Brown Bag Seminar: Can remote personalized digital counseling improve postpartum contraceptive use?
2025-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Ibou Dieye is a PhD candidate in health policy (economics track) at Harvard University. His research lies at the intersection of health economics, public policy, and behavioral economics. He uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study how government financing reforms and emerging digital tools can improve access to and quality of health care in developing countries. He is also interested in how factors outside the health sector shape health outcomes. Before starting his PhD, he studied Applied Mathematics and Economics at Macalester College and worked at Analysis Group as an analyst and data scientist specializing in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).

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Ibou Dieye

PhD Candidate in Health Policy, Harvard University

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | So the US food system is certainly broken; what can we reasonably do about it, given nutritional and geophysical constraints on this system?
2025-12-15 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Gidon Eshel, PhD, MA, MPhil, Research Professor at Bard College. Dr. Eshel’s talk—”So the US food system is certainly broken; what can we reasonably do about it, given nutritional and geophysical constraints on this system?”—will take place on December 15, 2025 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

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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Gidon Eshel, PhD, MA, MPhil

Research Professor at Bard College

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Visions, Values, & Vibes: Aligning Evidence and Aspiration to Craft Your Path for 2026
2025-12-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Wednesday, December 17th, from 1-1:50 p.m in Kresge 202A, we invite all Harvard-affiliated individuals to join us for a well-being workshop led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Jeniece Brock, DrPh ’27. This workshop will offer an evidence-based vision-board process designed to help participants clarify their values, explore future-oriented imagery, and develop structured plans for a joyful and healthy 2026. Through guided exercises and creative exploration, participants will create a visual representation of their aspirations and a concrete roadmap for achieving them.

Hot chocolate, cookies, and pizza provided.

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Jeniece Brock
Student Engagement Committee Member and DrPh '27

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Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses
2026-01-20 09:00 - 09:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Health Care Leadership Essentials for Nurses program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Hosted by Program Director Stephanie Ferguson, this event shows how the program helps mid-level nurse managers transform into leaders with foundational concepts to excel in their roles, improve health outcomes, and implement change in their departments to fix issues they experience first-hand.

If you’re looking to elevate your leadership skills, we invite you to attend this webinar to see how this online self-paced program can support your professional goals.

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Stephanie Ferguson

Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management

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Pressure Points: Leading academic medical centers in turbulent times
2026-01-21 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Pressure Points is a webinar series co-hosted by The Studio and Executive and Continuing Education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health bringing you inside the business of health care.

As health care organizations face sustained crisis conditions—policy, technology, and workforce related—how can leaders guide their institutions with clarity and resilience? Join health care leaders and experts for a candid conversation about what crisis leadership looks like today, and how to lead with strength when the stakes are highest.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Tiffany Moore Simas
MPH '06, MHCM '25; Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UMass Memorial Health; Professor, UMass Chan Medical School

Thoralf Sundt
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center; Co-director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program; Massachusetts General Hospital

Ted Witherell

Lecturer on Health Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Rifat Atun

Vice Dean for Non-Degree Education and Innovation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Strengthen your expertise and build new capabilities to address pressing healthcare and public health challenges. Learn from industry experts and esteemed Harvard faculty and join a global community of peers driven to creating a healthier world.

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Art@Countway Exhibition Closing Ceremony: Call & Response
2026-01-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Countway Library, Room 102
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As the art exhibition “Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to our Foremothers in Gynecology” comes to a close at Countway Library, we invite you to celebrate the show’s impact with artists, organizers, and fellow community members.

This multimedia art exhibition, developed by the Resilient Sisterhood Project, sheds light on the exploitation of enslaved Black women in the origins of modern gynecology and its enduring implications for public health. Centering the lives of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, three women subjected to repeated experimental surgeries by Dr. J. Marion Sims in the 1840s, the exhibition’s powerful narrative inspires us to unearth history, confront the present, and imagine a more just future for reproductive health.

We are committed to making this event accessible to all participants. The space is wheelchair accessible, microphones will be used for speakers, and assistive listening devices are available for use. Please reach out to countwayoutreach@hms.harvard.edu if you have any accessibility needs or questions.

Please register in advance here.

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Jules Authur
Jules Arthur is a St. Louis–born visual artist based in New York City. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, he trained at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and continues studies at the Art Students League. His work, praised by The New York Times for its deft draftsmanship, explores the human form and lived experience.

Dr. Michele David
Dr. Michele David is a Haitian-born artist whose quilts weave African and Haitian traditions with themes of resilience, identity, and healing. She is also Chief of Clinical Quality and Safety at MIT Health. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the New England Quilt Museum.

Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion
Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion is a board-certified OB/GYN who practiced for decades at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A Princeton and Columbia alum, she now focuses on community and medical education, advancing reproductive justice, health equity, and human-centered care for Black and Brown birthing people.

Michelle Hartney
Michelle Hartney is a Chicago-based artist and activist whose multidisciplinary work centers on reproductive justice, gender equity, and healthcare. Using fiber, ceramics, embroidery, and social practice, she addresses issues including maternal mortality, obstetric abuse, and gender-affirming care, creating spaces for public dialogue and advocacy.

Lilly Marcelin
Lilly Marcelin is a community activist and the Founder and Executive Director of the Resilient Sisterhood Project, which empowers women and young adults of African descent around reproductive health. A Wellesley and Tufts alum, she works in partnership with Black women to address systemic racism, health equity, and reproductive justice.

Dr. Rose Molina
Dr. Rose Molina is an OB/GYN and scholar-activist focused on language, immigration, and equity in maternal health. An Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, she also cares for patients at The Dimock Center and Beth Israel Deaconess and leads multiple initiatives advancing health equity and inclusive care.

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Understanding Food Loss and Waste: Opportunities and challenges across the food supply chain
2026-01-26 13:00 - 13:50 | online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Edward Spang, PhD, Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Spang’s talk—”Understanding Food Loss and Waste: Opportunities and challenges across the food supply chain”—will take place on January 26 at 1:00pm ET on Zoom (registration is required).

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

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 3:00pm ET on 1/23/26.

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Edward Spang, PhD

Associate Professor, Food Science and Technology, Director, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, Faculty Lead, Food Loss and Waste Collaborative, University of California, Davis

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Developments in Postmarketing Safety Surveillance of Medical Products: Reflections from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center
2026-01-28 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, January 28th for a Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Rishi Desai discussing Developments in Postmarketing Safety Surveillance of Medical Products: Reflections from the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center.

Abstract: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Sentinel Initiative—launched in 2008 under the FDA Amendments Act as the first national active-surveillance system for medical-product safety—has grown from a proof-of-concept pilot into the nation’s flagship regulatory grade evidence generation engine for pressing drug safety questions. In 2019, the FDA the US Food and Drug Administration prioritized more extensive electronic health records (EHR) integration to the existing claims-based Sentinel Distributed Databases and methodological innovations leveraging cutting edge data science approaches. This talk will provide an overview of the progress made by Sentinel’s Innovation Center in various domains including data infrastructure, information extraction, computable phenotyping, and confounding adjustment. Exemplary case studies will be discussed to highlight challenges and opportunities in applying the methodological innovations to inferential studies of medication safety.

Bio: Rishi J Desai, MS, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard (HMS/HSPH) and an Epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on understanding the use of medications and resulting outcomes in routine care patients with chronic diseases. He has a special interest in methodological investigations to improve inference from non-randomized studies of medication effects. He is currently the Operations Lead for the FDA Sentinel Innovation Center. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Food and Drug Administration. He has authored >185 original research publications.

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Rishi Desai, MS, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Epidemiologist, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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EcoOpportunity Green Team Meeting
2026-01-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Kresge Room 205, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Sustainable Farming and Local Food to Promote Resilience and Community HealthPresented by Jennifer Hashley, Director, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition

Also available by Zoom. For more information, email susan_bottino@harvard.edu

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Using Values-Based Storytelling to Shift the Public Health Conversation: A Hands-on Workshop
2026-02-02 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110
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Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools in health communication—capable of shifting beliefs, building trust, and inspiring action. In this session, led by SBS alum Elissa Scherer (MPH-HSB ’24), we’ll explore why stories stick when facts alone fall flat, and how to harness narrative as a strategy for building community trust and public health impact. Participants will learn how to tell stories about the values that call them to their work and how to craft a narrative-based call-to-action.

This immersive, hands-on workshop is in person only—reserve your spot to join us in the room and leave ready to inspire real-world action.

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Health Communication.

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Elissa Scherer
Communications Coordinator at the Center for Health Communication

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Trial Augmentation Using External Data and Models: Toward Harmony Between Observational Studies and Trials
2026-02-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, February 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Issa Dahabreh discussing Trial Augmentation Using External Data and Models: Toward Harmony Between Observational Studies and Trials

Abstract: We introduce trial augmentation, a new approach to analyzing randomized trials that leverages external data — either historical experimental data or observational data — to improve trial efficiency without sacrificing the unbiasedness guarantee provided by randomization. We characterize a broad class of randomization-aware estimators that integrate external data through data-adaptive models (e.g., machine learning or generative models), yielding higher efficiency and statistical power than estimators based on trial data alone. Crucially, members of this class exploit randomization to remain unbiased even when the external data are misaligned with the trial population or affected by unmeasured confounding. We show that several widely used estimators, including the efficient trial-only estimator, are special cases within this framework. We further demonstrate how combining two or more randomization-aware estimators yields procedures with two key properties: (1) robustness to misalignment and unmeasured confounding in the external data, and (2) efficiency that is at least as high as, and typically higher than, that of the component estimators. We situate these results within a broader research program aimed at a more harmonious integration of observational analyses and randomized trials.

Bio: Issa Dahabreh, MD ScD is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Section Head for Epidemiology and Data Science at the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His research focuses on the design and analysis of randomized trials and observational studies, with an emphasis on causal inference and evidence synthesis. He also develops statistical methods that integrate diverse data sources to improve decision-making in clinical and public health settings.

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Issa Dahabreh, MD, ScD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Section Head for Epidemiology and Data Science, Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Health Benefits of Fighting Dragons
2026-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Wednesday, February 4th, 2026, from 1-1:50 p.m. in Kresge 202A, join us for a well-being workshop led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Anya Greenberg, SM ’26. Explore how tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons can boost well-being, confidence, and social connection.

Lunch provided. Attendance open to Harvard-ID holders.

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Anya Greenberg
SM '26

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Community Coffee Hour
2026-02-05 11:00 - 12:00 | HSPH Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor)
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Join the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) on Thursday, February 5th for a Community Coffee Hour! Join us for an in-person gathering to meet the HHI team and learn more about their global work. All members of the Harvard community are welcome to join to kick off the new semester, build connections, and foster collaboration. This event will be held in-person only, at HSPH Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor) from 11a.m. -12 p.m. ET.

Please RSVP in advance here, and feel free to reach out to hhi@harvard.edu with any questions.

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Can a voice channel improve retention and worker well-being? Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in U.S. fulfillment centers”
2026-02-05 12:00 - 13:15 | HCPDS, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, and Online via Zoom
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Erin Kelly, PhD, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management, presents “Can a voice channel improve retention and worker well-being? Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in U.S. fulfillment centers.”

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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Erin Kelly, PhD

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Better Research IV: Share and Publish Data with Open Science Framework
2026-02-05 12:30 - 14:00
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What: An in-depth look at advanced features of Open Science Framework and how to integrate them into your research process for sharing and publishing research data. This session is a follow up to “Research Management: Data Organization and Sharing in Open Science Framework.”

Why: Using reputable and compliant tools for research management and data sharing supports reproducible practices, collaboration, and transparent research. Open Science Framework is a NIH-recognized generalist repository, is supported by Harvard Library, and is a popular choice for sharing research products throughout the research data lifecycle.

How: This is a free 1.5-hour online workshop, consisting of lecture, hands-on activity, and discussion. This class will focus on using the free platform Open Science Framework to collaborate, manage, and share your documents, datasets, and research projects. The webinar recording will be shared with all who register.

Where: Online via Zoom (link provided upon registration).

Who: This seminar is open to faculty, research staff, postdoctoral researchers, and students from all disciplines. If you were unable to attend the previous workshop in December, where we provided an introduction to OSF, you are welcome and encouraged to attend this webinar anyway.

Join your peers to meet new people and learn new skills in a welcoming and encouraging environment!

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Julie Goldman, BS, MLIS
Research Data Services Librarian, Countway Library

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Leading public health schools today and tomorrow: A conversation with Deans Megan Ranney and Andrea Baccarelli
2026-02-05 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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In this fireside chat, two deans of leading schools of public health will explore how to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape in public health education. Megan Ranney, Dean of Yale School of Public Health, will join Andrea Baccarelli, Dean of Harvard Chan School, to discuss preparing—and learning from—the next generation of public health students. From modeling constructive dialogue across diverse audiences, to examining the role of generative AI in classrooms and research, to equipping graduates for a shifting job market, the deans will share real-world insights.

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Megan Ranney
Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Andrea Baccarelli

Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: Climate anxiety and disaster preparedness
2026-02-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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Vincenzo Bollettino is the director of the Program on Resilient Communities at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and senior research associate with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research and professional experience include disaster resilience, humanitarian action, civil-military engagement in emergencies, and humanitarian leadership. He has spent the past 23 years of his career at Harvard University in administration, teaching, and research. His current research focuses on climate change and disaster preparedness, humanitarian leadership, and civil-military engagement during humanitarian emergencies.

Bollettino has taught courses on research design, peace-building, and international politics at the Harvard Extension School and is the author of publications related to disaster preparedness, climate change, humanitarian civil-military coordination, and humanitarian leadership.

He currently serves as an advisory committee member of the MSF Speaking Out Case Studies and is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for Americares. He is a former board member of ELRHA (Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance) and former president of the ACF (Action Against Hunger) International Scientific Council.

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Vincenzo Bollettino

Senior Research Scientist

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Integrating Multi-Omics and Blood-Based ATX(N) Biomarkers to Identify Precision Dietary Paths for Alzheimer’s Prevention in Harvard Cohorts
2026-02-09 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB Room G-13 & online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Daniel Wang, MD, ScD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Wang’s talk—”Integrating Multi-Omics and Blood-Based ATX(N) Biomarkers to Identify Precision Dietary Paths for Alzheimer’s Prevention in Harvard Cohorts”—will take place on February 9 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 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Daniel Wang, MD, ScD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard Chan School

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Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2026-02-11 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, February 11th for a Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Timothy Lash discussing Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Abstract: Quantitative bias analysis encompasses all methods used to estimate the direction, magnitude, and uncertainty from non-randomized research. Many of these methods have been well known for decades, but are still not routinely implemented. This talk will review the methods, their utility, where there are shortcomings, and how they are sometimes used (intentionally or unintentionally) against their best purposes.

Bio: Timothy L. Lash is the O. Wayne Rollins Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Associate Director of Population Science at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute. His research focuses on predictive and prognostic markers of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer recurrence. His longstanding collaborations in Denmark have involved multiple projects to study molecular markers of recurrence and to study whether concomitant use of prescription drugs affect recurrence risk. He is currently funded by the US NCI to begin adding recurrence data to the Georgia Cancer Registry. Dr. Lash’s methodological interest focuses on developing and implementing methods to quantify the influence of systematic errors on epidemiologic research. Funding from the National Library of Medicine supports his work to develop methods that quantify the influence of systematic errors on the reproducibility of epidemiologic study results. He teaches a course on quantitative bias analysis and leads the doctoral students’ journal club. He is Editor-in-Chief of EPIDEMIOLOGY, a leading general interest epidemiology journal, and coauthor of multiple editions of two epidemiology textbooks: Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Research, 2nd edition and Modern Epidemiology, 4th edition.

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Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH
O. Wayne Rollins Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

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Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon
2026-02-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Countway Library Classrooms 102 & 103 and Zoom
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Join Countway librarians, members of the Public Environmental Data Partners, and fellow data enthusiasts to capture and preserve our public health care data in the CAFE Harvard Dataverse Collection. Celebrate Love Data Week by ensuring access to federal environmental data.

Health and environmental data is crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this invaluable public data is maintained and kept available in its true unaltered form for us now and in the future.

This is an open, three-hour event where we will chat about the importance of data preservation and good data management, then pivot to capturing crucial public health information, reports, and datasets for preservation in Harvard Dataverse. No data science skills are needed!

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Julie Goldman

Research Data Services Librarian, Open Scholarship and Research Data Services

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The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande
2026-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year

The Trump Administration’s abrupt dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has triggered a wave of already hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly of children, around the world. Atul Gawande—former leader of global health at the agency—draws on data, historical parallels, and on-the-ground fact-finding to reveal how gains against malnutrition, infectious disease, and child mortality are being rapidly reversed. Gawande argues that this is a case of “public man-made death,” and calls for accountability and renewed commitment to lifesaving global health efforts.

This event is open to the public and will be recorded. Please plan on being seated by 4:15 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:30 p.m. Please register in advance to attend.

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a renowned surgeon, author, and public health innovator. He holds the John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is the Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID from January 2022 to January 2025. Prior to that, he cofounded and chaired Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation where he is now Distinguished Professor in Residence, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. From 2018–2020, he was CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture.

Dr. Gawande is also a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times bestselling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has won two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, and a MacArthur Fellowship. And he is executive producer for three documentary films: the Emmy-nominated adaptation Being Mortal (2016), the Oscar-nominated film To Kill A Tiger (2024), and The New Yorker film Rovina’s Choice (2025).

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Atul Gawande

John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; writer, The New Yorker

Erez Manela
Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University

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The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande
2026-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year

The Trump Administration’s abrupt dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has triggered a wave of already hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly of children, around the world. Atul Gawande—former leader of global health at the agency—draws on data, historical parallels, and on-the-ground fact-finding to reveal how gains against malnutrition, infectious disease, and child mortality are being rapidly reversed. Gawande argues that this is a case of “public man-made death,” and calls for accountability and renewed commitment to lifesaving global health efforts.

This event is open to the public and will be recorded. Please register to attend. Please plan on being seated by 4:15 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:30 p.m.

Speaker biography:

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a renowned surgeon, author, and public health innovator. He holds the John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is the Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID from January 2022 to January 2025. Prior to that, he cofounded and chaired Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation where he is now Distinguished Professor in Residence, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. From 2018–2020, he was CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture.

Dr. Gawande is also a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times bestselling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has won two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, and a MacArthur Fellowship. And he is executive producer for three documentary films: the Emmy-nominated adaptation Being Mortal (2016), the Oscar-nominated film To Kill A Tiger (2024), and The New Yorker film Rovina’s Choice (2025).

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; writer, The New Yorker.

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Erez Manela

Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health
2026-02-12 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center, and online via Zoom, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of population and family health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, presents “Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health.”

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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Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

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Love Data Rodeo: A Roundup of Useful Ways to Wrangle Your Data
2026-02-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Lamont Library, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Wrangle your data at the Harvard Library’s Love Data Rodeo. Celebrate Love Data Week by learning how to tame and transform your data in style!

You are cordially invited to this exciting round-up of platforms, tools, and strategies to help you successfully work with your data. During this 2-hour event, representatives of Harvard approved platforms will be on hand to provide demonstrations and share the support they can provide to help you make the most of your research data.

This event will be held in-person in the Lamont Library Forum Room. The Forum Room is located on the third floor of Lamont Library. A Harvard ID is required to enter the Lamont Library. We recommend attendees bring their laptops to more deeply engage with the resources that will be demoed. Registration is recommended, but not required.

This event is open to all Harvard students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff. There are no prerequisites or assumptions of knowledge.

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Brown Bag Seminar: Economic inequality and violent mortality: Evidence from Ecuador
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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Omar Galárraga, PhD, is a health economist and tenured professor of health services, policy and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. He currently serves as the director of the Center for Global Public Health (CGPH) at Brown. Galárraga’s research applies principles from health and behavioral economics to improve public health outcomes, with a specific focus on: (a) HIV prevention and treatment: designing and evaluating economic-based interventions, such as conditional economic incentives to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and reduce risk behaviors; (b) Health systems: analyzing health systems reform and insurance expansion in low- and middle-income countries; and (c) Applied econometrics: utilizing rigorous experimental and non-experimental methods to evaluate health interventions. He conducts research globally, collaborating with partners in Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. He is the former director of the doctoral program in health services research at Brown and was an appointed member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) from 2021 to 2024. Currently, he is a standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH) study section, and an associate editor for the journal Health Economics. Galárraga has authored over 150 publications in leading health economics and public health journals.

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Omar Galárraga
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health; Director, Center for Global Public Health, Brown University

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Crossroads Conversation Series
2026-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge room 110, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120-2702
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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.

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Harvard Chan i-Night 2026
2026-02-13 18:30 - 21:00 | Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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The Harvard Chan Student Government Association’s i-Night is back for its 35th year!

Join us for an exciting evening of performances that celebrate and showcase the talents, cultures, and diversity of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community!

Food and refreshments will be provided! Please RSVP to inform catering needs. Families and guests are welcome to join; up to two guests are allowed per student attendee. Children under 10 do not count towards the guest list.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances begin at 7:00 p.m.

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Social Demography Seminar with Jessica Finlay
2026-02-19 12:00 - 13:15 | Online
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Jessica Finlay, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, presents ‘Cognability: A mixed-methods approach to neighborhoods and cognitive health across the life course.’

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.

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

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Jessica Finlay, PhD

Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Alumni insights: Careers in entrepreneurship and innovation
2026-02-19 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Office of Career and Professional Development

Join a panel of Harvard Chan School alumni for an engaging discussion on bringing innovation and entrepreneurship to public health. Discover how they built their careers, what skills matter most, and how to apply their insights to your own professional journey in this candid conversation.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Hailey How
MPH ‘25, Founder & CEO, CareCorgi; Startup Advisor at Blackstone Entrepreneurship Network

Ivan Hsiao
MPH ’24, Founder and CEO, Trans Health HQ

Amber Nigam
SM ‘23, Co-founder and CEO of basys.ai

Fiza Shaukat
MPH ‘22, CEO and co-founder of Patient First.AI

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David Garcia Lou
MPH ‘24, Co-founder Amigdala Boston

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Africa Health Conference - Future-Proofing Africa: Investing in Impact and Innovation
2026-02-21 07:00 - 21:00 | Kresge, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120
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Join us at the 2026 Africa Health Conference to explore innovative solutions to advance health in Africa by pre-registering by Sunday, January 18 HERE.

The Africa Health Conference is a dynamic platform that brings together experts, researchers, practitioners, students, and community stakeholders dedicated to advancing forward-thinking solutions for Africa’s evolving health challenges.

The 2026 conference will take place on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with an online attendance option available. This year’s theme is “Future-Proofing Africa: Investing in Impact and Innovation”. It builds on last year’s sessions that focused on adaptive strategies in health financing, technology, and resilience. This year, the conference will guide participants in reimagining Africa’s development landscape amidst a rapidly changing global context. We will move beyond traditional approaches to explore innovative financing mechanisms and highlight how African entrepreneurs, businesses, and creative thinkers are driving impactful solutions in various fields, from healthcare to technology.

For questions, please contact us hsphafricahealthconference@gmail.com or visit our website: https://africa-health-conference.hsph.harvard.edu/

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CHDS Seminar with Mark Strong of University of Sheffield, UK
2026-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | online
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Mark Strong of the University of Sheffield, UK, School of Medicine and Population Health, “Understanding and Managing Uncertainty in Model-Based Decision Making.” We commonly use computer models to help us make decisions in healthcare resource allocation. Should we fund a particular new drug, for example? However, even with our best model we still might make a wrong decision. This is because we can almost never eliminate uncertainty. This seminar will cover the meaning of uncertainty in a model-based decision making context, and how we can manage it, with particular reference to the quantification of the value of new information.

Mark Strong is Dean of the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is a public health physician and Professor of Public Health, and has conducted research on a wide range of topics relating to public health, health economics, health services research, epidemiology and statistics. He is a Chartered Statistician of the UK Royal Statistical Society and his core research interests relate to the quantification and management of uncertainty in healthcare decision making.

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Mark Strong

Dean of the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield

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SPARK: Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge
2026-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Sebastian’s Cafe
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SPARK: 10 minutes. No silos. No awkward silences.

SPARK (Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge) will kick off with two events this February.

Join us on Tuesday, February 24 or Wednesday, February 25 from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Update: SPARK has been canceled for February 24 due to inclement weather. The event on February 25 will go forward as planned!

What is SPARK?

SPARK is an opportunity for Harvard Chan School staff, faculty, researchers, and students to make person-to-person connections. Join us for a 10-minute activity to shake up your week and shake off the winter blues.

What’s this event all about?

Join us in the Kresge Cafeteria for a quick game designed to help you meet new people in the Harvard Chan community and learn new things about friends, colleagues, and classmates. There are no wrong answers and all are welcome. You can even win prizes, like a week of free lunches at Sebastian’s Café Snacks will be provided. No RSVP is needed.

There will be two sessions for this event, one on Tuesday, February 24 and one on Wednesday, February 25. Both will take place from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Why come to a SPARK event?

We believe the more connected we are, the more we can accomplish together. SPARK is designed to strengthen connections, break down silos, and build trust.

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Negotiations Webinar Series: “On the Use of AI in Frontline Negotiation: Current Trends and Outlook for the Future”
2026-02-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
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Join us on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 (10–11 a.m. ET) for the first session of our two-part Negotiations Webinar Series, hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

🎙 Webinar 1: “On the Use of AI in Frontline Negotiation: Current Trends and Outlook for the Future”

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

This session explores how emerging technologies are reshaping decision-making, risk management, and accountability at the negotiation table. Our faculty will discuss AI-enabled negotiation support and practical considerations for integrating AI responsibly into organizational practices.

🔗 Free and open to the public

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

📲 Or scan the QR code in the event image

📅 Save the date for Webinar #2: “The Making of Negotiating Organizations” on March 25, 2026. Stay tuned for more details.

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

Questions? 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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What If … Public Health Had to Be Built From Scratch? Revisiting 19th-Century Debates
2026-02-25 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, February 25th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Alfredo Morabia discussing What If … Public Health Had to Be Built From Scratch? Revisiting 19th-Century Debates.

Abstract: What would public health look like if it had to be invented today, without assuming the institutions, divisions, and categories we inherited? This lecture revisits the formative debates of the 19th century, when scientific public health first took shape. By examining the tensions between competing visions, particularly between approaches centered on specific causes of disease and those focused on the broader conditions of life, I show that public health emerged not as a single, inevitable model but as the outcome of choices. Situating epidemiology and the early schools of public health within these debates, I argue that some options were abandoned rather than disproven. Revisiting these debates allows us to think more clearly about what public health could be today, not by returning to the past, but by recovering the range of possibilities that once existed.

Bio: Alfredo Morabia is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, CUNY and a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. As Principal Investigator of the World Trade Center-Heart cohort study, funded by NIOSH, he examines the long-term cardiovascular effects of 9/11 on first responders. A historian of epidemiology, he explores the evolution of methods and concepts used to study and improve population health. His last book, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19 (2023), traces the evolution of public health methods from past pandemics to modern crises. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Public Health from June 2015 to June 2025.

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Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
2026-02-25 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge room 201, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120
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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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Born to Flourish
2026-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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On February 25th, 2026, we held the fourth installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series, Born to Flourish, featuring renowned scholar and bestselling author Dr. Richard Davidson. You can watch the event recording below.

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This talk considers scientific evidence that suggests that we can change our brains by transforming our minds and cultivate habits of mind that will improve well-being. These include happiness, resilience, compassion, and emotional balance. Each of these characteristics is instantiated in brain circuits that exhibit plasticity and thus can be shaped and modified by experience and training. Mental training to cultivate well-being has profound implications for the workplace including its impact on leadership, creativity, employee health, productivity, and collaboration.

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Dr. Richard Davidson is the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, and Founder of Humin (formerly Healthy Minds Innovations), a global nonprofit on a mission to make wellbeing real by translating science into action. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology in 1976. Dr. Davidson’s research is broadly focused on the neural bases of emotion and emotional style and methods to promote human flourishing including meditation and related contemplative practices. He has published over 600 papers, numerous chapters and reviews, and edited 20 books. Dr. Davidson’s newest book, “Born to Flourish” with Cortland Dahl, is set to release in March 2026. He is also author (with Sharon Begley) of “The Emotional Life of Your Brain” published in 2012, and co-author with Daniel Goleman of “Altered Traits” published in 2017. Dr. Davidson was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and appointed to the Governing Board of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) in 2018.

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Dr. Richard Davidson
Founder and Director, Center for Healthy Minds

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SPARK: Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge
2026-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Sebastian’s Cafe
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SPARK: 10 minutes. No silos. No awkward silences.

SPARK (Strategy, Participation, Action, Recognition, Knowledge) will kick off with two events this February.

Join us on Tuesday, February 24 or Wednesday, February 25 from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

What is SPARK?

SPARK is an opportunity for Harvard Chan School staff, faculty, researchers, and students to make person-to-person connections. Join us for a 10-minute activity to shake up your week and shake off the winter blues.

What’s this event all about?

Join us in the Kresge Cafeteria for a quick game designed to help you meet new people in the Harvard Chan community and learn new things about friends, colleagues, and classmates. There are no wrong answers and all are welcome. You can even win prizes, like a week of free lunches at Sebastian’s Café Snacks will be provided. No RSVP is needed.

There will be two sessions for this event, one on Tuesday, February 24 and one on Wednesday, February 25. Both will take place from 1:00–2:00 PM in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Why come to a SPARK event?

We believe the more connected we are, the more we can accomplish together. SPARK is designed to strengthen connections, break down silos, and build trust.

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: "Credibility laundering as a vector: The afterlives of reactionary knowledge in population studies."
2026-02-26 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center & online, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Brian Keegan, PhD, associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Credibility laundering as a vector: Change-point detection and socio-technical afterlives of reactionary demographic knowledge.”

With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.

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Brian Keegan, PhD

Associate professor of information science, University of Colorado-Boulder, visiting scientist Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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Healthy hydration: Beverage choices and cancer risk
2026-02-26 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention

In this timely panel, experts will take a look at healthy hydration. How can fluids such as clean drinking water, coffee, and tea boost health, while beverages such as alcohol, soda, and other sugary drinks raise health risks. And how do these choices potentially influence cancer risk? Tune in to this event – part of the Zhu Center’s month-long commemoration of World Cancer Day — to hear clear, evidence-based information.

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Anna Grummon
Director of the Stanford Food Policy Lab

Eric B. Rimm

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition

Walter C. Willett

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition

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Timothy R Rebbeck

Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention

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Brown Bag Seminar: Evidence triangulation in dementia research
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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Maria Glymour is professor and chair of the department of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research examines how social factors experienced across the life-course, from infancy to adulthood, influence cognitive function, dementia, stroke, and other health outcomes in older adults. A separate theme of her research focuses on overcoming methodological problems encountered in analyses of the social determinants of health, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia.

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Maria Glymour
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health

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CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series - Curing More Than TB: Treating Bias in MDR/RR-TB Cohort Analyses
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G3 & Online, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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Presented by Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Professor Franke is a global health researcher whose work brings the rigor of epidemiology to intractable infections, including tuberculosis, cholera, HIV. A primary objective of her work is to reduce suffering from infectious diseases by applying rigorous epidemiologic methods to address critical knowledge gaps related to interventions and treatment. Examples include the design of studies to assess the effectiveness of cholera interventions, including vaccination, and the use of causal inference-based approaches to study treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Molly Franke, SD

Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor. Department of Epidemiology. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Epidemiologist. Global Health Research Core

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Film Screening: Poverty Inc. by Michael Matheson Miller
2026-02-26 13:00 - 14:30 | FXB Jonathan M Mann Conference Room, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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FXB Center is hosting a film screening of “Poverty Inc.” a documentary film by Michael Matheson Miller in the FXB Jonathan M Mann Conference Room. There will be refreshments provided, and this screening is open to the Harvard University Community.

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Wait Time Is Over for Eisner's "Waiting-Room Willie"
2026-03-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Countway Library, Room 103
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More than 50 years ago, Will Eisner’s American Visuals Studio produced “The Sad Case of Waiting-Room Willie” for the Committee on Public Medical Health Education of the Baltimore Medical Society. This fascinating case of public health advocacy has long gone unexamined, particularly in the modern context of American healthcare.

The MCPHS University Center for Health Humanities and the Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library are bringing a team of local experts to honor Eisner’s legacy while also addressing some of our contemporary Graphic Medicine questions that plague Willie.

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Martha Gardner – Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences, MCPHS University

A. David Lewis – Associate Professor of English and Health Humanities, MCPHS University

Dan Mazur – Artist, Publisher; “Will Eisner: A Comics Biography”

Tavon Mei – Graphic Medicine Club representative, Boston University

Matthew Noe – Lead Collection and Knowledge Management Librarian, Countway Library (Moderator)

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How bipartisan health policy is made
2026-03-02 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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This event is part of the Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum series.

This conversation pulls back the curtain on what really happens when Democrats and Republicans hammer out health legislation in Washington. Former HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation Melanie Egorin and former staff director for the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Brian Sutter will unpack how trust, timing, and technical work shape major laws. They will trace how ideas move from “policy on the shelf” to statute, even in hyper‑partisan moments. This discussion will paint a clear picture of the roles staff, agencies, and advocates play—and offer practical advice for building a career in bipartisan problem‑solving.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Melanie Egorin
Former Assistant Secretary for Legislation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden Administration; Professor of Practice in Public Policy, University of Virginia

Brian Sutter
Former Staff Director for Health Subcommittee under Dave Camp (R-MI), U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means; Partner and CEO, Capitol Hill Consulting

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Adrianna McIntyre

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Examining Immigration Enforcement from Minnesota to Boston: A teach-in on impacts and community resources
2026-03-02 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge G2
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Come join us for an engaging seminar on immigration enforcement and its impact. Participants will learn about the extent of immigration enforcement, consider its far-reaching effects on public health and mental health, and learn about concrete resources and support available at Harvard, in surrounding communities, and beyond. We will be joined by HSPH faculty, students, and other leaders in this field.This seminar offers a welcoming space to learn, reflect, and connect.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Office for Community Belonging.

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David Williams
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Maggie Sullivan
FXB Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Evie Odden
MPH Student, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Liz Gipson
Population Health Innovation Manager

TJ Moon
Safety and Security Manager at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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A public health success story: The near-eradication of Guinea worm
2026-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Kresge Building
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A free film screening of the documentary, The President and the Dragon, and Q&A with former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and The Carter Center’s Sarah Yerian

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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?

This event includes a free screening of The President and the Dragon, a documentary about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s efforts to eradicate Guinea worm. Followed by a Q&A about Guinea worm, global health, and storytelling. Light refreshments to follow.

*Figures are provisional until officially confirmed.

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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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Emily Staub
Associate Director, The Carter Center

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(NEW DATE) Pressure points: Balancing clinical and financial priorities in health care
2026-03-04 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
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Due to inclement weather, this event will not take place in person or live stream on February 24. Instead, we will record the discussion and post on Harvard Chan YouTube on March 4, 1pm ET.

Pressure Points is a webinar series co-hosted by The Studio and Executive and Continuing Education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health bringing you inside the business of health care.

As financial pressures intensify across health care, leaders face difficult choices that test their ability to protect clinical excellence while sustaining their organizations. Join leading experts for a candid conversation about navigating the tensions between clinical and financial priorities—and the skills, strategies, and innovations needed to lead effectively through these competing demands.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Jeanne-Marie Guise
Director, Center for Learning Health Care Delivery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Co-founder of the US Cochrane Network

Gregg Meyer

President of the Community Division and Executive Vice President of Value Based Care, Mass General Brigham; Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Erika Werner
Chief Physician Executive, Tufts Medicine; President, Tufts Medical Center Physician Organization; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine

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Rifat Atun

Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership, Vice Dean for Non-Degree Education and Innovation, Director, Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Strengthen your expertise and build new capabilities to address pressing healthcare and public health challenges. Learn from industry experts and esteemed Harvard faculty and join a global community of peers driven to creating a healthier world.

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When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research
2026-03-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us on Wednesday, March 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Ronald Kessler discussing When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research.

Abstract: Recent years have seen a sea change in population survey methods, with online panels increasingly replacing traditional in-person and telephone surveys. A small number of vendors now offer “probability-based” online panels, in which households are recruited using probability sampling methods. The Census Bureau’s new Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is based on such a panel. However, most online panel providers rely on nonprobability, or “opt-in,” samples. Online panels can substantially reduce costs and shorten the time from data collection to results, addressing mounting challenges faced by traditional survey modes. At the same time, they raise important concerns about selection bias and generalizability. This is true even in probability-based panels, which typically have effective response rates in the range 2-5% (i.e., they fail to represent 95-98% of the population). Given that online panels are now a permanent feature of the research landscape, an important question is whether there is a viable middle ground between traditional probability samples and purely opt-in designs. This presentation reviews the approaches that have been proposed to find such a middle ground and describes a hybrid design now being implemented in the new round of the World Mental Health Surveys.

Bio: Ronald Kessler, Ph.D. is the McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He is a psychiatric epidemiologist whose work involves implementing mental health needs assessment surveys, preventive interventions, and clinical interventions for mental disorders and suicide-related behaviors. His intervention work focuses largely on developing precision intervention rules to get the right interventions to the right patients. He is the Director of the World Mental Health Surveys, a cross-national series of community epidemiological surveys on prevalence and correlates of common mental disorders in 30 countries (https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/). He is also the Harvard Site PI of the Study of Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS), a coordinated series of epidemiological and neurobiological studies of social determinants of suicide-related behaviors among US Army soldiers and veterans (https://www.starrs-ls.org/), and of a series of pragmatic trials based on STARRS designed to reduce soldier suicide-related behaviors. Dr. Kessler is the author of over 1000 publications and has for many years been rated the most widely cited researcher in the field of psychiatry according to the Science-wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University, completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin, and was on the faculty at the University of Michigan before taking his current position at Harvard Medical School in 1995.

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Ronald Kessler, PhD
McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “The effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on fertility and newborn health”
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA and online via Zoom
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Sarah Cowan, PhD, associate professor of sociology and director of undergraduate studies, New York University, will present (REMOTELY) “The effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on fertility and newborn health.”

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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Sarah Cowan, PhD

Associate professor of sociology and director of undergraduate studies, New York University

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Brown Bag Seminar: Beyond the buzzwords: Why implementing people-centered care is essential to achieving universal health coverage
2026-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachussetts, 02115
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David Duong, MD, MPH, is the director of the Program in Global Primary Health Care at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research and teaching covers primary healthcare systems strengthening, education program development, and policy and advocacy across Southeast Asia and in the United States. He is also co-lead of the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage. Duong is a primary care physician, a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Clinical Care, and previously served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare. He is also a former US Fulbright Scholar. Duong earned both his bachelor’s degree and master’s in public health degree from the University of Michigan and earned his medical doctor degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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David Duong
Director, Program in Global Primary Health Care, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Book Launch and Fireside Chat: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism. (Un)uttered Sentences By Dr. Margareta Matache
2026-03-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Ballard Conference Room, 5th Floor Countway Library & Online, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for a hybrid (in-person and Zoom) fireside chat to celebrate the launch of Dr. Margareta Matache’s new monograph, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences.

The event will explore the histories, structures, and daily practices that uphold anti-Roma racism across Europe and beyond. It will also examine the place and role of Romani Studies within broader global theories on racialization, racism, and systems of slavery. In conversation with Dr. Mary Bassett, Dr. Abadir Ibrahim, and Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Matache will reflect on howunuttered Roma sentences – erased histories, unhealed violence, and ignored internal knowledge – shape public health, policy, scholarship, and Roma lives.

Audience & RegistrationThis event is free and open to the public.Due to space limitations and security requirements, please register at least one day in advance by emailing Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Margareta Matache, PhD

Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the co-founder and Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

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FXB Center for Health & Human Rights

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Annual International Women's Day Event
2026-03-06 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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International Women’s Day: Bread & Roses – Friday, March 6 (1:00 – 1:50 PM) in Kresge 110

Join the Women, Gender and Health Interdisciplinary concentration to learn about the radical history of IWD and its deep ties to issues of gender, work & health justice.

After an introduction to the history of International Women’s Day by the Chair of WGH Prof. Krieger, we will hear from our guest speaker Dr. Linda Gordon, Professor Emerita of History at New York University and author of many influential books on US social and political history, including Seven Social Movements that Changed America (2025). This book includes stories of two Boston socialist feminist groups, Bread and Roses and the Combahee River Collective, whose activism and analysis modeled connecting “women’s issues” to other 1960s-1970s campaigns against racism and other forms of inequality.

A Q&A with the audience will follow. Speakers from co-sponsoring groups & members of the audience are welcome to briefly share what this day means for them.

All are welcome! Lunch will be provided.

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Nutrition Reimagined: Science, Obesity, and Dietary Guidelines at a Crossroads
2026-03-09 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, the Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Hu’s talk—”Nutrition Reimagined: Science, Obesity, and Dietary Guidelines at a Crossroads”—will take place on March 9 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 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.

Seminar speakers share their perspectives, they do not speak for Harvard.

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Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD

Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Chair of Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Introduction to the General Records Schedule
2026-03-10 10:00 - 10:30 | online
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Do you know how long you need to keep your office records, and what you should do when you no longer need them? In this workshop, we’ll help de-mystify records retention by showing you how to use and understand the Harvard University General Records Schedule (GRS).

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Cross-Disorder Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings and Methodologic Challenges
2026-03-11 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Jordan Smoller discussing Cross-Disorder Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings and Methodologic Challenges.

Abstract: Psychiatric disorders are highly comorbid, heritable, and genetically correlated, raising fundamental questions about the nature of shared versus disorder-specific genetic influences. Large-scale genome-wide association studies and multivariate genetic models now provide compelling evidence for both pervasive pleiotropy and meaningful etiologic differentiation across major psychiatric disorders. This seminar will review key findings from recent cross-disorder genetic analyses including recent work characterizing shared and disorder-specific genetic architecture using multivariate genomic approaches. We will also discuss methodological challenges that complicate cross-disorder inference, including heterogeneity in phenotypic assessment, differences in case and control ascertainment, and selection biases inherent in clinical cohorts, electronic health records, and population biobanks. Addressing these challenges will be important for robust and clinically-meaningful inferences about the underlying structure of psychopathology.

Bio: Dr. Jordan Smoller is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and geneticist whose research focus has been understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan and using big data to advance precision mental health including improved methods to reduce risk and enhance resilience.

Dr. Smoller is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At Massachusetts General Hospital, he is the Jerrold F. Rosenbaum Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Center for Genomic Medicine, and co-Director of the Center for Suicide Research and Prevention at MGH and Harvard. Dr. Smoller is a Tepper Family MGH Research Scholar and also serves as Director of the Omics Unit of the MGH Division of Clinical Research and co-Director of the Mass General Brigham Training Program in Precision and Genomic Medicine. He is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute and past President of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics.

He has played a leading role in national and international efforts to advance precision and genomic medicine. He is a Principal Investigator (PI) in the eMERGE (Electronic Medical Records and Genomics) network, founding PI of the PsycheMERGE Consortium and lead PI of the New England Precision Medicine Consortium as part of the NIH All of Us Research Program. He is also co-Chair of the Cross-Disorder Workgroup of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). He is an author of more than 650 scientific publications and is also the author of The Other Side of Normal (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2012).

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Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD
Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The Big Joy Project: Using Daily Microacts to Promote Global Well-Being
2026-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G13 or online, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Wednesday, March 11th, 2026, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G13 and online, all are welcome to join us for the fifth installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series, featuring leading expert on joy Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas.

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Greater well-being predicts better health, more satisfying relationships, and overall success in life – and it is of utmost importance to most people. Recent scholarship has yielded a growing canon of empirically-tested interventions to enhance well-being, though few are multifaceted or widely, freely accessible. This presentation will share insights from the Big JOY project, an interactive public online program that offers 7 daily well-being micro-acts alongside individualized feedback about momentary and pre-to-post impact. A global, collaborative Citizen Science initiative, analysis of voluntary single-arm Big JOY participant responses sheds light on key patterns of engagement and impact; financial strain predicts drop off, younger people report greater benefit to well-being, and greater adherence ties to stronger endorsement of prosocial mores. Published findings and ongoing examination of the Big JOY dataset promise to inform continued efforts to promote well-being effectively, sustainably, and at scale.

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Dr. Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas is the Science Director at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). She runs the GGSC’s annual research fellowship program as well as major research initiatives on topics like gratitude, humility, and love. She teaches the science of well-being widely, including open online courses that have enrolled over 1M learners worldwide. Dr. Simon-Thomas leads collaborative efforts to give widespread access to well-being insights and practical strategies for improvement, and also investigate impact on individuals, interpersonal dynamics, and biological processes. She co-edited the 2017 Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science, and co-authored the 2025 Daily Flourish: A Science Backed Journal to Build Positivity, Connection, and Resilience. Dr. Simon-Thomas serves as an expert voice on the neuroscience and social implications of prosocial states like compassion and awe and the well-being benefits of generous and nurturing behaviors.

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Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Science Director of the Greater Good Science Center

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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 | 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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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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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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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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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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Department of Epidemiology

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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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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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Department of Epidemiology

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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 Wednesday, April 15th, 2026, from 1-1:50 p.m. in FXB G13 and online, all are welcome to join us for 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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Department of Epidemiology

Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence

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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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Department of Epidemiology

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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 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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