Presented jointly with C-CHANGE A staggering 99 percent of the world’s people live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution. Dirty air has been linked to dementia, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory illnesses—and millions of premature deaths each year. And climate change is only worsening the problem. This panel brings together experts in clinical...
ID Epi Seminar Series Mathieu Maheu-Giroux - The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes
Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 17, Wanza Mbole, DSL, MBA, BSc, will present, "Financing universal health coverage through social health insurance: Kenya’s experience". Wanza Mbole is a LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. This seminar will be held in Building...
Join us to meet Douglas Dockery, Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Department of Environmental Health, and author of the new book, Particles of Truth (MIT Press, 2025). The Harvard COOP will be selling copies of the book at the event, and Dr. Dockery will be available to sign copies of the book (that...
On Tuesday, April 22nd, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join us for The Art of Well-Being: A Science-Backed Approach to Emotional Release. This interactive workshop will use evidence-based practices like mindfulness, expressive writing, and grounding exercises to help you release emotional overwhelm and reconnect with...
Join us for a screening of Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi’s documentary, "A State of Passion" which captures ongoing human rights violations and the war in Gaza through the eyes of British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah. After 43 horrific days working around the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s...
On April 23rd, we held the final instalment in our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring architect and author Ann Sussman. Event Description: This talk discusses the neuroscience that reframes our understanding of how architecture impacts us, including how people non-consciously take in their surroundings, and how that influences public health and placemaking....
Eric Hargan, who served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the first Trump administration, will share an insider’s perspective into the early U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the vital work of Operation Warp Speed to deliver a vaccine in record time. This fireside chat will also...
ID Epi Seminar Series Trevor Bedford - Fitness flux in SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal influenza H3N2
Presented jointly with the PhD Program in Population Health Sciences Join renowned surgeon, best-selling author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD ’95, MPH ’99, for a conversation about the future of global health. Gawande, who served as assistant administrator for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development from January 2022 to 2025,...
Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Abstract: Epidemiologic methods often focus on a statistical model as the main step to getting “the” result. This talk will attempt to widen the perspective on epidemiologic methods. How do we develop and communicate our research plans in a team? How do the numbers from a regression model make it into a table in a...
