Presented jointly with the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health How can storytelling raise awareness of urgent public health issues — and begin to shape a meaningful response? This panel of skilled storytellers will share insights from their own experience and offer ideas about how journalists, authors, and...
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Mila Kofman, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu. Speaker Information Sponsored By:
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event will be hybrid and we will have lunch for those that are present. Speaker Information
Abstract: The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time...
On March 5th, 2025, we held the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lindsey Burghardt of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. Event Description: This talk discussed how, beginning well before birth, children's development and lifelong health is shaped by the full range of experiences and exposures...
Onur Altindag, PhD, associate professor of economics, Bentley University, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Mental health effects of having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease.” Location Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center)9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA United States ZoomRegister above Organizers
Jonathan Mann Conference Room, 7th Floor, FXB. Richard Siegrist will chair.
Erika Sabbath, ScD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, presents “Impacts of post-Dobbs state abortion bans on health and well-being of obstetrician-gynecologists.” Organizers
Advances in genomic surveillance have revealed that tuberculosis is vastly under-diagnosed around the world. A growing awareness of the prevalence of asymptomatic patients—and their roles in transmitting the deadly disease—is driving urgent research into new methods for diagnosing and treating tuberculosis. Our expert panel will bring us the latest on a major global health threat. ...
ID Epi Seminar Series Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade - Optimizing antibiotic treatment for children with diarrhea in low-resource settings: promoting access and limiting excess
Join us for a conversation with colleagues from Boston Medical Center’s Immigrant and Refugee Health Center to learn about programs and services designed for and with immigrant women. A light lunch will be served during this event. The Partnership for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being is co-led by Instructor and Health and Human Rights...
ⓘ Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.
