Abstract: The treatment of one individual often affects the outcomes of others. A canonical example occurs in infectious disease settings, where vaccinating one individual can reduce disease transmission and thereby...
Join the Harvard Chan LGBTQ Working Group for a discussion about careers that provide opportunities to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ people. Lunch provided. RSVP. This event is...
Join us for a Center Member Research Presentation by Ronnie Levin, MA and Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD, MPH. Levin will present on Don't undervalue the goods: Monetizing health endpoints and Mazumdar will present on Arsenic, spina bifida, and folic acid in Bangladesh: Translation from animal models to humans to public health policy. Ronnie Levin, MA is an...
The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers...
Join us for a discussion about how content creators are shifting the news landscape with Ryan Kellett, Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow and former VP of Audience at Axios Media. Lunch will be served. This speaker will share his own perspectives; he does not speak for Harvard. If you have any questions about the event, please reach out...
ID Epi Seminar Series Gili Regev-Yochay - The Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute (SPRI) - From Pandemic Preparedness to a West Nile Virus mAb
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our first installment in the Thursday Brown Bag Series! On February 27, Ole F. Norheim, MD, PhD will present “Halving Premature...
The Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop is an annual event for undergraduates or students in a post baccalaureate program from underrepresented groups who have an interest in public health and/or mathematical modeling, and are studying quantitative disciplines and/or public health at their home institutions. Organizers
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 Wednesday, March 5th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for 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 will discuss how, beginning well before birth, children's development and lifelong...
