Join us for a webinar on Global Environmental Health, offered by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Advanced Learning Academy and hosted by Program Director Petros Koutrakis. Professor Koutrakis will provide an overview of the course and what participants can expect to learn from the first course in this 4-course Certificate of Specialization,...
Parents today are facing unprecedented levels of stress, with many reporting symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, and loneliness. The U.S. Surgeon General’s 2024 advisory calls parental mental health and well-being an urgent public health issue, sighting the effects of parental health on the health and development of children.
Harvard Chan School members are invited to attend The Studio's Open House.
Public health decision-making is increasingly complex, involving tradeoffs between competing considerations such as length versus quality of life, health gains versus economic costs, and efficiency versus equity. Health decision science provides structured, transparent approaches to evaluating these tradeoffs and informing decisions in the face of constrained budgets for health care and public health. Dr. Pandya's...
Please join us to celebrate the opening of our newest art exhibition: Do You See Me?Paintings of Postpartum Trauma and Healingby S. Abbas Shobeiri The opening reception will feature remarks by the artist, a guided tour of the exhibition, and light refreshments. All are welcome! Please RSVP in advance. About the Exhibition Presented through Countway's...
Join us on Wednesday, September 9th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. David Jones. Abstract: As scrutiny of air pollution epidemiology increased in the 1960s, researchers wondered whether pollution crises mostly killed people with preexisting cardiac or respiratory disease who would have died soon anyway. This idea, named “mortality displacement,” “harvesting,” or...
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Mary Jean Brown, ScD, Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Brown will discuss “A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward.” This event...
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Patrick Vinck, PhD, research director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We will discuss the reliability and limits of AI for qualitative humanitarian data analysis, with a...
Marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11, this event is a forward-looking conversation on what it means to lead in an era of cascading crises and persistent leadership vacuums.
Join us on Monday, September 14th for a special Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Karl Lauterbach. Abstract: While the mainstream discourse surrounding artificial intelligence in medicine remains heavily focused on drug discovery, diagnostics, and curative care, these near-term promises often overshadow a more consequential frontier: prevention. This talk examines the paradigm shift toward preventive...
This discussion will cover practical steps to protect against the health and environmental impacts of wildfire smoke.
Join us on Wednesday, September 16th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Tobias Kurth. Abstract: Migraine is substantially more prevalent in women than in men, a difference...
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