by limiting access to life-saving vaccines.

Registration is required in advance. Event is open to the public. To attend in person, use the Wexner Building entrance at Harvard Kennedy School to locate the Rubenstein Building – R-414-AB David Ellwood Democracy Lab.

Lunch will be provided!

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Matt Motta, PhD
Associate professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, & Management, Boston University School of Public Health; Affiliated research faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty affiliate in the Department of Political Science at Boston University

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: "Immigrant health and the duality of risk"
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Arun Hendi, PhD, associate professor, sociology and public affairs, Princeton University, presents (remotely) “Immigrant health and the duality of risk.” The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

This event is open to the public. Please register in advance.

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Arun Hendi, PhD
Associate professor, sociology and public affairs, Princeton University

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Brown Bag Seminar: Measuring out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
2025-11-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Chunling Lu studied international relations (BA) and political science (MA) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and sociology (MA) and applied statistics (MS) at Syracuse University, where she also received her PhD in economics. She received postdoctoral training on health care policy analysis at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy, and joined the School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in 2008 after three-years work at the Harvard Institute for Global Health as a senior research associate.

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Chunling Lu
Director, Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change; Associate Professor in Medicine, Associate Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Working With Your Brain: Compassionate Strategies for Focus and Follow-Through
2025-11-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Thursday, November 20th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 502, we welcome all members of the Harvard community to join us for a well-being workshop led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Kris Berg, MPH ’26.

This workshop will explore how stress, guilt, and unrealistic expectations exacerbate executive dysfunction, making it difficult to start or complete tasks. Participants will learn compassionate, neurodiversity-affirming strategies to work with their brains to reduce overwhelm, increase focus, and build sustainable motivation. Fidget toys and pizza provided.

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Kris Berg, MPH '26
Student Engagement Committee Member

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Celebrating the life of Richard Cash
2025-11-21 13:30 - 16:00 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population to celebrate the life and legacy of Richard Cash.

Richard was widely recognized for his contributions to developing oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a technique that has since been credited with saving millions of lives and has been described by The Lancet as “potentially the most significant medical advance of the century.” Beyond his public health impact, Richard influenced innumerable students, colleagues, and friends over his nearly five decades at the School. Throughout his career, he remained dedicated to working with communities to find simple, accessible, and effective solutions.

At this memorial, we will celebrate Richard’s life by hearing from panel of experts about Richard’s impact on the field of public health and from close friends, family, and colleagues about how he touched their lives. We will unveil a commissioned portrait, which will later be hung in the Department of Global Health and Population, and hold a small reception in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Please note that registration is required to attend this event.

For those wishing to honor Richard’s legacy, please donate the Richard Cash Memorial Fund.

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Lincoln Chen
Former President, China Medical Board; Former Taro Takemi Professor of International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tim Evans
Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Impact, Concordia University; Former Dean, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University

David Nalin
Professor Emeritus, Center for Immunology and Microbial Diseases, Albany Medical College

Malabika Sarker
Associate Dean of Global Engagement, Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University; Former Associate Dean and Professor, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University

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Marcia C.de Castro

Andelot Professor of Demography

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Biomarkers as an essential instrument in nutritional research
2025-11-24 13:00 - 13:50 | Massachusetts
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring at Qi Sun, MD, DSc, Associate Professor at the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Director of Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sun will present his talk on “Biomarkers as an Essential Instrument in Nutritional Research” on November 24, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ET. This seminar will take place in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Qi Sun, MD, DSc
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology, Director of Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Department of Nutrition

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Social Connection and Health Across Adulthood and Later Life
2025-12-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110/ Zoom
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Please join us for an SBS seminar session led by Visiting Professor, Dr. Anthony Ong, as he discusses the importance of social connection, a central determinant of health across the life course. This talk synthesizes evidence on age-related patterns in loneliness and social isolation, the ways pandemic conditions disrupted connection, and why mismatches between objective isolation and subjective loneliness (social asymmetry) carry distinct health risks. Comments on the construct of cumulative social advantage—a multidimensional profile of sustained connections across family, community, religious/civic, and emotional domains—will be made, showing that stronger profiles are associated with slower biological aging and a lower inflammatory burden.

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Anthony Ong
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Human Health Labs at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Harnessing planetary health data science approaches to understanding food safety and food security in Madagascar
2025-12-01 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health, Director of the MPH in Nutrition Program, Co-Director of the Concentration in Climate Change and Planetary Health; Giacomo De Nicola, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Oladimeji Mudele, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The speakers will present their talk on “Harnessing planetary health data science approaches to understanding food safety and food security in Madagascar” on December 1, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ET. This seminar will take place in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required in advance).

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out this registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health, Director of the MPH in Nutrition Program, Co-Director of the Concentration in Climate Change and Planetary Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Giacomo De Nicole, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Oladimeji Mudele, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Department of Nutrition

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What’s at stake for health care reform? Insights from Florida and Massachusetts
2025-12-02 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Health care access, costs, and coverage – particularly for lower-income Americans – are expected to undergo dramatic changes in the next few years. Enhanced subsidies that make coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace more affordable are set to expire at the end of 2025. Meanwhile, Medicaid faces billions in cuts and a high probability that people will lose coverage due to new work requirements, stricter eligibility rules, and more frequent eligibility reviews. In addition, changes in Medicaid reimbursement rules and new rural health grants could have nationwide effects. In this event, former health care leaders from Florida and Massachusetts share their perspectives on how state officials and health care providers will respond in this shifting policy environment.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Justin Senior
CEO, Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida

Kathleen Elizabeth Walsh

Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow

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Adrianna McIntyre

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics

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The Global Flourishing Study
2025-12-03 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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Join us on Wednesday, December 3 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Tyler VanderWeele discussing The Global Flourishing Study.

Abstract: The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study of over 200,000 participants in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, spanning all six populated continents, with nationally representative sampling and intended annual survey data collection for 5 years to assess numerous aspects of flourishing and its possible determinants. The study is intended to expand our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of flourishing around the world. Relations between a composite flourishing index and numerous demographic characteristics are reported. Participants were also surveyed about their childhood experiences, which were analyzed to determine their associations with subsequent adult flourishing. Analyses are presented both across and within countries, and discussion is given as to how the demographic and childhood relationships vary by country and which patterns appear to be universal versus culturally specific. Brief comment is also given on the results of a whole series of papers in the Global Flourishing Study Special Collection, employing similar analyses, but with more-specific aspects of well-being. The Global Flourishing Study expands our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of well-being and provides foundational knowledge for the promotion of societal flourishing.

Bio: Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance, and biostatistics. His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).

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Tyler VanderWeele, PhD
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Department of Epidemiology

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Post-Launch of the Lancet One Health Commission Report
2025-12-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Countway Library, 695 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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We are delighted to invite you the post-launch event of the Lancet One Health Commission Report.

Date: Wednesday December 3, 2025

Time: 2:00-4:00pm EST

Location: Hybrid | Countway Library & Zoom

The event will highlight the urgent challenges at the intersection of health and sustainability – including health inequity, climate change, biodiversity loss, antimicrobial resistance, infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as weak health systems. These issues illustrate the inseparable links between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and underscore the need for a One Health approach to achieve effective solutions.

With only five years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, the event will explore how the implementation of One Health can decisively strengthen global health and sustainability efforts.

The event will be moderated by Andrea Winkler, Co-Chair of the Lancet One Health Commission and co(joint)-Director of the Center for Global Health of the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Register here to join in person.

Click here to access Zoom link (Harvard Key required).

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Kari C Nadeau

John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies

Gaurab Basu

Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health

Vikram Patel

Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population

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Department of Environmental Health

Harvard Medical School – Global Health & Social Medicine

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Brown Bag Seminar: Advancing global mental health delivery: The role of digital innovation, task sharing, and reciprocal learning
2025-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Mental disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet in most countries, individuals living with mental disorders are more likely to have access to a mobile phone than basic mental health care. As digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we interact with each other and with the world around us, there are new opportunities to leverage these devices for addressing the significant barriers to implementing and extending the reach of mental health services, and ultimately towards improving outcomes for those facing the challenges of mental illness. In this presentation, John Naslund will draw from his field research in both India and in the United States to illustrate how emerging digital technologies can advance task sharing and early intervention in both lower and higher income settings. Importantly, this involves shifting from ‘digital promise’ to ‘digital practice’, and realizing the impact of digital innovations in advancing mental health care delivery in real-world settings. Naslund will discuss the potential challenges and hurdles ahead and consider emerging innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) to advance implementation science and strengthen capacity of health systems, empower community providers, and combat stigma towards bridging the global mental health care gap.

John Naslund is co-director of the Mental Health For All Lab at Harvard Medical School, and faculty in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. He holds expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, implementation science, and digital mental health. Naslund’s scholarship seeks to advance efforts aimed at improving the lives of individuals facing the challenges of mental illness worldwide. His work focuses on low-resource settings in India and the U.S., using digital innovations to train frontline providers, support recovery in people with severe mental illness, and promote peer-to-peer support and mental health advocacy. Naslund’s work is supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Fellowship, Grand Challenges Canada, the H.E. Butt Foundation, the Tepper Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust. Naslund has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is an Honorary Research Fellow with Sangath, a world-leading NGO and research organization based in India. He has a longstanding track record advocating for the rights, dignity, and quality of healthcare for those living with mental illness.

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John Naslund
Co-Director, Mental Health for All Lab; Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Cultivating compassion: Strategies for bullying prevention
2025-12-04 14:00 - 14:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University

Inspired by the world premiere musical, Wonder, performing December 9th through February 8th at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), this panel discussion explores the power of empathy and kindness in the face of bullying. Drawing on Wonder’s story of Auggie Pullman—a young boy with a facial difference navigating a new school—the conversation will examine the challenges of social belonging and the importance of creating inclusive environments where differences are celebrated. This event will feature a sharing of a song from the musical composed by Ian Axel and Chad King, the GRAMMY Award-winning duo behind A Great Big World.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Jason Fogler

Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Ari Ne’eman

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Sarah Ruhl
Playwright, Wonder, the musical

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Howard Koh

Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care
2025-12-08 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Program Director Ted Witherell will share how this program helps health care leaders build confidence and skill in managing conflict, providing feedback, and navigating complex negotiations.

If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership and communication skills to handle challenging conversations more effectively, this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.

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Ted Witherell

Lecturer on Health Management

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Origami Workshop
2025-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Kresge Atrium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for an origami-making workshop! Monday, December 8th, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ Community and Belonging committee invites all students, staff, and faculty to join us for an origami-making workshop! Learn a new artform, let your creative energy flow, and get to know your fellow community members. Stop by the Kresge atrium anytime between 12 and 2 p.m. to take part. We hope to see you there!

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Report-back from the 2ND Africa-CARICOM summit on reparations
2025-12-08 13:00 - 14:00 | online
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Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for a virtual conversation between FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, and FXB Visiting Scientist Brittney Francis, PhD, MPH, who will share their takeaways after attending the 2nd Africa-CARICOM Summit in Addis Ababa in September 2025. The summit brought together member states from the African Union and CARICOM, along with UN entities and international NGOs, including the global African diaspora. The goal was to strengthen unity, deepen integration, and jointly pursue reparations and reparatory justice through a comprehensive transcontinental partnership framework, under the theme: “Transcontinental Partnership in Pursuit of Reparatory Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations.” The conversation will be moderated by FXB Research Associate, Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc.

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Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH

Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Brittney Francis, PhD, MPH

Research Scientist, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

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The State of Biomedical Science in the US — How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do?
2025-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States
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The 177th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine Abstract: The decades following the Vandervar Bush report on governmental investment in scientific research were times of extraordinary growth and innumerable accomplishments for the US biomedical research enterprise. NIH funding grew from 45 million dollars in 1945 to over 41 billion dollars by 2020. Health outcomes improved dramatically, at least in part because of the science generated by that investment. Heading into 2020, the future of US biomedical research appeared remarkably bright. Adding in the extraordinary response of our scientific and clinical systems to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted the current challenges facing biomedical research in the US. Understanding how we got here is a first step towards restoring the trajectory of biomedical research in the US.

This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person viewing options (with limited in-person seating). Seats in the main auditorium are first come, first served. There will also be a recording of the event for those who cannot attend.

Stay for the reception 5:00-6:00PM in Sebastian’s Cafe.

Open to the public.

Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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Katrina Armstrong, MD

Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Columbia University; Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Chief Executive Officer of Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of Medicine

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Department of Epidemiology

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CHDS Seminar With Kayoko Shioda of Boston University
2025-12-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Kayoko Shioda of Boston University, “Target Trial Emulation for Vaccine Dosing Schedule Evaluation.” Target trial emulation (TTE) is a causal inference framework that uses observational data to emulate a randomized trial. It has become a valuable tool for evaluating treatments and health interventions when randomized trials are not feasible. However, applying TTE to infectious diseases requires caution due to transmission-related interference. In this talk, Dr. Shioda will illustrate how TTE can identify optimal vaccine dosing schedules, including for COVID-19, and discuss current methodological limitations and possible solutions.

Dr. Shioda is an infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian focusing on two research areas: (1) One Health and climate change, and (2) vaccine epidemiology. For vaccine epidemiology, she aims to inform vaccine policy by developing novel analytic methods for intervention evaluation, especially in resource-limited settings where public health data often have various challenges that make it difficult to draw reliable conclusions. She has collaborated with partners across local, national, and international organizations in more than 30 countries worldwide.PhD, DVM, MPH

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Kayoko Shioda, PhD, DVM, MPH
Assistant Professor, Boston University

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Documentary Screening - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
2025-12-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120-2702
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Join the Harvard Chan Student Committee for Health Equity & Justice in Palestine for a screening of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. Light refreshments from Aceituna Grill and popcorn will be provided!

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Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations
2025-12-10 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Program Director Lou DiBerardinis will share how this program helps professionals design and manage laboratories that prioritize health, safety, and sustainability while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

If you’re looking to enhance your understanding of safe and effective lab design—from new construction to renovation and decommissioning—this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.

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Louis J. DiBerardinis

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War and the public’s health
2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts
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Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for a fireside chat with physician and epidemiologist Barry Levy, MD, MPH, and discussion with FXB Visiting Scientist Yara M. Asi, PhD. They will describe the impacts of war on the health and human rights of noncombatant civilians and related issues, including forced displacement and destruction of civilian infrastructure. They will also discuss the prevention of war and the promotion of peace. Dr. Levy will draw on his book, From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War, and Dr. Asi on her book, How War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Health.

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Barry Levy, MD, MPH
Physician, epidemiologist

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Yara M. Asi, PhD

Visiting Scientist, FXB; Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics

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Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH

Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: Can remote personalized digital counseling improve postpartum contraceptive use?
2025-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Ibou Dieye is a PhD candidate in health policy (economics track) at Harvard University. His research lies at the intersection of health economics, public policy, and behavioral economics. He uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study how government financing reforms and emerging digital tools can improve access to and quality of health care in developing countries. He is also interested in how factors outside the health sector shape health outcomes. Before starting his PhD, he studied Applied Mathematics and Economics at Macalester College and worked at Analysis Group as an analyst and data scientist specializing in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).

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Ibou Dieye

PhD Candidate in Health Policy, Harvard University

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | So the US food system is certainly broken; what can we reasonably do about it, given nutritional and geophysical constraints on this system?
2025-12-15 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Gidon Eshel, PhD, MA, MPhil, Research Professor at Bard College. Dr. Eshel’s talk—”So the US food system is certainly broken; what can we reasonably do about it, given nutritional and geophysical constraints on this system?”—will take place on December 15, 2025 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Gidon Eshel, PhD, MA, MPhil

Research Professor at Bard College

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Visions, Values, & Vibes: Aligning Evidence and Aspiration to Craft Your Path for 2026
2025-12-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Wednesday, December 17th, from 1-1:50 p.m in Kresge 202A, we invite all Harvard-affiliated individuals to join us for a well-being workshop led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Jeniece Brock, DrPh ’27. This workshop will offer an evidence-based vision-board process designed to help participants clarify their values, explore future-oriented imagery, and develop structured plans for a joyful and healthy 2026. Through guided exercises and creative exploration, participants will create a visual representation of their aspirations and a concrete roadmap for achieving them.

Hot chocolate, cookies, and pizza provided.

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Jeniece Brock
Student Engagement Committee Member and DrPh '27

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Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses
2026-01-20 09:00 - 09:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Hosted by Program Director Stephanie Ferguson, this event shows how the program helps mid-level nurse managers transform into leaders with foundational concepts to excel in their roles, improve health outcomes, and implement change in their departments to fix issues they experience first-hand.

If you’re looking to elevate your leadership skills, we invite you to attend this webinar to see how this online self-paced program can support your professional goals.

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Stephanie Ferguson

Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management

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Art@Countway Exhibition Closing Ceremony: Call & Response
2026-01-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Countway Library, Room 102
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As the art exhibition “Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to our Foremothers in Gynecology” comes to a close at Countway Library, we invite you to celebrate the show’s impact with artists, organizers, and fellow community members.

This multimedia art exhibition, developed by the Resilient Sisterhood Project, sheds light on the exploitation of enslaved Black women in the origins of modern gynecology and its enduring implications for public health. Centering the lives of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, three women subjected to repeated experimental surgeries by Dr. J. Marion Sims in the 1840s, the exhibition’s powerful narrative inspires us to unearth history, confront the present, and imagine a more just future for reproductive health.

We are committed to making this event accessible to all participants. The space is wheelchair accessible, microphones will be used for speakers, and assistive listening devices are available for use. Please reach out to countwayoutreach@hms.harvard.edu if you have any accessibility needs or questions.

Please register in advance here.

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Jules Authur
Jules Arthur is a St. Louis–born visual artist based in New York City. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, he trained at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and continues studies at the Art Students League. His work, praised by The New York Times for its deft draftsmanship, explores the human form and lived experience.

Dr. Michele David
Dr. Michele David is a Haitian-born artist whose quilts weave African and Haitian traditions with themes of resilience, identity, and healing. She is also Chief of Clinical Quality and Safety at MIT Health. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the New England Quilt Museum.

Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion
Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion is a board-certified OB/GYN who practiced for decades at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A Princeton and Columbia alum, she now focuses on community and medical education, advancing reproductive justice, health equity, and human-centered care for Black and Brown birthing people.

Michelle Hartney
Michelle Hartney is a Chicago-based artist and activist whose multidisciplinary work centers on reproductive justice, gender equity, and healthcare. Using fiber, ceramics, embroidery, and social practice, she addresses issues including maternal mortality, obstetric abuse, and gender-affirming care, creating spaces for public dialogue and advocacy.

Lilly Marcelin
Lilly Marcelin is a community activist and the Founder and Executive Director of the Resilient Sisterhood Project, which empowers women and young adults of African descent around reproductive health. A Wellesley and Tufts alum, she works in partnership with Black women to address systemic racism, health equity, and reproductive justice.

Dr. Rose Molina
Dr. Rose Molina is an OB/GYN and scholar-activist focused on language, immigration, and equity in maternal health. An Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, she also cares for patients at The Dimock Center and Beth Israel Deaconess and leads multiple initiatives advancing health equity and inclusive care.

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Understanding Food Loss and Waste: Opportunities and challenges across the food supply chain
2026-01-26 13:00 - 13:50 | online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Edward Spang, PhD, Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Spang’s talk—”Understanding Food Loss and Waste: Opportunities and challenges across the food supply chain”—will take place on January 26 at 1:00pm ET on Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs’ Wellbeing Fund.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00pm ET on 1/23/26.

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Edward Spang, PhD

Associate Professor, Food Science and Technology, Director, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, Faculty Lead, Food Loss and Waste Collaborative, University of California, Davis

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Developments in Postmarketing Safety Surveillance of Medical Products: Reflections from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center
2026-01-28 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, January 28th for a Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Rishi Desai discussing Developments in Postmarketing Safety Surveillance of Medical Products: Reflections from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center.

Abstract: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Sentinel Initiative—launched in 2008 under the FDA Amendments Act as the first national active-surveillance system for medical-product safety—has grown from a proof-of-concept pilot into the nation’s flagship regulatory grade evidence generation engine for pressing drug safety questions. In 2019, the FDA the US Food and Drug Administration prioritized more extensive electronic health records (EHR) integration to the existing claims-based Sentinel Distributed Databases and methodological innovations leveraging cutting edge data science approaches. This talk will provide an overview of the progress made by Sentinel’s Innovation Center in various domains including data infrastructure, information extraction, computable phenotyping, and confounding adjustment. Exemplary case studies will be discussed to highlight challenges and opportunities in applying the methodological innovations to inferential studies of medication safety.

Bio: Rishi J Desai, MS, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard (HMS/HSPH) and an Epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on understanding the use of medications and resulting outcomes in routine care patients with chronic diseases. He has a special interest in methodological investigations to improve inference from non-randomized studies of medication effects. He is currently the Operations Lead for the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Food and Drug Administration. He has authored >185 original research publications.

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Rishi Desai, MS, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Epidemiologist, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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EcoOpportunity Green Team Meeting
2026-01-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Kresge Room 205, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Sustainable Farming and Local Food to Promote Resilience and Community HealthPresented by Jennifer Hashley, Director, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition

Also available by Zoom. For more information, email susan_bottino@harvard.edu

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Using Values-Based Storytelling to Shift the Public Health Conversation: A Hands-on Workshop
2026-02-02 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110
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Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools in health communication—capable of shifting beliefs, building trust, and inspiring action. In this session, led by SBS alum Elissa Scherer (MPH-HSB ’24), we’ll explore why stories stick when facts alone fall flat, and how to harness narrative as a strategy for building community trust and public health impact. Participants will learn how to tell stories about the values that call them to their work and how to craft a narrative-based call-to-action.

This immersive, hands-on workshop is in person only—reserve your spot to join us in the room and leave ready to inspire real-world action.

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Health Communication.

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Elissa Scherer
Communications Coordinator at the Center for Health Communication

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Trial Augmentation Using External Data and Models: Toward Harmony Between Observational Studies and Trials
2026-02-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, February 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Issa Dahabreh discussing Trial Augmentation Using External Data and Models: Toward Harmony Between Observational Studies and Trials

Abstract: We introduce trial augmentation, a new approach to analyzing randomized trials that leverages external data — either historical experimental data or observational data — to improve trial efficiency without sacrificing the unbiasedness guarantee provided by randomization. We characterize a broad class of randomization-aware estimators that integrate external data through data-adaptive models (e.g., machine learning or generative models), yielding higher efficiency and statistical power than estimators based on trial data alone. Crucially, members of this class exploit randomization to remain unbiased even when the external data are misaligned with the trial population or affected by unmeasured confounding. We show that several widely used estimators, including the efficient trial-only estimator, are special cases within this framework. We further demonstrate how combining two or more randomization-aware estimators yields procedures with two key properties: (1) robustness to misalignment and unmeasured confounding in the external data, and (2) efficiency that is at least as high as, and typically higher than, that of the component estimators. We situate these results within a broader research program aimed at a more harmonious integration of observational analyses and randomized trials.

Bio: Issa Dahabreh, MD ScD is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Section Head for Epidemiology and Data Science at the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His research focuses on the design and analysis of randomized trials and observational studies, with an emphasis on causal inference and evidence synthesis. He also develops statistical methods that integrate diverse data sources to improve decision-making in clinical and public health settings.

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Issa Dahabreh, MD, ScD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Section Head for Epidemiology and Data Science, Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Health Benefits of Fighting Dragons
2026-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Wednesday, February 4th, 2026, from 1-1:50 p.m. in Kresge 202A, join us for a well-being workshop led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Anya Greenberg, SM ’26. Explore how tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons can boost well-being, confidence, and social connection.

Lunch provided. Attendance open to Harvard-ID holders.

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Anya Greenberg
SM '26

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Community Coffee Hour
2026-02-05 11:00 - 12:00 | HSPH Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor)
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Join the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) on Thursday, February 5th for a Community Coffee Hour! Join us for an in-person gathering to meet the HHI team and learn more about their global work. All members of the Harvard community are welcome to join to kick off the new semester, build connections, and foster collaboration. This event will be held in-person only, at HSPH Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor) from 11a.m. -12 p.m. ET.

Please RSVP in advance here, and feel free to reach out to hhi@harvard.edu with any questions.

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Can a voice channel improve retention and worker well-being? Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in U.S. fulfillment centers”
2026-02-05 12:00 - 13:15 | HCPDS, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, and Online via Zoom
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Erin Kelly, PhD, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management, presents “Can a voice channel improve retention and worker well-being? Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in U.S. fulfillment centers.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Erin Kelly, PhD

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Better Research IV: Share and Publish Data with Open Science Framework
2026-02-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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What: An in-depth look at advanced features of Open Science Framework and how to integrate them into your research process for sharing and publishing research data. This session is a follow up to “Research Management: Data Organization and Sharing in Open Science Framework.”

Why: Using reputable and compliant tools for research management and data sharing supports reproducible practices, collaboration, and transparent research. Open Science Framework is a NIH-recognized generalist repository, is supported by Harvard Library, and is a popular choice for sharing research products throughout the research data lifecycle.

How: This is a free 1.5-hour online workshop, consisting of lecture, hands-on activity, and discussion. This class will focus on using the free platform Open Science Framework to collaborate, manage, and share your documents, datasets, and research projects. The webinar recording will be shared with all who register.

Where: Online via Zoom (link provided upon registration).

Who: This seminar is open to faculty, research staff, postdoctoral researchers, and students from all disciplines. If you were unable to attend the previous workshop in December, where we provided an introduction to OSF, you are welcome and encouraged to attend this webinar anyway.

Join your peers to meet new people and learn new skills in a welcoming and encouraging environment!

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Julie Goldman, BS, MLIS
Research Data Services Librarian, Countway Library

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Harvard Countway Library

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Leading public health schools today and tomorrow: A conversation with Deans Megan Ranney and Andrea Baccarelli
2026-02-05 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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In this fireside chat, two deans of leading schools of public health will explore how to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape in public health education. Megan Ranney, Dean of Yale School of Public Health, will join Andrea Baccarelli, Dean of Harvard Chan School, to discuss preparing—and learning from—the next generation of public health students. From modeling constructive dialogue across diverse audiences, to examining the role of generative AI in classrooms and research, to equipping graduates for a shifting job market, the deans will share real-world insights.

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Megan Ranney
Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Andrea Baccarelli

Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: Climate anxiety and disaster preparedness
2026-02-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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Vincenzo Bollettino is the director of the Program on Resilient Communities at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and senior research associate with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research and professional experience include disaster resilience, humanitarian action, civil-military engagement in emergencies, and humanitarian leadership. He has spent the past 23 years of his career at Harvard University in administration, teaching, and research. His current research focuses on climate change and disaster preparedness, humanitarian leadership, and civil-military engagement during humanitarian emergencies.

Bollettino has taught courses on research design, peace-building, and international politics at the Harvard Extension School and is the author of publications related to disaster preparedness, climate change, humanitarian civil-military coordination, and humanitarian leadership.

He currently serves as an advisory committee member of the MSF Speaking Out Case Studies and is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for Americares. He is a former board member of ELRHA (Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance) and former president of the ACF (Action Against Hunger) International Scientific Council.

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Vincenzo Bollettino

Senior Research Scientist

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Integrating Multi-Omics and Blood-Based ATX(N) Biomarkers to Identify Precision Dietary Paths for Alzheimer’s Prevention in Harvard Cohorts
2026-02-09 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB Room G-13 & online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Daniel Wang, MD, ScD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Wang’s talk—”Integrating Multi-Omics and Blood-Based ATX(N) Biomarkers to Identify Precision Dietary Paths for Alzheimer’s Prevention in Harvard Cohorts”—will take place on February 9 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Daniel Wang, MD, ScD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School

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Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2026-02-11 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, February 11th for a Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Timothy Lash discussing Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Abstract: Quantitative bias analysis encompasses all methods used to estimate the direction, magnitude, and uncertainty from non-randomized research. Many of these methods have been well known for decades, but are still not routinely implemented. This talk will review the methods, their utility, where there are shortcomings, and how they are sometimes used (intentionally or unintentionally) against their best purposes.

Bio: Timothy L. Lash is the O. Wayne Rollins Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Associate Director of Population Science at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute. His research focuses on predictive and prognostic markers of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer recurrence. His longstanding collaborations in Denmark have involved multiple projects to study molecular markers of recurrence and to study whether concomitant use of prescription drugs affect recurrence risk. He is currently funded by the US NCI to begin adding recurrence data to the Georgia Cancer Registry. Dr. Lash’s methodological interest focuses on developing and implementing methods to quantify the influence of systematic errors on epidemiologic research. Funding from the National Library of Medicine supports his work to develop methods that quantify the influence of systematic errors on the reproducibility of epidemiologic study results. He teaches a course on quantitative bias analysis and leads the doctoral students’ journal club. He is Editor-in-Chief of EPIDEMIOLOGY, a leading general interest epidemiology journal, and coauthor of multiple editions of two epidemiology textbooks: Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Research, 2nd edition and Modern Epidemiology, 4th edition.

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Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH
O. Wayne Rollins Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

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Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon
2026-02-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Countway Library Classrooms 102 & 103 and Zoom
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Join Countway librarians, members of the Public Environmental Data Partners, and fellow data enthusiasts to capture and preserve our public health care data in the CAFE Harvard Dataverse Collection. Celebrate Love Data Week by ensuring access to federal environmental data.

Health and environmental data is crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this invaluable public data is maintained and kept available in its true unaltered form for us now and in the future.

This is an open, three-hour event where we will chat about the importance of data preservation and good data management, then pivot to capturing crucial public health information, reports, and datasets for preservation in Harvard Dataverse. No data science skills are needed!

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Julie Goldman

Research Data Services Librarian, Open Scholarship and Research Data Services

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Harvard Countway Library

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The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande
2026-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year

The Trump Administration’s abrupt dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has triggered a wave of already hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly of children, around the world. Atul Gawande—former leader of global health at the agency—draws on data, historical parallels, and on-the-ground fact-finding to reveal how gains against malnutrition, infectious disease, and child mortality are being rapidly reversed. Gawande argues that this is a case of “public man-made death,” and calls for accountability and renewed commitment to lifesaving global health efforts.

This event is open to the public and will be recorded. Please plan on being seated by 4:15 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:30 p.m. Please register in advance to attend.

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a renowned surgeon, author, and public health innovator. He holds the John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is the Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID from January 2022 to January 2025. Prior to that, he cofounded and chaired Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation where he is now Distinguished Professor in Residence, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. From 2018–2020, he was CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture.

Dr. Gawande is also a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times bestselling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has won two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, and a MacArthur Fellowship. And he is executive producer for three documentary films: the Emmy-nominated adaptation Being Mortal (2016), the Oscar-nominated film To Kill A Tiger (2024), and The New Yorker film Rovina’s Choice (2025).

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Atul Gawande

John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; writer, The New Yorker

Erez Manela
Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University

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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande
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The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year

The Trump Administration’s abrupt dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has triggered a wave of already hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly of children, around the world. Atul Gawande—former leader of global health at the agency—draws on data, historical parallels, and on-the-ground fact-finding to reveal how gains against malnutrition, infectious disease, and child mortality are being rapidly reversed. Gawande argues that this is a case of “public man-made death,” and calls for accountability and renewed commitment to lifesaving global health efforts.

This event is open to the public and will be recorded. Please register to attend. Please plan on being seated by 4:15 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:30 p.m.

Speaker biography:

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a renowned surgeon, author, and public health innovator. He holds the John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is the Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID from January 2022 to January 2025. Prior to that, he cofounded and chaired Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation where he is now Distinguished Professor in Residence, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. From 2018–2020, he was CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture.

Dr. Gawande is also a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times bestselling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has won two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, and a MacArthur Fellowship. And he is executive producer for three documentary films: the Emmy-nominated adaptation Being Mortal (2016), the Oscar-nominated film To Kill A Tiger (2024), and The New Yorker film Rovina’s Choice (2025).

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; writer, The New Yorker.

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Erez Manela

Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health
2026-02-12 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center, and online via Zoom, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of population and family health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, presents “Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

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Love Data Rodeo: A Roundup of Useful Ways to Wrangle Your Data
2026-02-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Lamont Library, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Wrangle your data at the Harvard Library’s Love Data Rodeo. Celebrate Love Data Week by learning how to tame and transform your data in style!

You are cordially invited to this exciting round-up of platforms, tools, and strategies to help you successfully work with your data. During this 2-hour event, representatives of Harvard approved platforms will be on hand to provide demonstrations and share the support they can provide to help you make the most of your research data.

This event will be held in-person in the Lamont Library Forum Room. The Forum Room is located on the third floor of Lamont Library. A Harvard ID is required to enter the Lamont Library. We recommend attendees bring their laptops to more deeply engage with the resources that will be demoed. Registration is recommended, but not required.

This event is open to all Harvard students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff. There are no prerequisites or assumptions of knowledge.

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Harvard Countway Library

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Brown Bag Seminar: Economic inequality and violent mortality: Evidence from Ecuador
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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Omar Galárraga, PhD, is a health economist and tenured professor of health services, policy and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. He currently serves as the director of the Center for Global Public Health (CGPH) at Brown. Galárraga’s research applies principles from health and behavioral economics to improve public health outcomes, with a specific focus on: (a) HIV prevention and treatment: designing and evaluating economic-based interventions, such as conditional economic incentives to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and reduce risk behaviors; (b) Health systems: analyzing health systems reform and insurance expansion in low- and middle-income countries; and (c) Applied econometrics: utilizing rigorous experimental and non-experimental methods to evaluate health interventions. He conducts research globally, collaborating with partners in Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. He is the former director of the doctoral program in health services research at Brown and was an appointed member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) from 2021 to 2024. Currently, he is a standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH) study section, and an associate editor for the journal Health Economics. Galárraga has authored over 150 publications in leading health economics and public health journals.

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Omar Galárraga
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health; Director, Center for Global Public Health, Brown University

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Crossroads Conversation Series
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge room 110, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120-2702
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Join Harvard Chan faculty and alumni as they share how someone’s advice, encouragement, or challenge impacted their life, and the ways they apply those lessons today. Lunch will be provided.

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Harvard Chan i-Night 2026
2026-02-13 18:30 - 21:00 | Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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The Harvard Chan Student Government Association’s i-Night is back for its 35th year!

Join us for an exciting evening of performances that celebrate and showcase the talents, cultures, and diversity of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community!

Food and refreshments will be provided! Please RSVP to inform catering needs. Families and guests are welcome to join; up to two guests are allowed per student attendee. Children under 10 do not count towards the guest list.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances begin at 7:00 p.m.

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Office for Student Affairs

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Social Demography Seminar with Jessica Finlay
2026-02-19 12:00 - 13:15 | Online
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Jessica Finlay, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, presents ‘Cognability: A mixed-methods approach to neighborhoods and cognitive health across the life course.’

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

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Jessica Finlay, PhD

Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Alumni insights: Careers in entrepreneurship and innovation
2026-02-19 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Office of Career and Professional Development

Join a panel of Harvard Chan School alumni for an engaging discussion on bringing innovation and entrepreneurship to public health. Discover how they built their careers, what skills matter most, and how to apply their insights to your own professional journey in this candid conversation.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Hailey How
MPH ‘25, Founder & CEO, CareCorgi; Startup Advisor at Blackstone Entrepreneurship Network

Ivan Hsiao
MPH ’24, Founder and CEO, Trans Health HQ

Amber Nigam
SM ‘23, Co-founder and CEO of basys.ai

Fiza Shaukat
MPH ‘22, CEO and co-founder of Patient First.AI

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David Garcia Lou
MPH ‘24, Co-founder Amigdala Boston

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Africa Health Conference - Future-Proofing Africa: Investing in Impact and Innovation
2026-02-21 07:00 - 21:00 | Kresge, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120
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Join us at the 2026 Africa Health Conference to explore innovative solutions to advance health in Africa by pre-registering by Sunday, January 18 HERE.

The Africa Health Conference is a dynamic platform that brings together experts, researchers, practitioners, students, and community stakeholders dedicated to advancing forward-thinking solutions for Africa’s evolving health challenges.

The 2026 conference will take place on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with an online attendance option available. This year’s theme is “Future-Proofing Africa: Investing in Impact and Innovation”. It builds on last year’s sessions that focused on adaptive strategies in health financing, technology, and resilience. This year, the conference will guide participants in reimagining Africa’s development landscape amidst a rapidly changing global context. We will move beyond traditional approaches to explore innovative financing mechanisms and highlight how African entrepreneurs, businesses, and creative thinkers are driving impactful solutions in various fields, from healthcare to technology.

For questions, please contact us hsphafricahealthconference@gmail.com or visit our website: https://africa-health-conference.hsph.harvard.edu/

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Harvard Chan Africa Health Students Forum

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CHDS Seminar with Mark Strong of University of Sheffield, UK
2026-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | online
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Mark Strong of the University of Sheffield, UK, School of Medicine and Population Health, “Understanding and Managing Uncertainty in Model-Based Decision Making.” We commonly use computer models to help us make decisions in healthcare resource allocation. Should we fund a particular new drug, for example? However, even with our best model we still might make a wrong decision. This is because we can almost never eliminate uncertainty. This seminar will cover the meaning of uncertainty in a model-based decision making context, and how we can manage it, with particular reference to the quantification of the value of new information.

Mark Strong is Dean of the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is a public health physician and Professor of Public Health, and has conducted research on a wide range of topics relating to public health, health economics, health services research, epidemiology and statistics. He is a Chartered Statistician of the UK Royal Statistical Society and his core research interests relate to the quantification and management of uncertainty in healthcare decision making.

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Mark Strong

Dean of the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield

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SPARK: Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge
2026-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Sebastian’s Cafe
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SPARK: 10 minutes. No silos. No awkward silences.

SPARK (Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge) will kick off with two events this February.

Join us on Tuesday, February 24 or Wednesday, February 25 from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Update: SPARK has been canceled for February 24 due to inclement weather. The event on February 25 will go forward as planned!

What is SPARK?

SPARK is an opportunity for Harvard Chan School staff, faculty, researchers, and students to make person-to-person connections. Join us for a 10-minute activity to shake up your week and shake off the winter blues.

What’s this event all about?

Join us in the Kresge Cafeteria for a quick game designed to help you meet new people in the Harvard Chan community and learn new things about friends, colleagues, and classmates. There are no wrong answers and all are welcome. You can even win prizes, like a week of free lunches at Sebastian’s Café Snacks will be provided. No RSVP is needed.

There will be two sessions for this event, one on Tuesday, February 24 and one on Wednesday, February 25. Both will take place from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Why come to a SPARK event?

We believe the more connected we are, the more we can accomplish together. SPARK is designed to strengthen connections, break down silos, and build trust.

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Office for Community and Belonging

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Negotiations Webinar Series: “On the Use of AI in Frontline Negotiation: Current Trends and Outlook for the Future”
2026-02-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
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Join us on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 (10–11 a.m. ET) for the first session of our two-part Negotiations Webinar Series, hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

🎙 Webinar 1: “On the Use of AI in Frontline Negotiation: Current Trends and Outlook for the Future”

Featuring Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M., Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher, and Founder of Frontline Associates.

This session explores how emerging technologies are reshaping decision-making, risk management, and accountability at the negotiation table. Our faculty will discuss AI-enabled negotiation support and practical considerations for integrating AI responsibly into organizational practices.

🔗 Free and open to the public

📍 Join via Zoom: hsph.me/negotiations-webinar-feb-25

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📅 Save the date for Webinar #2: “The Making of Negotiating Organizations” on March 25, 2026. Stay tuned for more details.

Please share with your networks and anyone who may be interested.

Questions? hhi@harvard.edu.

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Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M.

Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher, and Founder of Frontline Associates

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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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What If … Public Health Had to Be Built From Scratch? Revisiting 19th-Century Debates
2026-02-25 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, February 25th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Alfredo Morabia discussing What If … Public Health Had to Be Built From Scratch? Revisiting 19th-Century Debates.

Abstract: What would public health look like if it had to be invented today, without assuming the institutions, divisions, and categories we inherited? This lecture revisits the formative debates of the 19th century, when scientific public health first took shape. By examining the tensions between competing visions, particularly between approaches centered on specific causes of disease and those focused on the broader conditions of life, I show that public health emerged not as a single, inevitable model but as the outcome of choices. Situating epidemiology and the early schools of public health within these debates, I argue that some options were abandoned rather than disproven. Revisiting these debates allows us to think more clearly about what public health could be today, not by returning to the past, but by recovering the range of possibilities that once existed.

Bio: Alfredo Morabia is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, CUNY and a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. As Principal Investigator of the World Trade Center-Heart cohort study, funded by NIOSH, he examines the long-term cardiovascular effects of 9/11 on first responders. A historian of epidemiology, he explores the evolution of methods and concepts used to study and improve population health. His last book, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19 (2023), traces the evolution of public health methods from past pandemics to modern crises. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Public Health from June 2015 to June 2025.

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Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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Department of Epidemiology

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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
2026-02-25 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge room 201, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120
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Join us for part one of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and former Director of Communications at the World Health Organization. In this session, we’ll dig into a compelling piece of health journalism—how complex health topics are communicated to the public, what we can learn from journalistic choices, framing, and impact, and actionable-takeaways for your own health communication.

Lunch will be served.

Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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Gabriella Stern
Journalist and former Director of Communications at the World Health Organization

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Center for Health Communication

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Born to Flourish
2026-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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On February 25th, 2026, we held the fourth installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series, Born to Flourish, featuring renowned scholar and bestselling author Dr. Richard Davidson. You can watch the event recording below.

Event Description

This talk considers scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by transforming our minds and cultivate habits of mind that will improve well-being. These include happiness, resilience, compassion, and emotional balance. Each of these characteristics is instantiated in brain circuits that exhibit plasticity and thus can be shaped and modified by experience and training. Mental training to cultivate well-being has profound implications for the workplace including its impact on leadership, creativity, employee health, productivity, and collaboration.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Richard Davidson is the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, and Founder of Humin (formerly Healthy Minds Innovations), a global nonprofit on a mission to make wellbeing real by translating science into action. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology in 1976. Dr. Davidson’s research is broadly focused on the neural bases of emotion and emotional style and methods to promote human flourishing including meditation and related contemplative practices. He has published over 600 papers, numerous chapters and reviews, and edited 20 books. Dr. Davidson’s newest book, “Born to Flourish” with Cortland Dahl, is set to release in March 2026. He is also author (with Sharon Begley) of “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” published in 2012, and co-author with Daniel Goleman of “Altered Traits” published in 2017. Dr. Davidson was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and appointed to the Governing Board of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) in 2018.

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Dr. Richard Davidson
Founder and Director, Center for Healthy Minds

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SPARK: Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge
2026-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Sebastian’s Cafe
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SPARK: 10 minutes. No silos. No awkward silences.

SPARK (Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge) will kick off with two events this February.

Join us on Tuesday, February 24 or Wednesday, February 25 from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

What is SPARK?

SPARK is an opportunity for Harvard Chan School staff, faculty, researchers, and students to make person-to-person connections. Join us for a 10-minute activity to shake up your week and shake off the winter blues.

What’s this event all about?

Join us in the Kresge Cafeteria for a quick game designed to help you meet new people in the Harvard Chan community and learn new things about friends, colleagues, and classmates. There are no wrong answers and all are welcome. You can even win prizes, like a week of free lunches at Sebastian’s Café Snacks will be provided. No RSVP is needed.

There will be two sessions for this event, one on Tuesday, February 24 and one on Wednesday, February 25. Both will take place from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Why come to a SPARK event?

We believe the more connected we are, the more we can accomplish together. SPARK is designed to strengthen connections, break down silos, and build trust.

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: "Credibility laundering as a vector: The afterlives of reactionary knowledge in population studies."
2026-02-26 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center & online, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Brian Keegan, PhD, associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Credibility laundering as a vector: Change-point detection and socio-technical afterlives of reactionary demographic knowledge.”

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

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Brian Keegan, PhD

Associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, visiting scientist Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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Healthy hydration: Beverage choices and cancer risk
2026-02-26 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention

In this timely panel, experts will take a look at healthy hydration. How can fluids such as clean drinking water, coffee, and tea boost health, while beverages such as alcohol, soda, and other sugary drinks raise health risks. And how do these choices potentially influence cancer risk? Tune in to this event – part of the Zhu Center’s month-long commemoration of World Cancer Day — to hear clear, evidence-based information.

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Anna Grummon
Director of the Stanford Food Policy Lab

Eric B. Rimm

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition

Walter C. Willett

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition

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Timothy R Rebbeck

Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention

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Brown Bag Seminar: Evidence triangulation in dementia research
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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Maria Glymour is professor and chair of the department of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research examines how social factors experienced across the life-course, from infancy to adulthood, influence cognitive function, dementia, stroke, and other health outcomes in older adults. A separate theme of her research focuses on overcoming methodological problems encountered in analyses of the social determinants of health, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia.

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Maria Glymour
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health

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CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series - Curing More Than TB: Treating Bias in MDR/RR-TB Cohort Analyses
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G3 & Online, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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Presented by Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Professor Franke is a global health researcher whose work brings the rigor of epidemiology to intractable infections, including tuberculosis, cholera, HIV. A primary objective of her work is to reduce suffering from infectious diseases by applying rigorous epidemiologic methods to address critical knowledge gaps related to interventions and treatment. Examples include the design of studies to assess the effectiveness of cholera interventions, including vaccination, and the use of causal inference-based approaches to study treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Molly Franke, SD

Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor. Department of Epidemiology. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Epidemiologist. Global Health Research Core

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Film Screening: Poverty Inc. by Michael Matheson Miller
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:30 | FXB Jonathan M Mann Conference Room, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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FXB Center is hosting a film screening of “Poverty Inc.” a documentary film by Michael Matheson Miller in the FXB Jonathan M Mann Conference Room. There will be refreshments provided, and this screening is open to the Harvard University Community.

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Wait Time Is Over for Eisner's "Waiting-Room Willie"
2026-03-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Countway Library, Room 103
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More than 50 years ago, Will Eisner’s American Visuals Studio produced “The Sad Case of Waiting-Room Willie” for the Committee on Public Medical Health Education of the Baltimore Medical Society. This fascinating case of public health advocacy has long gone unexamined, particularly in the modern context of American healthcare.

The MCPHS University Center for Health Humanities and the Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library are bringing a team of local experts to honor Eisner’s legacy while also addressing some of our contemporary Graphic Medicine questions that plague Willie.

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Martha Gardner – Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences, MCPHS University

A. David Lewis – Associate Professor of English and Health Humanities, MCPHS University

Dan Mazur – Artist, Publisher; “Will Eisner: A Comics Biography”

Tavon Mei – Graphic Medicine Club representative, Boston University

Matthew Noe – Lead Collection and Knowledge Management Librarian, Countway Library (Moderator)

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How bipartisan health policy is made
2026-03-02 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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This event is part of the Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum series.

This conversation pulls back the curtain on what really happens when Democrats and Republicans hammer out health legislation in Washington. Former HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation Melanie Egorin and former staff director for the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Brian Sutter will unpack how trust, timing, and technical work shape major laws. They will trace how ideas move from “policy on the shelf” to statute, even in hyper‑partisan moments. This discussion will paint a clear picture of the roles staff, agencies, and advocates play—and offer practical advice for building a career in bipartisan problem‑solving.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Melanie Egorin
Former Assistant Secretary for Legislation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden Administration; Professor of Practice in Public Policy, University of Virginia

Brian Sutter
Former Staff Director for Health Subcommittee under Dave Camp (R-MI), U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means; Partner and CEO, Capitol Hill Consulting

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Adrianna McIntyre

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Examining Immigration Enforcement from Minnesota to Boston: A teach-in on impacts and community resources
2026-03-02 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge G2
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Come join us for an engaging seminar on immigration enforcement and its impact. Participants will learn about the extent of immigration enforcement, consider its far-reaching effects on public health and mental health, and learn about concrete resources and support available at Harvard, in surrounding communities, and beyond. We will be joined by HSPH faculty, students, and other leaders in this field.This seminar offers a welcoming space to learn, reflect, and connect.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Office for Community Belonging.

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David Williams
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Maggie Sullivan
FXB Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Evie Odden
MPH Student, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Liz Gipson
Population Health Innovation Manager

TJ Moon
Safety and Security Manager at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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A public health success story: The near-eradication of Guinea worm
2026-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Building
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A free film screening of the documentary, The President and the Dragon, and Q&A with former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and The Carter Center’s Sarah Yerian

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At just 10 human cases, reports of Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease with no vaccine or drug treatment, are at an all-time low, according to The Carter Center.* What drove this success?

This event includes a free screening of The President and the Dragon, a documentary about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s efforts to eradicate Guinea worm. Followed by a Q&A about Guinea worm, global health, and storytelling. Light refreshments to follow.

*Figures are provisional until officially confirmed.

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Rochelle Walensky
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sarah Yerian
Senior Associate Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center

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Emily Staub
Associate Director, The Carter Center

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When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research
2026-03-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, March 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Ronald Kessler discussing When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research.

Abstract: Recent years have seen a sea change in population survey methods, with online panels increasingly replacing traditional in-person and telephone surveys. A small number of vendors now offer “probability-based” online panels, in which households are recruited using probability sampling methods. The Census Bureau’s new Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is based on such a panel. However, most online panel providers rely on nonprobability, or “opt-in,” samples. Online panels can substantially reduce costs and shorten the time from data collection to results, addressing mounting challenges faced by traditional survey modes. At the same time, they raise important concerns about selection bias and generalizability. This is true even in probability-based panels, which typically have effective response rates in the range 2-5% (i.e., they fail to represent 95-98% of the population). Given that online panels are now a permanent feature of the research landscape, an important question is whether there is a viable middle ground between traditional probability samples and purely opt-in designs. This presentation reviews the approaches that have been proposed to find such a middle ground and describes a hybrid design now being implemented in the new round of the World Mental Health Surveys.

Bio: Ronald Kessler, Ph.D. is the McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He is a psychiatric epidemiologist whose work involves implementing mental health needs assessment surveys, preventive interventions, and clinical interventions for mental disorders and suicide-related behaviors. His intervention work focuses largely on developing precision intervention rules to get the right interventions to the right patients. He is the Director of the World Mental Health Surveys, a cross-national series of community epidemiological surveys on prevalence and correlates of common mental disorders in 30 countries (https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/). He is also the Harvard Site PI of the Study of Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS), a coordinated series of epidemiological and neurobiological studies of social determinants of suicide-related behaviors among US Army soldiers and veterans (https://www.starrs-ls.org/), and of a series of pragmatic trials based on STARRS designed to reduce soldier suicide-related behaviors. Dr. Kessler is the author of over 1000 publications and has for many years been rated the most widely cited researcher in the field of psychiatry according to the Science-wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University, completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin, and was on the faculty at the University of Michigan before taking his current position at Harvard Medical School in 1995.

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Ronald Kessler, PhD
McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “The effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on fertility and newborn health”
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA and online via Zoom
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Sarah Cowan, PhD, associate professor of sociology and director of undergraduate studies, New York University, will present (REMOTELY) “The effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on fertility and newborn health.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Sarah Cowan, PhD

Associate professor of sociology and director of undergraduate studies, New York University

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Brown Bag Seminar: Beyond the buzzwords: Why implementing people-centered care is essential to achieving universal health coverage
2026-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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David Duong, MD, MPH, is the director of the Program in Global Primary Health Care at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research and teaching covers primary healthcare systems strengthening, education program development, and policy and advocacy across Southeast Asia and in the United States. He is also co-lead of the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage. Duong is a primary care physician, a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Clinical Care, and previously served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare. He is also a former US Fulbright Scholar. Duong earned both his bachelor’s degree and master’s in public health degree from the University of Michigan and earned his medical doctor degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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David Duong
Director, Program in Global Primary Health Care, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Book Launch and Fireside Chat: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism. (Un)uttered Sentences By Dr. Margareta Matache
2026-03-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Ballard Conference Room, 5th Floor Countway Library & Online, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for a hybrid (in-person and Zoom) fireside chat to celebrate the launch of Dr. Margareta Matache’s new monograph, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences.

The event will explore the histories, structures, and daily practices that uphold anti-Roma racism across Europe and beyond. It will also examine the place and role of Romani Studies within broader global theories on racialization, racism, and systems of slavery. In conversation with Dr. Mary Bassett, Dr. Abadir Ibrahim, and Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Matache will reflect on howunuttered Roma sentences – erased histories, unhealed violence, and ignored internal knowledge – shape public health, policy, scholarship, and Roma lives.

Audience & RegistrationThis event is free and open to the public.Due to space limitations and security requirements, please register at least one day in advance by emailing Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Margareta Matache, PhD

Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the co-founder and Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

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Annual International Women's Day Event
2026-03-06 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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International Women’s Day: Bread & Roses – Friday, March 6 (1:00 – 1:50 PM) in Kresge 110

Join the Women, Gender and Health Interdisciplinary concentration to learn about the radical history of IWD and its deep ties to issues of gender, work & health justice.

After an introduction to the history of International Women’s Day by the Chair of WGH Prof. Krieger, we will hear from our guest speaker Dr. Linda Gordon, Professor Emerita of History at New York University and author of many influential books on US social and political history, including Seven Social Movements that Changed America (2025). This book includes stories of two Boston socialist feminist groups, Bread and Roses and the Combahee River Collective, whose activism and analysis modeled connecting “women’s issues” to other 1960s-1970s campaigns against racism and other forms of inequality.

A Q&A with the audience will follow. Speakers from co-sponsoring groups & members of the audience are welcome to briefly share what this day means for them.

All are welcome! Lunch will be provided.

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Nutrition Reimagined: Science, Obesity, and Dietary Guidelines at a Crossroads
2026-03-09 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, the Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Hu’s talk—”Nutrition Reimagined: Science, Obesity, and Dietary Guidelines at a Crossroads”—will take place on March 9 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.

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Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD

Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Chair of Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Introduction to the General Records Schedule
2026-03-10 10:00 - 10:30 | online
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Do you know how long you need to keep your office records, and what you should do when you no longer need them? In this workshop, we’ll help de-mystify records retention by showing you how to use and understand the Harvard University General Records Schedule (GRS).

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Cross-Disorder Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings and Methodologic Challenges
2026-03-11 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Jordan Smoller discussing Cross-Disorder Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings and Methodologic Challenges.

Abstract: Psychiatric disorders are highly comorbid, heritable, and genetically correlated, raising fundamental questions about the nature of shared versus disorder-specific genetic influences. Large-scale genome-wide association studies and multivariate genetic models now provide compelling evidence for both pervasive pleiotropy and meaningful etiologic differentiation across major psychiatric disorders. This seminar will review key findings from recent cross-disorder genetic analyses including recent work characterizing shared and disorder-specific genetic architecture using multivariate genomic approaches. We will also discuss methodological challenges that complicate cross-disorder inference, including heterogeneity in phenotypic assessment, differences in case and control ascertainment, and selection biases inherent in clinical cohorts, electronic health records, and population biobanks. Addressing these challenges will be important for robust and clinically-meaningful inferences about the underlying structure of psychopathology.

Bio: Dr. Jordan Smoller is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and geneticist whose research focus has been understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan and using big data to advance precision mental health including improved methods to reduce risk and enhance resilience.

Dr. Smoller is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At Massachusetts General Hospital, he is the Jerrold F. Rosenbaum Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Center for Genomic Medicine, and co-Director of the Center for Suicide Research and Prevention at MGH and Harvard. Dr. Smoller is a Tepper Family MGH Research Scholar and also serves as Director of the Omics Unit of the MGH Division of Clinical Research and co-Director of the Mass General Brigham Training Program in Precision and Genomic Medicine. He is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute and past President of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics.

He has played a leading role in national and international efforts to advance precision and genomic medicine. He is a Principal Investigator (PI) in the eMERGE (Electronic Medical Records and Genomics) network, founding PI of the PsycheMERGE Consortium and lead PI of the New England Precision Medicine Consortium as part of the NIH All of Us Research Program. He is also co-Chair of the Cross-Disorder Workgroup of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). He is an author of more than 650 scientific publications and is also the author of The Other Side of Normal (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2012).

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Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD
Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The Big Joy Project: Using Daily Microacts to Promote Global Well-Being
2026-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G13 or online, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Wednesday, March 11th, 2026, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G13 and online, we held the fifth installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series, featuring leading expert on joy Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas.

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Greater well-being predicts better health, more satisfying relationships, and overall success in life – and it is of utmost importance to most people. Recent scholarship has yielded a growing canon of empirically-tested interventions to enhance well-being, though few are multifaceted or widely, freely accessible. This presentation will share insights from the Big JOY project, an interactive public online program that offers 7 daily well-being micro-acts alongside individualized feedback about momentary and pre-to-post impact. A global, collaborative Citizen Science initiative, analysis of voluntary single-arm Big JOY participant responses sheds light on key patterns of engagement and impact; financial strain predicts drop off, younger people report greater benefit to well-being, and greater adherence ties to stronger endorsement of prosocial mores. Published findings and ongoing examination of the Big JOY dataset promise to inform continued efforts to promote well-being effectively, sustainably, and at scale.

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Dr. Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas is the Science Director at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). She runs the GGSC’s annual research fellowship program as well as major research initiatives on topics like gratitude, humility, and love. She teaches the science of well-being widely, including open online courses that have enrolled over 1M learners worldwide. Dr. Simon-Thomas leads collaborative efforts to give widespread access to well-being insights and practical strategies for improvement, and also investigate impact on individuals, interpersonal dynamics, and biological processes. She co-edited the 2017 Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science, and co-authored the 2025 Daily Flourish: A Science Backed Journal to Build Positivity, Connection, and Resilience. Dr. Simon-Thomas serves as an expert voice on the neuroscience and social implications of prosocial states like compassion and awe and the well-being benefits of generous and nurturing behaviors.

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Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center

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Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Strategic adaptation and Asian Americans’ socioeconomic evolution, 1940 to 2018–22”
2026-03-12 12:00 - 13:15 | 9 Bow Street & Online, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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ChangHwan Kim, PhD, professor of sociology, and director of graduate studies, University of Kansas, presents (REMOTELY) “Strategic adaptation and Asian Americans’ socioeconomic evolution, 1940 to 2018–22.”

Lunch will NOT be served since the speaker is presenting remotely.

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ChangHwan Kim, PhD

Professor of sociology, and director of graduate studies, University of Kansas

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Parkinson’s disease: Professor Sue Goldie’s journey
2026-03-12 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & online
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The New York Times headline was spare and startling: “Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease.” More than two years earlier, Goldie had agreed to let reporter John Branch chronicle her experience living with Parkinson’s –– giving him unfiltered access to her life at home and at work, her intense triathlon training, and hundreds of video diaries where she shared her innermost hopes and fears. An intensely private person, she wrestled with the decision to go public but wanted to give voice to the struggle that many people endure silently in the years following diagnosis, and to spark discussion about how people live and work with the uncertainty of this neurodegenerative disease. Goldie also hoped the story would provide a platform for her goals to raise awareness about the benefits of exercise in Parkinson’s and the importance of community and connectedness. In this fireside chat, Goldie –– a physician, scientist, and renowned educator –– will reflect on her journey and share what she has learned from the response to the story and what she hopes to do in her next chapter.

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Sue J. Goldie

Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health

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Stephanie Simon
Former Dean for Communications and Strategic Initiatives, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The Harvard Chan Studio is the hub for the School’s premier in-person and live-streamed events. We convene global leaders in health policy, advocacy, industry, and research for insightful conversations about public health’s most pressing challenges and most promising solutions.

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Brown Bag Seminar: Parental mental health and childhood vaccination in India: Evidence from the SEHAT-CPHS Longitudinal Study
2026-03-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Henry Cust, PhD, is an economist working as a research scientist at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. His research operates at the intersection of health and development economics with a focus on critical global health issues including antimicrobial resistance (AMR), HIV, mental health, and risky health behaviors. Utilizing both experimental and quasi-experimental methods, Henry’s work aims to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations.

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Henry Cust

Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Targeting Metabolism through FABP4 to Extend Healthspan
2026-03-23 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD, James S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and Director of the Center on Causes and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at HSPH. Dr. Hotamışlıgil’s talk—”Targeting Metabolism through FABP4 to Extend Healthspan”—will take place on March 23 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD

James S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism, Director, Center on Causes and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Managing Your Paper Records: Off-Site Records Storage
2026-03-24 10:00 - 10:30 | Online
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Run out of room for files in your office that you need to keep? The Harvard Depository records center is the perfect place for your office, department, or lab to store records that you need to keep but don’t use every day. In this online workshop, we’ll review step-by-step instructions for:

How to set up an account

How to pack and label boxes correctly

How to complete transfer paperwork

How to recall records back to your office

Workshops are about 30 minutes long. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (GRS) is helpful but not required. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities.

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Countway Library, Center for the History of Medicine

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A public health success story: The near-eradication of Guinea worm
2026-03-24 13:00 - 13:30 | Online
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Recorded Q&A, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 1-1:30pm ET

At just 10 human cases, reports of Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease with no vaccine or drug treatment, are at an all-time low, according to The Carter Center.* What drove this success?

Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and The Carter Center’s Sarah Yerian and Emily Staub answered questions following the screening of The President and the Dragon, a documentary about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s efforts to eradicate Guinea worm, at the Harvard Chan School. This a recording of that Q&A.

Released last fall, The President and the Dragon is available on various streaming platforms.

*Figures are provisional until officially confirmed.

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Emily Staub
Associate Director, The Carter Center

Rochelle Walensky
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sarah Yerian
Senior Associate Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center

About The Studio

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Redesigning Calm: Designing Nature-Inspired Spaces
2026-03-24 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Redesigning Calm invites members of the Harvard community to explore how our surroundings shape mental and physical well-being. Drawing inspiration from organic and landscape architecture that harmonize natural light, greenery, and spatial flow, alongside modern biophilic design, this hands-on workshop encourages participants to reimagine familiar built environment, such as campus study or personal spaces, through a restorative lens. Using sensory observation, art materials, and natural elements, participants will creatively redesign spaces to help ease stress and anxiety, promote calm, and restore focus.

This well-being workshop will be led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Olivia Song, MPH ’27. Pizza (and plants!) will be provided.

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Olivia Song
MPH '27

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Negotiations Webinar Series: “The Making of Negotiating Organizations"
2026-03-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
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Join us on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (10–11 a.m. ET) for the second session of our two-part Negotiations Webinar Series, hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

🎙 Webinar 2: ”The Making of Negotiating Organizations”

Featuring Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M., Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher, and Founder of Frontline Associates.

This session focuses on how effective institutions build and sustain robust negotiation practices. We will examine the dimensions of strong negotiating organizations and share examples of successful institutional reshaping in complex and adversarial contexts.

🔗 Free and open to the public

📍 Join via Zoom: hsph.me/negotiations-webinar-march-25

📲 Or scan the QR code in the event image

Please share with your networks and anyone who may be interested.

Questions? Contact hhi@harvard.edu.

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Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M.
Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher, and Founder of Frontline Associates

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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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US Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future
2026-03-25 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, March 25th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Elizabeth Arias discussing US Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future.

Abstract: The presentation will provide a historical overview of the US Life Table Program and a summary of the data challenges and methodological solutions employed over the years. The talk will include a description of the US National Vital Statistics System with its inherent challenges and limitations. Specific topics covered will include old age data quality, racial and ethnic misclassification, and small geographic area estimates. The goals for the future of the program will be discussed.

Bio: Dr. Elizabeth Arias is the Director of the US Life Table Program and the Mortality Statistics and Research Team Lead in the Division of Vital Statistics, at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Dr. Arias received her Ph.D. in Sociology (Demography) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At NCHS, Dr. Arias has worked to expand the US Life Table Program’s racial, ethnic, and geographic coverage, developing methods to address data quality limitations. Under her leadership, the program has expanded from two race groups to five race and Hispanic origin populations, annual state life tables, and life tables by census tracts. Dr. Arias also conducts research on racial and ethnic mortality disparities with a special focus on the Hispanic population.

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Elizabeth Arias, PhD
Mortality Statistics and Research Team, Statistical Analysis and Surveillance Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

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Department of Epidemiology

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Tribal casinos, economic success, and intergenerational mobility for tribal reservation residents”
2026-03-26 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center & online via Zoom, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Randall Akee, PhD, Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School, presents “Tribal casinos, economic success, and intergenerational mobility for tribal reservation residents.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Randall Akee, PhD

Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School

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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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Brown Bag Seminar: Primary Healthcare IMPACT Lab at the Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives
2026-03-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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In this seminar, Diah Saminarsih will introduce the Primary Healthcare IMPACT Lab, a new collaboration between the Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) and the Program in Global Primary Health Care, a shared initiative of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity and Harvard Medical School. The Lab aims to support Indonesia’s primary health care transformation through locally grounded research, training, and service innovation. The discussion will also reflect on the broader role of Global South–led partnerships in shaping the future of health systems.

Diah Saminarsih is the founder and CEO of CISDI and a distinguished global development practitioner and public health advocate. Diah concluded her role as senior advisor to the WHO Director-General on Gender and Youth in August 2022. In this role, she established dialogues with member states and their youth delegates on meaningful youth engagement. She also spearheaded strategies for youth engagement and gender mainstreaming, in close collaboration with development partners and member state representatives.

After leaving WHO, Diah served on the board of the Pandemic Fund as the CSO Global South Representative. She co-founded the Stop TB Partnership Indonesia in 2018 and played a key role in advising and overseeing the work of the Global Fund TB Community Principal Recipient Consortium from 2021 to 2023. She also served as special staff to Indonesia’s Minister of Health (2014-2019) and special staff to Indonesia’s MDGs Envoy (2010-2014). During her work with the government of Indonesia, Diah was Indonesia’s co-negotiator in the SDGs negotiation. Her involvement in health security national design brought Indonesia to be part of the initial troika in the Global Health Security Agenda initiative, along with the U.S. and Finland.

Diah is currently a Commissioner for the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Education at Universitas Harkat Negeri, in Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Diah Saminarsih
Founder and CEO, Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Front-of-package labeling in the United States: The latest evidence informing policy
2026-03-30 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Aviva A. Musicus, ScD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Musicus’s talk—”Front-of-package labeling in the United States: The latest evidence informing policy”—will take place on March 30 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Aviva A. Musicus, ScD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Science Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

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Department of Nutrition

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Crochet Workshop at Harvard Chan
2026-03-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A
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Join us for a beginner crochet workshop.All material provided. Free snacks and coffee/tea.

Event hosted by Office for Student Affairs

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Some Recent Results on the Epidemiology of Dementia
2026-04-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, April 1st for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. David Hunter discussing Some Recent Results on the Epidemiology of Dementia.

Abstract: Studies of the epidemiology of Dementia are complicated by the fact that until recently the two main subtypes – Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia could not be readily distinguished clinically, and may have distinct etiologies. Although that has changed somewhat with the advent of PET scans and CSF biomarkers, these are not yet used in routine clinical practice that is reflected in the clinical records that are available in large-scale observational databases such as the UK Biobank. I will discuss some recent collaborative studies in the Department of Population Health at Oxford and elsewhere that both illustrate these issues, and seek to help resolve them.

Bio: David Hunter is the Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Director of the Translational Epidemiology Unit at Oxford Population Health, the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK. He founded the Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at Harvard and was co-chair of the steering committee of the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium at the National Cancer Institute. He was co-director of the NCI Cancer Genetic Susceptibility Markers project focused on genome-wide association studies, and Dean for Academic Affairs and Acting Dean at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is the founding Chief Science Advisor of Our Future Health a major new national initiative in the UK that aims to return genomic information to consenting participants. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021 and appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australian King’s Birthday Honours List in 2023.

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David Hunter, ScD, MPH
Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Emeritus, Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Emeritus Affiliates, Harvard Medical School

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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
2026-04-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 201, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”
2026-04-02 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center & online via Zoom, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Michael Emch, PhD, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, presents “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Michael Emch, PhD

W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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Brown Bag Seminar: The overlooked epidemic: Reframing zoonotic tuberculosis in Ghana for public health
2026-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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David A. Barnes, DVM, PhD, is a veterinarian and infectious disease researcher from Ghana, with a PhD in infectious diseases from Hokkaido University, Japan. His research focuses on zoonotic and bovine tuberculosis (zTB/bTB) within the One Health framework, examining the epidemiology and genomic diverstiy of Mycobacterium bovis to inform public health strategies in Africa. Barnes is deeply passionate about bridging basic science, policy, and community health to address pressing infectious diseases challenges. His work integrates science and service in the pursuit of health equity and resilient communities across Africa.

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David A. Barnes, DVM, PhD
Takemi Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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21st Kolokotrones Symposium
2026-04-03 13:30 - 15:30 | Kresge G1, Synder Auditorium & online, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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21st Kolokotrones Symposium – a CAUSALab event in Collaboration with the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research

CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 21st Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“External Controls for Causal Inference: Study Design and Analysis” features four expert talks and a panel discussion.

The symposium will provide an introduction to external control arms and explore methodology and study design for causal inference. The symposium will conclude with an expert panel that will consider the question: where do we go from here?

Speakers & panelists:

⭐ Christina Lalani (Moderator) (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Dhruv Kazi (Moderator) (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Sonia Hernández-Díaz (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐Lorenzo Trippa (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐ Daniel Burkhoff (CRF, PV Loops, Columbia University)

⭐ Issa Dahabreh (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐ Robert Yeh (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Laura Mauri (Medtronic)

⭐ Rafael Cavalcante (Boston Scientific)

In person and online attendance free and open to the public. Limited spots available, so please register now to reserve your spot. Zoom link will be distributed to all virtual attendees the week leading up to the event. Additional information can be found on causalab.org.

Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, and not for Harvard University.

This event is hybrid, you can join in person or online by registering in advance.

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CAUSALab

Department of Epidemiology

Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research

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Why Stability Matters for Early Childhood Development
2026-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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Join the Center on the Developing Child’s upcoming webinar to explore why stability plays a critical role in shaping young children’s health and development.

Drawing on insights from the new working paper, From Resources to Routines: The Importance of Stability in the Developmental Environment, the conversation will examine how stability—or the lack of it—across children’s developmental environments can affect their well-being in the moment and across the lifespan, and highlight strategies to promote stability for young children and their caregivers.

The conversation will be moderated by our Chief Science Officer, Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, and feature Nathaniel Harnett, PhD, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Natalie Slopen, ScD, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP

Chief Science Officer at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Nathaniel Harnett, PhD

Director of the Neurobiology of Affective and Traumatic Experiences Laboratory at McLean Hospital, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Natalie Slopen, ScD

Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Food Environment Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Updates from California
2026-04-06 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Professor Laura Schmidt from the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Schmidt’s talk—”Food Environment Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Updates from California”—will take place on April 6 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Laura Schmidt, PhD

Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco

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Research Addressing Cancer Disparities in New York City
2026-04-08 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, April 8th for the Department of Epidemiology featuring Dr. Rulla Tamimi discussing Research Addressing Cancer Disparities in New York City.

Abstract: Dr. Tamimi will describe the catchment area of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center in New York City. New York City (NYC) is a region of extremes with some of the richest and poorest living in close proximity. These extremes have a profound impact on health, with major disparities in life expectancy, with cancer driving these differences as the number 1 and 2 causes of premature mortality and overall mortality, respectively. NYC is one of the most heterogeneous cities in the U.S. She will share her work as the Associate Director of Population Science at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, where she builds research programs that address the needs of the catchment area. She will also share research from the Center of Social Capital (SoCa) Promoting Multigenerational Health, a center she co-leads in response to the National Cancer Institute’s Persistent Poverty Initiative. The mission of the Center is to improve cancer risk and outcomes in persistent poverty census tracts throughout NYC by promoting multi-generational health. She will highlight recent work from the center.

Bio: Dr. Rulla Tamimi is the Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Associate Director of Population Science at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center. She is a cancer epidemiologist whose research has advanced our understanding of breast cancer risk and prognosis. Dr. Tamimi has led numerous NIH-funded studies and authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications, identifying key genetic, molecular, and lifestyle predictors of breast cancer. Her work includes studies of early-life and environmental exposures, molecular tumor characterization, and mammographic features as predictors of disease. Throughout her career, she has played a key role in developing collaborative research efforts, with a long-term commitment to improving cancer prevention and health equity.

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Rulla Tamimi, ScD

Professor of Population Health Sciences; Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College

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Nature and Health with Dr. Susan Abookire
2026-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G-12, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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The Climate Change & Planetary Health Concentration invites you to their next Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, featuring Dr. Susan Abookire discussing the health benefits of nature.

Topic: Nature and Health

Speaker: Susan Abookire, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; & Founder, Nature Systems Institute

Date: April 8, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.

Location: FXB G-12, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

You can read more about Dr. Abookire’s work in this recent Washington Post article, “Forest Bathing: Why Harvard doctors are seeking out this natural remedy for themselves.”

The Climate Change and Planetary Health concentration helps students understand the consequences of the current planetary health crisis, including the effects on food, water, air, extreme weather events, heat, migration, and political stability and their subsequent impacts on infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, nutrition, and mental health. Each month, the concentration hosts a seminar, open to all students and faculty at Harvard Chan, featuring a special guest discussing their work at the intersections of climate and health. Learn more.

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Susan Abookire
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Brown Bag Seminar: AI×public health: Analytic tool and emerging population exposure
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Benjamin Rader is a computational epidemiologist who currently serves as the scientific director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Group and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Rader’s research focuses on leveraging digital technologies and data to improve public health and has appeared in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Economist, U.S. Presidential Addresses, and Supreme Court amicus briefs. He has helped advise numerous government agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Defense, and previously resided with his family in Berlin, Germany, while serving as an AI advisor to the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Rader, a former U.S. Army Officer and Johns Hopkins’ Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow, received his PhD from Boston University and MPH from Northwestern University.

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Benjamin Rader

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Forging better futures: Solutions-based science to address extreme weather with Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom
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Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Morello-Frosch will discuss “Forging better futures: Solutions-based science to address extreme weather.”

This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here

Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-3 pm! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!

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Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, is an environmental health scientist, epidemiologist, and professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. For over 25 years, her research has examined structural determinants of environmental health and how co-exposures to chemical and non-chemical stressors impact health. Much of her work has examined this question in the context of exposures to ambient air pollution, drinking water contaminants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, extreme weather, and effects on perinatal and developmental outcomes. In addition to using community-engaged approaches in her work, Rachel also collaborates with regulatory agencies to develop science-policy tools to assess the cumulative impacts of multiple environmental and social factors that inform regulatory decision-making. Morello-Frosch is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a 2025-26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow.

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Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH

Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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Crossroads Conversation Series
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 110, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join Harvard Chan faculty and alumni as they share how someone’s advice, encouragement, or challenge impacted their life, and the ways they apply those lessons today. Lunch will be provided.

Follow the link below to register.

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14th Annual Roma Conference | Mapping Romani futures: Connected local histories and global realities
2026-04-10 12:30 - 18:45 | Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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International Roma Day has been celebrated by Romani communities around the world for decades. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, a historic gathering at which Roma Day, the Romani flag, and the anthem “Gelem, Gelem” were adopted as key symbols of the global Roma diaspora.

Across regions, neighborhoods, organizations, and institutions use this anniversary to highlight Romani heritage through concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, conferences, and media events. Many leaders and scholars also observe Roma Day with commemorations that honor victims of anti-Roma racism and reflect on progress in social, political, cultural, and economic life.

Since 2013, the annual Harvard Roma Conference has provided a forum to examine and address anti-Roma racism—its origins, history, drivers, protectors, and global manifestations, with particular attention to children and youth. The conference has worked to strengthen data collection on Roma (especially youth and children), improve research methods, promote participatory action research with Romani youth, and critically revisit histories, policies, and practices affecting Romani communities. A central goal has been to amplify and center Romani voices and experiences in global scholarship.

On April 10, 2026, the 14th Harvard Roma Conference, Mapping Romani Futures: Connected Local Histories and Global Realities, will once again mark Roma Day. This year’s event examines Romani histories and present-day realities to help shape more equitable futures for Romani children, youth, and generations to come, situating these discussions within a global context of rising human rights abuses, wars, extremism, and climate and digital threats.

This year’s program includes:

Keynote panel on global and regional trends and threats affecting Romani children and youth, especially in the context of escalating human rights abuses, wars, extremism, and climate and digital risks.

Panel 1 – Connected Futures, Histories, and Realities: Exploring connections and continuities in Romani histories and lived realities, and how these shape the lives, inequities, and identities of Romani children, youth, and future generations.

Panel 2 – Intersectionality and Intersecting Stories: Examining often overlooked and marginal axes of inequity in narratives of Romani histories, realities, and futures.

Book talk: Continuing a recent tradition, the conference will close with a book talk highlighting recent monographs on Romani people, with emphasis on works that advance global scholarship.

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FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University

Central European University Romani Studies Program

Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights (HKS)

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR), Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic

Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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Housing and homelessness: Solutions at the intersection of public health and public safety
2026-04-13 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness

As the cost of living rises across the United States, a record number of people experienced homelessness in 2024*, and shelter, housing, and support services are struggling to meet the need. Join leaders across public health and public safety for a conversation that moves beyond emergency response toward prevention, housing-first strategies, and long-term solutions. Grounded in lived experience and evidence, this panel explores cross-sector solutions with a focus on dignity, safety, and sustainable housing.

*Data according to National Alliance to End Homelessness State of Homelessness: 2025 edition

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Monica Bharel
Clinical Lead for Global Health, Public Health, and Public Sector Health, Google; Former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Leslie Credle
Founder of Justice4Housing in Boston

Gil Kerlikowske
Former Director of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama; Former Police Chief in multiple U.S. cities, including Seattle

Peter Koutoujian
Sheriff of Middlesex County, MA

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Howard Koh

Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Red tape and empty plates: understanding how administrative burden diminishes the effectiveness of food assistance policies
2026-04-13 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the Monday Seminar featuring Professor Erica Kenney, ScD, Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, and Research Director of the Harvard Prevention Research Center. Dr. Kenney’s talk—”Red tape and empty plates: understanding how administrative burden diminishes the effectiveness of food assistance policies”—will take place on April 13 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

All of our Monday Seminars are free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have a valid HUID, please fill out this form in advance to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Erica Kenney

Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH; Research Director, Harvard Prevention Research Center

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Awe on the Margins: Youth Perspectives on the (im)possibilities of Human Flourishing
2026-04-15 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G13, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On April 15th, 2026, we held the sixth and final installment in our Virtues for Well-being Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Demond Hill.

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Awe—an emotional response to vastness that transcends our ordinary frames of reference—has the power to transform perspectives, foster human flourishing, and enhance well-being. Yet little is known about where awe emerges in marginalized urban contexts, who can access it, and how it might disrupt structural inequality. This seminar asks: What would it take for us to be more honest with the lives we are living, living on, stepping over, and forgetting?

Drawing from the first year of a three-year youth participatory action research project with 20 Black and Brown high school students in Boston, this work explores how youth make sense of, complicate, experience, locate, and mobilize awe. Through an after-school awe and flourishing literacy program, students embarked on awe excursions, documented their insights, and designed awe-inspiring spaces. This project cultivates healing, civic engagement, and bold visions for communal health equity. Together, we will consider how “actionable awe” can transform “awe-ful” spaces into “awe-inspiring” ones and illuminate new pathways for collective flourishing.

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Dr. Demond M. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Health Equity at Tufts University in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. His research, grounded in transdisciplinary, critical, applied, humanizing-based approaches, focuses on the mental health and well-being of marginalized children, youth, and their families, with a particular emphasis on Black populations. Dr. Hill collaborates with communities to promote and protect opportunities for awe, belonging, and human flourishing among Black and Brown communities within systemic inequality. His work centers marginalized communities’ voices and lived experiences and incorporates youth- and community-based participatory action approaches to identify and strengthen protective factors that inform policy and promote mental health equity.

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Dr. Demond Hill

Assistant Professor, Tufts University

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The Grand Challenge of Child Mental Health: Lessons from the Great Smoky Mountains Study
2026-04-15 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, April 15th for a joint seminar between the Department of Epidemiology and the Maternal and Child Health Concentration featuring Dr. Bill Copeland discussing The Grand Challenge of Child Mental Health: Lessons from the Great Smoky Mountains Study.

Abstract: Child psychopathology is common, costly, and impairing. Indeed, the greatest burden of disease in the first 2 decades of life is related to mental health. This presents a great opportunity: Effective care for these diseases in childhood has the potential to mitigate and forestall later psychopathology (i.e., treatment as prevention). This talk will use data from a 30+ year psychiatric epidemiological study to demonstrate the ways in which this opportunity is often squandered contributing to misery, morbidity, and mortality in adulthood.

Bio: Dr. Copeland is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the Thomas M Achenbach Chair in Developmental Psychopathology. He was trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Vermont and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at Duke University Medical Center. He is the principal investigator of the prospective, longitudinal Great Smoky Mountains Study has been following 1420 participants in rural Appalachia for over 30 years to understand the long-term consequences of early adverse experiences and the development of mental illness. His research program has focused on understanding the developmental epidemiology of emotional and behavior problems across the lifespan. This work includes understanding the interplay between early adverse experiences and genetic vulnerability with other individual, family, and contextual characteristics.

His research has been supported by NIMH, NIDA, NICHD, NIA, and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. This program of research has led to over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts including publications in JAMA, JAMA: Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, American Journal of Public Health, Molecular Psychiatry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications. His work has been covered in such national news outlets as Slate, the New York Times, TIME magazine and CNN. Dr. Copeland was named on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

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Bill Copeland, PhD
Mortality Statistics and Research Team, Statistical Analysis and Surveillance Branch, Division of Vital Statisti Thomas M. Achenbach Chair in Developmental Psychopathology, University of Vermont; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont

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Strength in Community: Navigating Careers with Harvard Alumni
2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Sebastian’s Cafeteria, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210
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This event is designed to bring students and alumni together in conversation about career paths, job searching, and the value of professional community—particularly in today’s evolving job market. We hope to create a space where students can hear candid reflections from alumni about how they have navigated their careers, learn practical strategies for approaching the job search, and gain perspective on how the Harvard network can serve as a source of support and opportunity.

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The Voice of Hind Rajab Film Screening
2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Film screening

On January 29, 2024, Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Food will be offered.

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How our surroundings shape health: A conversation between environmental scientists
2026-04-16 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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For more than 50 years, Jack Spengler has advanced our understanding of how environment shapes health through pioneering research on the importance of air quality, healthy buildings, and climate resilience. In conversation with longtime collaborator Linda Powers Tomasso, Spengler explores how the places we live, learn, and work shape human health. Together, they reflect on the evolution of environmental health over five decades and the importance of continued collaboration and mentorship in shaping a more sustainable future.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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John D. Spengler

Research Faculty, Former Akira Yamaguchi Research Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Linda Powers Tomasso

Research Associate, Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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ID Epi Seminar Series: Why elimination should be the default response for future severe pandemic
2026-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G3 & Zoom
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Why elimination should be the default response for future severe pandemicPresented by Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand.

Professor Michael Baker is a public health physician, epidemiologist, and active researcher in the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, NZ. He is visiting the United States as a Fulbright Scholar from April to September 2026. In NZ, he leads the Health Protection Aotearoa Research Centre which investigates ways of improving prevention and control of infectious diseases and environmental health hazards. Michael took a leading role in shaping NZ’s Covid-19 pandemic response, particularly the elimination strategy. He has a strong interest in science communication and directs the national Public Health Communications Centre.

This event open to the public. To access the event, you will need to secure a visitor’s pass – you can do this by registering in advance.

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Michael Baker

Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand

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"Rovina's Choice" Screening and Q&A with Atul Gawande
2026-04-16 17:45 - 18:45 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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You are invited to a special screening of the New Yorker film “Rovina’s Choice,” a harrowing account of a mother’s efforts to save her daughter from sickness and starvation in the wake of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rovina Naboi’s devastating story represents the global impact of that decision on the world’s most vulnerable populations, and how it stopped decades of progress combating severe malnutrition and disease.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Executive Producer Atul Gawande, who served as the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) until last year.

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

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2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase
2026-04-17 09:30 - 11:30 | Massachusetts
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We invite you to join us at the 2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase, a University-wide poster session highlighting global health research conducted by Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage members of the Harvard community to join us to view posters, learn about ongoing research across the University, and support student scholarship.

The Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase celebrates student research and promotes interdisciplinary exchange, bringing together perspectives from research, practice, and policy across Harvard. The event provides an opportunity to engage with emerging work on pressing global health challenges and to foster dialogue and collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

Registration in advance is not required but is strongly encouraged. Harvard ID or visitor’s pass required for building entry.

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | To organic, or not to organic, that is the question
2026-04-20 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD, ScM, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chavarro’s talk—”To organic, or not to organic, that is the question”—will take place on April 20 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Jorge E. Chavarro

Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Managing Your Electronic Records: Shared Drives and Email
2026-04-21 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
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Does it take ages to find a file in your shared drive? Are you running out of room in your email? Save yourself and your office time and money by learning to manage your electronic records. In this workshop, we’ll help you manage your email and electronic records efficiently and effectively by giving you guidelines.

Workshops are about 45 minutes long. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (grs.harvard.edu) is helpful but not required.

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Harmonizing for Happiness: Finding Calm, Connection, and Joy Through Song
2026-04-22 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Harmonizing for Happiness: Finding Calm, Connection, and Joy Through Song is an interactive well-being workshop that invites all members of the Harvard community to explore how group singing can reduce stress, lift mood, and build a sense of connection—no musical experience required. Led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Priyam Bhushan Aturi, MPH ’26, this 50-minute session will combine a brief, accessible overview of the science behind singing and well-being with guided warm-ups, simple humming exercises, and inclusive group singing activities in a low-pressure, non-judgmental environment. Participants will have the chance to notice the emotional and physical effects of singing together, reflect as a group, and leave with practical tools—like humming or simple vocal exercises—that they can use in daily life to support their mental health and resilience. Lunch will be provided.

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Priyam Bhushan Aturi
MPH '26

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Brown Bag Seminar: Rethinking rehabilitation in public and global health: Lessons from Japan and adaptation in Uzbekistan
2026-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Kaori Yamaguchi, PhD, OTR, is a Takemi Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a senior researcher at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Japan, the research arm of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW). Her work focuses on rehabilitation within public and global health, while also encompassing health policy and health systems research, including health and long-term care insurance and community-based integrated care in Japan and across Asia. She has also conducted research in social epidemiology, with a focus on aging populations. She is particularly passionate about advancing health equity by addressing both individual-level determinants and broader social and health system contexts.

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Kaori Yamaguchi

Takemi Fellow

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CHDS Seminar with Christopher Jackson
2026-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | virtual only
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Christopher Jackson from the University of Cambridge, UK, titled, “Making Semi-Markov Multistate Models for Intermittent Observations Easily Usable.” Multi-state models for changes in a state (e.g. of health or illness) often assume that the transition rate is constant with time spent in the state (the “Markov” assumption). In this seminar, Jackson proposes a new method and software package to relax this often-unrealistic assumption, using hidden states known as “phases.” This is motivated by applications such as modelling the duration of infections, modelling time in a detectable state in cancer screening, and modelling cognitive impairment in studies of ageing.

Christopher Jackson is a Senior Statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge. His research involves incorporating statistical methods in models to combine evidence to inform population health policy. His publications cover Bayesian evidence synthesis, survival analysis, multi-state modelling, longitudinal data, decision theory, and model comparison. He has also developed several popular R packages, and co-authored two textbooks, “The BUGS Book” and “Value of Information for Healthcare Decision-Making.”

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Christopher Jackson
Senior Statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | AI-driven Integration of EMR and Molecular Data for Maternal and Child Health
2026-04-27 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research (Data Science) in the Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative, and Pain Medicine; Professor in the Department of Pediatrics; and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. Dr. Aghaeepour’s talk—”AI-driven Integration of EMR and Molecular Data for Maternal and Child Health”—will take place on April 27 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.

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Nima Aghaeepour, PhD

Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research (Data Science), Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative, and Pain Medicine; Professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University

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Graduation Q&A Session #1
2026-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Kresge 202, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Graduating soon? Have questions about regalia, tickets, ceremonies, or celebrations? Join us where we’ll cover everything you need to know to prepare for the big day!

Whether you’re unsure about ordering your cap and gown, need clarification on event logistics, or just want to ensure a smooth graduation experience, we’re here to help!

Email convocation@hsph.harvard.edu with any questions!

Visit our website at hsph.harvard.edu/graduation

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Graduation Q&A Session #2
2026-04-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

Harvard Alumni Launch Lab X Info Session
2026-04-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
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Learn about Launch Lab X, the Harvard Innovation Labs’ virtual alumni accelerator. Apply by May 12 to join the 2026–27 cohort.

Calling all Harvard alumni founders! Join Harvard’s global community of alumni entrepreneurs and innovators.

Launch Lab X is the Harvard Innovation Labs’ flagship global accelerator for alumni founders across all 13 Harvard schools, from any graduation year. Launch Lab X supports early-stage, for-profit and nonprofit ventures founded and led by Harvard alumni. Eligible ventures are typically pre-seed to seed stage and may operate in any sector and geography.

INCLUSIVE FOUNDER COMMUNITY

The Launch Lab X program is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive community of founders building ventures around the world. If you want to learn what it takes to create viable, disruptive, and adaptable ventures—and bring them to scale—apply to join our 2026–27 cohort. We can’t wait to hear about your venture!

APPLICATION TIMELINE

Applications for the 2026-27 cohort open on April 7. All applications are due by May 12, 2026, for consideration. Learn more and apply.

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The Harvard Innovation Labs welcomes attendees of all abilities to our events, both in person and online.

Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.

If you would like to request accommodations, please contact i-lab@harvard.edu in advance of the event.

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Spring Freecycle
2026-04-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Rosenau Atrium by Sebastian’s Cafe, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Don’t miss our spring Freecycle! Back by popular demand and in celebration of Earth Month, this event helps build community as well as save items that might otherwise end up in the trash. Last fall, over 300 people attended and swapped hundreds of items including: clothes, socks, shoes, and accessories; books and magazines; notebooks, paper tablets, clipboards, post-its, pens, pencils, and markers; white boards and dry erase supplies; staplers, tape, and clips; labels and envelopes; vases, mugs, dishes, and utensils; monitor stands and computer peripherals; and more!

Do some spring cleaning and bring your surplus items to the swap. (Please note, it is not necessary to bring anything to be able to shop!) Harvard ID required for building entry.

If you’re not able to make it to the Freecycle but would like to drop off donations, please bring them to the Reuse Room on a Wednesday between 11:30 am – 1:30 pm. See info on the room below for directions.

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Yerby Research Symposium & Reception
2026-04-29 11:45 - 14:00 | FXB G-12
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Join us for a vibrant showcase of pioneering research conducted by our Yerby Postdoctoral Fellows. This symposium is a unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge studies and engage with the next generation of public health leaders who are addressing critical public health challenges. Come connect with fellow researchers, faculty, and students to exchange ideas and explore potential collaborations that can shape the future of public health.

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From Discovery to Translation in Molecular Epidemiology: Unlocking the Potential of Large-Scale Biomarker Data for Cancer Prevention
2026-04-29 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a joint seminar between the Department of Epidemiology and the Harvard Cancer Consortium featuring Dr. Ruth Travis discussing From Discovery to Translation in Molecular Epidemiology: Unlocking the Potential of Large-Scale Biomarker Data for Cancer Prevention.

Abstract: Advances in molecular epidemiology have transformed our ability to measure circulating biomarkers at scale, particularly through the application of high-throughput proteomic platforms in large prospective cohort studies. These developments have enabled the systematic identification of associations between molecular traits and cancer risk across populations. However, translating these discoveries into meaningful insights for prevention, risk stratification, and early detection remains a major challenge. This seminar will explore the opportunities and limitations of large-scale biomarker discovery, focusing on the integration of proteomic, genetic, and epidemiological data to strengthen causal inference and prioritise targets for intervention. It will also consider the methodological and structural barriers that currently limit translation, including issues of measurement, generalisability, and study design, and will discuss how interdisciplinary approaches and coordinated research infrastructure can help bridge the gap between association and action.

Bio: Ruth Travis is Professor of Epidemiology and Deputy Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit within the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. She is internationally recognised for her research on the molecular and lifestyle determinants of chronic disease, with a particular focus on cancer. She leads a multidisciplinary research programme on the aetiology of prostate cancer funded by Cancer Research UK, alongside a pan-cancer programme integrating proteomic, genetic and epidemiological data across large-scale cohort studies such as EPIC and UK Biobank. She plays a leading role in major international consortia, including the PRACTICAL collaboration. Her work combines epidemiological and ‘omics approaches to advance understanding of cancer causation and inform cancer prevention, with a particular focus on translating large-scale molecular discovery into actionable insights for prevention. She is a member of the international ATLAS team, funded by Cancer Research UK through the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative, which brings together global expertise to uncover mechanisms of cancer avoidance and accelerate their translation into new approaches for prevention.

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Ruth Travis, BA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology; Senior Molecular Epidemiologist; Deputy Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit; Oxford Population Health, Oxford University

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Graduation Q&A Session #3
2026-04-30 00:00 - 13:00 | Zoom

At the front lines of global health messaging: A conversation with WHO’s retired communications director
2026-04-30 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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A virus never before seen in humans is killing people around the world. What do you say to a global audience desperate to learn more? Gabriella Stern faced this question head-on. For more than six years, she served as director of communications at the World Health Organization, including throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In this fireside chat, Stern will share stories from the front lines of global health communication—what it takes to craft and deliver clear, trusted messaging on issues ranging from infectious disease outbreaks to humanitarian crises to massive public health funding cuts—all while navigating a rapidly evolving communications landscape.

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Gabriella Stern
Retired director of communications, World Health Organization; Harvard affiliate; journalist

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Clarisza Runtung
MPH candidate ‘27, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: The Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centered Health System for India: Reform pathways towards UHC for a fifth of the world’s population
2026-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Anuska Kalita, DrPH, is director of the India Health Systems Program in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH. Chan School of Public Health. She is a health systems specialist with over 20 years of experience across academia, management consulting, multilateral agencies, and philanthropy. Her work spans 18 countries across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, with a particular focus on India. She has led large-scale health systems and policy research and built cross-sector partnerships that align government, private sector, academic, and civil society actors around actionable reform agendas. She co-led The Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centered Health System for India (2026) and has contributed to the design of landmark policies including India’s National Health Policy (2017), the Ayushman Bharat program (2018), and the national ASHA Program (2005). She has led and designed several capacity-strengthening/executive training programs for senior health professionals and policy makers, notably the WHO Academy’s PHC Leadership Course for senior policy actors across 180 countries. Kalita holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard University.

Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD, is Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds honorary professorships at Harvard Chan School, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Public Health Foundation of India. Patel co-leads the Mental Health for All lab and GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative, and his research focuses on the global burden of mental health problems, their links to social disadvantages, and community-based solutions. He cofounded Sangath, an Indian NGO recognized with international awards, and several global mental health networks. A Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and member of the US National Academy of Medicine, Patel has served on India’s first National Mental Health Policy Committee, co-led two Lancet Commissions on mental health, and received major honors, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Sarnat Prize, Pardes Humanitarian Prize, an Honorary OBE, and the Canada Gairdner Award. He holds multiple honorary doctorates and was named to TIME Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2015.

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Anuska Kalita
Director, India Health Systems Project, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School

Vikram Patel

Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population

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Come as you are: Community Circle
2026-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Jonathan M Mann Conference Room
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For Immigrant & International Students, Staff, Faculty, and Allies. You are invited to a relaxed and welcoming lunch gathering for immigrant and international members of our community. This gathering is an opportunity to connect, share a meal, and be celebrated – just as you are. Hosted by Partnerships for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-Being at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with the Chan Students’ Immigrant Health Forum.

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The Science and Practice of Human–Animal Interaction
2026-05-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110
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Join us for a lively conversation where research and real-world practice come together to explore the power of human–animal relationships. We will be joined by researchers Dr. Kerri Rodriguez and Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, and by practitioners Steven Fumicello and Niki Vettel with their animal partners, Sasha and Hermie, whom you will also have a chance to meet. Together, they’ll explore what science and real‑world experience each reveal about the human–animal bond—and how these perspectives inform and inspire one another. Lunch will be provided!

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness.

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Dr. Ichiro Kawachi

John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology

Dr. Kerri Rodriguez

Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine

Steven Fumicello & Sasha

Harvard University Police Department Officer

Niki Vettel & Hermie

Clinical Mental Health Counselor & Certified Pet Loss & Bereavement Counselor

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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21st Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
2026-05-05 13:30 - 18:30 | FXB 301 & FXB Atrium
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Join us for the 21st Freeman Seage Symposium on Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 in honor of Professors Jonathan Freeman and George Seage who were leaders in the field of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.

Oral presentations will take place in FXB 301 from 1:30-4:30 pm followed by a poster reception in the FXB Atrium from 4:30-6:30 pm. Contact CCDD with any questions: ccdd@hsph.harvard.edu.

Jonathan Freeman (1939-2000)

Jonathan Freeman was a faculty member at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health from 1990 until May 2000. He was instrumental in creating and leading the Interdisciplinary Program in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IPIDE). Freeman designed and taught courses on the investigation and transmission dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks, promoting an active interest in infectious disease epidemiology at a time when it was not widely popular. As a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, he practiced infectious disease medicine at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs. Freeman was also an active member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, where he taught a famously rigorous course on epidemiology principles for hospital epidemiologists. His research interests included hospital-acquired infections, tuberculosis, and malaria.

George R. Seage III (1957-2021)

George R. Seage III was a faculty member at Harvard Chan School of Public Health from 1999 until his passing in 2021. He was a valued member of the Department Epidemiology and a leader in the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) research. He played a key role in the earliest efforts to understand HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), bringing epidemiologic skills and expertise to the the field.

Seage was passionate about and dedicated to mentoring the next generation of infectious disease epidemiologists. He contributed to establishing program to mentor early career investigators in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). He was also the co-principal investigator of a T32 graduate training program in infectious disease epidemiology and biodefense and served as the director of the IPIDE.

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Commencement Ticket Pick-Up
2026-05-06 10:00 - 2026-05-08 16:00 | Kresge G4, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Pick up your tickets for Harvard University Commencement on May 6-8th in Kresge G4 from 10am-4pm. Your tickets for Harvard Chan Convocation can be accessed via after completing your graduation form.

Pick up your class item on May 6-8th in Kresge G4 from 10am-4pm.

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Psychotropic Medication Safety in Pregnancy: Moving Beyond Malformation Risk
2026-05-06 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, May 6th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Krista Huybrechts discussing Psychotropic Medication Safety in Pregnancy: Moving Beyond Malformation Risk.

Abstract: Psychotropic medication use during pregnancy has increased substantially, heightening the need for robust evidence to guide prescribing and to inform patients about the risks and benefits of treatment continuation. Historically, research has focused on congenital malformations—paradigmatic harms in the shadow of the thalidomide catastrophe—but other unintended drug effects are equally important and pose distinct methodological challenges. This seminar will examine what we have learned about studying outcomes such as nonlive births and longterm neurodevelopment in children, highlighting study design challenges, potential biases, and data issues that shape inferences about psychotropic medication safety in pregnancy.

Bio: Krista Huybrechts is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology (H4P). Her work, which is funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on the use of advanced epidemiological and statistical methods applied mainly to large databases derived from health data collected in the context of routine medical care to help address the unique questions regarding benefit-risk trade-off for prescription medication use faced by women of reproductive age and pregnant women.

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Krista Huybrechts, MS, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Epidemiologist, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Aging Reframed: Bridging Disciplines for Healthy Aging
2026-05-06 13:00 - 15:15 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Public health and medicine have added years to life; our next urgent challenge is ensuring those extra years are healthy and equitable—especially now that advances in biology and data science let us measure biological age and test aging interventions far more rapidly.

The seminar is designed to bring together researchers from across the School’s disciplines and departments to share current aging research efforts and discuss opportunities for future collaborations and funding. The program will feature brief talks on major aging-related research themes, a panel discussion with Q&A, and informal conversations over coffee and dessert. Your participation will be invaluable in leveraging and expanding the School’s capacity for aging research.

This event is the first of an ongoing interdisciplinary seminar series focused on cross-cutting public health challenges. By showcasing the breadth and depth of our research in aging and healthy longevity, we can begin to position Harvard Chan as a visible leader in this area.

Please register online to indicate your availability; you will receive an Outlook invitation about a week before the event.

Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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The Healthy Aging Initiative

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2026 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony
2026-05-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, 117 Western Ave, Boston, 02163
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Join the Harvard Innovation Labs for our annual celebration of innovation, community, and entrepreneurship at Harvard. We’ll hear live pitches from 25 finalists and reveal which ventures will receive a share of $500,000+ in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation.

Tickets are now available to the Harvard community. Registration will open to the public on or before April 22.

The theme of this year’s competition is “What Moves You” — and our founders represent the diverse paths to entrepreneurship and how early ideas can lead to real impact.

Get excited for this year’s event by watching highlights from last year.

How to join:

In-person: Join us in person for the awards ceremony in Klarman Hall in Allston, Massachusetts. An after party will follow at Schwartz Pavilion (directly outside of Klarman Hall) with food, drinks, and a chance to meet and mingle with the finalists and our broader innovation community.

Online: Can’t make it to campus? Join us online from anywhere in the world for an immersive digital experience. We’ll share the livestream link as the date gets closer.

Please note: By registering, you agree to receive emails about this event and future communications from the Harvard Innovation Labs.

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Global humanitarian and disaster management one year after the dismantling of USAID
2026-05-07 10:00 - 10:50 | Online
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Presented jointly with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

How are the front lines of global disaster and humanitarian response faring one year after the dismantling of USAID? Altaf Musani, director of Humanitarian and Disaster Management at the World Health Organization, and Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, will examine the impacts and explore the paths forward to ensure that lives continue to be saved in this pre-recorded conversation moderated by Irini Albanti, executive director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

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Altaf Musani
Director, Humanitarian and Disaster Management, World Health Organization

Michael J. VanRooyen

Lavine Family Professor of Humanitarian Studies in the Department of Global Health and Population

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Irini Albanti

Executive Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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Healthcare in the Crosshairs: US Foreign Policy and the Destruction of Public Health in Lebanon & Gaza
2026-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G10
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Join us on Thursday May 7 at 1 pm in FXB-G10 for a conversation with Professor Ziad Abu Rish and Professor Atalia Omer on the destruction of public health infrastructure in Lebanon and Gaza while examining the role of US foreign policy in the ongoing attacks. Professor Walter Johnson will present opening remarks.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, Black Students Health Organization, and the Harvard Chan Student Committee for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine.

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Ziad Abu Rish, PhD

Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies; Director, MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts

Atalia Omer, PhD

Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame

Walter Johnson, PhD

Professor of History and African and African American Studies and Vice-President AAUP-Harvard

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Co-sponsored, Department of Health Policy and Management

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The Women’s Health Student Summit at Harvard Chan
2026-05-09 08:30 - 16:30 | Kresge G1, Synder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Women around the world experience systemic barriers to respectful, quality care. Countries like the UK and Australia, in response, developed national women’s health strategies to evolve from fragmented programs toward integrated, life-course approaches. However, there is no academic forum that convenes global leaders, policymakers, academic experts, and advocates to advance the discussion and create a shared agenda for holistic women’s health strategies. The women’s health student summit at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the forum where changemakers gather to develop strategies that unify siloed programs and bridge research, policy, and implementation to advance women’s health agendas globally.

This event is in-person and virtual.

Agenda

8:00 AM — Registration

9:00 AM — Opening remarks · Betza Bravo & Aracely Guzman Guajardo

9:20 AM — Keynote: The Imperative of Developing National Women’s Health Strategies · Dame Lesley Regan

10:00 AM — Panel: Transforming Maternal Health: From Evidence to Systems Change · Katherina Semrau · Rose Molina · Christin Price

10:55 AM — Panel: Womenomics 2.0: The ROI of Investing in Women’s Health Strategies · Rhonda Pacheco · Esther Duflo

11:50 AM — Lunch (breakout sessions):

“Small Shifts, Meaningful Directions” — MomPath

“The Menopause Leadership Gap: From Screening to Empowering Leaders in and Beyond Transition” — Promoting Good

12:20 PM — Lunch (fireside chat):

The Power of Prevention

1:05 PM — Panel: Sexual and Reproductive Health in a Polarized World: Evidence, Rights, and Policy · Alicia Yamin · Sapna Kathri

2:00 PM — Panel: Invisible No More: Addressing Neglected Areas in Women’s Health Across the Life Course · Jorge Chavarro · Olga Garcia · Louise King

2:55 PM — Panel: Blueprint for Change: Moving Toward Integrated, Life-Course Health Strategies · Lia Tadesse · Hector Valle · Dr. Winnie Yip

3:50 PM — Panel: The Last Mile of Health Policy: If Science Doesn’t Influence People’s Behavior, What Does? Communicating Health Policy in the Age of Social Media · Amanda Yarnell

4:20 PM — Closing keynote

4:50 PM — Closing remarks · Betza Bravo & Aracely Guzman Guajardo

We greatly thank our sponsors for their contribution to making this event possible.Changemakers: FUNSALUD, Promoting good

Blueprint partner: Provost’s Fund for Student Collaboration, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Womenomics champion: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (department of Social and Behavioral Health, Department of Global Health), Harvard Chan Student Government Association

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Dame Lesley Regan
Women's Health Ambassador for England

Lia Tadesse
Former Minister of Health of Ethiopia

Hector Valle
President, Mexican Foundation for Health

Alicia Yamin, JD, MPH, PhD
Director, Global Health and Rights Project, Harvard Law School

Rhonda Pacheco
President, U.S. Business Unit and U.S. Country Head, Takeda

Winnie Yip, PhD
Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Food is Medicine for Improving Cancer Outcomes
2026-05-11 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Dr. Zhang’s talk—”Food is Medicine for Improving Cancer Outcomes”—will take place on May 11 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required and closes at 3:00pm ET on May 8).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.

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Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

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Takemi Program Poster Presentations
2026-05-12 10:30 - 12:30 | Kresge Atrium
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Join us to hear from the Takemi Fellows as they present. Questions to follow from 11:15 – 12:15 am. See more on the Takemi Fellows here.

Coffee and tea will be provided.

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Seminar with Professor Keizo Takemi
2026-05-12 12:30 - 13:30 | Kresge G2
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Dr. Keizo Takemi will speak on “My personal journey with global health and the Takemi Program.” Join in person or online.

Please email takemi@hsph.harvard.edu for questions or to access the Zoom link.

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Keizo Takemi
Former Japanese Minster of Health, Labour, and Welfare; Chair of the Asian Population and Development Association

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Discovery to intervention: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative with Stephen G. Matthews, PhD, FCAHS
2026-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 | HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom
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Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Stephen G. Matthews, PhD, FCAHS, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health and Professor of Physiology, Ob-Gyn and Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Matthews will discuss “Discovery to intervention: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative.”

This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here

Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-3 pm, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!

Abstract

It is well established that the environment during pregnancy can have a long-term impact on cardiometabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring and increase risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in later life. There is growing evidence from preclinical studies and some clinical studies that the preconception period in both females and males and the early pregnancy phase are periods of high sensitivity to environmental perturbation. The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) was developed to translate new knowledge in the area of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and improve the health of mothers, infants and children. The HeLTI consortium includes harmonized trials in Canada, China, India and South Africa designed to evaluate the impact of an integrated evidence-based intervention package, delivered through the preconception, pregnancy and postnatal period on, 1) reducing adiposity and obesity, and improving neurodevelopmental and cardiometabolic development in infants and children to 5-years of age and, 2) improving maternal health and pregnancy outcomes. All trials have completed recruitment and combine harmonized data and biospecimen collection. The HeLTI-India trial will be described in detail. Findings from the HeLTI studies will have profound implications for public health policy but will also allow determination of the mechanisms that underlie intergenerational transmission. HeLTI is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and International funding agencies (India, China and South Africa) and is partnered with WHO.

About the speaker

Stephen Matthews, PhD, FCAHS, is Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Professor of Physiology, Ob-Gyn and Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health. He served as Chair of the Department of Physiology (UofT; 2007-2014). He is currently Director of Research at the Alliance for Human Development, LTRI, and Director of the Ontario Birth Study. Matthews is also the Canadian lead PI of the CIHR/DBT-funded Healthy Life Trajectories (HeLTI) trial in India.

His fundamental research program is determining mechanisms by which early interventions and exposures can impact long-term neurologic and endocrine function in offspring across multiple generations. With a focus on epigenetics, his research team is determining the molecular mechanisms by which this occurs. In a parallel program, his group is investigating drug and hormone transport mechanisms in the placenta and fetal brain, with a focus on developing novel treatments to protect the developing fetal brain.

Professor Matthews is committed to translating fundamental research to improve human health. In addition to leadership of the HeLTI-India trial and the Ontario Birth Study, he co-founded the MAVAN program, which followed neurocognitive development in children following adverse early experience. He has secured over $40M in research funding, published 265 full papers and has received >300 invitations to present his work around the world. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2019). He has served as elected President of the Society for Reproductive Investigation. In 2015, he co-founded DOHaD Canada and served as elected President (2018-23).

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Stephen G. Matthews, PhD, FCAHS

Professor of Physiology, Ob-Gyn and Medicine, University of Toronto

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CHDS Seminar with Marissa Reitsma
2026-05-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Marissa Reitsma from Stanford University, titled, “Integrated Interventions for Syndemics of Substance Use, HIV, and HCV.” Syndemics are interacting epidemics, driven by social and structural factors, which can concentrate excess disease burden among marginalized populations. Integrated interventions can more efficiently address syndemics, including the syndemic of substance use disorder, overdose, HIV, and hepatitis C virus among people who use drugs. We developed an agent-based model of this syndemic, parameterized with real-world data, to inform the design and delivery of integrated treatment and harm reduction interventions for people who use drugs.

Marissa Reitsma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University. Her research develops computational models to quantify disease burden, evaluate the benefits and costs of interventions, and support evidence-based policies across a range of priorities in population health. Ongoing work focuses on building multi-disease models to address syndemics and developing methods for multimodal data fusion. She is dedicated to partnering with clinicians and public health decision-makers to translate scholarly work into policy impact.

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Marissa Reitsma, PhD

Assistant Professor, Health Policy, Stanford University

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Screening for Major Diseases — Does it help?
2026-05-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
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The Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine – 10th Symposium

Part of the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine series, The 10th Cutter Symposium “Screening for Major Diseases—Does It Help?” will feature three separate lectures from expert speakers on the topic of screening for colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and infectious diseases followed by a moderated Q&A segment with all the speakers. This symposium is open to the public & is virtual only.

Schedule of talks:

1:00PM Introducing the Cutter SymposiumAlbert Hofman, MD, PhD1:05PMThe Power of Colorectal Cancer ScreeningHermann Brenner, MD. MPHAbstract: Over 30 years ago, in 1993, a groundbreaking analysis of the US National Polyp Study was published, which suggested that colonoscopic removal of colorectal polyps was associated with an 88% reduction of colorectal cancer incidence. Since then, numerous observational studies and randomized trials have confirmed effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening, even though most of them substantially underestimated screening effects for various reasons. Large heterogeneity in introduction of and adherence to screening programs across countries in the last three decades is mirrored in large heterogeneity of trends in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Modelling studies based on the accumulated evidence confirm that the vast majority of the approximately one million colorectal cancer deaths per year globally could be prevented by screening. 1:35PMControversies and Innovations in Screening for Prostate Cancer Lorelei Mucci, ScD Abstract: More than 1.6 million men across the globe are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, and it is the leading cause of cancer death in more than 50 countries. In randomized controlled trials, screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been shown to reduce cancer mortality over two decades. However, PSA screening also has led to overdiagnosis of prostate cancers that have a low potential for metastasis and concomitant overtreatment of patients. What has ensued over the past two decades has been an active debate about the harms and benefits of screening, guidelines that are often in conflict with one another, and in the United States, a substantial reduction in prostate cancer screening that is now tied to an uptake in incidence of metastatic prostate cancer. This talk will provide an overview of the history of PSA screening, the evidence around risks and harms, the controversies, and recent innovations in approaches to accelerate a risk stratified approach to screening. 2:05PM Diagnostics, Screening, and Surveillance in Pandemics Marc Lipsitch, DPhilAbstract: This talk will describe challenges and opportunities for surveillance during large infectious disease events, with lessons from COVID-19 and earlier pandemics. Active testing of population-based random samples provide numerous advantages over passive case detection in many situations, while linked data on demographics, severity, and pathogen variant among other characteristics are far more valuable for decision making than the same data if unlinked. Better data can inform more efficient decisions about control measures that improve the ratio of disease control effectiveness to cost and disruption.2:35PMGeneral Discussion3:00PMClosing by Albert Hofman

Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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Hermann Brenner, MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology, Heidelberg University, Scientific Coordinator, National Cancer Prevention Graduate School, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Lorelei Mucci, ScD

Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Track, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil

Berberian Professor and Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biology, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Albert Hofman, MD, PhD

Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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HCMPH Center Annual Symposium
2026-05-18 08:30 - 17:00 | Kresge G1 & Online
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We are delighted to welcome everyone to the eighth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium. As microbial community science expands across industry, clinical research, biotech, and pharma, this year’s theme – translating the microbiome – focuses on turning discovery into implementation. From the first approved live biotherapeutics to microbiome-informed cancer immunotherapy, the field is already reshaping how we understand health and develop therapies.

The symposium will highlight recent advances while looking ahead to future opportunities, including microbial biochemistry in small-molecule drug development and engineering of microbial community members. As always, we hope to be joined by an audience that is both topically and geographically diverse, online and in person. The symposium program will include keynotes, invited talks, and selected presentations from poster submissions. We collect a nominal fee for in-person registration, with virtual attendance available for free. Refreshments and a poster presentation are offered on-site, and support for social media and interactive participation are provided for online attendees.

For more information on the event and the poster reception, please visit this link. For questions: levesque@hsph.harvard.edu

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In-person registration is available: HEREVirtual registration continues to be free and is available here: virtual attendance only

Location:Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthSnyder Auditorium – Kresge G1Poster Reception to be held in the Kresge CafeteriaVirtual attendance available via Zoom webinar (link emailed to you after completing registration for virtual attendance)

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Eric Rubin, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine with opening remarks

Michael Fischbach, PhD

Liu (Liao) Family Professor, Stanford University presents "Commensal vaccines”

Laura Cox

Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital presents “Dissecting strain-specific roles of the gut microbiome in neurologic diseases”

Robert Britton, PhD

Professor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine presents “The impact of the infant microbiome on brain development and cognition”

Jose Clemente, PhD

Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presents “A tale of two trials: microbiome interventions in early life”

Jean McGee, MD, PhD, MS

Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital presents
“The gut feeling behind healthy skin: Expanding the role of the gut microbiome in dermatology”

James Collins, PhD

Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology presents “Microbiome-friendly medicine: engineering live therapeutics and AI-designed antibiotics”

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EcoOp Spring into Action: Street Cleanup
2026-05-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for a spring cleaning litter pickup! Let’s make the neighborhood cleaner and greener!

Meet outside the Kresge Building by the revolving door. All are welcome, bring a friend!

Please RSVP to susan_bottino@harvard.edu. This event is weather-dependent.

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Harvard Chan Awards Presentation and Celebration
2026-05-26 10:00 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Awards will be presented to staff, faculty, and students. Reception to follow the ceremony.

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Harvard Chan School Convocation 2026
2026-05-27 09:00 - 13:30 | Agganis Arena, 925 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
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Convocation is the formal ceremony for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, held at Agganis Arena. Dean Baccarelli will deliver remarks, along with a student speaker, a convocation speaker, and an alumni speaker. Graduates are individually presented with a scroll of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and will walk across the stage as their names are announced.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, MPH ’01, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will deliver the Convocation speech for the Class of 2026.

9:00 am: Graduate arrival10:00 am: General admission guest seating opens10:15 am: Live stream begins10:30 am: Procession begins11:00 am: Ceremony begins1:30 pm (approximately): Ceremony ends and reception beginsHarvard Chan School community members who are not attending the ceremony at the Agganis Arena can watch the live stream in the Kresge Atrium and Cafeteria or the student lounge.

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Harvard University Commencement Morning Exercises 2026
2026-05-28 09:30 - 12:15 | Agganis Arena, 925 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
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Commencement is the Harvard University-wide ceremony and activities, open to graduates of all Harvard schools.

6:45 am: Guest seating opens7:00 am: Graduate arrival at Sever Quad7:20 am: Harvard Chan procession begins9:30 am: Commencement Exercises called to order12:15 pm: Commencement Exercises adjourn

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NEW DATE | Pressure Points: Engineering AI for the future of healthcare
2026-06-09 13:00 - 13:50 | Online
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The original event has been rescheduled and will now premiere on the HSPH YouTube Channel on Tuesday, June 9 at 1pm ET.

Pressure Points is a webinar series co-hosted by The Studio and the Advanced Learning Academy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health bringing you inside the business of health care.

AI has already changed how health care organizations collect and analyze data. Now, it’s changing how they build. From large language models to AI agents and low-code development tools, it’s possible to create workflows, build applications, and generate prototypes, raising questions about what health care leaders should build, buy, and scale. This Pressure Points virtual event will analyze the recent acceleration of AI capabilities beyond vibe coding and explore the emerging best practices and organizational challenges that come with implementing agentic AI tools.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Aman Bhandari
Chief AI and Analytics Officer, SCAN Group

John Brownstein
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital

Heather Mattie

Lecturer on Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Co-Director of ALA’s "Responsible AI for Health Care" and "Innovation with AI in Health Care" courses

Trishan Panch
CEO of LUNRStudio and Executive Chair and Chief Strategy Officer at Lumin Health; Co-director of ALA’s "Responsible AI for Health Care," "Innovation with AI in Health Care," and "Beyond Vibe Coding: Building AI Solutions to Transform Health Care" courses

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Rifat Atun

Vice Dean for Non-Degree Education and Innovation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The Studio is the hub for the School’s premier in-person and live-streamed events, convening global leaders in health policy, advocacy, industry, and research for insightful conversations about public health’s most pressing challenges and most promising solutions.

The Harvard Chan Advanced Learning Academy is the home for non-degree education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, offering a dynamic portfolio of programs built for real-world impact.

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Midweek Mindfulness Reset
2026-06-17 11:00 - 11:30 | Virtual
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Reduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset.

Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of your week!

We will meet virtually via Zoom every Wednesday from 11:00 am–11:30 am ET (and you’re welcome to stay for an optional 15 additional minutes for sharing and community building). Open to all; no experience needed.

Please register here

Please note that these sessions are for relaxation and general wellness only and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. By participating, you agree to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional well‑being, and to consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.

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2026-06-17 11:00 - 11:30 | Massachusetts

Reframing exercise: How simple physical activity boosts health
2026-06-18 13:00 - 13:50 | Online
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For many people, consistent exercise feels daunting — an all-or-nothing proposition in which setbacks signal failure and advice overwhelms. This discussion reframes physical activity as something accessible and sustainable by challenging common myths about exercise and the amounts needed for health and well-being. Speakers will explore how different “doses” of activity, from light movement to more intense training, influence health — and how adapting routines can help people avoid burnout and keep exercising over a lifetime. A panel of specialists in epidemiology, sports cardiology, athletics, and health journalism will weigh in, drawing on both research and real-world experience.

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Brooke Forde
Olympic Silver Medalist and Project Coordinator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

I-Min Lee

Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

Mia Sanchez
SM ‘26, and Marathoner

Meagan Wasfy
Sports Cardiologist and Echocardiographer, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Gretchen Reynolds
Health columnist, The Washington Post

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Summer Solstice Celebration 2026: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
2026-06-21 17:00 - 21:00 | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Join the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture on the longest day of the year—free of charge—to explore the galleries and new exhibitions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

Step outdoors to enjoy live music and performers, play lawn games, and make a flower crown. Ice cream, beverages, and food will be available for purchase from food trucks. Don’t miss out on this popular event for all ages!

Sponsored by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.

Free event parking will be available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 4:30 pm. Please note that Divinity Avenue will be closed to traffic during the event.

The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture are an 8-minute walk through historic Harvard Yard from the Harvard Square MBTA Red Line station.

In case of rain, the museums will remain open and a select number of activities will be available. Please check the HMSC website for details.

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Plotting like a Pro: Data Visualization with R / ggplot2
2026-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
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In this hands-on workshop we will demonstrate how to create high-quality plots utilizing the ggplot2 R package. The workshop will cover different plot formats as well at many of the key options and theme layers that participants may be interested in applying to create their highly customized plots. We will also cover exporting plots as well as creating functions for a consistent formatting across plots.

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Best Practices for Creating Charts and Graphs
2026-06-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Massachusetts
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This workshop will cover key design principles you should consider when planning data visualizations — from choosing the optimal chart or graph type for your data to the effective use of color, text, and annotations.

Instructor: Jess Cohen-Tanugi, Visualization Specialist, Harvard Library

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EcoOpportunity Book Exchange
2026-06-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Massachusetts
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Informal gathering to chat about books we’ve enjoyed and build a sustainable community through reuse. Bring books to share. (All types of books: fiction, non-fiction, memoir, how-to, etc.).

Don’t have any extra books? Bring some book recommendations. There will be extra books. Invite a friend!

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The fight against Ebola
2026-06-30 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
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Presented jointly with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

As the number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda climb, health infrastructure and resources are stretched thin. The outbreak response is complicated by conflict, remote terrain, and population movement. With no vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo strain, surveillance, cross-border coordination, and community engagement is key. Join leaders from WHO and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for a conversation that examines the challenges of the current response and what the fight against Ebola reveals about humanitarian aid and global health security.

Watch the premiere on June 30 at 10 a.m. ET on the Harvard Chan YouTube page.

An on-demand recording will be available following the premiere.

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Marie Roseline Belizaire
Emergencies director for WHO Africa and WHO Incident Manager for the Ebola (BVD) outbreak

Petra Khoury
Director of Health and Care Department at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

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Phuong Pham

Director of Education, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The Harvard Chan Studio is the hub for the School’s premier in-person and live-streamed events. We convene global leaders in health policy, advocacy, industry, and research for insightful conversations about public health’s most pressing challenges and most promising solutions.

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Community-Engaged Environmental Data Science Training
2026-07-09 08:00 - 2026-07-10 17:00 | Hybrid (Virtual or in person at University of Washington)
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Join a two-day intensive course featuring lectures on key concepts in solution-oriented, community environmental health research. Sessions will cover areas ranging from exposure assessment techniques to epidemiologic methods, community engagement practices, health policy applications, data science, and statistical analytic approaches for doing environmental health science that is in partnership with and relevant for improving community health.

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Led by Joan Casey, PhD, University of Washington and Tamarra James-Todd, Harvard University

This training is co-hosted by the Columbia University SHARP (Skills for Health and Research Professionals) Program, the Columbia NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan (CEHNM), URMC’s NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center & Institute for Human Health and Environment, the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health, and the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities at the University of Washington.

*Scholarship covers registration fees only, not travel.

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Tamarra James-Todd

Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology

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Extreme heat and health
2026-07-14 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
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Presented jointly with the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) Extreme heat is among the deadliest weather threats in the U.S. Rising temperatures take lives, strain health systems, and drive increasing costs. In this discussion, speakers will explore who is most at risk and unpack the economic stakes. They also will examine a range of possible solutions, from providing affordable access to air conditioners, to increasing green spaces, to helping neighbors look out for each other. The experts will share research, frontline experience, and practical guidance so viewers come away with clear steps to help themselves and their communities stay cooler and safer when temperatures soar.

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Caleb Dresser

Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health

Amruta Nori-Sarma

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science

Lisa Robinson

Senior Research Scientist

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Sabrina Shankman
Reporter, Boston Globe

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Introduction to Data Visualization with Python / Seaborn
2026-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
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This hands-on workshop, hosted by the Countway Library, will cover the basics of data visualization using Seaborn, a library for the Python programming language. We will cover how to create plots using numeric and categorical data, as well as the creation of multi-panel figures for data exploration and presentation.

For more information about the event, visit the event page.

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Parental mental health: Raising healthier families
2026-08-20 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
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Parents today are facing unprecedented levels of stress, with many reporting symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, and loneliness. The U.S. Surgeon General’s 2024 advisory calls parental mental health and well-being an urgent public health issue, sighting the effects of parental health on the health and development of children. In this discussion, experts will examine the factors driving parental stress, explore how parental mental health shapes child development and family well-being, and discuss evidence-based strategies to better support parents. Drawing on research in public health, psychology, and child development, panelists will share practical insights for families while considering the policies and community investments needed to help parents—and the next generation—thrive.

Watch the premiere on our YouTube page.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

Speakers

Archana Basu

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Psychologist, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); Co-Director, Integrated Primary Care Program, MGH/MassGeneral Brigham

Karestan Koenen

Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jayne Singer
IECMH-E, Director of Relational Health and Clinical Training, Brazelton Touchpoints Center; Senior Attending Psychologist, Division of Developmental Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Richard Weissbourd
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Director, Making Caring Common Project

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Melody Mendez
Anchor/Reporter, NBC10 Boston

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The Studio Open House 2026
2026-08-27 13:00 - 14:00 | The Studio, Kresge Building, 10th Floor
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What public health leader do you want to meet this year?

Harvard Chan School students are invited to let us know at The Studio’s Open House, August 27, 1-2 p.m., 10th Floor, Kresge Building.

The Harvard Chan Studio regularly convenes policymakers, scientists, alums, and media to livestream and record discussions about public health.

Drop by the Open House and:

share your suggestions for speakers and topics

meet fellow students and give your quick takes on public health

say hello to golden retriever Sophie, a therapy dog

enjoy some light refreshments

grab some Studio swag

Guests will be admitted on a rolling basis until we reach capacity. Harvard ID required. Please note that attendees may be photographed or recorded.

A selection of upcoming Studio events:

Crisis leadership 25 years after 9/11

Wildfire smoke: Health and environmental impacts

Transforming mental health care

Americans’ opinions about public health

Driving down health care costs

Grief, loss, and trauma

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Mortality Displacement: Sixty Years of Debate and Consequences
2026-09-09 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 607 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, September 9th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. David Jones.

Abstract: As scrutiny of air pollution epidemiology increased in the 1960s, researchers wondered whether pollution crises mostly killed people with preexisting cardiac or respiratory disease who would have died soon anyway. This idea, named “mortality displacement,” “harvesting,” or “anticipation” gained increasing attention in the 1990s and 2000s, with studies of air pollution, heat waves, and climate change, and again in the 2020s with COVID. Pinning down whether the phenomenon is real or not has proved surprisingly difficult: many contradictory findings have been published. The most careful analyses (many done at HSPH) have discounted the phenomenon. Yet the concept endures in both academic writing and public discourse. This talk will explore the history of mortality displacement in an attempt to understand why the debates persist and what consequences the debates—and the concept itself—might have for public policy.

Bio: Trained in psychiatry and history of science, David Jones teaches history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine at Harvard University. His research has ranged from the history of epidemics to heart disease, cardiac therapeutics, race, air pollution, and the health effects of the climate crisis.

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David Jones, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of the History of Science, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

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A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward with Mary Jean Brown, ScD
2026-09-09 13:00 - 14:00 | HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom
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Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Mary Jean Brown, ScD, Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Brown will discuss “A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward.”

This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register here

Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-2:30 pm, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!

Abstract

A recent World Bank Report ‘A World Without Lead: Paving the Path to a Healthy Productive Future’ describes the global lead poisoning crisis, and its impacts on health, the environment, and human capital. The report offers a roadmap for eliminating exposure, comprising strategic investments, policy reforms and foundational public health practices like monitoring and surveillance that every country can use to address this crisis.

Removal of lead from gasoline reduced average blood lead levels globally but was not the only source of lead. Global lead consumption exceeded 12 million tons in 2022. Toxic emissions are routinely released from formal and informal lead mining, smelting and recycling and contaminate adjacent communities. Lead is found in a multitude of foodstuffs, remedies, low fire glazed pottery, jewelry, leaded residential paint and water pipes. One study estimated that 800 million children worldwide, most living in low-middle income countries, have blood lead levels known to affect learning, behavior and later adult health.

But good news: fugitive emissions from lead mining and smelting can be controlled, contaminated sites can be cleaned up, and old lead mines can be permanently closed. Lead contamination of foodstuffs and leaded paint have been successfully regulated. Population-level blood lead surveillance, together with studies of blood and environmental lead levels in areas with known lead contamination, help countries and communities identify risks and monitor progress to eliminate the danger. And, the costs of these interventions are far less than the costs of letting the exposure continue.

In this seminar, Dr. Brown will describe the current status of lead exposure with a focus on low and middle income countries, the expected costs/benefits of eliminating exposure globally, and the work that remains to be done.

About the speaker

Mary Jean Brown is on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she taught courses in public health practice. Dr. Brown co-authored A World Without Lead: Paving the Path to a Healthy, Productive Future and works regularly with domestic and international public health agencies and non-governmental organizations such as the World Health Organization UNICEF, and Human Rights Watch on issues related to health and housing, including developing policies to eliminate childhood lead poisoning. She has published more than 150 peer reviewed scientific articles, commentaries, and policy documents and conducted epidemiological studies of housing interventions for lead, asthma, and injuries in the United States and internationally.

Dr. Brown received a Doctor of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Boston College in 1982.

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Mary Jean Brown

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

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Future of Public Health in the age of AI
2026-09-14 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, September 14th for a special Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Karl Lauterbach.

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Karl Lauterbach, Drmed, MPH
Former Federal Minister of Health Germany, Professor of Health Economics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne

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Department of Epidemiology

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Tobias Kurth Seminar
2026-09-16 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, September 16th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Tobias Kurth.

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Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Director, Institute of Public Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

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Works In Progress Seminar: Wenxin Zhang & Salome Kuchukhidze
2026-09-16 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, November 11th for the Department of Epidemiology works-in-progress seminar series featuring Wenxin Zhang (advisor: Yuan Ma) and Salome Kuchukhidze (advisor: Jeff Imani-Eaton).

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Wenxin Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Salome Kuchukhidze
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Special Social Demography Seminar with Maria Glymour honoring Lisa Berkman's 18 years of leadership
2026-09-17 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA and online via Zoom
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Please join us in person if you can (or online) for this special start to our Social Demography Seminar Series with Maria Glymour who will present “Evidence triangulation in dementia research.” We will also be hosting an Open House later the same day from 4:00–5:00 p.m. at the Pop Center where past/current students and fellows, plus colleagues and friends, are invited to raise a glass to Lisa Berkman in honor of her 18 years of leadership at Harvard Pop Center.

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Maria Glymour, SD
Chair & Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University

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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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FXB Open House
2026-09-22 15:30 - 17:30 | Jonathan M Mann Conference Room, 7th floor, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for an in-person open house! Program directors will be available to share information about the Center’s scholarship and opportunities to get involved. Light refreshments will be provided. All members of the Harvard community are welcome. No RSVP required.

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Dark Causal Inference: Why Most Causal Inference in Epidemiology is Invisible
2026-09-23 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, September 23rd for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Jeremy Labrecque.

Abstract: In some ways epidemiology is leading the way in the uptake of causal inference but I will argue that it is very far behind where it could easily be. Even in the top epidemiology journals, fewer than half of studies using explicitly causal methods (g-methods or TMLE) state an explicitly causal question and fewer than half mention consistency and positivity. There is no reason that all such articles should not always include a causal question, clearly-stated causal assumptions and supporting arguments for those assumptions. When a causal claim (however tentative or weak) is made in the absence of these, I refer to this as “dark causal inference”: causal inference that is implied but not observable (in analogy to dark matter). There are many reasons dark causal inference is overwhelmingly abundant in epidemiology of which I will explore two: 1) our continuing misuse of the word “association” (and similar non-causal language) and 2) failing to teach students how to reason about causal inference when causal assumptions are not satisfied.

Bio: Jeremy Labrecque is assistant professor of epidemiology and leader of the Causal Inference Group at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His two main current interests are: 1) reasoning about causal inference when causal assumptions are violated using tools such as quantitative bias analysis, negative controls and causal triangulation and 2) increasing the uptake of causal inference among applied epidemiologists.

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Jeremy Labrecque, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Causal Inference, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

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Innovations in Care Models and Trial Design: Two Decades of Research Improving HIV and Hepatitis C Outcomes in Key Populations in India
2026-09-30 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, September 30th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Shruti Mehta.

Bio: Shruti H. Mehta, PhD, MPH is the Charles Armstrong Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research and the Director of the Johns Hopkins HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Sciences Training Program. Her research focuses on improving access and uptake of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) interventions among key populations with a particular focus on people who inject drugs with research programs in Baltimore and India.

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Shruti Mehta, PhD, MPH
Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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2026 Healthy Aging Symposium
2026-10-09 09:00 - 19:00 | The Rotunda at Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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From Cells to Society: The Science of Extending Healthspan

Please join us for the launch of the annual Healthy Aging Symposium at Harvard, hosted by the Healthy Aging Initiative at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and supported by the Danone Institute North America (DINA). The inaugural Healthy Aging Symposium will be held October 9, 2026, at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in the Veritas Science Center. The symposium will showcase cross-disciplinary excellence in healthy aging research, spanning biological sciences, social sciences, nutrition, environmental health, epidemiology and policy. This event is open to students, researchers, community stakeholders, and industry professionals from the Boston/Cambridge innovation ecosystem. The symposium will be a full day event, with talks from experts in the field, panel discussions, and time for rising stars and trainees to show how their work fits into the rapidly growing science of healthy aging. We will provide coffee and a continental breakfast, boxed lunches, and there will be an evening wine & cheese reception to close out the day. If you are interested in attending, please fill out this form, and we will reach out closer to the date with more details and registration information. If you have questions, please contact Kelsey Hunt (khunt@hsph.harvard.edu).

Now Accepting Poster Abstract Submissions!

Please submit an abstract for consideration for the poster session during our evening reception. Abstracts may present original research, practice, theory, methods, or technological innovations related to Healthy Aging.

Guidelines:

Open to Harvard graduate students (Master’s or Doctorate), postdoctoral fellows, and faculty.

Research abstracts should use the following headings: Background, Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

Abstracts must be work that has not yet been published.

Use 12 point font and a maximum of 350 words. Include your poster title, collaborators, and organizations/affiliations.

Please submit your abstract through the abstract submission form before midnight on Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Selections will be made by Wednesday, September 9, and we will send out notifications along with further information about poster board dimensions at that time.

Organizers & Key Speakers

William B Mair

Professor of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard Chan

Courtney Marie Peterson

Associate Professor of Nutrition, Harvard Chan

Laura D. Kubzansky

Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan

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Frank B. Hu

Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard Chan

Marc Weisskopf

Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Physiology, Harvard Chan

Wendy Garrett

Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Chan

JP Onnela

Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan

Yuan Ma

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan

Peng Gao

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposomics, Harvard Chan

Additional Speakers and Topics will be announced soon!

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George Davey Smith Seminar
2026-10-14 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 14th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. George Davey Smith.

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George Davey Smith, FRS, MD, DSc, MSc, FMedSci, FRCP, FFPH
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School

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Yin Cao Seminar
2026-10-21 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 21st for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Yin Cao.

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Yin Cao, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor in Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Associate Professor in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis

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The Role of Intuition in Epidemiology
2026-10-28 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 28th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Matthew Fox.

Abstract: Intuition is a necessary part of everyday life, without which we could not make it through a day. Epidemiologists are taught to rely on science, reason, and facts in their work and yet, it is likely that we use intuition all the time. We use it when we make decisions about interpreting the results of studies, about the impact of sources of bias, in the decisions we make in our own research, in our teaching and in our communication with other scientists and the general public. Yet it isn’t clear when this approach is useful and when it causes harm. This talk will focus on the role of intuition in epidemiology with examples of cases where we rely on it too much and cases where we don’t use it enough.

Bio: Matthew Fox, DSc, MPH, is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University. Dr. Fox joined Boston University in 1999. His research interests include treatment outcomes in HIV-treatment programs, infectious disease epidemiology (with specific interests in HIV and pneumonia), and epidemiologic methods. Dr. Fox works on ways to improve retention in HIV-care programs in South Africa from the time of testing HIV-positive through long-term treatment. As part of this work, he is involved in analyses to assess the impact of changes in South Africa’s National Treatment Guidelines for HIV. Dr. Fox also does research on quantitative bias analysis and co-authored a book on these methods, Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data. He is also the host of a public health journal club podcast called Free Associations designed to help people stay current in the public health literature and think critically about the quality of research studies and a podcast on Epidemiologic Methods called SERious Epi. He currently teaches a third-level epidemiologic methods class, Advanced Epidemiology as well as two other doctoral level epidemiologic methods courses.

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Matthew Fox, DSc, MPH
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, Boston University

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Karen Emmons Seminar
2026-11-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, November 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Karen Emmons.

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Karen Emmons, PhD
Professor and Interim Co-Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Fasting Mimicking Diet Cycles In Multi-System Regeneration and Disease Treatment
2026-11-09 16:00 - 17:15 | Kresge G3 or Zoom, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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21st Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture

Valter Longo, PhD, Edna Jones Professor in Biological Sciences and Gerontology at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology will serve as the distinguished speaker for the 21st Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture.

Lecture Overview: Based on the discovery by his laboratory of the role of the Tor-S6k pathway in accelerating aging and diseases, the Longo lab developed the Fasting mimicking Diet (FMD), a periodic intervention that activates stem cells, cellular reprogramming and autophagy to extend longevity and reverse diseases in rodents. In over 40 clinical trials, five-day FMD cycles resulted in the reduction of biological age and regression of multiple diseases.

This annual lecture honors Drs. Fredrick Stare and Mark Hegsted, who were the founders of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1942, which was the first department of nutrition in any medical center or school of public health in the U.S.

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Valter Longo, PhD
Valter Longo, PhD, is the Edna Jones Professor in Biological Sciences and Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, one of the oldest and leading centers for aging research. His laboratory studies the fundamental mechanisms of aging in yeast, rodents and humans by using genetics and biochemistry techniques with focus on the nutrient-response signal transduction pathways.

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Department of Nutrition

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Charles Branas Seminar
2026-11-18 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, November 18th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Charles Branas.

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Charles Branas, PhD
Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Gelman Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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Department of Epidemiology

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Miguel Hernan Seminar
2026-12-02 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Miguel Hernan.

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Miguel Hernan, MD, DrPH
Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Director, CAUSALab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Department of Epidemiology

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