Join us on Wednesday, October 29 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Kevin Kensler discussing Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right? Abstract: Prostate cancer screening is at a crossroads. Despite evidence that screening prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can reduce advanced disease and mortality, current practices too often overscreen older men...
Join The Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Thomas Trikalinos of Brown University, “Propagating Ambiguity into Decision Analyses of Test-and-Treat Strategies.” This presentation will discuss the basics of decision making under ambiguity, also known as “deep uncertainty” or “pervasive uncertainty.” Operationally, ambiguity is defined as uncertainty that the analyst is unwilling or...
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...
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...
Join us for a timely conversation at the intersection of social media and youth well-being. Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) trainees Katrine Bønneland Tølbøll, MSc, MA, and Yuning Liu, MBBS, MS, will explore how content creators shape online spaces, the implications for mental health, and strategies for fostering healthier digital...
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...
Join us at the Harvard Innovation Labs for an exclusive fireside chat with Google X’s Helen Riley and Ivo Stivoric, moderated by HBS’s Allison Mnookin. Discover how high-risk, high-reward innovation happens at one of the world’s most ambitious R&D labs, and gain insights into bold thinking at scale. Connect with innovators from across Harvard, ask...
Please join us for an SBS seminar session to help you navigate the current public health job market. Hear from a panel of accomplished SBS alumni, including Ana Warner, Sarah Belstock, Anna Hirshman, and Kaitlin Patton (Shroeder), who will share their unique journeys and offer insights on how to best leverage your own skills and...
Early career investigators are a unique reservoir of new ideas, innovation, and excellence in cancer research. To celebrate this, we welcome you to join the Annual DF/HCC Celebration of Early Investigators in Cancer Research. This symposium will showcase the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who work in several areas...
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...
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...
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...
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