Upcoming Events
The power of public health storytelling
The Studio & OnlinePresented jointly with the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health How can storytelling raise awareness of urgent public health issues — and begin...
State Health Insurance Exchanges in the New Era
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Mila Kofman, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu. Speaker Information Sponsored By:
IID Seminar: MAPS vaccines against bacterial pathogens
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event will be hybrid and we will have lunch for those that are present. Speaker Information
How to Make People Immortal and Why it is Not a Good Idea: Improving the Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases
Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesAbstract: The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time...
What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: How Developmental Environments Shape Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
On March 5th, 2025, we held the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lindsey Burghardt of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child....
Harvard Pop Center Population Research Exchange
In-Person & OnlineOnur Altindag, PhD, associate professor of economics, Bentley University, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Mental health effects of having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease.”...
Doctoral Final Oral Examination: Hyung Joon Kim
Jonathan Mann Conference Room, 7th Floor, FXB. Richard Siegrist will chair.
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar with Erika Sabbath
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesErika Sabbath, ScD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, presents “Impacts of post-Dobbs state abortion bans on health and well-being of obstetrician-gynecologists.” Organizers
The silent killer: A paradigm shift in understanding tuberculosis
The Studio & OnlineAdvances in genomic surveillance have revealed that tuberculosis is vastly under-diagnosed around the world. A growing awareness of the prevalence of asymptomatic patients—and their roles in transmitting the deadly disease—is...
ID Epi Seminar Series – Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade
ID Epi Seminar Series Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade - Optimizing antibiotic treatment for children with diarrhea in low-resource settings: promoting access and limiting excess