Please join the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence for our next event focused on Project 2025's threat to LGBTQ health equity. Sean Cahill, Director of Health Policy Research at Fenway Health, will join us Monday, September 23rd, from 1:00-1:50pm at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Kresge 502. Project 2025 coverage This presentation...
40 years ago, 27 tons of Methyl Isocyanate leaked from a pesticide plant on to 16 square miles of the city of Bhopal, India. Thousands died because of the chemical exposure from the leak. 40 years later, over half a million people have been impacted by this event. Please come see survivors of this event...
Red Cross blood drive hosted by HMS Departments of Genetics, Immunology, and Microbiology. Eligibility information available at https://www.redcross.org. Why we donate: The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of...
Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a discussion about the outbreak of poliovirus in the Gaza Strip for the first time in 25 years. Panelists will discuss the causes of the outbreak, the health cluster vaccination program and the challenges associated with it as well as the future implications of this...
Join us for a conversation about effective social messaging with Ben Reininga, Neiman Fellow and former head of editorial at Snapchat. Lunch will be served.
Join us on September 24th at 1:00 pm for a special student meet and greet with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH)! This is a great opportunity to learn more about IHH’s ongoing activities, meet faculty involved in the initiative, and discover ways you can get involved in meaningful work addressing health and homelessness....
Research Data Management (RDM) is essential for responsible research and planning should begin early. Effective data management can increase the pace of the research process, contribute to the soundness of research results, and meet funding agency requirements by making research data easy to share. This in-person workshop will dive into recommended practices for managing research...
Barbara Bosch MD, PhD Instructor in Clinical Investigation The Rockefeller University As a physician-scientist with academic training in clinical medicine and research experience in basic sciences, I strongly believe that translational research is needed to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and clinical medicine.
Barbara Bosch MD, PhD Instructor in Clinical Investigation, The Rockefeller University "As a physician-scientist with academic training in clinical medicine and research experience in basic sciences, I strongly believe that translational research is needed to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and clinical medicine." THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event...
Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series Speaker: Brittany Charlton, MSc, ScDAssociate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Abstract: One in ten people in the U.S. are LGBTQ and this population will grow as that number is twice as high among young people. LGBTQ people experience widespread...
Join us for the next EcoOpportunity Green Team Meeting on Wednesday, September 25, from 2-3 pm. We'll meet at the Countway Community Garden at the Countway Library for a tour of the garden and the library. (Rain location is inside the library, room 505.) Snacks will be provided. Please email susan_bottino@harvard.edu to RSVP. Bring a...
Omar Melikechi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Integrated path stability selection Abstract: Feature selection aims to identify important features in a data set, which can lead to more accurate and interpretable results. For example, it has been used to identify genes that are associated with certain diseases. Stability selection is a popular...
