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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?”

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, University Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University, presents “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?” The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center...

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Brown Bag Seminar: Combating the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in urban India

Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

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...

Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning? 

Virtual

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...

Brown Bag Seminar: Mental health and psychosocial support for male former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq: Gaps in humanitarian response and legal obligations

Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

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...

Social Demography Seminar with Atheendar Venkataramani

Kresge 200 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Political power and mortality: Heterogeneous effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.” This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Social Demography Seminar...

Film Screening: Raising Bar

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

A film screening and discussion about innovations in residential care for adults with IDD and autism and how public health students can contribute to this exciting movement. There will be popcorn and candy! This event is open to the public, but if you are not an HUID holder you will need a visitor's pass for...

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