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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 for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography...

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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 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...

Innovations in immigrant mental health

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...

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

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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...

Information Sick: The Decline of Journalism, the Rise in Misinformation, and the Nation’s Health

401 Park Drive Fl. 3 401 Park Drive Fl. 3 West, Boston

Award-winning journalist Joanne Kenen is the lead author of a new book on the information environment in the United States. She'll be joined by one of her co-authors, Johns Hopkins Professor Joshua Sharfstein. A former city, state, and federal public health official, Dr. Sharfstein has experienced and studied the consequences of these challenges for health....

U.S. Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future

Virtual

Join us on Wednesday, November 19th for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Elizabeth Arias discussing U.S. Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future.  Abstract: The presentation will provide a historical overview of the U.S. Life Table Program and a summary of the data challenges and methodological solutions employed over...

The Global Flourishing Study

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Join us on Wednesday, December 3 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Tyler VanderWeele discussing The Global Flourishing Study. Abstract: The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study of over 200,000 participants in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, spanning all six populated continents, with nationally representative sampling and intended annual survey data...

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