Join us for a fall social celebrating the Center for Health Communication's 40th Anniversary. At the social, you will have the opportunity to learn about how the Center for Health Communication and the Health Communication Concentration can support your growth as a communicator and a leader and a chance to network with other professionals interested...
Join us for part one of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and 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,...
Join us on Wednesday, October 29 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Kevin Kensler discussing Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right? Abstract: Prostate cancer screening is at a crossroads. Despite evidence that screening prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can reduce advanced disease and mortality, current practices too often overscreen older men...
October Is National Zero Waste Month! Upcycle and make note cards from scrap materials. Join us to explore your inner re-use artist and build a community around sustainability. Materials provided and also feel free to bring your own to use or share.
Amruta Nori-Sarma is an assistant professor of environmental health and population sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an environmental epidemiologist, Nori-Sarma studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable communities. Nori-Sarma aims to understand the impacts of interrelated extreme weather events on mental...
Join us for a conversation with colleagues from the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee and the Somerville Public Library to learn about innovative ways in which community-based programs and services are addressing the mental health and wellbeing of immigrants. The Partnerships for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being initiative is cohosted by the FXB Center for...
Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on complex mixtures, held in HSPH Kresge 202A! Note - the "October" meeting will be held one week later than usual, on November 3, 2025 at 1 pm. This monthly working group meeting is held in person. Members discuss a wide range of issues related to analyzing...
Early career investigators are a unique reservoir of new ideas, innovation, and excellence in cancer research. To celebrate this, we welcome you to join the Annual DF/HCC Celebration of Early Investigators in Cancer Research. This symposium will showcase the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who work in several areas...
Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how generative AI tools can be used—ethically and effectively—in health communication. Led by Amanda Yarnell, senior director of the Center for Health Communication, this session will help you build practical skills for incorporating AI into your workflow while navigating the ethical and strategic considerations unique to public health...
Join us on Wednesday, November 5 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Peter Kraft discussing Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning? Abstract: Breast cancer clusters in families, but rare, high risk pathogenic variants in known genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2 explain only a small proportion of this familial aggregation. Genome-wide...
Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc, obtained his medical degree from Ghent University in Belgium and completed his master of medical sciences in global health delivery at Harvard Medical School as a Fulbright and Fayat Scholar. His research, under Theresa Betancourt, focused on mental health services for former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq. Yildirim is currently...
On Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 and online, all are welcome to join us for the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event will feature Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Event Description...
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