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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Strategic adaptation and Asian Americans’ socioeconomic evolution, 1940 to 2018–22”
2026-03-12 12:00 - 13:15 (America/New_York) | 9 Bow Street & Online, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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ChangHwan Kim, PhD, professor of sociology, and director of graduate studies, University of Kansas, presents (REMOTELY) “Strategic adaptation and Asian Americans’ socioeconomic evolution, 1940 to 2018–22.”

Lunch will NOT be served since the speaker is presenting remotely.

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ChangHwan Kim, PhD

Professor of sociology, and director of graduate studies, University of Kansas

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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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Parkinson’s disease: Professor Sue Goldie’s journey
2026-03-12 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & online
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The New York Times headline was spare and startling: “Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease.” More than two years earlier, Goldie had agreed to let reporter John Branch chronicle her experience living with Parkinson’s –– giving him unfiltered access to her life at home and at work, her intense triathlon training, and hundreds of video diaries where she shared her innermost hopes and fears. An intensely private person, she wrestled with the decision to go public but wanted to give voice to the struggle that many people endure silently in the years following diagnosis, and to spark discussion about how people live and work with the uncertainty of this neurodegenerative disease. Goldie also hoped the story would provide a platform for her goals to raise awareness about the benefits of exercise in Parkinson’s and the importance of community and connectedness. In this fireside chat, Goldie –– a physician, scientist, and renowned educator –– will reflect on her journey and share what she has learned from the response to the story and what she hopes to do in her next chapter.

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Sue J. Goldie

Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health

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Stephanie Simon
Former Dean for Communications and Strategic Initiatives, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The Harvard Chan Studio is the hub for the School’s premier in-person and live-streamed events. We convene global leaders in health policy, advocacy, industry, and research for insightful conversations about public health’s most pressing challenges and most promising solutions.

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Brown Bag Seminar: Parental mental health and childhood vaccination in India: Evidence from the SEHAT-CPHS Longitudinal Study
2026-03-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Henry Cust, PhD, is an economist working as a research scientist at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. His research operates at the intersection of health and development economics with a focus on critical global health issues including antimicrobial resistance (AMR), HIV, mental health, and risky health behaviors. Utilizing both experimental and quasi-experimental methods, Henry’s work aims to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations.

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Henry Cust

Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Targeting Metabolism through FABP4 to Extend Healthspan
2026-03-23 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD, James S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and Director of the Center on Causes and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at HSPH. Dr. Hotamışlıgil’s talk—”Targeting Metabolism through FABP4 to Extend Healthspan”—will take place on March 23 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD

James S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism, Director, Center on Causes and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Managing Your Paper Records: Off-Site Records Storage
2026-03-24 10:00 - 10:30 | Online
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Run out of room for files in your office that you need to keep? The Harvard Depository records center is the perfect place for your office, department, or lab to store records that you need to keep but don’t use every day. In this online workshop, we’ll review step-by-step instructions for:

How to set up an account

How to pack and label boxes correctly

How to complete transfer paperwork

How to recall records back to your office

Workshops are about 30 minutes long. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (GRS) is helpful but not required. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities.

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Countway Library, Center for the History of Medicine

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A public health success story: The near-eradication of Guinea worm
2026-03-24 13:00 - 13:30 | Online
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Recorded Q&A, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 1-1:30pm ET

At just 10 human cases, reports of Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease with no vaccine or drug treatment, are at an all-time low, according to The Carter Center.* What drove this success?

Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and The Carter Center’s Sarah Yerian and Emily Staub answered questions following the screening of The President and the Dragon, a documentary about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s efforts to eradicate Guinea worm, at the Harvard Chan School. This a recording of that Q&A.

Released last fall, The President and the Dragon is available on various streaming platforms.

*Figures are provisional until officially confirmed.

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Emily Staub
Associate Director, The Carter Center

Rochelle Walensky
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sarah Yerian
Senior Associate Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center

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Redesigning Calm: Designing Nature-Inspired Spaces
2026-03-24 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Redesigning Calm invites members of the Harvard community to explore how our surroundings shape mental and physical well-being. Drawing inspiration from organic and landscape architecture that harmonize natural light, greenery, and spatial flow, alongside modern biophilic design, this hands-on workshop encourages participants to reimagine familiar built environment, such as campus study or personal spaces, through a restorative lens. Using sensory observation, art materials, and natural elements, participants will creatively redesign spaces to help ease stress and anxiety, promote calm, and restore focus.

This well-being workshop will be led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Olivia Song, MPH ’27. Pizza (and plants!) will be provided.

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Olivia Song
MPH '27

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Negotiations Webinar Series: “The Making of Negotiating Organizations"
2026-03-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
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Join us on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (10–11 a.m. ET) for the second session of our two-part Negotiations Webinar Series, hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

🎙 Webinar 2: ”The Making of Negotiating Organizations”

Featuring Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M., Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher, and Founder of Frontline Associates.

This session focuses on how effective institutions build and sustain robust negotiation practices. We will examine the dimensions of strong negotiating organizations and share examples of successful institutional reshaping in complex and adversarial contexts.

🔗 Free and open to the public

📍 Join via Zoom: hsph.me/negotiations-webinar-march-25

📲 Or scan the QR code in the event image

Please share with your networks and anyone who may be interested.

Questions? Contact hhi@harvard.edu.

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Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M.
Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher, and Founder of Frontline Associates

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Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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US Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future
2026-03-25 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, March 25th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Elizabeth Arias discussing US Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future.

Abstract: The presentation will provide a historical overview of the US Life Table Program and a summary of the data challenges and methodological solutions employed over the years. The talk will include a description of the US National Vital Statistics System with its inherent challenges and limitations. Specific topics covered will include old age data quality, racial and ethnic misclassification, and small geographic area estimates. The goals for the future of the program will be discussed.

Bio: Dr. Elizabeth Arias is the Director of the US Life Table Program and the Mortality Statistics and Research Team Lead in the Division of Vital Statistics, at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Dr. Arias received her Ph.D. in Sociology (Demography) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At NCHS, Dr. Arias has worked to expand the US Life Table Program’s racial, ethnic, and geographic coverage, developing methods to address data quality limitations. Under her leadership, the program has expanded from two race groups to five race and Hispanic origin populations, annual state life tables, and life tables by census tracts. Dr. Arias also conducts research on racial and ethnic mortality disparities with a special focus on the Hispanic population.

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Elizabeth Arias, PhD
Mortality Statistics and Research Team, Statistical Analysis and Surveillance Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Tribal casinos, economic success, and intergenerational mobility for tribal reservation residents”
2026-03-26 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center & online via Zoom, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Randall Akee, PhD, Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School, presents “Tribal casinos, economic success, and intergenerational mobility for tribal reservation residents.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Randall Akee, PhD

Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School

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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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Brown Bag Seminar: Primary Healthcare IMPACT Lab at the Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives
2026-03-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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In this seminar, Diah Saminarsih will introduce the Primary Healthcare IMPACT Lab, a new collaboration between the Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) and the Program in Global Primary Health Care, a shared initiative of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity and Harvard Medical School. The Lab aims to support Indonesia’s primary health care transformation through locally grounded research, training, and service innovation. The discussion will also reflect on the broader role of Global South–led partnerships in shaping the future of health systems.

Diah Saminarsih is the founder and CEO of CISDI and a distinguished global development practitioner and public health advocate. Diah concluded her role as senior advisor to the WHO Director-General on Gender and Youth in August 2022. In this role, she established dialogues with member states and their youth delegates on meaningful youth engagement. She also spearheaded strategies for youth engagement and gender mainstreaming, in close collaboration with development partners and member state representatives.

After leaving WHO, Diah served on the board of the Pandemic Fund as the CSO Global South Representative. She co-founded the Stop TB Partnership Indonesia in 2018 and played a key role in advising and overseeing the work of the Global Fund TB Community Principal Recipient Consortium from 2021 to 2023. She also served as special staff to Indonesia’s Minister of Health (2014-2019) and special staff to Indonesia’s MDGs Envoy (2010-2014). During her work with the government of Indonesia, Diah was Indonesia’s co-negotiator in the SDGs negotiation. Her involvement in health security national design brought Indonesia to be part of the initial troika in the Global Health Security Agenda initiative, along with the U.S. and Finland.

Diah is currently a Commissioner for the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Education at Universitas Harkat Negeri, in Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Diah Saminarsih
Founder and CEO, Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives

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Department of Global Health and Population

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Front-of-package labeling in the United States: The latest evidence informing policy
2026-03-30 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Aviva A. Musicus, ScD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Musicus’s talk—”Front-of-package labeling in the United States: The latest evidence informing policy”—will take place on March 30 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Aviva A. Musicus, ScD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Science Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

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Department of Nutrition

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Crochet Workshop at Harvard Chan
2026-03-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A
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Join us for a beginner crochet workshop.All material provided. Free snacks and coffee/tea.

Event hosted by Office for Student Affairs

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Some Recent Results on the Epidemiology of Dementia
2026-04-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, April 1st for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. David Hunter discussing Some Recent Results on the Epidemiology of Dementia.

Abstract: Studies of the epidemiology of Dementia are complicated by the fact that until recently the two main subtypes – Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia could not be readily distinguished clinically, and may have distinct etiologies. Although that has changed somewhat with the advent of PET scans and CSF biomarkers, these are not yet used in routine clinical practice that is reflected in the clinical records that are available in large-scale observational databases such as the UK Biobank. I will discuss some recent collaborative studies in the Department of Population Health at Oxford and elsewhere that both illustrate these issues, and seek to help resolve them.

Bio: David Hunter is the Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Director of the Translational Epidemiology Unit at Oxford Population Health, the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK. He founded the Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at Harvard and was co-chair of the steering committee of the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium at the National Cancer Institute. He was co-director of the NCI Cancer Genetic Susceptibility Markers project focused on genome-wide association studies, and Dean for Academic Affairs and Acting Dean at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is the founding Chief Science Advisor of Our Future Health a major new national initiative in the UK that aims to return genomic information to consenting participants. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021 and appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australian King’s Birthday Honours List in 2023.

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David Hunter, ScD, MPH
Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Emeritus, Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Emeritus Affiliates, Harvard Medical School

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Department of Epidemiology

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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
2026-04-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 201, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for part one of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and former Director of Communications at the World Health Organization. In this session, we’ll dig into a compelling piece of health journalism—how complex health topics are communicated to the public, what we can learn from journalistic choices, framing, and impact, and actionable-takeaways for your own health communication.

Lunch will be served.

Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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Gabriella Stern
Journalist and former Director of Communications at the World Health Organization

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Center for Health Communication

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”
2026-04-02 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center & online via Zoom, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Michael Emch, PhD, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, presents “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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 includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Michael Emch, PhD

W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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Brown Bag Seminar: The overlooked epidemic: Reframing zoonotic tuberculosis in Ghana for public health
2026-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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David A. Barnes, DVM, PhD, is a veterinarian and infectious disease researcher from Ghana, with a PhD in infectious diseases from Hokkaido University, Japan. His research focuses on zoonotic and bovine tuberculosis (zTB/bTB) within the One Health framework, examining the epidemiology and genomic diverstiy of Mycobacterium bovis to inform public health strategies in Africa. Barnes is deeply passionate about bridging basic science, policy, and community health to address pressing infectious diseases challenges. His work integrates science and service in the pursuit of health equity and resilient communities across Africa.

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David A. Barnes, DVM, PhD
Takemi Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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21st Kolokotrones Symposium
2026-04-03 13:30 - 15:30 | Kresge G1, Synder Auditorium & online, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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21st Kolokotrones Symposium – a CAUSALab event in Collaboration with the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research

CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 21st Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“External Controls for Causal Inference: Study Design and Analysis” features four expert talks and a panel discussion.

The symposium will provide an introduction to external control arms and explore methodology and study design for causal inference. The symposium will conclude with an expert panel that will consider the question: where do we go from here?

Speakers & panelists:

⭐ Christina Lalani (Moderator) (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Dhruv Kazi (Moderator) (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Sonia Hernández-Díaz (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐Lorenzo Trippa (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐ Daniel Burkhoff (CRF, PV Loops, Columbia University)

⭐ Issa Dahabreh (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐ Robert Yeh (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Laura Mauri (Medtronic)

⭐ Rafael Cavalcante (Boston Scientific)

In person and online attendance free and open to the public. Limited spots available, so please register now to reserve your spot. Zoom link will be distributed to all virtual attendees the week leading up to the event. Additional information can be found on causalab.org.

Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, and not for Harvard University.

This event is hybrid, you can join in person or online by registering in advance.

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Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research

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Why Stability Matters for Early Childhood Development
2026-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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Join the Center on the Developing Child’s upcoming webinar to explore why stability plays a critical role in shaping young children’s health and development.

Drawing on insights from the new working paper, From Resources to Routines: The Importance of Stability in the Developmental Environment, the conversation will examine how stability—or the lack of it—across children’s developmental environments can affect their well-being in the moment and across the lifespan, and highlight strategies to promote stability for young children and their caregivers.

The conversation will be moderated by our Chief Science Officer, Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, and feature Nathaniel Harnett, PhD, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Natalie Slopen, ScD, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP

Chief Science Officer at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Nathaniel Harnett, PhD

Director of the Neurobiology of Affective and Traumatic Experiences Laboratory at McLean Hospital, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Natalie Slopen, ScD

Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Food Environment Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Updates from California
2026-04-06 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Professor Laura Schmidt from the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Schmidt’s talk—”Food Environment Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Updates from California”—will take place on April 6 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Laura Schmidt, PhD

Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco

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Research Addressing Cancer Disparities in New York City
2026-04-08 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, April 8th for the Department of Epidemiology featuring Dr. Rulla Tamimi discussing Research Addressing Cancer Disparities in New York City.

Abstract: Dr. Tamimi will describe the catchment area of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center in New York City. New York City (NYC) is a region of extremes with some of the richest and poorest living in close proximity. These extremes have a profound impact on health, with major disparities in life expectancy, with cancer driving these differences as the number 1 and 2 causes of premature mortality and overall mortality, respectively. NYC is one of the most heterogeneous cities in the U.S. She will share her work as the Associate Director of Population Science at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, where she builds research programs that address the needs of the catchment area. She will also share research from the Center of Social Capital (SoCa) Promoting Multigenerational Health, a center she co-leads in response to the National Cancer Institute’s Persistent Poverty Initiative. The mission of the Center is to improve cancer risk and outcomes in persistent poverty census tracts throughout NYC by promoting multi-generational health. She will highlight recent work from the center.

Bio: Dr. Rulla Tamimi is the Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Associate Director of Population Science at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center. She is a cancer epidemiologist whose research has advanced our understanding of breast cancer risk and prognosis. Dr. Tamimi has led numerous NIH-funded studies and authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications, identifying key genetic, molecular, and lifestyle predictors of breast cancer. Her work includes studies of early-life and environmental exposures, molecular tumor characterization, and mammographic features as predictors of disease. Throughout her career, she has played a key role in developing collaborative research efforts, with a long-term commitment to improving cancer prevention and health equity.

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Rulla Tamimi, ScD

Professor of Population Health Sciences; Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College

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Nature and Health with Dr. Susan Abookire
2026-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G-12, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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The Climate Change & Planetary Health Concentration invites you to their next Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, featuring Dr. Susan Abookire discussing the health benefits of nature.

Topic: Nature and Health

Speaker: Susan Abookire, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; & Founder, Nature Systems Institute

Date: April 8, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.

Location: FXB G-12, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

You can read more about Dr. Abookire’s work in this recent Washington Post article, “Forest Bathing: Why Harvard doctors are seeking out this natural remedy for themselves.”

The Climate Change and Planetary Health concentration helps students understand the consequences of the current planetary health crisis, including the effects on food, water, air, extreme weather events, heat, migration, and political stability and their subsequent impacts on infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, nutrition, and mental health. Each month, the concentration hosts a seminar, open to all students and faculty at Harvard Chan, featuring a special guest discussing their work at the intersections of climate and health. Learn more.

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Susan Abookire
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Brown Bag Seminar: AI×public health: Analytic tool and emerging population exposure
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Benjamin Rader is a computational epidemiologist who currently serves as the scientific director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Group and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Rader’s research focuses on leveraging digital technologies and data to improve public health and has appeared in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Economist, U.S. Presidential Addresses, and Supreme Court amicus briefs. He has helped advise numerous government agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Defense, and previously resided with his family in Berlin, Germany, while serving as an AI advisor to the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Rader, a former U.S. Army Officer and Johns Hopkins’ Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow, received his PhD from Boston University and MPH from Northwestern University.

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Benjamin Rader

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Forging better futures: Solutions-based science to address extreme weather with Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom
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Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Morello-Frosch will discuss “Forging better futures: Solutions-based science to address extreme weather.”

This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here

Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-3 pm! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!

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Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, is an environmental health scientist, epidemiologist, and professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. For over 25 years, her research has examined structural determinants of environmental health and how co-exposures to chemical and non-chemical stressors impact health. Much of her work has examined this question in the context of exposures to ambient air pollution, drinking water contaminants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, extreme weather, and effects on perinatal and developmental outcomes. In addition to using community-engaged approaches in her work, Rachel also collaborates with regulatory agencies to develop science-policy tools to assess the cumulative impacts of multiple environmental and social factors that inform regulatory decision-making. Morello-Frosch is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a 2025-26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow.

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Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH

Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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Crossroads Conversation Series
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 110, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join Harvard Chan faculty and alumni as they share how someone’s advice, encouragement, or challenge impacted their life, and the ways they apply those lessons today. Lunch will be provided.

Follow the link below to register.

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14th Annual Roma Conference | Mapping Romani futures: Connected local histories and global realities
2026-04-10 12:30 - 18:45 | Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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International Roma Day has been celebrated by Romani communities around the world for decades. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the First World Roma Congress, a historic gathering at which Roma Day, the Romani flag, and the anthem “Gelem, Gelem” were adopted as key symbols of the global Roma diaspora.

Across regions, neighborhoods, organizations, and institutions use this anniversary to highlight Romani heritage through concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, conferences, and media events. Many leaders and scholars also observe Roma Day with commemorations that honor victims of anti-Roma racism and reflect on progress in social, political, cultural, and economic life.

Since 2013, the annual Harvard Roma Conference has provided a forum to examine and address anti-Roma racism—its origins, history, drivers, protectors, and global manifestations, with particular attention to children and youth. The conference has worked to strengthen data collection on Roma (especially youth and children), improve research methods, promote participatory action research with Romani youth, and critically revisit histories, policies, and practices affecting Romani communities. A central goal has been to amplify and center Romani voices and experiences in global scholarship.

On April 10, 2026, the 14th Harvard Roma Conference, Mapping Romani Futures: Connected Local Histories and Global Realities, will once again mark Roma Day. This year’s event examines Romani histories and present-day realities to help shape more equitable futures for Romani children, youth, and generations to come, situating these discussions within a global context of rising human rights abuses, wars, extremism, and climate and digital threats.

This year’s program includes:

Keynote panel on global and regional trends and threats affecting Romani children and youth, especially in the context of escalating human rights abuses, wars, extremism, and climate and digital risks.

Panel 1 – Connected Futures, Histories, and Realities: Exploring connections and continuities in Romani histories and lived realities, and how these shape the lives, inequities, and identities of Romani children, youth, and future generations.

Panel 2 – Intersectionality and Intersecting Stories: Examining often overlooked and marginal axes of inequity in narratives of Romani histories, realities, and futures.

Book talk: Continuing a recent tradition, the conference will close with a book talk highlighting recent monographs on Romani people, with emphasis on works that advance global scholarship.

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FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University

Central European University Romani Studies Program

Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights (HKS)

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR), Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic

Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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Housing and homelessness: Solutions at the intersection of public health and public safety
2026-04-13 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness

As the cost of living rises across the United States, a record number of people experienced homelessness in 2024*, and shelter, housing, and support services are struggling to meet the need. Join leaders across public health and public safety for a conversation that moves beyond emergency response toward prevention, housing-first strategies, and long-term solutions. Grounded in lived experience and evidence, this panel explores cross-sector solutions with a focus on dignity, safety, and sustainable housing.

*Data according to National Alliance to End Homelessness State of Homelessness: 2025 edition

Register for free to submit your questions.

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Monica Bharel
Clinical Lead for Global Health, Public Health, and Public Sector Health, Google; Former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Leslie Credle
Founder of Justice4Housing in Boston

Gil Kerlikowske
Former Director of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama; Former Police Chief in multiple U.S. cities, including Seattle

Peter Koutoujian
Sheriff of Middlesex County, MA

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Howard Koh

Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Red tape and empty plates: understanding how administrative burden diminishes the effectiveness of food assistance policies
2026-04-13 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the Monday Seminar featuring Professor Erica Kenney, ScD, Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, and Research Director of the Harvard Prevention Research Center. Dr. Kenney’s talk—”Red tape and empty plates: understanding how administrative burden diminishes the effectiveness of food assistance policies”—will take place on April 13 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

All of our Monday Seminars are free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have a valid HUID, please fill out this form in advance to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Erica Kenney

Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH; Research Director, Harvard Prevention Research Center

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Awe on the Margins: Youth Perspectives on the (im)possibilities of Human Flourishing
2026-04-15 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G13, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On April 15th, 2026, we held the sixth and final installment in our Virtues for Well-being Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Demond Hill.

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Awe—an emotional response to vastness that transcends our ordinary frames of reference—has the power to transform perspectives, foster human flourishing, and enhance well-being. Yet little is known about where awe emerges in marginalized urban contexts, who can access it, and how it might disrupt structural inequality. This seminar asks: What would it take for us to be more honest with the lives we are living, living on, stepping over, and forgetting?

Drawing from the first year of a three-year youth participatory action research project with 20 Black and Brown high school students in Boston, this work explores how youth make sense of, complicate, experience, locate, and mobilize awe. Through an after-school awe and flourishing literacy program, students embarked on awe excursions, documented their insights, and designed awe-inspiring spaces. This project cultivates healing, civic engagement, and bold visions for communal health equity. Together, we will consider how “actionable awe” can transform “awe-ful” spaces into “awe-inspiring” ones and illuminate new pathways for collective flourishing.

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Dr. Demond M. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Health Equity at Tufts University in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. His research, grounded in transdisciplinary, critical, applied, humanizing-based approaches, focuses on the mental health and well-being of marginalized children, youth, and their families, with a particular emphasis on Black populations. Dr. Hill collaborates with communities to promote and protect opportunities for awe, belonging, and human flourishing among Black and Brown communities within systemic inequality. His work centers marginalized communities’ voices and lived experiences and incorporates youth- and community-based participatory action approaches to identify and strengthen protective factors that inform policy and promote mental health equity.

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Dr. Demond Hill

Assistant Professor, Tufts University

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The Grand Challenge of Child Mental Health: Lessons from the Great Smoky Mountains Study
2026-04-15 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, April 15th for a joint seminar between the Department of Epidemiology and the Maternal and Child Health Concentration featuring Dr. Bill Copeland discussing The Grand Challenge of Child Mental Health: Lessons from the Great Smoky Mountains Study.

Abstract: Child psychopathology is common, costly, and impairing. Indeed, the greatest burden of disease in the first 2 decades of life is related to mental health. This presents a great opportunity: Effective care for these diseases in childhood has the potential to mitigate and forestall later psychopathology (i.e., treatment as prevention). This talk will use data from a 30+ year psychiatric epidemiological study to demonstrate the ways in which this opportunity is often squandered contributing to misery, morbidity, and mortality in adulthood.

Bio: Dr. Copeland is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the Thomas M Achenbach Chair in Developmental Psychopathology. He was trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Vermont and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at Duke University Medical Center. He is the principal investigator of the prospective, longitudinal Great Smoky Mountains Study has been following 1420 participants in rural Appalachia for over 30 years to understand the long-term consequences of early adverse experiences and the development of mental illness. His research program has focused on understanding the developmental epidemiology of emotional and behavior problems across the lifespan. This work includes understanding the interplay between early adverse experiences and genetic vulnerability with other individual, family, and contextual characteristics.

His research has been supported by NIMH, NIDA, NICHD, NIA, and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. This program of research has led to over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts including publications in JAMA, JAMA: Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, American Journal of Public Health, Molecular Psychiatry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications. His work has been covered in such national news outlets as Slate, the New York Times, TIME magazine and CNN. Dr. Copeland was named on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

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Bill Copeland, PhD
Mortality Statistics and Research Team, Statistical Analysis and Surveillance Branch, Division of Vital Statisti Thomas M. Achenbach Chair in Developmental Psychopathology, University of Vermont; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont

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Strength in Community: Navigating Careers with Harvard Alumni
2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Sebastian’s Cafeteria, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210
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This event is designed to bring students and alumni together in conversation about career paths, job searching, and the value of professional community—particularly in today’s evolving job market. We hope to create a space where students can hear candid reflections from alumni about how they have navigated their careers, learn practical strategies for approaching the job search, and gain perspective on how the Harvard network can serve as a source of support and opportunity.

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The Voice of Hind Rajab Film Screening
2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Film screening

On January 29, 2024, Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Food will be offered.

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How our surroundings shape health: A conversation between environmental scientists
2026-04-16 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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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. Together, they reflect on the evolution of environmental health over five decades and the importance of continued collaboration and mentorship in shaping a more sustainable future.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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John D. Spengler

Research Faculty, Former Akira Yamaguchi Research Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Linda Powers Tomasso

Research Associate, Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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ID Epi Seminar Series: Why elimination should be the default response for future severe pandemic
2026-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G3 & Zoom
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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 health physician, epidemiologist, and active researcher in the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, NZ. He is visiting the United States as a Fulbright Scholar from April to September 2026. In NZ, he leads the Health Protection Aotearoa Research Centre which investigates ways of improving prevention and control of infectious diseases and environmental health hazards. Michael took a leading role in shaping NZ’s Covid-19 pandemic response, particularly the elimination strategy. He has a strong interest in science communication and directs the national Public Health Communications Centre.

This event open to the public. To access the event, you will need to secure a visitor’s pass – you can do this by registering in advance.

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Michael Baker

Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand

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"Rovina's Choice" Screening and Q&A with Atul Gawande
2026-04-16 17:45 - 18:45 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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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 the wake of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rovina Naboi’s devastating story represents the global impact of that decision on the world’s most vulnerable populations, and how it stopped decades of progress combating severe malnutrition and disease.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Executive Producer Atul Gawande, who served as the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) until last year.

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

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Ariadne Labs

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2026 Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase
2026-04-17 09:30 - 11:30
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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. We encourage members of the Harvard community to join us to view posters, learn about ongoing research across the University, and support student scholarship.

The Harvard Global Health Student Research Showcase celebrates student research and promotes interdisciplinary exchange, bringing together perspectives from research, practice, and policy across Harvard. The event provides an opportunity to engage with emerging work on pressing global health challenges and to foster dialogue and collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

Registration in advance is not required but is strongly encouraged. Harvard ID or visitor’s pass required for building entry.

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | To organic, or not to organic, that is the question
2026-04-20 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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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 the question”—will take place on April 20 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Jorge E. Chavarro

Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Managing Your Electronic Records: Shared Drives and Email
2026-04-21 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
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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 you guidelines.

Workshops are about 45 minutes long. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (grs.harvard.edu) is helpful but not required.

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Harmonizing for Happiness: Finding Calm, Connection, and Joy Through Song
2026-04-22 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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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 50-minute session will combine a brief, accessible overview of the science behind singing and well-being with guided warm-ups, simple humming exercises, and inclusive group singing activities in a low-pressure, non-judgmental environment. Participants will have the chance to notice the emotional and physical effects of singing together, reflect as a group, and leave with practical tools—like humming or simple vocal exercises—that they can use in daily life to support their mental health and resilience. Lunch will be provided.

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Priyam Bhushan Aturi
MPH '26

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Brown Bag Seminar: Rethinking rehabilitation in public and global health: Lessons from Japan and adaptation in Uzbekistan
2026-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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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 policy and health systems research, including health and long-term care insurance and community-based integrated care in Japan and across Asia. She has also conducted research in social epidemiology, with a focus on aging populations. She is particularly passionate about advancing health equity by addressing both individual-level determinants and broader social and health system contexts.

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Kaori Yamaguchi

Takemi Fellow

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CHDS Seminar with Christopher Jackson
2026-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | virtual only
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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 (the “Markov” assumption). In this seminar, Jackson proposes a new method and software package to relax this often-unrealistic assumption, using hidden states known as “phases.” This is motivated by applications such as modelling the duration of infections, modelling time in a detectable state in cancer screening, and modelling cognitive impairment in studies of ageing.

Christopher Jackson is a Senior Statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge. His research involves incorporating statistical methods in models to combine evidence to inform population health policy. His publications cover Bayesian evidence synthesis, survival analysis, multi-state modelling, longitudinal data, decision theory, and model comparison. He has also developed several popular R packages, and co-authored two textbooks, “The BUGS Book” and “Value of Information for Healthcare Decision-Making.”

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Christopher Jackson
Senior Statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | AI-driven Integration of EMR and Molecular Data for Maternal and Child Health
2026-04-27 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research (Data Science) in the Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative, and Pain Medicine; Professor in the Department of Pediatrics; and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. Dr. Aghaeepour’s talk—”AI-driven Integration of EMR and Molecular Data for Maternal and Child Health”—will take place on April 27 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Nima Aghaeepour, PhD

Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research (Data Science), Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative, and Pain Medicine; Professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University

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Graduation Q&A Session #1
2026-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Kresge 202, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Graduating soon? Have questions about regalia, tickets, ceremonies, or celebrations? Join us where we’ll cover everything you need to know to prepare for the big day!

Whether you’re unsure about ordering your cap and gown, need clarification on event logistics, or just want to ensure a smooth graduation experience, we’re here to help!

Email convocation@hsph.harvard.edu with any questions!

Visit our website at hsph.harvard.edu/graduation

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Graduation Q&A Session #2
2026-04-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G2, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

Harvard Alumni Launch Lab X Info Session
2026-04-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
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Learn about Launch Lab X, the Harvard Innovation Labs’ virtual alumni accelerator. Apply by May 12 to join the 2026–27 cohort.

Calling all Harvard alumni founders! Join Harvard’s global community of alumni entrepreneurs and innovators.

Launch Lab X is the Harvard Innovation Labs’ flagship global accelerator for alumni founders across all 13 Harvard schools, from any graduation year. Launch Lab X supports early-stage, for-profit and nonprofit ventures founded and led by Harvard alumni. Eligible ventures are typically pre-seed to seed stage and may operate in any sector and geography.

INCLUSIVE FOUNDER COMMUNITY

The Launch Lab X program is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive community of founders building ventures around the world. If you want to learn what it takes to create viable, disruptive, and adaptable ventures—and bring them to scale—apply to join our 2026–27 cohort. We can’t wait to hear about your venture!

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Applications for the 2026-27 cohort open on April 7. All applications are due by May 12, 2026, for consideration. Learn more and apply.

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The Harvard Innovation Labs welcomes attendees of all abilities to our events, both in person and online.

Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.

If you would like to request accommodations, please contact i-lab@harvard.edu in advance of the event.

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Spring Freecycle
2026-04-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Rosenau Atrium by Sebastian’s Cafe, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Don’t miss our spring Freecycle! Back by popular demand and in celebration of Earth Month, this event helps build community as well as save items that might otherwise end up in the trash. Last fall, over 300 people attended and swapped hundreds of items including: clothes, socks, shoes, and accessories; books and magazines; notebooks, paper tablets, clipboards, post-its, pens, pencils, and markers; white boards and dry erase supplies; staplers, tape, and clips; labels and envelopes; vases, mugs, dishes, and utensils; monitor stands and computer peripherals; and more!

Do some spring cleaning and bring your surplus items to the swap. (Please note, it is not necessary to bring anything to be able to shop!) Harvard ID required for building entry.

If you’re not able to make it to the Freecycle but would like to drop off donations, please bring them to the Reuse Room on a Wednesday between 11:30 am – 1:30 pm. See info on the room below for directions.

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Yerby Research Symposium & Reception
2026-04-29 11:45 - 14:00 | FXB G-12
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Join us for a vibrant showcase of pioneering research conducted by our Yerby Postdoctoral Fellows. This symposium is a unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge studies and engage with the next generation of public health leaders who are addressing critical public health challenges. Come connect with fellow researchers, faculty, and students to exchange ideas and explore potential collaborations that can shape the future of public health.

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From Discovery to Translation in Molecular Epidemiology: Unlocking the Potential of Large-Scale Biomarker Data for Cancer Prevention
2026-04-29 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, April 29th for a joint seminar between the Department of Epidemiology and the Harvard Cancer Consortium featuring Dr. Ruth Travis discussing From Discovery to Translation in Molecular Epidemiology: Unlocking the Potential of Large-Scale Biomarker Data for Cancer Prevention.

Abstract: Advances in molecular epidemiology have transformed our ability to measure circulating biomarkers at scale, particularly through the application of high-throughput proteomic platforms in large prospective cohort studies. These developments have enabled the systematic identification of associations between molecular traits and cancer risk across populations. However, translating these discoveries into meaningful insights for prevention, risk stratification, and early detection remains a major challenge. This seminar will explore the opportunities and limitations of large-scale biomarker discovery, focusing on the integration of proteomic, genetic, and epidemiological data to strengthen causal inference and prioritise targets for intervention. It will also consider the methodological and structural barriers that currently limit translation, including issues of measurement, generalisability, and study design, and will discuss how interdisciplinary approaches and coordinated research infrastructure can help bridge the gap between association and action.

Bio: Ruth Travis is Professor of Epidemiology and Deputy Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit within the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. She is internationally recognised for her research on the molecular and lifestyle determinants of chronic disease, with a particular focus on cancer. She leads a multidisciplinary research programme on the aetiology of prostate cancer funded by Cancer Research UK, alongside a pan-cancer programme integrating proteomic, genetic and epidemiological data across large-scale cohort studies such as EPIC and UK Biobank. She plays a leading role in major international consortia, including the PRACTICAL collaboration. Her work combines epidemiological and ‘omics approaches to advance understanding of cancer causation and inform cancer prevention, with a particular focus on translating large-scale molecular discovery into actionable insights for prevention. She is a member of the international ATLAS team, funded by Cancer Research UK through the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative, which brings together global expertise to uncover mechanisms of cancer avoidance and accelerate their translation into new approaches for prevention.

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Ruth Travis, BA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology; Senior Molecular Epidemiologist; Deputy Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit; Oxford Population Health, Oxford University

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2026-04-30 00:00 - 13:00 | Zoom

At the front lines of global health messaging: A conversation with WHO’s retired communications director
2026-04-30 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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A virus never before seen in humans is killing people around the world. What do you say to a global audience desperate to learn more? Gabriella Stern faced this question head-on. For more than six years, she served as director of communications at the World Health Organization, including throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In this fireside chat, Stern will share stories from the front lines of global health communication—what it takes to craft and deliver clear, trusted messaging on issues ranging from infectious disease outbreaks to humanitarian crises to massive public health funding cuts—all while navigating a rapidly evolving communications landscape.

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Gabriella Stern
Retired director of communications, World Health Organization; Harvard affiliate; journalist

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Clarisza Runtung
MPH candidate ‘27, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: The Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centered Health System for India: Reform pathways towards UHC for a fifth of the world’s population
2026-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Anuska Kalita, DrPH, is director of the India Health Systems Program in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH. Chan School of Public Health. She is a health systems specialist with over 20 years of experience across academia, management consulting, multilateral agencies, and philanthropy. Her work spans 18 countries across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, with a particular focus on India. She has led large-scale health systems and policy research and built cross-sector partnerships that align government, private sector, academic, and civil society actors around actionable reform agendas. She co-led The Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centered Health System for India (2026) and has contributed to the design of landmark policies including India’s National Health Policy (2017), the Ayushman Bharat program (2018), and the national ASHA Program (2005). She has led and designed several capacity-strengthening/executive training programs for senior health professionals and policy makers, notably the WHO Academy’s PHC Leadership Course for senior policy actors across 180 countries. Kalita holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard University.

Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD, is Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds honorary professorships at Harvard Chan School, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Public Health Foundation of India. Patel co-leads the Mental Health for All lab and GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative, and his research focuses on the global burden of mental health problems, their links to social disadvantages, and community-based solutions. He cofounded Sangath, an Indian NGO recognized with international awards, and several global mental health networks. A Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and member of the US National Academy of Medicine, Patel has served on India’s first National Mental Health Policy Committee, co-led two Lancet Commissions on mental health, and received major honors, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Sarnat Prize, Pardes Humanitarian Prize, an Honorary OBE, and the Canada Gairdner Award. He holds multiple honorary doctorates and was named to TIME Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2015.

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Anuska Kalita
Director, India Health Systems Project, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School

Vikram Patel

Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population

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Come as you are: Community Circle
2026-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Jonathan M Mann Conference Room
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For Immigrant & International Students, Staff, Faculty, and Allies. You are invited to a relaxed and welcoming lunch gathering for immigrant and international members of our community. This gathering is an opportunity to connect, share a meal, and be celebrated – just as you are. Hosted by Partnerships for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-Being at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with the Chan Students’ Immigrant Health Forum.

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The Science and Practice of Human–Animal Interaction
2026-05-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110
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Join us for a lively conversation where research and real-world practice come together to explore the power of human–animal relationships. We will be joined by researchers Dr. Kerri Rodriguez and Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, and by practitioners Steven Fumicello and Niki Vettel with their animal partners, Sasha and Hermie, whom you will also have a chance to meet. Together, they’ll explore what science and real‑world experience each reveal about the human–animal bond—and how these perspectives inform and inspire one another. Lunch will be provided!

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness.

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Dr. Ichiro Kawachi

John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology

Dr. Kerri Rodriguez

Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine

Steven Fumicello & Sasha

Harvard University Police Department Officer

Niki Vettel & Hermie

Clinical Mental Health Counselor & Certified Pet Loss & Bereavement Counselor

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21st Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
2026-05-05 13:30 - 18:30 | FXB 301 & FXB Atrium
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Join us for the 21st Freeman Seage Symposium on Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 in honor of Professors Jonathan Freeman and George Seage who were leaders in the field of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.

Oral presentations will take place in FXB 301 from 1:30-4:30 pm followed by a poster reception in the FXB Atrium from 4:30-6:30 pm. Contact CCDD with any questions: ccdd@hsph.harvard.edu.

Jonathan Freeman (1939-2000)

Jonathan Freeman was a faculty member at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health from 1990 until May 2000. He was instrumental in creating and leading the Interdisciplinary Program in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IPIDE). Freeman designed and taught courses on the investigation and transmission dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks, promoting an active interest in infectious disease epidemiology at a time when it was not widely popular. As a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, he practiced infectious disease medicine at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs. Freeman was also an active member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, where he taught a famously rigorous course on epidemiology principles for hospital epidemiologists. His research interests included hospital-acquired infections, tuberculosis, and malaria.

George R. Seage III (1957-2021)

George R. Seage III was a faculty member at Harvard Chan School of Public Health from 1999 until his passing in 2021. He was a valued member of the Department Epidemiology and a leader in the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) research. He played a key role in the earliest efforts to understand HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), bringing epidemiologic skills and expertise to the the field.

Seage was passionate about and dedicated to mentoring the next generation of infectious disease epidemiologists. He contributed to establishing program to mentor early career investigators in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). He was also the co-principal investigator of a T32 graduate training program in infectious disease epidemiology and biodefense and served as the director of the IPIDE.

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Commencement Ticket Pick-Up
2026-05-06 10:00 - 2026-05-08 16:00 | Kresge G4, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Pick up your tickets for Harvard University Commencement on May 6-8th in Kresge G4 from 10am-4pm. Your tickets for Harvard Chan Convocation can be accessed via after completing your graduation form.

Pick up your class item on May 6-8th in Kresge G4 from 10am-4pm.

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Psychotropic Medication Safety in Pregnancy: Moving Beyond Malformation Risk
2026-05-06 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, May 6th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Krista Huybrechts discussing Psychotropic Medication Safety in Pregnancy: Moving Beyond Malformation Risk.

Abstract: Psychotropic medication use during pregnancy has increased substantially, heightening the need for robust evidence to guide prescribing and to inform patients about the risks and benefits of treatment continuation. Historically, research has focused on congenital malformations—paradigmatic harms in the shadow of the thalidomide catastrophe—but other unintended drug effects are equally important and pose distinct methodological challenges. This seminar will examine what we have learned about studying outcomes such as nonlive births and longterm neurodevelopment in children, highlighting study design challenges, potential biases, and data issues that shape inferences about psychotropic medication safety in pregnancy.

Bio: Krista Huybrechts is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology (H4P). Her work, which is funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on the use of advanced epidemiological and statistical methods applied mainly to large databases derived from health data collected in the context of routine medical care to help address the unique questions regarding benefit-risk trade-off for prescription medication use faced by women of reproductive age and pregnant women.

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Krista Huybrechts, MS, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Epidemiologist, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Aging Reframed: Bridging Disciplines for Healthy Aging
2026-05-06 13:00 - 15:15 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Public health and medicine have added years to life; our next urgent challenge is ensuring those extra years are healthy and equitable—especially now that advances in biology and data science let us measure biological age and test aging interventions far more rapidly.

The seminar is designed to bring together researchers from across the School’s disciplines and departments to share current aging research efforts and discuss opportunities for future collaborations and funding. The program will feature brief talks on major aging-related research themes, a panel discussion with Q&A, and informal conversations over coffee and dessert. Your participation will be invaluable in leveraging and expanding the School’s capacity for aging research.

This event is the first of an ongoing interdisciplinary seminar series focused on cross-cutting public health challenges. By showcasing the breadth and depth of our research in aging and healthy longevity, we can begin to position Harvard Chan as a visible leader in this area.

Please register online to indicate your availability; you will receive an Outlook invitation about a week before the event.

Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.

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2026 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony
2026-05-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, 117 Western Ave, Boston, 02163
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Join the Harvard Innovation Labs for our annual celebration of innovation, community, and entrepreneurship at Harvard. We’ll hear live pitches from 25 finalists and reveal which ventures will receive a share of $500,000+ in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation.

Tickets are now available to the Harvard community. Registration will open to the public on or before April 22.

The theme of this year’s competition is “What Moves You” — and our founders represent the diverse paths to entrepreneurship and how early ideas can lead to real impact.

Get excited for this year’s event by watching highlights from last year.

How to join:

In-person: Join us in person for the awards ceremony in Klarman Hall in Allston, Massachusetts. An after party will follow at Schwartz Pavilion (directly outside of Klarman Hall) with food, drinks, and a chance to meet and mingle with the finalists and our broader innovation community.

Online: Can’t make it to campus? Join us online from anywhere in the world for an immersive digital experience. We’ll share the livestream link as the date gets closer.

Please note: By registering, you agree to receive emails about this event and future communications from the Harvard Innovation Labs.

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Global humanitarian and disaster management one year after the dismantling of USAID
2026-05-07 10:00 - 10:50 | Online
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Presented jointly with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

How are the front lines of global disaster and humanitarian response faring one year after the dismantling of USAID? Altaf Musani, director of Humanitarian and Disaster Management at the World Health Organization, and Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, will examine the impacts and explore the paths forward to ensure that lives continue to be saved in this pre-recorded conversation moderated by Irini Albanti, executive director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

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Altaf Musani
Director, Humanitarian and Disaster Management, World Health Organization

Michael J. VanRooyen

Lavine Family Professor of Humanitarian Studies in the Department of Global Health and Population

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Irini Albanti

Executive Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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Healthcare in the Crosshairs: US Foreign Policy and the Destruction of Public Health in Lebanon & Gaza
2026-05-07 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G10
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Join us on Thursday May 7 at 1 pm in FXB-G10 for a conversation with Professor Ziad Abu Rish and Professor Atalia Omer on the destruction of public health infrastructure in Lebanon and Gaza while examining the role of US foreign policy in the ongoing attacks. Professor Walter Johnson will present opening remarks.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, Black Students Health Organization, and the Harvard Chan Student Committee for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine.

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Ziad Abu Rish, PhD

Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies; Director, MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts

Atalia Omer, PhD

Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame

Walter Johnson, PhD

Professor of History and African and African American Studies and Vice-President AAUP-Harvard

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Co-sponsored, Department of Health Policy and Management

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The Women’s Health Student Summit at Harvard Chan
2026-05-09 08:30 - 16:30 | Kresge G1, Synder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Women around the world experience systemic barriers to respectful, quality care. Countries like the UK and Australia, in response, developed national women’s health strategies to evolve from fragmented programs toward integrated, life-course approaches. However, there is no academic forum that convenes global leaders, policymakers, academic experts, and advocates to advance the discussion and create a shared agenda for holistic women’s health strategies. The women’s health student summit at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the forum where changemakers gather to develop strategies that unify siloed programs and bridge research, policy, and implementation to advance women’s health agendas globally.

This event is in-person and virtual.

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8:00 AM — Registration

9:00 AM — Opening remarks · Betza Bravo & Aracely Guzman Guajardo

9:20 AM — Keynote: The Imperative of Developing National Women’s Health Strategies · Dame Lesley Regan

10:00 AM — Panel: Transforming Maternal Health: From Evidence to Systems Change · Katherina Semrau · Rose Molina · Christin Price

10:55 AM — Panel: Womenomics 2.0: The ROI of Investing in Women’s Health Strategies · Rhonda Pacheco · Esther Duflo

11:50 AM — Lunch (breakout sessions):

“Small Shifts, Meaningful Directions” — MomPath

“The Menopause Leadership Gap: From Screening to Empowering Leaders in and Beyond Transition” — Promoting Good

12:20 PM — Lunch (fireside chat):

The Power of Prevention

1:05 PM — Panel: Sexual and Reproductive Health in a Polarized World: Evidence, Rights, and Policy · Alicia Yamin · Sapna Kathri

2:00 PM — Panel: Invisible No More: Addressing Neglected Areas in Women’s Health Across the Life Course · Jorge Chavarro · Olga Garcia · Louise King

2:55 PM — Panel: Blueprint for Change: Moving Toward Integrated, Life-Course Health Strategies · Lia Tadesse · Hector Valle · Dr. Winnie Yip

3:50 PM — Panel: The Last Mile of Health Policy: If Science Doesn’t Influence People’s Behavior, What Does? Communicating Health Policy in the Age of Social Media · Amanda Yarnell

4:20 PM — Closing keynote

4:50 PM — Closing remarks · Betza Bravo & Aracely Guzman Guajardo

We greatly thank our sponsors for their contribution to making this event possible.Changemakers: FUNSALUD, Promoting good

Blueprint partner: Provost’s Fund for Student Collaboration, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Womenomics champion: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (department of Social and Behavioral Health, Department of Global Health), Harvard Chan Student Government Association

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Dame Lesley Regan
Women's Health Ambassador for England

Lia Tadesse
Former Minister of Health of Ethiopia

Hector Valle
President, Mexican Foundation for Health

Alicia Yamin, JD, MPH, PhD
Director, Global Health and Rights Project, Harvard Law School

Rhonda Pacheco
President, U.S. Business Unit and U.S. Country Head, Takeda

Winnie Yip, PhD
Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Food is Medicine for Improving Cancer Outcomes
2026-05-11 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Dr. Zhang’s talk—”Food is Medicine for Improving Cancer Outcomes”—will take place on May 11 at 1:00 p.m. ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Healthy snacks will be provided, thanks to the generous support of the Wellbeing Project Fund from the Office of the Associate Provost for Student Affairs.

The Monday Nutrition Seminar Series is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have an active HUID, please click the “Register Today” button to fill out the registration form by 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

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Takemi Program Poster Presentations
2026-05-12 10:30 - 12:30 | Kresge Atrium
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Join us to hear from the Takemi Fellows as they present. Questions to follow from 11:15 – 12:15 am. See more on the Takemi Fellows here.

Coffee and tea will be provided.

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Seminar with Professor Keizo Takemi
2026-05-12 12:30 - 13:30 | Kresge G2
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Dr. Keizo Takemi will speak on “My personal journey with global health and the Takemi Program.” Join in person or online.

Please email takemi@hsph.harvard.edu for questions or to access the Zoom link.

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Keizo Takemi
Former Japanese Minster of Health, Labour, and Welfare; Chair of the Asian Population and Development Association

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Discovery to intervention: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative with Stephen G. Matthews, PhD, FCAHS
2026-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 | HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom
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Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Stephen G. Matthews, PhD, FCAHS, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health and Professor of Physiology, Ob-Gyn and Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Matthews will discuss “Discovery to intervention: The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative.”

This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here

Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-3 pm, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!

Abstract

It is well established that the environment during pregnancy can have a long-term impact on cardiometabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring and increase risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in later life. There is growing evidence from preclinical studies and some clinical studies that the preconception period in both females and males and the early pregnancy phase are periods of high sensitivity to environmental perturbation. The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) was developed to translate new knowledge in the area of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and improve the health of mothers, infants and children. The HeLTI consortium includes harmonized trials in Canada, China, India and South Africa designed to evaluate the impact of an integrated evidence-based intervention package, delivered through the preconception, pregnancy and postnatal period on, 1) reducing adiposity and obesity, and improving neurodevelopmental and cardiometabolic development in infants and children to 5-years of age and, 2) improving maternal health and pregnancy outcomes. All trials have completed recruitment and combine harmonized data and biospecimen collection. The HeLTI-India trial will be described in detail. Findings from the HeLTI studies will have profound implications for public health policy but will also allow determination of the mechanisms that underlie intergenerational transmission. HeLTI is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and International funding agencies (India, China and South Africa) and is partnered with WHO.

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Stephen Matthews, PhD, FCAHS, is Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Professor of Physiology, Ob-Gyn and Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health. He served as Chair of the Department of Physiology (UofT; 2007-2014). He is currently Director of Research at the Alliance for Human Development, LTRI, and Director of the Ontario Birth Study. Matthews is also the Canadian lead PI of the CIHR/DBT-funded Healthy Life Trajectories (HeLTI) trial in India.

His fundamental research program is determining mechanisms by which early interventions and exposures can impact long-term neurologic and endocrine function in offspring across multiple generations. With a focus on epigenetics, his research team is determining the molecular mechanisms by which this occurs. In a parallel program, his group is investigating drug and hormone transport mechanisms in the placenta and fetal brain, with a focus on developing novel treatments to protect the developing fetal brain.

Professor Matthews is committed to translating fundamental research to improve human health. In addition to leadership of the HeLTI-India trial and the Ontario Birth Study, he co-founded the MAVAN program, which followed neurocognitive development in children following adverse early experience. He has secured over $40M in research funding, published 265 full papers and has received >300 invitations to present his work around the world. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2019). He has served as elected President of the Society for Reproductive Investigation. In 2015, he co-founded DOHaD Canada and served as elected President (2018-23).

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Stephen G. Matthews, PhD, FCAHS

Professor of Physiology, Ob-Gyn and Medicine, University of Toronto

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CHDS Seminar with Marissa Reitsma
2026-05-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Marissa Reitsma from Stanford University, titled, “Integrated Interventions for Syndemics of Substance Use, HIV, and HCV.” Syndemics are interacting epidemics, driven by social and structural factors, which can concentrate excess disease burden among marginalized populations. Integrated interventions can more efficiently address syndemics, including the syndemic of substance use disorder, overdose, HIV, and hepatitis C virus among people who use drugs. We developed an agent-based model of this syndemic, parameterized with real-world data, to inform the design and delivery of integrated treatment and harm reduction interventions for people who use drugs.

Marissa Reitsma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University. Her research develops computational models to quantify disease burden, evaluate the benefits and costs of interventions, and support evidence-based policies across a range of priorities in population health. Ongoing work focuses on building multi-disease models to address syndemics and developing methods for multimodal data fusion. She is dedicated to partnering with clinicians and public health decision-makers to translate scholarly work into policy impact.

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Marissa Reitsma, PhD

Assistant Professor, Health Policy, Stanford University

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Screening for Major Diseases — Does it help?
2026-05-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
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The Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine – 10th Symposium

Part of the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine series, The 10th Cutter Symposium “Screening for Major Diseases—Does It Help?” will feature three separate lectures from expert speakers on the topic of screening for colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and infectious diseases followed by a moderated Q&A segment with all the speakers. This symposium is open to the public & is virtual only.

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1:00PM Introducing the Cutter SymposiumAlbert Hofman, MD, PhD1:05PMThe Power of Colorectal Cancer ScreeningHermann Brenner, MD. MPHAbstract: Over 30 years ago, in 1993, a groundbreaking analysis of the US National Polyp Study was published, which suggested that colonoscopic removal of colorectal polyps was associated with an 88% reduction of colorectal cancer incidence. Since then, numerous observational studies and randomized trials have confirmed effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening, even though most of them substantially underestimated screening effects for various reasons. Large heterogeneity in introduction of and adherence to screening programs across countries in the last three decades is mirrored in large heterogeneity of trends in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Modelling studies based on the accumulated evidence confirm that the vast majority of the approximately one million colorectal cancer deaths per year globally could be prevented by screening. 1:35PMControversies and Innovations in Screening for Prostate Cancer Lorelei Mucci, ScD Abstract: More than 1.6 million men across the globe are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, and it is the leading cause of cancer death in more than 50 countries. In randomized controlled trials, screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been shown to reduce cancer mortality over two decades. However, PSA screening also has led to overdiagnosis of prostate cancers that have a low potential for metastasis and concomitant overtreatment of patients. What has ensued over the past two decades has been an active debate about the harms and benefits of screening, guidelines that are often in conflict with one another, and in the United States, a substantial reduction in prostate cancer screening that is now tied to an uptake in incidence of metastatic prostate cancer. This talk will provide an overview of the history of PSA screening, the evidence around risks and harms, the controversies, and recent innovations in approaches to accelerate a risk stratified approach to screening. 2:05PM Diagnostics, Screening, and Surveillance in Pandemics Marc Lipsitch, DPhilAbstract: This talk will describe challenges and opportunities for surveillance during large infectious disease events, with lessons from COVID-19 and earlier pandemics. Active testing of population-based random samples provide numerous advantages over passive case detection in many situations, while linked data on demographics, severity, and pathogen variant among other characteristics are far more valuable for decision making than the same data if unlinked. Better data can inform more efficient decisions about control measures that improve the ratio of disease control effectiveness to cost and disruption.2:35PMGeneral Discussion3:00PMClosing by Albert Hofman

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Hermann Brenner, MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology, Heidelberg University, Scientific Coordinator, National Cancer Prevention Graduate School, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Lorelei Mucci, ScD

Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Track, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil

Berberian Professor and Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biology, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Albert Hofman, MD, PhD

Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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HCMPH Center Annual Symposium
2026-05-18 08:30 - 17:00 | Kresge G1 & Online
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We are delighted to welcome everyone to the eighth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center (HCMPH) symposium. As microbial community science expands across industry, clinical research, biotech, and pharma, this year’s theme – translating the microbiome – focuses on turning discovery into implementation. From the first approved live biotherapeutics to microbiome-informed cancer immunotherapy, the field is already reshaping how we understand health and develop therapies.

The symposium will highlight recent advances while looking ahead to future opportunities, including microbial biochemistry in small-molecule drug development and engineering of microbial community members. As always, we hope to be joined by an audience that is both topically and geographically diverse, online and in person. The symposium program will include keynotes, invited talks, and selected presentations from poster submissions. We collect a nominal fee for in-person registration, with virtual attendance available for free. Refreshments and a poster presentation are offered on-site, and support for social media and interactive participation are provided for online attendees.

For more information on the event and the poster reception, please visit this link. For questions: levesque@hsph.harvard.edu

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In-person registration is available: HEREVirtual registration continues to be free and is available here: virtual attendance only

Location:Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthSnyder Auditorium – Kresge G1Poster Reception to be held in the Kresge CafeteriaVirtual attendance available via Zoom webinar (link emailed to you after completing registration for virtual attendance)

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Eric Rubin, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine with opening remarks

Michael Fischbach, PhD

Liu (Liao) Family Professor, Stanford University presents "Commensal vaccines”

Laura Cox

Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital presents “Dissecting strain-specific roles of the gut microbiome in neurologic diseases”

Robert Britton, PhD

Professor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine presents “The impact of the infant microbiome on brain development and cognition”

Jose Clemente, PhD

Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presents “A tale of two trials: microbiome interventions in early life”

Jean McGee, MD, PhD, MS

Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital presents
“The gut feeling behind healthy skin: Expanding the role of the gut microbiome in dermatology”

James Collins, PhD

Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology presents “Microbiome-friendly medicine: engineering live therapeutics and AI-designed antibiotics”

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