Join us for part one of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and former 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...
All are welcome to join us for the fourth installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026, from 1-1:50 p.m. Please note that this talk is now online only. Event Description This talk will consider scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by transforming our minds and...
Join us for a Center Member Research Presentation by Dr. Mi-Sun Lee on Environmental exposures, biomarkers, and early life health. Following a brief presentation, there will be time for all participants to engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion with Dr. Lee and each other. Abstract: This talk will highlight findings from pilot and cohort studies motivated by...
SPARK is an opportunity for Harvard Chan School staff, faculty, researchers, and students to make person-to-person connections. Join us for a 10-minute activity to shake up your week and shake off the winter blues.
Brian Keegan, PhD, associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Credibility laundering as a vector: Change-point detection and socio-technical afterlives of reactionary demographic knowledge.” With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of...
How can beverages increase or decrease health risks, particularly cancer?
Maria Glymour is professor and chair of the department of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research examines how social factors experienced across the life-course, from infancy to adulthood, influence cognitive function, dementia, stroke, and other health outcomes in older adults. A separate theme of her research focuses on overcoming methodological problems encountered in analyses...
Join us on Wednesday, March 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Ronald Kessler discussing When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research. Abstract: Recent years have seen a sea change in population survey methods, with online panels increasingly replacing traditional in-person and telephone surveys. A small number of vendors now offer “probability-based” online panels, in...
David Duong, MD, MPH, is the director of the Program in Global Primary Health Care at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research and teaching covers primary healthcare systems strengthening, education program development, and policy and advocacy across Southeast Asia and in the United States. He is...
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds. Speaker and topic TBA soon. Speaker Information Organizers
Thales Y. Papagiannakopoulos, PhD Associate ProfessorDepartment of PathologyNew York University, Grossman School of Medicine
Join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Jordan Smoller discussing Cross-Disorder Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings and Methodologic Challenges. Abstract: Psychiatric disorders are highly comorbid, heritable, and genetically correlated, raising fundamental questions about the nature of shared versus disorder-specific genetic influences. Large-scale genome-wide association studies and multivariate...
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