For more than 50 years, Jack Spengler has advanced our understanding of how environment shapes health through pioneering research on the importance of air quality, healthy buildings, and climate resilience. In conversation with longtime collaborator Linda Powers Tomasso, Spengler explores how the places we live, learn, and work shape human health.
Why elimination should be the default response for future severe pandemicPresented by Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand. Professor Michael Baker is a public...
You are invited to a special screening of the New Yorker film "Rovina's Choice," a harrowing account of a mother’s efforts to save her daughter from sickness and starvation in...
We invite you to join us at the 2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase, a University-wide poster session highlighting global health research conducted by Harvard undergraduate and graduate students....
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency (OEMR) Program invite you to the next Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Title: Aeromedical Decision-Making After Injury: A Case of Post-Trauma Flight Learning Objectives: Presenter: Erika Anderson, MD, MPH, OEMR Chief Resident Discussant: Joseph Ray, MD, FAA Deputy Regional Flight Surgeon AWP Location: Building 1, Room 1302 RSVP: Please...
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD, ScM, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chavarro's talk—"To organic, or not to organic, that is...
Virtual event Does it take ages to find a file in your shared drive? Are you running out of room in your email? Save yourself and your office time and money by learning to manage your electronic records. In this workshop, we’ll help you manage your email and electronic records efficiently and effectively by giving...
Harmonizing for Happiness: Finding Calm, Connection, and Joy Through Song is an interactive well-being workshop that invites all members of the Harvard community to explore how group singing can reduce stress, lift mood, and build a sense of connection—no musical experience required. Led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Priyam Bhushan Aturi, MPH ’26, this...
Join us for a Center Member Research Presentation by Dr. Hannah Healy. Following a brief presentation entitled "Monitoring microbial risks from tap to sewer," there will be time for all participants to engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion with Dr. Healy and each other. Summary: Drinking water and wastewater infrastructure are vital to the protection of human...
Kaori Yamaguchi, PhD, OTR, is a Takemi Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a senior researcher at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Japan, the research arm of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW). Her work focuses on rehabilitation within public and global health, while also encompassing health...
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Christopher Jackson from the University of Cambridge, UK, titled, "Making Semi-Markov Multistate Models for Intermittent Observations Easily Usable." Multi-state models for changes in a state (e.g. of health or illness) often assume that the transition rate is constant with time spent in the state...
Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to join this special seminar on workers’ compensation in Australia this Friday in Building 1, Room 1302. Topic: Workers' Compensation in Australia: What Works and What Doesn’t Speaker/Presenter: Dominic Yong, MBBS, FAFOEM (RACP), MastersOccEnvHealth, FRACGP, GAICDSpecialist Occupational Physician, Coolaroo Clinic; Immediate...
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