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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...

Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances

FXB G13 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Greg Drescher; Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH. The speakers will present on "Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific...

CHDS Seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California

Online

Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) provides a direct method for measuring patient risk preferences and incorporating these into cost-effectiveness estimates. In this presentation, we will discuss: 1) the rationale for GRACE as a way of explaining discordance...

Launch Party: 2026 President’s Innovation Challenge

Harvard Innovation Labs 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Fl. 1, Batten Hall, Boston, Massachusetts

Join us for the exciting launch of this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC)! Experience an evening packed with inspiration as Harvard’s brightest founders come together to ignite new ideas. Hear from Executive Director Jill Kravetz and a panel of past winners, who’ll share insider tips on crafting a standout application and making the most of...

Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children

FXB G12 or online 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

On November 12th, 2025, we held the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event featured Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Event Description This talk discussed how we can raise caring, moral children in today's world. Richard Weissbourd...

FXB Center work in progress seminar – Out of sight, out of mind: Myanmar’s invisible crisis

Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University for a virtual work-in-progress seminar to hear from Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and Director of the Southeast Asia Human Rights Project at Harvard University’s Asia Center. The conversation will be moderated by FXB’s...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

Brown Bag Seminar: The Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program: Addressing Indigenous health care disparities and support for AIAN pathway programs

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

Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and emergency physician practicing clinically at Brigham Women’s Hospital, Tsehootsooi Medical Center, and Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Nation. Her current academic responsibilities include directing the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) Program based in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine...

Social Demography Seminar: “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development”

Kresge 200 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

Natalie Slopen, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development.” The event is co-sponsored by SBS. The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from...

Ben Johnson: Introducing Nature Health

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

Join us for this exciting opportunity to hear about the new journal Nature Health from its chief editor, Ben Johnson. Ben will discuss the aims, scope, and themes of the journal and will answer questions from the audience. Ben Johnson trained in infectious diseases, with an undergraduate degree in virology from the University of Warwick,...

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