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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Women’s socioeconomic advantage over their partners and relationship dissolution: A 29-country study”

9 Bow Street Cambridge, and online

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, PhD, Alber-Klingelfhofer Presidential Associate Professor, department of sociology, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Women’s socioeconomic advantage over their partners and relationship dissolution: A 29-country study.” Speaker Information Organizers

Happiness in Motion: The Power of Exercise

On Tuesday, February 25th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join us for a well-being workshop led by Student Steering Committee member Laura Torrent, MPH '26. Join this interactive workshop to reflect on your relationship with exercise and explore how it connects to happiness and well-being....

Policy Relevant Effects in Infectious Disease Studies

Virtual

Abstract:   The treatment of one individual often affects the outcomes of others. A canonical example occurs in infectious disease settings, where vaccinating one individual can reduce disease transmission and thereby influence the health outcomes of others. This type of interference implies that individuals cannot plausibly be treated as independent and identically distributed (iid).  Extensive methodological...

Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Advancing the scientific study of systemic racism: Theory-driven methods for population health research”

9 Bow Street Cambridge, and online

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...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

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 States

Abstract: 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 Wednesday, March 5th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lindsey Burghardt of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. Event Description: This talk will discuss how, beginning well before birth, children's development and lifelong...

U.S. v Skrmetti: Arguments and Consequences for Transgender Health Care

Join us! Alejandra Caraballo will discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti will impact access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people.  Lunch will be served. This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Public parking is limited, so use of public transportation or ride services is recommended.677 Huntington...