Radiological Emergency Management
2025-04-15 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Radiological Emergency Management program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education, hosted by Program Director Steven B. Goldman, EdD.

Mr. Goldman will share valuable insights into the program, outlining what participants can expect to learn and achieve. As radiological threats continue to pose global challenges, this program is crafted to prepare leaders to effectively manage such emergencies. Participants will gain skills and strategies to effectively plan for and respond to radiological emergencies at the federal, state, local, or individual facility level.

If you’re looking to enhance your expertise in emergency management and take a proactive role in radiological preparedness, we invite you to attend this webinar to discover how the program can align with your professional goals.

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Community Data Preservation: A Climate & Health Datathon
2025-04-15 14:00 - 17:00 | Countway Room 102
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Health and climate data are crucial to our work and our everyday lives. It is important that this public data is maintained and kept available for us now and in the future.

Join us for this climate and health datathon and learn how to save our data while having fun connecting with fellow data enthusiasts!

We’re partnering with the Climate and Health Research Coordinating Center (CAFÉ RCC), a joint partnership between Boston University School of Public Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to host this preservation event. We will focus on the importance of data preservation and good data management and pivot to capturing crucial public health information, reports, and datasets for preservation in the CAFÉ Dataverse.

No data science skills are needed! Join when you can for as long as you can.

This event is open to all Harvard students, postdocs, researchers, faculty, and staff, as well as the larger concerned public health community.

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Building Foundations: Addressing Housing Insecurity to Improve Child Health
2025-04-16 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Abstract: The ongoing housing affordability crisis in the US poses significant challenges to the wellbeing of children. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of the relationship between housing instability and children’s health drawing on a range of recent studies. I will also describe evidence from both quasi-experimental and experimental research to demonstrate how housing interventions can mitigate negative impacts and promote healthier outcomes for children.

Bio: Dr. Natalie Slopen is a social epidemiologist with a focus on child development, health equity, and life course theory. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Slopen’s research focuses on how social and environmental factors influence health and well-being in childhood and across the lifespan. Her work, encompassing both observational and experimental studies, aims to generate insights that can shape effective policies and programs to promote health equity.

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Natalie Slopen, ScD
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Noticing Nature
2025-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A
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On Wednesday, April 16th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, we invite all Harvard students, faculty, and staff to join us for a workshop exploring the role of nature in well-being. This event will be led by Center Student Steering Committee member Niharika Jhingan, MPH ’26.

Explore the connection between nature and well-being, learn about ways to incorporate more nature into your daily life, and join us on a mini quest to connect to the nature in our surroundings. This workshop involves a short walk outside, so please dress accordingly.

We have limited spaces available, so please register ASAP! Lunch provided.

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: "Digital data for demographic estimation: Applications to the study of environmental hazards"
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center), 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Jenna Nobles, PhD, professor of demography, University of California-Berkeley, presents at this Social Demography Seminar.

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 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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Jenna Nobles, PhD
Professor of demography, University of California-Berkeley, presents at this Social Demography Seminar.

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Breathing easier: The pursuit of clean air
2025-04-17 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with C-CHANGE

A staggering 99 percent of the world’s people live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution. Dirty air has been linked to dementia, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory illnesses—and millions of premature deaths each year. And climate change is only worsening the problem. This panel brings together experts in clinical care and environmental research to discuss the threat of air pollution and explore solutions.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Douglas W. Dockery

John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Emeritus, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Amruta Nori-Sarma

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

C. Arden Pope III
Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University

Mary Berlik Rice

Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health; Director, Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Kari C Nadeau

John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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ID Epi Seminar Series - Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
2025-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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Apr 17, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3

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The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes

Presented by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.

Prior to joining McGill, Mathieu received a doctorate in Population Health from Harvard University. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematical modeling at Imperial College London.

His research focuses primarily on 1) infectious disease modeling, 2) epidemiology and surveillance, and 3) impact and economic evaluations of public health interventions.

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Financing universal health coverage through social health insurance: Kenya’s experience
2025-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1 – Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 17, Wanza Mbole, DSL, MBA, BSc, will present, “Financing universal health coverage through social health insurance: Kenya’s experience”. Wanza Mbole is a LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. This seminar will be held in Building 1, Room 1208. Online participation will be available via Zoom. A Harvard ID is required for building access.

The Thursday Brown Bag Series is a weekly seminar series featuring current research of faculty, affiliates, and guests of the department. Any questions regarding the series can be directed to the department at GHP@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Meet & Greet and Book Signing with Douglas Dockery
2025-04-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us to meet Douglas Dockery, Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Department of Environmental Health, and author of the new book, Particles of Truth (MIT Press, 2025). The Harvard COOP will be selling copies of the book at the event, and Dr. Dockery will be available to sign copies of the book (that you bring or purchase there).

The book signing will take place immediately following the live-streamed Studio discussion, Breathing easier: The pursuit of clean air, featuring Dr. Dockery and his co-author, Arden Pope.

Particles of Truth is a riveting account of the discovery of the critical health effects of air pollution told by Arden Pope and Douglas Dockery, who have been at the forefront of air pollution and health research for four decades. With an insightful foreword by former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, this compelling book provides an inside look at groundbreaking scientific research and ensuing political and public-policy battles. It presents evidence that air pollution is a major contributor to disease and death and that reducing air pollution saves lives. The book also delves into intense efforts to discredit and cast doubt on the science. Read more.

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Douglas W. Dockery

John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Emeritus

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The Art of Well-Being
2025-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 202A
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On Tuesday, April 22nd, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join us for The Art of Well-Being: A Science-Backed Approach to Emotional Release. This interactive workshop will use evidence-based practices like mindfulness, expressive writing, and grounding exercises to help you release emotional overwhelm and reconnect with inner calm. Through simple guided activities and shared reflection, you’ll walk away with tools to feel more focused, clear-headed, and emotionally grounded.

This workshop will be led by Student Steering Committee member Rifka Verma, MPH ’25. Seats are limited, so RSVP today!

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Rifka Verma
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A State of Passion Documentary Screening
2025-04-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
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Join us for a screening of Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi’s documentary, “A State of Passion” which captures ongoing human rights violations and the war in Gaza through the eyes of British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah.

After 43 horrific days working around the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, Dr. Abu-Sittah emerged to shed light on the sixth war he has experienced while lending his medical expertise for humanitarian assistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he speaks of the unfathomable horrors he witnessed, from lacerated bodies to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, deliberate targeting of medics, hospital facilities, water and sewage systems, evidence of chemical weapons use, indiscriminate killing disproportionately affecting children, and widespread life-altering injuries among civilians.

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Architecture & the 21st-Century Paradigm Shift: Designing for the Subliminal Brain - for Health, Well-being & Happiness
2025-04-23 13:00 - 13:50 | Massachusetts
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On April 23rd, we held the final instalment in our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring architect and author Ann Sussman.

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This talk discusses the neuroscience that reframes our understanding of how architecture impacts us, including how people non-consciously take in their surroundings, and how that influences public health and placemaking. The talk will demonstrate eye-tracking and other biometric tools which reveal non-conscious human behaviors, including how our brain is hardwired to seek out detail and avoids looking at blankness in the built environment.

The big idea? Today’s biometric tools provide a new lens to ’see’ our world, transforming our understanding of what people need to see and be in to be at their best.

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Ann Sussman, an architect, author, researcher and teacher, is passionate about understanding how buildings impact us. She serves as president of the Human Architecture + Planning Institute, (theHapi.org), a nonprofit devoted to improving the design of the built environment through education and research. Her book Cognitive Architecture, Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment (Routledge, 2015, 2021) won the 2016 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). Ann teaches a course on using biometrics in design, ‘Buildings, Biology + the Brain’, at the Boston Architectural College (BAC). She co-edited the forthcoming Handbook of Neuroscience and the Built Environment (Routledge, 2025), due out this June, which compiles 31 chapters by 50 authors on 4 continents, who are eager to bridge the arts and sciences to promote health and wellbeing worldwide.

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Innovation in time of crisis: An inside look at HHS during the first Trump Administration
2025-04-24 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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Eric Hargan, who served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the first Trump administration, will share an insider’s perspective into the early U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the vital work of Operation Warp Speed to deliver a vaccine in record time. This fireside chat will also explore initiatives to improve healthcare access in rural communities through telehealth expansion and remote patient monitoring.

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

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Eric Hargan
Former Acting Secretary and Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

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David Blumenthal

Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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ID Epi Seminar Series - Trevor Bedford
2025-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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Apr 24, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G3

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Fitness flux in SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal influenza H3N2

Presented by Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Trevor Bedford is a Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. His research program focuses on phylodynamic analysis of pathogen sequence data with the goal of making inferences that are actionable to public health. This research program spans both epidemiological and evolutionary questions and spans a number of viral systems including seasonal and avian influenza, Ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV, dengue, mpox and SARS-CoV-2.

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Global health after USAID: A conversation with Atul Gawande
2025-04-28 13:00 - 13:50 | HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States
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Presented jointly with the PhD Program in Population Health Sciences

Join renowned surgeon, best-selling author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD ’95, MPH ’99, for a conversation about the future of global health. Gawande, who served as assistant administrator for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development from January 2022 to 2025, will discuss his time at the agency, the evolution of global health, and impacts of shifting national priorities.

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This event is only open to Harvard ID holders.

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Atul Gawande
Surgeon, author, and former USAID Global Health Assistant Administrator

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Marcia Castro

Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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20th Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
2025-04-29 13:00 - 18:30 | Kresge G3, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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This event is open to the Harvard Longwood Community.

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Oral presentations

1:30 – 4:30PM in the Kresge G3 auditorium

1:30PM – Welcome and Introduction by Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, Professor of Epidemiology

1:35PM – Transmission or Importation? Using SARS-CoV-2 Genomics to Guide Infection Control protocols by Mui Pham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology

1:50PM – Biological drivers of frequency dependent selection in post-vaccine pneumococcal populations by Indra Gonzalez Ojeda, PhD Student, Physics

2:05PM – Alcohol use, alcohol outlets, and spatial HIV epidemic burden in South Africa by Domonique Reed, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology

2:20PM – Quantifying the impact of antibiotic use and genetic determinants of resistance on Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineage dynamics by David Helekal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology

2:35PM – Q&A Session

2:50PM – BREAK

3:10PM – Evolutionary and host demographic factors shaping the diversity of a multilocus antigen in Neisseria gonorrhoeae by QinQin Yu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

3:25PM – Equity considerations in COVID-19 vaccine allocation modelling: a methodological study by Eva Rumpler, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology

3:40PM – Comparing strategies to introduce two new antibiotics that minimize drug resistance in gonorrhea: a modeling study by Madeleine Kline, MD-PhD Candidate, Population Health Sciences

3:55PM – Q&A Session

4:20PM – Closing remarks by Megan Murray, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

Poster reception

4:45-6:30PM in the FXB Atrium

Spatiotemporal variability of malaria transmission in the Brazilian Amazon driven by weather and climate patterns by Nicholas J. Arisco, Postoctoral Research Fellow, Global Health and Population

Can Group B Streptococcus (GBS) strain diversity in carriage be recovered from low-abundance metagenomic samples? A simulation study by Ruchita Balasubramanian, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology

Surveillance for TB drug resistance using routine rapid diagnostic testing data: Methodological development and application in Brazil by Sarah Baum, PhD Student, Global Health and Population

Focusing a Viral Risk Ranking Tool on Prediction by Katherine Budeski, PhD Student, Epidemiology

Exploring SARS-CoV-2 Intrahost Evolution and Transmission with Deep Sequencing Genomic Surveillance Data by Léa Cavalli, PhD Candidate, Epidemiology

Why should we study indirect effects of antimicrobial treatment strategies? by Juan Gago, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology

Linking Genetic Distance to Invasiveness in Streptococcus pneumoniae by Sophia Lerebours (Undergraduate student at Harvard College), Indra Gonzalez Ojeda (PhD Student, Physics), Marc Lipsitch, DPhil (Professor, Epidemiology)

Prevalence of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Tuberculosis Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Alicia Madden, Research Assistant, Global Health and Social Medicine

Mining and Malaria: Addressing Mobility and Access in the Guyana Shield by Andrea Parra Salazar, PhD Student, Global Health and Population

Heterogeneous constraint and adaptation across the malaria parasite life cycle by Sarah Perkins, PhD Candidate, Biology

Low-Cost Approaches for Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacterial Infections in Resource-Limited Settings: A Scoping Review by David Roach, Instructor in Medicine

Seasonal forcing and waning immunity drive the sub-annual periodicity of the COVID-19 epidemic by Ilan N. Rubin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology

Target trial emulation with test restricted sampling to estimate COVID-19 booster vaccine efficacy: a cohort study by Beau Schaeffer, PhD Student, Epidemiology

Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) and TB infection in intrahousehold contacts by Oscar Zazueta Fierro, PhD Student, Population Health Sciences

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20th Freeman-Seage Symposium Program

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Epidemiologic Methods and Data Science: Stronger Together
2025-04-30 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Abstract: Epidemiologic methods often focus on a statistical model as the main step to getting “the” result. This talk will attempt to widen the perspective on epidemiologic methods. How do we develop and communicate our research plans in a team? How do the numbers from a regression model make it into a table in a manuscript? Practical examples will be shown how standard approaches from data science and free software packages can speed up our work in epidemiology and improve its reproducibility. As a corollary, epidemiology-minded data science might not just need to be a core component in the training of the next generation of epidemiologists, but can in turn also help teach epidemiologic methods.

Bio: Konrad Stopsack leads the Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS in Bremen, Germany. His applied research focuses on molecular and cancer epidemiology. His methodologic and teaching interests include application and further development of epidemiologic methods to improve reproducibility, interpretability, and efficiency of epidemiologic studies.

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Konrad H. Stopsack, MD MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiologic Methods and Etiologic Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum
2025-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Building 2 – Room 102, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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“Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum” featuring Head of Arboretum Operations and Projects Danny Schissler. Learn about Harvard’s “Museum of Trees” and what it takes to keep North America’s first public arboretum open to all. HUID required or online at https://hsph.me/arnoldarboretumsustainability.

to RSVP please email susan_bottino@harvard.edu.

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Danny Schissler
Head of Operations and Project Management, Arnold Arboretum

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Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice
2025-05-01 10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive Education and hosted by Program Director Dr. Santiago Romero-Brufau, MD, PhD.

As AI technology advances, it has the potential to greatly enhance patient care efficiency by speeding up information processing. However, integrating AI into a health care practice or system is a complex task. This program provides clinicians and stakeholders with the essential skills to develop these processes internally.

If you’re interested in the program, we invite you to join the webinar to explore how it may align with your professional goals.

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Santiago Romero-Brufau

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

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Harvard International Office: Summer Travel Planning
2025-05-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Massachusetts
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Harvard students considering international travel for the summer are encouraged to attend an online meeting with Elizabeth Capuano of the Harvard International Office. Please register for the Zoom meeting using the registration link.

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Elizabeth Capuano, assistant director
Harvard International Office

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ID Epi Seminar Series - Amy Wesolowski
2025-05-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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May 1, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge G2

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Modeling human behavior to understanding infectious disease dynamics – examples of population-level mobility and injecting behaviors of people who use injection drugs

Presented by Amy Wesolowski, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Amy Wesolowski is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She obtained her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and was a postdoctoral fellow at HSPH and Princeton University. Her research focuses on understanding human behavior and how it relates to infectious disease transmission. She works on multiple pathogens including malaria, measles, and HCV.

Each spring, the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics hosts an annual seminar series, featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling.

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Cutting through the Smoke​: Climate Change and Respiratory Health
2025-05-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1 – Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 1, Mary B. Rice, MD, MPH, will present “Cutting through the Smoke​: Climate Change and Respiratory Health”. Dr. Rice is the Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health in the Department of Environmental Health and Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The Thursday Brown Bag Series is a weekly seminar series featuring current research of faculty, affiliates, and guests of the department. Any questions regarding the series can be directed to the department at GHP@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Mary Berlik Rice

Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health

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Global Health Week Symposium: Building Sustainable Health Systems
2025-05-01 17:30 - 19:15 | Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115
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Global Health Week returns on April 28 to May 2!

Please join the Department of Global Health and Population’s Global Health Week Symposium on “Building Sustainable Health Systems” featuring Keynote speaker Muhamad Chatib Basri, PhD, Chairman, PT Bank Mandiri tbk. and Former Minister of Finance of Indonesia, followed by a panel discussion from international experts and Harvard faculty.

This event will be held on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM in Kresge G2.

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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.

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Muhamad Chatib Basri, PhD
Chairman, PT Bank Mandiri tbk. and Former Minister of Finance of Indonesia

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Agnès Couffinhal

Global Program Lead, Health Financing, World Bank

Bill Hsiao

K.T. Li Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Joe Kutzin
Senior Fellow, Results for Development; former Coordinator, Health Financing Policy, World Health Organization

Muhammad Pate
Coordinating Minister of Health & Social Welfare, Federal Republic of Nigeria

Winnie Yip

Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics

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Rifat Atun

Professor of Global Health Systems

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Longwood Festival
2025-05-02 16:00 - 19:30 | Massachusetts
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Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want to join in for a game of soccer, be the first team to solve a puzzle, or relax by enjoying nachos, churros, and popcorn while playing lawn games. There will be something for individuals of all backgrounds to enjoy while meeting other Longwood-based students from across graduate school!

RSVP here: https://engage.sph.harvard.edu/event/11255968

Open to ALL Harvard students, staff and faculty (we encourage everyone to join our activities or cheer your colleagues on!)

Food will include vegetarian options. Activities will run from 5 – 7 PM and include team soccer, team tug-of-war, team trivia and a team jig-saw-puzzle racing!

Sign up to join an activity at the follow survey: https://forms.office.com/r/Gc9ah8Bw6r We would also appreciate volunteers sign up at through this spreadsheet: Longwood Festival Volunteer Sign Up!

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Film screening of Ava DuVernay's "13th"
2025-05-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Bring your lunch and join us for a screening of the film 13th, followed by open-ended discussion. Watch the trailer here.

About the film:Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

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Trust and ethics in public health
2025-05-05 13:00 - 13:50 | The Studio & Online
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The landmark Belmont Report articulated key principles to protect humans in scientific studies. Nearly 50 years after the report’s publication, this distinguished panel of bioethics experts will examine the impacts of those guidelines, particularly on communities of color. What are the successes? Where are the shortcomings? And what are the actionable solutions to create a more inclusive, just, and trustworthy healthcare system for everyone?

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Allan Brandt
Professor of the History of Science and Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard University

David Augustin Hodge
Interim Director & Associate Professor, National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, Tuskegee University

Evelynn M. Hammonds

Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Rebecca Weintraub Brendel
Director, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

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

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CHDS Seminar: Answering Causal Questions Through Decision Analytical Models
2025-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a Seminar with Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf from Erasmus MC for a virtual seminar showing that many decision analytical models are inherently causal in nature. They explicitly present decision analytical models as causal models, highlighting that, the more a decision model deviates from its underlying causal structure, the more likely it is to result in a sub-optimal decision with all the consequences this entails.

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Jeremy Labrecque

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Why Medicaid matters: A conversation with former NC Gov. Roy Cooper
2025-05-07 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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Before leaving the office of Governor due to term limits earlier this year, Roy Cooper expanded North Carolina’s Medicaid program, enrolling more than 650,000 residents, many in rural areas. He also worked with hospitals to create a medical debt relief program aimed at helping nearly 2 million residents get out from under the weight of $4 billion in medical bills that they couldn’t afford to pay. In this conversation, Gov. Cooper will explain the value he sees in Medicaid and the potential impact of federal funding cuts to public health. He will also discuss his experience building coalitions across party lines to address healthcare needs in his state.

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Roy Cooper
Former Governor of North Carolina and Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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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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Epidemiology of Autism: Substantive Results and Methodological Issues
2025-05-07 13:00 - 13:50 | HSPH, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Abstract: Since the mid 1960’s, 165 prevalence surveys of autism were conducted worldwide and their main findings will first be summarized. While the contribution of genetic factors to autism etiology is high, the increase in autism prevalence has raised concerns about additional contribution of environmental factors. Autism risk has been statistically associated with myriads of exposures but, with few exceptions, the causal nature of these associations remains unproven. Estimates are often confounded and results do not replicate across samples and study designs. We review recent findings on select risk factors to illustrate current methodological issues relevant to this research domain.

Bio: Dr. Eric Fombonne trained in child and adolescent psychiatry in France. He held academic appointments at INSERM (Paris, France), at the Institute of Psychiatry (London, UK), at McGill University (Canada), and at OHSU (Portland, Oregon, USA). He has a long experience of clinical work with children with autism and their families, and of research on this population, especially using epidemiological methods. He published over 380 articles and 50 chapters in books. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (1994-2004) and is currently Joint Editor of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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Eric Fombonne, MD
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Science University

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WGH Film Screening of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
2025-05-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115
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WGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and the gendered impacts of war. This gripping documentary follows the courageous Liberian women who organized a nonviolent resistance to end a brutal civil war—ultimately paving the way for peace and the election of Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.This event is co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association and the Africa Student Health Forum. All are welcome!

Dinner and refreshments will be provided!

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2025 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony
2025-05-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Klarman Hall Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02163
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Join the Harvard Innovation Labs for our annual celebration of innovation, community, and entrepreneurship at Harvard. We’ll hear live pitches from 25 finalist ventures and reveal which will receive a share of $517,000 in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation. Get excited for this year’s event by watching highlights from last year.

We’ll hear live pitches from 25 finalist ventures and reveal which will receive a share of $517,000 in funding, courtesy of the Bertarelli Foundation.

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

Register today to get the link for the livestream.

Tickets for the in-person event will open to the Harvard community on April 7 and to the general public on or before April 23.

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

Online: Can’t make it to campus? Join us online from anywhere in the world for an immersive digital experience. Register to receive the link to view the livestream.

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ID Epi Seminar Series - Erin Mordecai
2025-05-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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May 8, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | FXB G12

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More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases

Presented by Erin Mordecai, Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Stanford University

Erin Mordecai’s research focuses on the ecology of infectious disease. She is interested in how climate, species interactions, and global change drive infectious disease dynamics in humans and natural ecosystems. This research combines mathematical modeling and empirical work. Erin finished her PhD in 2012 at the University of California Santa Barbara in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. She then completed a 2-year NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in the Intersection of Biology and Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Erin has been at Stanford since January 2015.

Each spring, the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics hosts an annual seminar series, featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling.

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From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone
2025-05-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom*

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Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Jalikatu Mustapha, MMed, MSc, BMBS, will present, “From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone”. Jalikatu Mustapha is a LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute and Deputy Minister of Health Ⅱ in Sierra Leone. This seminar will be online via Zoom only.

The Thursday Brown Bag Series is a weekly seminar series featuring current research of faculty, affiliates, and guests of the department. Any questions regarding the series can be directed to the department at GHP@hsph.harvard.edu.

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Jalikatu Mustapha

LEAD Fellow

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Medical Information and Misinformation - The Role of Epidemiology
2025-05-09 15:00 - 17:00 | HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States
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The Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine The 9th Symposium

Join us as three preeminent speakers address topics on the intersection of health, misinformation, and epidemiology adapting to a rapidly changing information landscape.

Stefanie Friedhoff will speak on Defending the Science, Losing the Narrative: A Path Forward for Health Promotion in Chaotic Information Ecosystems. Abstract: At the heart of the information crisis that is eroding advances in health around the world lies a difficult truth: societies are not able to meet the information needs of people and communities amidst rapidly changing, increasingly weaponized information spaces. This talk will illuminate how an overfocus on atoms of misinformation can stand in the way of addressing broader narratives, and miss drivers of vulnerability to misleading information such as outdated communications practices, information inequities, polarization, and negative experiences with the healthcare system. Introducing the lens of information as a social determinant of health, Friedhoff will discuss how information can both directly and indirectly impact health outcomes. Charting a path forward, she will share emerging insights from research and practice on how public health and medicine can more effectively engage diverse publics in health promotion in a changed information landscape.

Alfredo Morabia will speak on Epidemiology at a Crossroads: History, Misinformation, and the Defense of Public Health.Abstract: Throughout history, epidemiology has stood at the crossroads of science and political pressure, providing critical public health insights despite efforts to suppress inconvenient truths. From Cold War-era studies on radiation exposure to the politically charged investigations of the AIDS crisis, epidemiologists have navigated resistance from powerful institutions. Today, political interventions once again challenge the field’s ability to inform public health policy. This talk explores historical parallels and key differences between past and present contexts, highlighting the enduring tension between truth and misinformation, and what history teaches us about defending public health.

Issa Dahabreh will speak on Causal Inference and Causal Language for Observational Studies in Medical Journals.

Produced by the Department of Epidemiology with co-sponsors the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Health Communications.This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person viewing options (with limited in-person seating). Seats in the main auditorium are first come, first served. There is additional seating in the overflow room. There will also be a recording of the event for those who cannot attend.

Stay for the reception 5:00-6:00PM in Sebastian’s Cafe.

Open to the public.

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Issa Dahabreh, MD, ScD

Methods Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Stefanie Friedhoff

Associate Professor, Director of the Information Futures Lab, Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD

Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Public Health, Professor of Epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center, Queens College, CUNY, and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
2025-05-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will present a consumer optimization model of how individuals’ make this trade-off and test their results using an incentivized experiment.

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Jytte Nielsen
Professor of Economics, Newcastle University

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CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
2025-05-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton’s presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in “Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance,” which established a theoretical model that integrates a veil of ignorance into valuation to account for both distributional concerns and public good values.

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Susan Chilton
Professor of Economics, Newcastle University

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GenAI for Exploratory Data Analysis
2025-05-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115
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Generative AI has proven to reliably and rapidly develop code and data analysis. Advancements in technology have provided in-built containers for running of generated code within the AI environment, providing a streamlined experience for rapid exploratory data analysis.

This workshop aims at providing instruction on Harvard generative AI resources, best practices, and understanding of the current state of generative AI resources at Harvard in the pursuit of exploratory data analysis.

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Leadership and Management : The Importance for Public Health Professionals
2025-06-04 13:30 - 14:00 | Virtual
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Improving environmental health and safety performance requires more than technical expertise—it demands strong leadership and management skills. Join us for a webinar hosted by Louis J. DiBerardinis, Instructor of Industrial Hygiene, to explore the essential capabilities EHS professionals need to drive meaningful change.

Drawing from real-world experience, Mr. DiBerardinis will share key leadership principles, recommendations for communicating with senior management, strategies for building effective performance systems, time management tips, and more. He’ll also introduce his upcoming course, Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals program, offered online in September and on-site in March.

If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership skills, influence organizational culture, and elevate EHS performance, we invite you to attend this webinar.

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How Air Quality Affects Early Childhood Development and Health
2025-06-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Massachusetts
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Join us for a live conversation, How Air Quality Affects Early Childhood Development and Health, on June 5 from 2 to 3 PM ET, centered on the recent working paper published by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. We’ll explore the impacts of air quality during pregnancy and early childhood, with a particular focus on indoor air, given that we typically spend more than 90% of our time inside. Panelists will share actionable solutions to improve air quality, ranging from better policies and pollutant-free products to healthier ventilation and building materials, and will offer resources for taking action in your community to ensure children and their caregivers have cleaner air to breathe.

The discussion will be led by Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, the Center’s Chief Science Officer and Founding Director of the Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment (ECSCEE). It will feature Joe Allen, DSc, MPH, Associate Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and ECSCEE member Alison Lee, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine with tenure and Associate Division Chief in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Decision science for priority setting in global public health today
2025-06-09 13:00 - 14:15 | Building 1 – Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population on Monday, June 9, for a seminar featuring Stéphane Verguet, Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population. Stéphane Verguet will present, “Decision science for priority setting in global public health today”.

This hybrid seminar will be held in Building 1, Room 1208 and via Zoom.

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Stephane Verguet

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Reducing Tobacco-Related Harm: Innovative Strategies for Health Care Providers in a Changing Policy Landscape
2025-06-11 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
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Join Vaughan Rees, Director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control, for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving role of nicotine products in tobacco harm reduction strategies.

While smoking rates have declined in some global regions, they remain high among socioeconomically disadvantaged and marginalized groups, and continue to rise in developing countries. This webinar will outline the potential benefits and risks of reduced-exposure nicotine products while maintaining a focus on protecting the health of youth. By illustrating the latest science and policy insights, this webinar will provide healthcare professionals with an understanding of a range of effective strategies to support tobacco cessation and reduce the burden of tobacco-related disease in marginalized populations.

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Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Epidemiological inference and policy choice for the world’s deadliest infectious disease
2025-06-11 13:00 - 14:15 | Building 1 – Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population on Wednesday, June 11, for a seminar featuring Nicolas Menzies, Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population. Nicolas Menzies will present, “Epidemiological inference and policy choice for the world’s deadliest infectious disease”.

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Nicolas Alan Menzies

Associate Professor of Global Health

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Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century
2025-06-17 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Hosted by Program Director Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, PhD, the session will highlight how the program equips professionals to communicate complex health risks clearly and effectively. Dr. Viswanath will share how the latest research in science and risk communication informs practical strategies for building trust, reducing public anxiety, and countering misinformation.

If you’re looking to sharpen your communication skills and support informed public health decision-making, we invite you to attend this webinar to see how this program can align with your goals.

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What's in our air: A conversation with New York Times' Carl Zimmer about airborne disease
2025-06-24 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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Join science writer Carl Zimmer, author of Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, for a fascinating look at our evolving understanding of airborne illnesses — and how the COVID-19 pandemic reignited an important examination of what lives in our air.

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Carl Zimmer
Columnist, The New York Times

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Yonatan Grad

Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Ticks on the rise: Strategies for preventing disease
2025-07-01 13:00 - 13:45 | Virtual
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Fueled by warming temperatures and wetter climates, tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease and babesiosis are becoming more prevalent across the U.S. How can we protect ourselves? This panel discussion brings together researchers and clinicians to discuss strategies for prevention—including education, vaccine development, and surveillance—and interventions to safeguard communities in an evolving landscape.

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Gaurab Basu

Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Cassandra Pierre
Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine; Medical Director of Public Health Programs and the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Boston Medical Center

Richard Pollack
Senior Environmental Public Health Officer, Harvard University

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Dave Epstein
Meteorologist and Horticulturalist; Correspondent, The Boston Globe; Meteorologist, WGBH

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Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation
2025-07-15 08:00 - 08:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Hosted by Program Directors Vikram Patel, Giuseppe Raviola, and Shekhar Saxena, will share how this program equips participants to scale effective mental health innovations in the U.S. and globally. They’ll discuss core topics, including the social determinants of mental health, digital technologies, and rights-based approaches.

If you’re seeking practical skills and strategies to address the mental health care gap, we invite you to attend this webinar to see how this program can align with your goals.

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Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population

Shekhar Saxena, MD

Adjunct Professor of Global Mental Health

Giuseppe Raviola, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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Hot Topics Seminar Series: Reproductive health inequities among LGBTQ populations
2025-07-15 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A
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Join us as we kick off the Hot Topics Seminar Series with Dr. Brittany Charlton, a leading scholar of sexual and gender minority health inequities. In her talk, Dr. Charlton will dive into her research on reproductive health inequities faced by LGBTQ communities—an urgent and often overlooked public health issue.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, and light lunch will be served.

Dr. Charlton is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is the Founding Director of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence. Widely recognized for her work on health inequities, Dr. Carlton’s research centers on cancer and reproductive health among sexual and gender minority communities. She has published over 100 original research papers and leads several mentoring initiatives, particularly for underrepresented minorities.

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Brittany Charlton
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

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Addressing the Impact of Extreme Heat on Young Children
2025-07-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Excessive heat can impact young children’s development and health both in the moment and across the lifespan. Implementing strategies to reduce exposure to extreme heat benefits children, caregivers, and communities.

Join us for a live conversation, Addressing the Impact of Extreme Heat on Young Children, on July 17 at 1 pm ET, as we explore how communities are working to reduce the effects of extreme heat on early childhood development.

The discussion will be led by Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, the Center’s Chief Science Officer and Founding Director of the Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment (ECSCEE), which authored the 2024 working paper, Extreme Heat Affects Early Childhood Development and Health. Our panelists, Michelle Kang, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and Jennifer Vanos, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability and the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University, will share innovative strategies to protect young children from extreme heat, support caregivers, and ensure healthy development of all children in our communities.

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Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP
Chief Science Officer, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University Founding Director, Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment

Michelle Kang
Chief Executive Officer, National Association for the Education of Young Children

Jennifer Vanos, PhD
Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability and the College of Global Futures, Arizona State University

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Hot Topics Seminar Series: Understanding Medicaid Work Requirements - Research Evidence and the Current Debate
2025-07-22 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A
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Join us for a timely Hot Topics session with Dr. Benjamin Sommers. A leading voice in health policy and economics, Dr. Sommers will unpack the latest research and policy debates on Medicaid work requirements amid today’s shifting political landscape.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, and light lunch will be served. Harvard ID required to enter the venue.

Dr. Sommers is a health economist and a primary care physician whose research interests are health policy for marginalized populations, the uninsured, and the health care safety net. He is the Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics at Harvard Chan and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research has been published in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs, and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. From 2021 to 2023, he served in the Biden Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Benjamin Sommers
Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics, Health Policy and Management

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Nutrition and Infection Interventions to Promote Survival, Growth, and Development
2025-07-22 13:00 - 14:15 | Building 1 – Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population on Tuesday, July 22, for a seminar featuring Christopher R. Sudfeld, Associate Professor of Global Health and Nutrition in the Department of Global Health and Population. Christopher Sudfeld will present, “Nutrition and Infection Interventions to Promote Survival, Growth, and Development”.

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Christopher Robert Sudfeld

Associate Professor of Global Health and Nutrition

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Humans of Harvard Chan: Storytelling Slam
2025-07-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge G4
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What does belonging mean to you?

Join us for “Humans of Harvard Chan,” a storytelling slam that aims to explore what belonging means through the power of lived experience. Whether it’s a moment of connection, a struggle to fit in, or finding home in an unexpected place—this is your chance to share a 3–5 minute story about belonging.All Harvard Chan community members—students, staff, faculty, and academic appointees—are invited to speak or simply come listen. Storytellers and story-listeners alike are essential.

Come for the stories. Stay for the connection. Everyone is welcome.The event is an in-person event only in Kresge G4 Suite Lounge (Ground Floor).

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AI and your health care data
2025-08-06 12:30 - 13:15 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Master in Health Care Management program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Drawing on research and real-world applications, this panel of physicians and health care executives will explore the transformative impact of AI on health care delivery, research, and policy—and address critical questions around data privacy and protection. Panelists will share their experiences integrating AI into workflows such as diagnostics, patient monitoring, and clinical decision-making, shedding light on both the promise and challenges of AI in health care.

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Deborah DiSanzo Eldracher

President, Best Buy Health; Instructor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Daichi Hayashi
Alice Ettinger – Jack R. Dreyfuss Chair and Professor of Radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine; Radiologist-in-chief, Tufts Medical Center

Dusadee Sarangarm
Chief Medical Information Officer, University of New Mexico Health

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Meredith Rosenthal

C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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America’s declining birth rate: A public health perspective
2025-08-19 13:00 - 13:45 | Virtual
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As birth rates decline in the U.S., policymakers are debating whether to encourage a baby boom—and if so, how. Ideas range from funding bank accounts for newborns to lowering the cost of in vitro fertilization to changing tax policy to encourage larger families. This panel brings together health and policy experts to explore the drivers of declining fertility, consider whether the U.S. needs more births, and discuss innovative strategies to improve the health of moms and babies.

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Ana Langer

Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Emerita, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Margaret Anne McConnell

Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Henning Tiemeier

Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Veronica Adamson
Current DrPH student; Founder/Chief Advisor, InnovaHer

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Excess Deaths: History of a Contested Concept
2025-09-03 13:00 - 13:50 | HSPH, Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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Join us on Wednesday, September 3 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. David Jones discussing Excess Deaths: History of a Contested Concept.

Abstract: The measure of “excess deaths” has become a familiar and important concept in epidemiology and health statistics, especially during crises when direct counts of mortality are complicated (e.g., COVID-19, heat waves and other natural disasters, etc.). While the measure is useful, and can be politically powerful, it is also problematic: methodological compromises inevitably expose the reported counts to contestation that often seeks to deny the seriousness of the health threat. I will explore the history of the concept of “excess deaths,” describing the challenges it hoped to solve, some of the competing measures (e.g., expected deaths), and the persistent debates. By understanding the history of the concept and the debates, it is possible to develop strategies for using the concept most effectively.

Bio: Trained in psychiatry and history of science, David Jones teaches history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine at Harvard University. His research has ranged from the history of epidemics to heart disease, cardiac therapeutics, race, air pollution, and the health effects of the climate crisis.

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David S. Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation
2025-09-08 09:00 - 09:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Program Director Dr. M. Rashad Massoud will share how this hands-on, simulation-based course guides participants through the full improvement cycle—from identifying gaps in care to designing, testing, and implementing effective solutions. You’ll learn to apply proven frameworks in health care settings and receive real-time faculty feedback.

If you’re looking to lead impactful quality improvement initiatives in your organization, this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.

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M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP

Instructor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Protecting Young Children From the Impacts of Wildfires
2025-09-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
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Wildfire smoke is becoming an increasingly common part of childhood in many parts of the US. While we often associate wildfires with remote or forested locations, they are increasingly happening in more urban settings—such as the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles—and the smoke can travel thousands of miles, remaining highly toxic. This means that exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing concern far beyond fire zones, with implications for the health and development of young children in both the short term and throughout their lifespan.

Join us for a live discussion on how wildfire smoke affects young children, focusing on how the LA Fire HEALTH Study aims to better understand the short- and long-term health impacts of wildfires. The study addresses the need for answers in the LA community and has broader implications for many communities across the US that are increasingly dealing with wildfire smoke.

Panelists will share emerging findings from the study and how these insights can guide efforts to reduce exposure, support children and caregivers, and protect healthy development—especially for those most affected by recent wildfires.

The discussion will be led by our Chief Science Officer, Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, and will feature panelists Joseph Allen, DSc, MPH, Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program, and Sujeet Rao, Health and Wellbeing Practice Director at the Public Exchange at the University of Southern California.

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Joseph G. Allen
Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Department of Environmental Health, Director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Sujeet Rao
Health and Wellbeing Practice Director at the Public Exchange, University of Southern California

Lindsey C. Burghardt
Chief Science Officer, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

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Dementia Risk and Prevention – Lessons from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort
2025-09-10 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, September 10 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Josef Coresh discussing Dementia Risk and Prevention – Lessons from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort.

Abstract: Dementia is one of the leading threats to the health of our aging population. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study contributed major insights by observing over 15,000 US adults since the late 1980s. We will discuss observations on the lifetime risk of dementia, the relationship of risk to vascular risk factors, insights into the to the biology of dementia by proteomics, brain imaging and blood brain biomarkers and their implications for prevention.

Bio: Dr. Coresh is the Founding Director of the Optimal Aging Institute and the Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Population Health and Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The institute leverages epidemiologic cohorts to advance discovery, prevention and treatment of aging related diseases. Dr. Coresh continues to co-lead of the ARIC Neurocognitive Study (MPI: Coresh/Mosley. Chair: Gottesman) renewal (2023-2028) and CKD Prognosis Consortium (2023-2028; MPI: Coresh/grams) as well as start new initiatives. Dr. Coresh is an international expert in aging and vascular disease epidemiology of the brain, heart and kidney, using a range of epidemiology and data science methods. Dr. Coresh is among the most cited researcher having co-authored articles cited over 300,000 times according to Google Scholar. He received the top scientific and patient impact awards of the US National Kidney Foundation (Eknoyan and Hume awards) and American Society of Nephrology (Belding Scribner award). His devotion to mentorship was recognized by awards from Johns Hopkins University and the American Heart Association.

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Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Founding Director, Optimal Aging Institute, Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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Seeking answers in women’s health: A research agenda for the coming decade
2025-09-11 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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While we understand more about women’s health than ever before, critical gaps remain. How can we delve deeper into the lifestyle and genetic factors that shape women’s risks for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes? What new insights might we uncover about brain health by examining the interplay between nutrition, exercise, and memory? How do environmental toxins and air pollution contribute to the risk of chronic illness? Join leading investigators from the landmark Nurses’ Health Study—and hear firsthand from a study participant—as they explore pressing questions and emerging frontiers in women’s health research.

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Melissa Perez Capotosto
Associate Professor of the Practice, Connell School of Nursing, Boston College

Jorge E. Chavarro

Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Heather Eliassen

Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Francine Laden

Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Mark Herz
Local Morning Edition Host, GBH News

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Pressure Points: The future of health care’s workforce
2025-09-16 13:00 - 13:40 | 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.

With shifting demands, burnout, and evolving care models, how are health care organizations rethinking workforce strategy? Join this panel of leaders in workforce development, human resources, and academia as they share insights on building a more resilient, adaptive, and sustainable health care workforce.

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Designed for professionals navigating today’s evolving health care landscape, Pressure Points explores the industry’s most urgent challenges—from workforce shifts and financial pressures to leadership, technology, and innovation. Join leading experts for timely conversations on what’s shaping the business of health care now—and what lies ahead.

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Karen Donelan
Stuart H. Altman Professor and Chair in U.S. Health Policy, Brandeis University

Kara Greer
Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer, Tufts Medicine

Joanne Pokaski
Assistant Vice President, Workforce Planning and Development, Beth Israel Lahey Health

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Ted Witherell

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

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Why Are Pathobiological Analyses and Insights Valuable in Epidemiology? A Primer for Epidemiologists
2025-09-17 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, September 17 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Shuji Ogino discussing Why Are Pathobiological Analyses and Insights Valuable in Epidemiology? A Primer for Epidemiologists.

Abstract: Our understanding of disease pathogenesis, which has substantially advanced, is an integral component of epidemiology. However, there exists a gap between pathobiology and epidemiology in education as well as research practice. How recent advances in pathobiological sciences can be seamlessly integrated into epidemiology has been a main theme in the field of molecular pathological epidemiology. This lecture utilizes research examples to illuminate how this integration can upgrade both epidemiology and pathobiological sciences. Furthermore, it is increasingly evident that long-term risk factor exposures play pivotal etiologic roles in many chronic diseases such as cancer. Therefore, the concept of the prospective cohort incident-tumor biobank method (PCIBM) is also illustrated with its unprecedented ability to examine long-term exposures in relation to tumor incidence plus detailed disease phenotyping.

Bio: Dr. Ogino has spearheaded to develop the integrative science of molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE). Dr. Ogino founded the International Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) Meeting Series in 2013 and has been serving as its Chair/Co-Chair for six past meetings. Leveraging the MPE approach, Dr. Ogino is a leading investigator to study the interactive roles of long-term risk factor exposures, genetics, systemic conditions, microbiome, and immunity in colorectal cancer (CRC) biology and etiologies. Based on the prospective cohort incident-tumor biobank method (PCIBM), many discoveries (“since 2007”) of the etiological links between long-term exposures and CRC incidence plus pathobiological phenotyping remain quite unique, as no other group has been able to conduct similar (replication) studies for up to 18 years. Recently, Dr. Ogino’s additional focus is research on early-onset cancers that have shown rising incidence in recent decades (e.g., those in the breast, kidney, uterus, and many digestive organs). As one of thought leaders in this particular topic, Dr. Ogino applies integrative research approaches to address this global issue. For his unique transdisciplinary scientific contribution, Dr. Ogino has received numerous awards and honors.

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Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, MS
American Cancer Society Professor, Professor of Epidemiology & Pathology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Harvard Medical School, Chief, Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Smart Solutions, Hidden Costs: Weighing AI’s Climate and Health Impact
2025-09-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Massachusetts
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The Department of Environmental Health and the Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) hosted this live webinar as part of Harvard Climate Action Week.

Smart Solutions, Hidden Costs: Weighing AI’s Climate and Health Impact

The AI boom introduces new possibilities for identifying and implementing innovative climate solutions that can protect communities and improve health. At the same time, the water and energy resources — and resulting fossil fuel emissions — needed to cool and power AI’s data centers create new and growing threats to health. In this webinar, Harvard experts will address AI’s complex relationship with both climate and health outcomes, acknowledging both the transformative potential and the real costs involved.

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Mary Berlik Rice

Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health

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Francesca Dominici

Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science

Nicholas Nassikas
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science

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Social Demography Seminar with John Wilmoth
2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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John Wilmoth, PhD presents “The future of world population: Divergent trends, competing narratives, and the role of the United Nations.”

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John Wilmoth, PhD, Director, Population Division, United Nations

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Brown Bag Seminar: Could altruism end the HIV epidemic? Evidence from South Africa
2025-09-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Jacob Bor, ScD, is an associate professor in the departments of global health and epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. His research applies the analytical tools of economics and data science to the study of population health, and his research interests include HIV treatment and prevention in southern Africa, structural causes of health disparities in the U.S., and intersections of health, politics, and development. Prior to his graduate training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Bor worked with an HIV-prevention NGO in Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa. He is a faculty affiliate of Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and senior research at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office in South Africa.

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Jacob Bor
Associate Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health

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Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care
2025-09-23 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
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Join us for a webinar on the Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Program Director Dr. Mary E. Fleming will share how this program equips participants to recognize, address, and dismantle health disparities. Through the program, participants will develop the leadership tools to identify and reform biased policies, foster inclusive environments, and champion health equity.

If you’re looking to advance equity in your community or practice, this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.

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Finding Purpose in Stressful Times: Strengthening Well-Being in an AI-Transformed World
2025-09-24 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G12, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, 02115
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Presenting the “Virtues for Well-being” Seminar Series

We are excited to present “Virtues for Well-being”: a year-long seminar series exploring how core virtues—such as gratitude, kindness, compassion, and humility—promote psychological, physical, and social well-being. Throughout the year, we’ll delve into the science and practice of cultivating virtues across diverse contexts, discussing their definitions, measurement, and impacts on health outcomes at both the individual and societal level. This interdisciplinary series will bring together thought leaders and practitioners to examine evidence-based strategies and interventions that foster virtues, highlighting the dynamic relationship between individual and community flourishing. Join us to discover the transformative potential of virtues in building resilient, thriving communities.

We launched this seminar series with Dr. Victor Strecher, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a pioneering leader in health behavior, digital health communication, and well-being. Dr. Strecher’s seminar, titled “Finding Purpose in Stressful Times: Strengthening Well-Being in an AI-Transformed World”, was held on September 24th, 2025.

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A large body of scientific evidence now demonstrates that a strong sense of purpose is associated with greater emotional regulation and resilience. Purpose as a health-related asset seems particularly important in our current times. In an era of social uncertainty and technological disruption, how do we not just survive but thrive? In this presentation, Dr. Strecher explores how cultivating purpose serves as a protective factor for mental health and resilience, particularly as AI reshapes how we work and live. The relationship between technology and purpose is more dynamic than we might expect. Dr. Strecher discusses the possibility that we can harness AI-driven technologies to enhance our sense of purpose and help us live more purposefully.

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Victor J. Strecher, PhD, MPH, is Professor at the University of Michigan (UM) School of Public Health and Founder & CEO of Kumanu, Inc., a leading digital platform for intentional wellbeing. A national leader in behavior change and digital health, Dr. Strecher has reached millions of lives through pioneering ventures, including HealthMedia (acquired by Johnson & Johnson) and the UM Center for Health Communications Research. He is a widely recognized researcher, author, and public speaker, with multiple national and international awards, including two Smithsonian Awards and Innovator of the Year at UM. His recent online course, “Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life,” was ranked among the world’s top online courses by Inc. Magazine and has enrolled over 250,000 people. Dr. Strecher’s current work, including books, TED talks, and digital tools, continues to advance wellbeing and purpose on a global scale.

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Victor Strecher, PhD, MPH
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: A demographic perspective on energy transitions: Linkages between population, land use, and economic dynamics in Malawi
2025-09-25 12:30 - 13:15 | 9 Bow Street Cambridge, and online
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Kate Beach, PhD, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “A demographic perspective on energy transitions: Linkages between population, land use, and economic dynamics in Malawi.”

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 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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Harvard Chan Community Day of Service
2025-09-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Massachusetts
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Please register now to join the Harvard Chan Community Day of Service on Monday, Sept. 29.

This is an annual event that brings together our full community—students, staff, faculty, trainees, and other academic appointees—to work side by side supporting nonprofits and neighborhood groups that are tackling social determinants of health across Boston.

We have lined up more than 20 service projects on campus and across Boston to address social determinants of health.

Most projects will take place on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, but we also have some activities the previous weekend—and, new this year, we will be hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025.

Whether you can spare a few minutes or a few hours, you can contribute in meaningful ways. Many of the projects and the Blood Drive have a limited number of slots, so sign up soon!

Please carefully review the dates, times, and locations before signing up — and mark the information on your calendar!

You will be responsible for your own transportation to the project sites; most are easily accessible on public transit.

You can sign up for more than one project, but please be mindful that slots are limited, so please sign up only for activities you have every intention of joining.

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Blood Drive - Harvard Chan Community Day of Service
2025-09-30 10:00 - 15:00 | Kresge, 2nd floor student lounge, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
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As part of the Harvard Chan Community Day of Service, sign up to donate blood with the American Red Cross on Tuesday, September 30th from 10:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. Event is located on the second floor of Kresge in the student lounge.

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Student Meet and Greet with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness
2025-09-30 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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✨ Come meet the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at Harvard Chan! ✨

Join us for an engaging meet-and-greet with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH), a collaborative hub bringing together research, practice, and policy to address one of today’s most pressing public health challenges. This is your chance to learn about our work, connect with our Steering Committee, faculty, staff, and partners, and discover opportunities to get involved.

You’ll also meet the Chan Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH), our dynamic student group leading advocacy, action, and awareness-building efforts across campus. Whether you’re interested in research, policy, service, or community engagement, there are many ways to contribute and make an impact.

✨ Don’t miss this chance to expand your network, explore meaningful opportunities, and help advance solutions to homelessness.

🍴 Lunch will be provided!

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Fall Freecyle!
2025-10-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Kresge Atrium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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Join us at the Kresge atrium for an Earth-friendly community swap. Bring extra office or school supplies, books, small household items, or clothes — and take home something new-to-you for free. Please do not bring used lab equipment or consumables. For more information please reach out to mailto: susan_bottino@harvard.edu.

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Zoom Town Hall with Dean Baccarelli
2025-10-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Dean Andrea Baccarelli will be hosting a Zoom Town Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 1-2 p.m. Please share your questions in advance using this form.

Log in on Wednesday at 1 p.m. at this link: https://hsph.me/town-hall

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Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD
Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: Sharing experiences and discussing the future of Fukushima in radiation education at Fukushima Medical University
2025-10-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Isamu Amir is a research fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an assistant professor in the department of radiation health management at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) School of Medicine. Amir obtained his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2018, where he specialized in translation studies in linguistics and science communication. He has worked with the Consulate General of Japan in Boston, University of Tokyo, and Ministry of the Environment (MOE). He is dedicated to addressing discrimination, prejudice, and unfounded rumors about the health effects of radiation exposure derived from the Fukushima nuclear accident.

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Isamu Amir
Research Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health; Assistant Professor, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine

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Climate change: Seeking bipartisan solutions in turbulent times
2025-10-06 14:00 - 14:45 | The Studio & Online, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts
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Climate change poses an enormous threat to people worldwide. How can we most effectively address it? This program brings together Gina McCarthy, who led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama, and former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis for a dynamic conversation. They will discuss the merits of regulatory and free market solutions and explore opportunities to work across political divides. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to discover hopeful, pragmatic approaches to today’s most pressing environmental issues.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Bob Inglis
Former U.S. Congressman (R-SC)

Gina McCarthy
Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Gaurab Basu

Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE)

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From Signal to Noise: Addressing Multiplicity Using the Exposome-Neurodevelopment Example
2025-10-08 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 8 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Stefania Papatheodorou discussing From Signal to Noise: Addressing Multiplicity Using the Exposome-Neurodevelopment Example.

Abstract: In epidemiologic research, investigators frequently examine numerous concurrent environmental exposures and outcomes within a single study. However, the degree of multiplicity involved is often underreported or unclear. The question of how to appropriately handle multiplicity—whether during study design, statistical analysis, or in the communication of findings—remains a subject of considerable debate. This issue becomes even more pressing in exposome research, where the potential number of exposures is vast and continuously growing. Since causality cannot be reliably inferred solely from the presence of statistically significant associations, it is crucial to enhance transparency around multiplicity. Doing so helps mitigate the risk of spurious associations and strengthens the credibility of reported findings. This talk will explore these concepts through an example on ambient exposome and neurodevelopmental delays, and it will outline future directions to improve methodological rigor and reproducibility across life sciences.

Bio: Stefania Papatheodorou, MD, PhD, MSc, is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health and a trained obstetrician and gynecologist. Her research lies at the intersection of extreme weather, air pollution, pregnancy, and children’s health. She has been the primary investigator on multiple epidemiological studies examining the association between prenatal exposure to extreme weather, air pollutants, and adverse pregnancy and childhood outcomes. Her research utilizes a wide range of administrative data sources, such as electronic health records, birth registries, and claims data. She is currently focused on examining the effects of prenatal and early childhood exposure to extreme weather and air pollutants on children’s neurodevelopmental outcomes.

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Stefania Papatheodorou, MD, PhD, MSc
Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; MMSCI Faculty – Temporary Academic, Postgraduate Medical Education, Harvard Medical School

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On Thin Ice: stories of trust (and mistrust) in Arctic research and policy
2025-10-08 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB Building, Room G13, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
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The Office of Field Education and Practice is pleased to host the first Community Engaged Learning Seminar with colleagues from the Harvard Arctic Initiative.

Moderated by Sappho Gilbert, postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Chan School and research fellow at the Arctic Initiative, this panel will explore the role of trust in research and policy with Arctic communities, focusing on how it is built, sustained, and at times lost and rebuilt. Drawing on examples from knowledge co-production and community engagement, governance, health care, food systems, and infrastructure, panelists will detail the risks of broken trust and the potential of lockstep, community-centered partnerships. Panelists include Harvard Chan student and Rose Service Learning Fellow, Kenzo Kimura and Fulbright Scholars at the Arctic Initiative, Alexandra Middleton, Hans Peder Kirkegaard and Juho Kähkönen.

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What on Earth is "Pluralism" for American Life Today?
2025-10-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Countway Library, Minot Room, 695 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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You are invited to the What on Earth is “Pluralism” for American Life Today? Co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics (HMS), the Office for Community and Belonging (HSPH), and Office of Dental Education (HSDM).

Diana L. Eck is a Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Emerita at Harvard University and Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is also founder and Director of the Pluralism Project, which for nearly 30 years has studied the changing religious landscape of America and its significance for American society. As a scholar of India, she has published Banaras, City of Light, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, and India: A Sacred Geography. With the Pluralism Project, she turned her attention to the U.S. and has produced an extensive web-based resource for understanding multi-religious and multi-cultural America. On the subject of pluralism she has written Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras and A New Religious America: How A ‘Christian’ Country Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. In 1998, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton for her work on religious pluralism in America and in 2011 she delivered the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh on “The Age of Pluralism.”

Please RSVP by October 6.

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Diana Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Emerita, Harvard University

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “State data and the production of quantitative knowledge: The case of police stops in the United States and France”
2025-10-09 12:00 - 13:15 | 9 Bow Street Cambridge, and online
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Michael Zanger-Tishler, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University, and graduate student affiliate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “State data and the production of quantitative knowledge: The case of police stops in the United States and France.”

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 presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Michael Zanger-Tishler, PhD
PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University

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Brown Bag Seminar: The air we share: Lessons from a career in pulmonary and global health research
2025-10-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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William Checkley is a physician-scientist and global health expert whose research focuses on chronic respiratory diseases, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He is a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University with joint appointments in International Health and Biostatistics, and he directs the Center for Global Non-Communicable Disease Research and Training. He has authored >400 publications in peer-reviewed journals, with more than 24,000 citations and an h-index of 77.

Checkley’s work addresses the global burden of COPD, which disproportionately affects LMICs. His work spans a wide spectrum—from observational cohort studies identifying risk factors such as household air pollution and low lung growth and development, to randomized controlled trials testing interventions to improve disease outcomes in real-world settings. In collaboration with international partners, Checkley has led studies like the Global Excellence in COPD Outcomes (GECo) trial, which evaluates the effectiveness of community health worker-delivered self-management interventions for COPD in Nepal, Peru, and Uganda. These studies aim to improve COPD care in underserved populations. He has also developed and validated simple, cost-effective screening tools for COPD to facilitate early diagnosis and management in resource-limited settings.

Checkley is also committed to building research capacity in LMICs. He co-leads Fogarty International Center-funded training programs in Peru and elsewhere, focusing on environmental exposures and chronic pulmonary diseases, to mentor the next generation of researchers in these regions. Through his work, Checkley aims to reduce the global burden of chronic respiratory diseases by developing scalable, evidence-based interventions and fostering international collaborations.

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William Checkley
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

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2025 - 2026 Takemi Fellows Meet and Greet
2025-10-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Building 1, 11th fl. conference room, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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We invite you to meet the 2025-2026 Takemi Fellows in the Department of Global Health and Population! Learn about their research, hear their experiences, and enjoy food and refreshments.

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Revisiting theories of marital instability in the era of gray divorce: The case of retirement”
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Shiro Furuya, PhD, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Revisiting theories of marital instability in the era of gray divorce: The case of retirement.”

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 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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David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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The Science of Sustainable Giving: How Empathy and Generosity Support Health and Flourishing
2025-10-15 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G12 or online, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On October 15th, 2025, we held the second seminar in our Virtues for Well-being series. Social psychologist Dr. Sara Konrath presented, “The Science of Sustainable Giving: How Empathy and Generosity Support Health and Flourishing.”

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Many of us devote our time, energy, care, and resources to supporting others—whether through helping family and friends, volunteering in our communities, offering empathy in daily interactions, or giving financially. But what are the implications of these generous behaviors for our own well-being, social connections, and physical health? This talk explores the growing body of interdisciplinary research on empathy and generosity, focusing on how different forms of giving—emotional, practical, and financial—shape not only the lives of recipients but also the givers themselves. Drawing on findings from psychology, public health, and neuroscience, as well as new data from the 2025 World Happiness Report co-authored by Dr. Konrath, we will examine how and when generosity enhances flourishing. The session will offer guidance for how to give with intention, boundaries, and joy, with practical, evidence-based strategies for giving and caring in sustainable, rather than depleting, ways. By approaching empathy and generosity as both a science and an art, this talk invites attendees to reflect on their own giving practices and to discover how empathy and generosity—when wisely offered—can serve as powerful contributors to their own and others’ wellbeing.

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Dr. Sara Konrath is a social psychologist and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Her research examines the development, benefits, and promotion of empathy, generosity, and social connection. She has documented generational trends in empathy and narcissism, and linked empathy and giving to well-being and health. Konrath has developed innovative digital tools to increase empathy and partnered with educators, physicians, fundraisers, dating apps, zoos, and museums to evaluate empathy-based interventions. She has published over 100 scientific papers and delivered 300+ presentations, including at SouthXSouthwest and the Aspen Ideas Institute. She is a co-author of the 2025 World Happiness Report, co-organizer of the annual Science of Philanthropy Initiative conference, and has been an editor for leading psychology and nonprofit studies journals. Her work is regularly featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Atlantic, NPR, BBC, and CBC.

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At the Interface of Epidemiology and Health Decision Science: Jointly Shaping Cancer Screening Strategies
2025-10-15 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 15th for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Uwe Siebert discussing “At the Interface of Epidemiology and Health Decision Science: Jointly Shaping Cancer Screening Strategies“.

Abstract: Epidemiologic analyses provide essential evidence for decision-analytic models guiding cancer screening policy. This presentation highlights how such data are generated, transformed, and linked to inform clinical guidelines, health technology assessments, and citizen information, with case examples from colorectal cancer screening in the U.S. and Europe. Decision-analytic models rely on epidemiologic inputs –-such as disease prevalence, test performance, prognosis, and treatment effectiveness – to compare strategies that differ in age limits, intervals, test modalities, and risk-based algorithms. These models quantify trade-offs between benefits (reduced morbidity/mortality) and harms (false positives, complications, overdiagnosis). To ensure reliable guidance, cross-disciplinary understanding is critical: epidemiologists must recognize how their estimates influence model outputs, while decision scientists must understand the assumptions, limitations, and causal interpretations of those estimates. By fostering collaboration across biostatistics, epidemiology, global health and decision science, we can strengthen the evidence base for cancer screening and ensure strategies appropriately balance benefits and harms.

Bio: Uwe Siebert, MPH, MSc, ScD, is a physician by training and Professor of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Chair of the Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and HTA at UMIT TIROL – University for Health Sciences and Technology in Austria, and Director of the International Continuing Education Program in HTA and Decision Science (htads.org). He is also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Uwe is the current President- of ISPOR – The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research and former President of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM).

His research interests include applying evidence-based quantitative and translational methods in the framework of health care policy advice and HTA as well as in the clinical context of routine health care, public health policies and patient guidance. He has worked with several HTA Agencies in Europe, Brazil, US and Canada and he advises public and government agencies, academic institutions and industry regarding the conduction of HTAs and their impact on policy and reimbursement decisions. He has authored more than 500 publications and is an Editor of the European Journal of Epidemiology and editorial board member of several scientific journals.

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Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
Professor of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT TIROL; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy & Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Dr. Anthony Fauci: Insights from 50 years of public service
2025-10-16 13:00 - 13:50 | Online
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A Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum

Drawing on decades of service as a global health leader, physician, and advisor to seven U.S. presidents, Dr. Anthony Fauci joined the Harvard Chan community in September for a conversation on advancing public health. Reflecting on his career, Dr. Fauci shared firsthand insights from navigating global infectious disease threats to communicating complex and evolving science.

Watch the YouTube premiere of the recorded event on October 16, 1pm ET. The video will remain on demand for future viewing.

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Anthony Fauci
Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and McCourt School of Public Policy, and former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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PhD Candidate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: Threading policy and practice: Lessons from a primary healthcare project to address hepatitis in Vietnam and the Philippines
2025-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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The STITCH project (Strengthening the Integrated Treatment and Care for Hepatitis) is a multi-country initiative to co-design, test, and scale a people-centered model of care for hepatitis B and C at the primary care level. In its fourth year, STITCH is beginning to influence national policies and programs, reflecting how pathways for translation and the perspectives of people with lived experience were built in from the start. This session will share emerging lessons on designing participatory and implementation research for sustained policy impact.

Bethany Holt is a global health practitioner currently serving as the Director of Health Systems Transformation and Partnerships at Harvard Medical School’s Program in Global Primary Health Care. In this role, she coordinates global research, education, advocacy and innovation initiatives to advance people-centered primary health care. Her portfolio includes co-leading the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care and partnering with governments and communities to co-design and scale innovative care models, such as hepatitis services in Vietnam and the Philippines and community-based prevention of chronic illness in Thailand. She also leads the Program’s Scholar engagement and is passionate about engaging and mentoring students and trainees from diverse disciplines in community engagement and global health delivery.

Bethany brings a multi-disciplinary perspective gained over 10 years of work in the health and social impact sectors in the US, Australia and the Asia-Pacific. She applies knowledge and tools gained through experience as a physician, public health researcher, strategy consultant, and philanthropic development partner. Prior to her medical degree, for which she earned First Class Honours and the University Medal, Bethany studied international relations and economics. She graduated with an MPH in global health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which she attended on Fulbright Scholarship, and subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her academic focus is on health systems strengthening through implementation science, community partnership, and participatory methods.

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Bethany Holt
Director of Health Systems Transformation and Partnerships, Program in Global Primary Health Care, Harvard Medical School

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Know our rights: Legal updates for immigrant health
2025-10-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
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Join the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC), François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, the Health & Law Immigrant Solidarity Network (HLISN), and Massachusetts healthcare partners for a virtual update on immigration law and policy from panelists Susan Church, Chief Operating Officer & Legal Advisor at MA Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI); and Heather Yountz, Senior Immigration Staff Attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.

Healthcare leaders, providers, workers, public health professionals, and members of the public encouraged to attend. Speaker remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.

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Susan Church
Chief Operating Officer & Legal Advisor at MA Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI)

Heather Yountz
Senior Immigration Staff Attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

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Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture: Micky Tripathi, Mayo Clinic
2025-10-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Kresge Building
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The Department of Health Policy and Management invites you to join the bi-annual Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture, featuring Dr. Micky Tripathi, Chief Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer at the Mayo Clinic. The event will include an in-person lecture by Dr. Tripathi, who will be speaking about AI applications to health care delivery, followed by a reception. Further details about the event and Dr. Tripathi’s lecture will be posted here as the date approaches.

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Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture, featuring Dr. Micky Tripathi, Mayo ClinicFriday, October 17th, 2025Lecture: 3:00-4:00PM, Kresge 502 Reception: 4:00-5:00PM, Kresge AtriumIn-person only

All questions can be directed to Rachel Levitt (rlevitt@hsph.harvard.edu). Please note: Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experiences. They do not speak for Harvard.

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“The Digital Transformation of Health Care“

The publication of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark studies “To Err is Human” and “Crossing the Quality Chasm” brought national attention to the question of how to harness information technology to advance the quality, safety and efficiency of our health care system. Two decades of hard work by the public and private sectors has transformed the largest and most complex sector of the US economy from paper to digital. As is now clear, that investment was just the prelude to the AI future that we’re now building. This lecture will reflect on the lessons learned from the creation of this digital foundation, and the opportunities and challenges ahead in the AI era.

About the Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture Series

The Herbert Sherman Memorial Lecture is a bi-annual lecture series in honor of Dr. Herbert Sherman, who was an electrical engineer on the faculty at MIT and the Draper Labs who became interested in health care delivery and moved to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was particularly interested in healthcare IT, quality of care, operations research, and technology assessment. Dr. Sherman brought multidisciplinary and creative solutions to the problems of health care delivery. This lecture series features experts in the field of health policy or management who reflect Dr. Sherman’s legacy of bringing multidisciplinary and creative solutions to the problems of health care delivery.

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Micky Tripathi, PhD
Chief Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer, Mayo Clinic

Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., is Mayo Clinic’s chief artificial intelligence implementation officer. With a focus on oversight and ongoing monitoring of artificial intelligence (AI) across the Mayo Clinic enterprise, Dr. Tripathi drives AI adoption and establishes streamlined pathways to integrate safe and effective AI into the clinical practice.

With over three decades of healthcare leadership experience, Dr. Tripathi’s expertise spans public and private sectors in strategy, product development and operations with a proven track record in leading large-scale health information technology (IT) projects and fostering collaborations. He served as a top federal official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he oversaw clinical data standards, health IT policies, interoperability and health AI regulations. His work established nationwide data and interoperability standards across all HHS divisions and more than 500 electronic health record (EHR) products, impacting 97% of hospitals and 78% of physician offices across the nation. As the HHS’s chief AI officer, he developed AI transparency and risk management regulations for more than 900 certified EHR developers. He also vetted and approved all AI applications.

Before joining HHS, Dr. Tripathi served as chief alliance officer at Arcadia. In that role, he was responsible for developing and executing inorganic growth strategies ranging from enterprise partnerships to mergers and acquisitions. Further, he served as the president and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, providing health IT and data analytics services to healthcare customers across the U.S.

Dr. Tripathi received his undergraduate studies at Vassar College, earned his master’s degree from Harvard University and completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recognized for his visionary yet practical leadership, Dr. Tripathi has served on numerous boards, and he excels in managing complex initiatives at the intersection of health, technology, business and regulation.

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A Health Datathon: Data for the Public Good
2025-10-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Countway Library, Classroom 102/103
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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 Climate and Health Research Coordinating Center Harvard Dataverse Collection. Celebrate Open Access Week by ensuring access to federal environmental data.

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Nourishing Humanity in the Age of Climate Change
2025-10-20 16:00 - 17:15 | Kresge G2 & Zoom, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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20th Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture

Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate and Food and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative at Columbia University’s Climate School, serves as the distinguished speaker for the 20th Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture.

Hosted by the Department of Nutrition, Dr. Fanzo’s talk on “Nourishing Humanity in the Age of Climate Change” will take place in Kresge G2 and via Zoom on October 20, 2025 at 4:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.

This annual lecture honors Drs. Fredrick Stare and Mark Hegsted, who were the founders of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1942, which was the first department of nutrition in any medical center or school of public health in the U.S.

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Dr. Jessica Fanzo
Professor of Climate, Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia University

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Countway Cinema: Run from Rain
2025-10-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Countway Library, Room 103, 695 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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Join Countway Library and the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine for a film screening followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers of “Run from Rain!” This powerful short documentary captures one boy’s resilience amid displacement and instability.

Directed by journalists and filmmakers Jess DiPierro Obert and Jacki Huntington, Run from Rain offers an intimate portrait of survival, hope, and belonging in a country under siege. Follow 16-year-old Macul Nelson as he rebuilds his life after losing his parents to gang violence in Haiti.

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Jacki Huntington
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Jess DiPierro Obert
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Understanding genocide through a public health lens: Perspectives from Gaza
2025-10-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
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As a growing number of human rights organizations and United Nations experts have argued that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights to hear from a panel of experts who will explore the critical role of public health in understanding, documenting, and preventing genocide. We will also explore the potential of public health practitioners to inform mechanisms for accountability in Palestine/Israel.

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Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain, MD

Aseel Aburass, MA

Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, PhD

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Deep Learning–Based Estimator for the Non-Iterative Conditional Expectation (NICE) g-Formula
2025-10-22 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 22 for the “Works In Progress” Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Jing Li discussing Deep Learning–Based Estimator for the Non-Iterative Conditional Expectation (NICE) g-Formula.

Abstract: The g-formula can be used to estimate causal effects of sustained treatment strategies using observational data under the identifying assumptions of consistency, positivity, and exchangeability. The non-iterative conditional expectation (NICE) estimator of the g-formula also requires correct estimation of the conditional distribution of the time-varying treatment, confounders, and outcome. Parametric models, which have been traditionally used for this purpose, are subject to model misspecification, which may result in biased causal estimates, particularly in high-dimensional or nonlinear settings. To address these limitations, we propose a unified deep learning framework for the NICE g-formula that leverages recurrent neural networks to flexibly model the joint conditional distribution of time-varying variables. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate the advantages of the proposed deep learning–based estimator over conventional parametric approaches and establish its statistical validity through uncertainty quantification.

Bio: Dr. Jing Li is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CAUSALab in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, working under the mentorship of Prof. Miguel Hernán. Her research focuses on combining causal inference and machine learning to better understand the effects of treatments and interventions in complex longitudinal settings. Her current work includes advancing g-formula methods, developing deep learning techniques to improve the estimation of sustained treatment effects, and building large-scale simulation experiments to evaluate the performance of deep learning-based estimators. Her work has appeared in leading venues such as CVPR, ICLR, AAAI, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), and NeurIPS workshops. In addition to academic publications, she is the primary developer of the open-source Python package pygformula, and also contributes to several other causal inference software packages, including gfoRmula and gfoRmulaICE. Jing Li received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Peking University, where she was advised by Prof. Yizhou Wang in the School of Computer Science. She received her bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Wuhan University.

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Jing Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Impacts of post-Dobbs state abortion restrictions on work-related well-being of obstetrician-gynecologists”
2025-10-23 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Erika Sabbath, ScD, associate professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, presents “Impacts of post-Dobbs state abortion restrictions on the work-related well-being of obstetrician-gynecologists.”

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 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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Erika Sabbath, ScD
Associate professor, School of Social Work, Boston College

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Pressure Points: Building effective AI in health care
2025-10-23 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.

With its transformative power, AI already has changed the business of health care — but not without challenges and concerns. Join leaders in technology, health care, and academia for a transparent conversation about where AI is delivering real impact, where it’s falling short, and what the future may hold.

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

Designed for professionals navigating today’s evolving health care landscape, Pressure Points explores the industry’s most urgent challenges—from workforce shifts and financial pressures to leadership, technology, and innovation. Join leading experts for timely conversations on what’s shaping the business of health care now—and what lies ahead.

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John Brownstein
SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital

Emily Lindemer
Head of Product at Protege

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

Santiago Romero-Brufau

Director of AI and Systems Engineering in the Department of Otolaryngology, Mayo Clinic; Director of ECE's Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice program; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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CEO of LUNRStudio and Executive Chair and Chief Strategy Officer at Lumin Health; Co-Director of ECE's Responsible AI for Health Care and Innovation with AI in Health Care programs

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Brown Bag Seminar: Thyroid cancer prevention in radiological emergencies
2025-10-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Yoshitaka Nishikawa, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist, Takemi Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and associate professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. His work focuses on developing and disseminating health information to protect people from disasters and diseases, particularly cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. He leads two reporting guidelines: CAST-D (case studies in public health and medicine related to disasters) and WATER (wastewater analysis and tracking in epidemiological reporting). His Takemi project examines stable iodine implementation after radiological emergencies at individual, community, and national policy levels.

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Yoshitaka Nishikawa
Research Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health

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Special Book Launch Event for "Inherited Inequality" by Christina Cross
2025-10-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Christina Cross, a former postdoctoral fellow and current faculty member, has authored the newly published book “Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families.”

Please join us at Harvard Pop Center for a conversation between Lawrence Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, and author Christina Cross, followed by a reception. (The discussion will also be accessible via Zoom). Limited quantities of the book will be available for purchase (cash only) at a reduced price of $15.00.

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Lawrence Bobo
W. E .B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

Christina Cross
Associate Professor of Sociology, faculty affiliate of the Center for Population and Development Studies and the Department of African and African American Studies

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Art Exhibit Opening Reception: Call and Response
2025-10-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Countway Library, Countway Library, Classroom 102/103
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Please join us to celebrate the opening of our newest art exhibit: “Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to our Foremothers in Gynecology.”

Countway Library is thrilled to host this exhibit, on loan from the Resilient Sisterhood Project through mid-January. “Call and Response” sheds light on the exploitation of enslaved Black women in the origins of modern gynecology, centering the lives of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy—three women subjected to repeated experimental surgeries by Dr. J. Marion Sims in the 1840s. Curated by the Resilient Sisterhood Project with artist Jules Arthur, the exhibition blends past and present, honoring these foremothers while highlighting generations of Black women who transformed medicine. This powerful narrative invites us to unearth history, confront the present, and imagine a more just future for reproductive health. Learn more about the exhibit at countway.info/call.

The opening reception will feature artist and curator statements, a panel discussion, the unveiling of the newest addition to the collection, live music by pianist Kimie Han, and light refreshments. All are welcome!

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Art Exhibit Opening Reception: Call and Response
2025-10-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Countway Library, 1st Floor
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Please join us to celebrate the opening of our newest art exhibit: “Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to our Foremothers in Gynecology.”

Countway Library is thrilled to host this exhibit, on loan from the Resilient Sisterhood Project through mid-January. “Call and Response” sheds light on the exploitation of enslaved Black women in the origins of modern gynecology, centering the lives of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy—three women subjected to repeated experimental surgeries by Dr. J. Marion Sims in the 1840s. Curated by the Resilient Sisterhood Project with artist Jules Arthur, the exhibition blends past and present, honoring these foremothers while highlighting generations of Black women who transformed medicine. This powerful narrative invites us to unearth history, confront the present, and imagine a more just future for reproductive health. Learn more about the exhibit at countway.info/call.

The opening reception will feature artist and curator statements, a panel discussion, the unveiling of the newest addition to the collection, live music by pianist Kimie Han, and light refreshments. All are welcome! Please register at countway.info/callreception.

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Jules Authur

Dr. Michele David

Dr. Yvonne Gomez-Carrion

Lilly Marcelin

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | EAT-Lancet 2.0: Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Diets for All
2025-10-27 13:00 - 13:50 | Massachusetts
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Director of the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Co-Chair of the EAT-Lancet Commission. Dr. Willett will present his talk on “EAT-Lancet 2.0: Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Diets for All”.

This lecture will take place 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 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Director of the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health

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First, Do No Harm: A Symposium in Memory of Lucian Leape
2025-10-27 14:00 - 17:15 | Kresge G1 & online
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Join us for a symposium and reception in honor and memory of Lucian Leape, who passed away this past summer at the age of 94. The Department of Health Policy and Management will celebrate Lucian’s impact and look ahead to the challenges and opportunities for the patient safety movement he did so much to advance. Read his New York Times obituary here.

Symposium: 2:00PM – 5:15PM, Kresge G1 & Online (Livestream)Reception: 5:15PM-6:30PM, Kresge Atrium

This event is open to the public. Registration is required for all in-person attendees. All in-person attendees who do not already have Harvard University ID access to the Kresge Building will be required to bring a photo ID and check in at the Kresge security desk. Registration ensures that you will be on the guest list when you check in.

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Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Keynote Lecture: “Present at the Beginning”

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Distinguished Professor in Residence, Ariadne Labs. Keynote Lecture: “The Contributions of Lucian Leape to the Foundations of Patient Safety”

This event will also feature two panels:

Panel 1: “Lucian Leape – Navigating the Ship of Patient Safety”Panelists: David Bates, Tejal Gandhi, David BlumenthalModerator: Joel Weissman

Panel 2: “Achieving Zero Harm: Paths Forward”Panelists: Michelle Anderson, Patricia Dykes, Michaela KerrisseyModerator: Eric Schneider

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Michelle Anderson, BSN, RN
Mass General Hospital, UMass Boston

David Bates, MD, MSc
Medical Director, Clinical and Quality Analysis, Mass General Brigham (MGB); Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems (CAIBILS), Mass General Brigham

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP

Professor of Practice of Public Health and Health Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Patricia Dykes, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI

Senior Nurse Scientist, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Tejal Ghandi, MD, MPH, CPPS

Chief Safety and Transformation Officer, Press Ganey

Michaela Kerrissey, PhD, MS

Associate Professor of Management, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Eric Schneider, MD, MSc

Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Joel Weissman, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer of the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Surgery in Health Policy, Harvard Medical School

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Treating violence against children as a disease
2025-10-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Violence against children is pervasive, but not inevitable. It is preventable. Like pervasive diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, we can diagnose and document violence against children, treat it and ultimately eradicate it. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion focusing on this topic to mark the publication of an important new book, Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities, co-edited by FXB Senior Fellow Susan Bissell and A.K. Shiva Kumar. The book includes the work of leading experts on the multi-faceted threats and violations facing today’s children. Panelists will engage with several key child protection issues and discuss solutions that demand urgent attention and action.

This event is co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and BYkids.

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Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

Nandana Dev Sen
Writer, actor, and child-rights activist

Susan Bissell, BA, MA, PhD
FXB Senior Fellow/Panel Chair

Tymur Tsapliienko
Student at the Technical University of Munich; Project manager in the YouthBridge Leadership Program; Director of the documentary "Return Date: Unknown"

Vasileia Digidiki, MSc, PhD
Director of the FXB Center Program on Distress Migration

Fridoon Joinda
Multimedia producer and human rights advocate

Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH
Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and in the department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH
Senior fellow at the Harvard FXB Center; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Global Health in a Fractured World, featuring Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
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2025 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award Ceremony and Lecture

Presented jointly by The Studio at Harvard Chan School and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

This year’s recipient of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 2025 Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award is Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, who is being recognized for his extraordinary contributions to humanitarian leadership on the global stage. Throughout his career, Dr. Tedros has championed public health by spearheading international initiatives against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and maternal and child mortality, and by directing robust responses to crises such as Ebola, COVID-19, and mpox. Join us in celebrating his enduring impact on global health and humanitarian action.

This event was previously recorded.

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Marcia C.de Castro

Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Michael VanRooyen
Founding Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization

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

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The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is a university-wide academic and research center in humanitarian crisis and leadership. Our mission is to create new knowledge and advance evidence-based leadership in disasters and humanitarian crisis. Our work focuses on two main areas: the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard and Research & Translation.

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Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right?
2025-10-29 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, October 29 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Kevin Kensler discussing Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right?

Abstract: Prostate cancer screening is at a crossroads. Despite evidence that screening prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can reduce advanced disease and mortality, current practices too often overscreen older men while underserving those at highest risk. This seminar will examine where prostate cancer screening has gone wrong and highlight opportunities for more targeted, equitable approaches to early detection.

Bio: Kevin Kensler, ScD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine and member of the Cancer Prevention and Control program at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. His research focuses on prostate cancer epidemiology, with emphasis on screening, disparities, survivorship, and molecular heterogeneity. He has examined how changes in screening guidelines have shaped trends in advanced disease, particularly across socioeconomic and racial groups, and uses large-scale population and clinical data to study risk and prognosis. Collectively, his research aims to guide policies and interventions that advance equitable and personalized approaches to prostate cancer prevention and early detection.

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Kevin Kensler, ScD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine

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CHDS Seminar with Thomas Trikalinos of Brown University
2025-10-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join The Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Thomas Trikalinos of Brown University, “Propagating Ambiguity into Decision Analyses of Test-and-Treat Strategies.” This presentation will discuss the basics of decision making under ambiguity, also known as “deep uncertainty” or “pervasive uncertainty.” Operationally, ambiguity is defined as uncertainty that the analyst is unwilling or unable to describe with a probability measure model, but is willing to describe with alternative uncertainty models, specifically, with uncertainty sets. For concreteness, it will address the decision analysis of whether the US should screen immigrants for latent tuberculosis infection, a problem with deep uncertainty about the performance of screening tests.

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Thomas Trikalinos
Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?”
2025-10-30 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, University Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University, presents “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?”

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 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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Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD
University Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University

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Brown Bag Seminar: Combating the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in urban India
2025-10-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Amruta Nori-Sarma is an assistant professor of environmental health and population sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an environmental epidemiologist, Nori-Sarma studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable communities. Nori-Sarma aims to understand the impacts of interrelated extreme weather events on mental health across the US utilizing large claims datasets and also has an interest in evaluating the success of policies put in place to reduce the health impacts of climate change.

Additionally, Nori-Sarma serves as one of the leads of the CAFE RCC, the research coordinating center of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative. CAFE, a joint effort with the BU School of Public Health, aims to bring together and amplify the work of a more diverse community of practice in climate and health.

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Amruta Nori-Sarma

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science

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Beyond the Feed: Social Media, Content Creators, Mental Health, and Digital Well-being
2025-10-30 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G13 or Online
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Join us for a timely conversation at the intersection of social media and youth well-being. Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) trainees Katrine Bønneland Tølbøll, MSc, MA, and Yuning Liu, MBBS, MS, will explore how content creators shape online spaces, the implications for mental health, and strategies for fostering healthier digital environments. This seminar will highlight fresh perspectives from emerging scholars and spark dialogue on how to move beyond the feed toward meaningful change.

Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025

Time: 1:00pm – 1:50pm ET

Location: Hybrid; in person & online

In-person location: FXB G13 at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Cosponsors: STRIPED, Center for Health Communication, and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Yuning Liu, MBBS, MS
STRIPED Trainee

Katrine Bønneland Tølbøll, MSc, MA
STRIPED Trainee

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Innovations in immigrant mental health
2025-10-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Massachusetts
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Join us for a conversation with colleagues from the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee and the Somerville Public Library to learn about innovative ways in which community-based programs and services are addressing the mental health and wellbeing of immigrants. The Partnerships for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being initiative is cohosted by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Office of Field Education and Practice. This project aims to examine the mental healthcare landscape in Massachusetts and learn from immigrant-led, culturally rooted, community-based approaches to mental health.

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Main talk from 1:00pm-1:50pm EDT at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge 200 (677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115). The conversation will continue at the Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room (FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA).

Moderator: Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan, FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN

Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan is an Instructor and Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Program on Immigrants and Unhoused Communities, a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Nursing, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She is a nationally board-certified family nurse practitioner dedicated to serving immigrant communities, especially those with precarious documentation status or at risk of homelessness. Maggie co-leads the Partnership for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being with her colleague, Jocelyn Chu, a project which aims to examine the mental healthcare landscape in Massachusetts and learn from immigrant-led, culturally rooted, community-based approaches to mental health. She co-advises the Harvard Students Human Rights Collaborative (HSHRC) and conducts forensic medical evaluations for asylum with Harvard Medical School’s Asylum Clinic. In collaboration with the Initiative on Health & Homelessness, Maggie co-developed and co-teaches HPM 523: Homelessness and Health: Lessons from Health Care, Public Health, and Research. Since 2009, Maggie has practiced at Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP), providing primary care to immigrant and limited English proficient (LEP) patients in shelter-based clinics. In March of 2019 she launched Oasis, an immigrant health clinic at BHCHP where immigrants experiencing homelessness are connected with interdisciplinary and multilingual health services. Maggie also works as a clinical consultant with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Center’s farmworker health program. Between 2010-2017, she collaborated with Partners In Health in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala.

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Rachel Plummer, MPH

Rachel Plummer is the Associate Director at Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee (CEOC), Cambridge’s anti-poverty nonprofit. Rachel has been working at CEOC for 4 years. She began as a graduate student intern at CEOC during her Master of Public Health program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Before working at CEOC, she worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in clinical research related to addiction medicine. Rachel’s current position at CEOC touches all of CEOC’s program areas with a particular focus on food insecurity and mental health. She leads the agency’s community-based mental health program, where non-clinicians deliver a 5-session mental health intervention. Rachel is deeply committed to hearing and centering the voices of community members and incorporating those voices in programmatic and policy decision making.

Jake Savage, LICSW

Jake Savage, is the Library Social Worker at Somerville Public Library. A Somerville resident with a background in immigrant and refugee health, he is passionate about increasing equity in the community through advocacy, programming, and access to resources and information. He also loves to read, hike, and solve crossword puzzles!

This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Field Education and Practice Office.

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FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University

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Inside Google’s X, The Moonshot Factory
2025-10-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Harvard Innovation Labs, 125 Western Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02134
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Join us at the Harvard Innovation Labs for an exclusive fireside chat with Google X’s Helen Riley and Ivo Stivoric, moderated by HBS’s Allison Mnookin. Discover how high-risk, high-reward innovation happens at one of the world’s most ambitious R&D labs, and gain insights into bold thinking at scale. Connect with innovators from across Harvard, ask your questions, and enjoy networking with light refreshments after the conversation. All Harvard community members are welcome.

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Helen Riley

Ivo Stivoric

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Get Job Ready: A Career Panel with SBS Alumni
2025-11-03 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110 / Zoom
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Please join us for an SBS seminar session to help you navigate the current public health job market. Hear from a panel of accomplished SBS alumni, including Ana Warner, Sarah Belstock, Anna Hirshman, and Kaitlin Patton (Shroeder), who will share their unique journeys and offer insights on how to best leverage your own skills and experiences as you enter the job search. Alison McAlear from Career Services will also be there to connect you to helpful resources. After our panel discussion, you’ll have the chance to chat informally with alumni, ask your questions, and build connections.

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Kaitlin Patton (Schroeder), MPH'23
Project Manager, Foundation Medicine

Ana Warner, MPH’25
Sr. Project Management Specialist, Boston Medical Center

Sarah Belstock, SM '05
Director of Community Health Promotion, Public Health Institute at Denver Health

Anna Hirshman, MPH ’25
Research and Evaluation Specialist, Combined Jewish Philanthropies

Alison McAlear
Associate Director, Career Coaching and Education

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience
2025-11-03 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Please join the Department of Nutrition and Department of Global Health and Population for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Dr. Francesca Scazzina, Professor in Human Nutrition at the University of Parma, Italy. Dr. Scazzina will present her talk on “From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience” on November 3, 2025 at 1:00pm ET. This lecture will take place 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 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Francesca Scazzina, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Nutrition at the Department of Food and Drug Sciences, University of Parma

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Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Celebration of Early Career Investigators in Cancer Research
2025-11-04 13:00 - 17:30 | Yawkey Conference Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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Early career investigators are a unique reservoir of new ideas, innovation, and excellence in cancer research. To celebrate this, we welcome you to join the Annual DF/HCC Celebration of Early Investigators in Cancer Research. This symposium will showcase the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who work in several areas of population science, including epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes, diversity, and survivorship. We invite all members of the public to attend the event. We also invite students, post-docs, residents, and clinical fellows to submit abstracts for consideration as oral or poster presentations. We look forward to an exciting afternoon of discussion, sharing new discoveries, and building new collaborations.

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Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning?
2025-11-05 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, November 5 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Peter Kraft discussing Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning?

Abstract: Breast cancer clusters in families, but rare, high risk pathogenic variants in known genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2 explain only a small proportion of this familial aggregation. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 150 independent common variants associated with breast cancer incidence, but more risk variants remain to be found, in part because of the limited diversity of published GWAS. I describe the Confluence Project (https://confluence.cancer.gov/), a collaboration among multiple international consortia to conduct a breast cancer GWAS in over 450,000 cases and 1,300,000 controls, approximately tripling the overall sample size of the largest breast cancer GWAS to date and quadrupling the sample size in previously undersampled genetic ancestry groups. I discuss governance, computing, and analytic issues raised by such large and diverse data, including approaches to conducting multi-ancestry GWAS and fine-mapping analyses. I also discuss the opportunities provided by integrating well-powered GWAS with emerging experimental genomic annotations and multimodal pathological characterization of tumors. Separately, I provide an update on the Connect for Cancer Prevention Cohort (https://www.cancer.gov/connect-prevention-study/) and its plans for broad data sharing.

Bio: Dr. Kraft is the Director of the Trans-Divisional Research Program in the NCI’s intramural Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. He provides strategic leadership to transdisciplinary research teams across the Division, helping identify and shape new research opportunities and oversees data platforms and tools that enable collaboration. Dr. Kraft’s research focuses on devising and applying statistical techniques to large-scale observational studies of genetic and circulating biomarkers, with particular emphasis on studies understanding the joint contribution of germline DNA variation, environmental exposures and biomarkers to risk of complex disease. He has contributed to multiple international consortia studying genetics and other exposures in relation to cancer risk over the last twenty years. Prior to joining DCEG, Dr. Kraft was Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2003-2023. He remains an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School.

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Peter Kraft, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Senior Investigator, Trans-Divisional Research Program, NCI/DCEG, NIH

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Brown Bag Seminar: Mental health and psychosocial support for male former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq: Gaps in humanitarian response and legal obligations
2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc, obtained his medical degree from Ghent University in Belgium and completed his master of medical sciences in global health delivery at Harvard Medical School as a Fulbright and Fayat Scholar. His research, under Theresa Betancourt, focused on mental health services for former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq.

Yildirim is currently a research associate at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, working on reparations as a public health intervention, healthcare delivery in conflict zones, and immigration health. He has also participated in humanitarian missions in the Middle East and North Africa and is dedicated to advancing equity and the rights of vulnerable communities worldwide.

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Social Demography Seminar with Atheendar Venkataramani
2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 200, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Political power and mortality: Heterogeneous effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.” This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 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 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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Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD
Associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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Film Screening: Raising Bar
2025-11-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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A film screening and discussion about innovations in residential care for adults with IDD and autism and how public health students can contribute to this exciting movement.

There will be popcorn and candy!

This event is open to the public, but if you are not an HUID holder you will need a visitor’s pass for entrance to campus. Please email alevy1@hsph.harvard.edu if you require a visitor’s pass.

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Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances
2025-11-10 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G13, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Greg Drescher; Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH. The speakers will present on “Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances” on November 10, 2025 at 1:00pm ET.

This seminar will take place 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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Greg Drescher

Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships, Industry Leadership and Impact Culinary Institute of America

Frank 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

Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD

Professor of Public Health, University of Navarra, Spain; Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD
Member, Academy of Athens; Professor Emeritus, Medical School, University of Athens

Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition; Director, Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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CHDS Seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California
2025-11-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) provides a direct method for measuring patient risk preferences and incorporating these into cost-effectiveness estimates. In this presentation, we will discuss: 1) the rationale for GRACE as a way of explaining discordance between traditional cost-effectiveness analysis (TCEA) and the behavior of patients and payers; 2) the economic theory behind GRACE; 3) empirical estimates of GRACE-based utility over health; and 4) a practical approach for estimating GRACE using only inputs from standard TCEA models.

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Darius Lakdawalla, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, USC Schaeffer Center; Quintiles Chair, USC Mann School; Professor, USC Price School of Public Policy

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Launch Party: 2026 President's Innovation Challenge
2025-11-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Harvard Innovation Labs, 125 Western Avenue, i-lab Fl. 1, Batten Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 02163
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Join us for the exciting launch of this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC)!

Experience an evening packed with inspiration as Harvard’s brightest founders come together to ignite new ideas. Hear from Executive Director Jill Kravetz and a panel of past winners, who’ll share insider tips on crafting a standout application and making the most of your PIC experience. Mingle with student and alumni entrepreneurs, connect with advisors, and fuel your ambitions over snacks and mocktails. Open to all fully matriculated Harvard students and select alumni, the PIC is your chance to turn bold solutions into impact. Don’t miss your shot—apply by December 8, 2025! Learn more at innovationlabs.harvard.edu/pic.

The Harvard Innovation Labs is located on the first floor of Batten Hall at 125 Western Avenue, Allston, MA 02134. We are situated on the Harvard Business School campus, a 15-20 minute walk from Harvard Square. You can also use the Harvard shuttle. The University offers daily parking for faculty, staff, students, visitors, and guests in the HBS lot on Western Avenue. The HBS lot is available 24/7 and accepts both cash and credit card payments.

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Jill Kravetz
Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs

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The Science Behind the Cancer Prevention Studies
2025-11-12 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Join us on Wednesday, November 12th for a joint seminar of the Department of Epidemiology and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, featuring Dr. Alpa Patel discussing The Science Behind the Cancer Prevention Studies.

Abstract: This talk will present a brief history of the Cancer Prevention Studies, a series of large, nationwide prospective cohort studies conducted by the American Cancer Society generationally since the 1950’s. These studies have been instrumental along with other cohorts, such as those conducted at Harvard University, in advancing cancer prevention and control as well as cancer survivorship and outcomes. This talk will present the construct of these cohorts, availability of data and biologic specimens, and key findings from each of the studies.

Bio: Dr. Alpa V. Patel earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and her Doctoral degree in Preventive Medicine with a concentration in Epidemiology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She is the Senior Vice President of Population Science at the American Cancer Society and serves as the principal investigator of the Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS) II and 3, two long-term, large-scale, epidemiologic cohort studies established by the American Cancer Society. Combined, these two cohorts include over 1.5 million participants with a variety of over 400,000 biologic samples (such as blood, buccal cells, saliva, stool, and tumor tissue). Additionally, as the co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Patel and team launched the largest ever cancer cohort of Black women in the U.S. aimed to enroll at least 100,000 Black women to understand the multi-level drivers of cancer risk and outcomes in this population. Dr. Patel is a recognized leader in cancer epidemiology with particular emphases on the role of physical inactivity, obesity, sedentary behavior and cancer as well as risk assessment and blood-based markers of cancer detection. She has published nearly 300 scientific articles and book chapters, and her research has contributed significantly to national and international cancer prevention guidelines, such as the US Physical Activity Guidelines for Health and the American Cancer Society’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines for both cancer prevention and cancer survivorship.

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Alpa Patel, PhD
Senior Vice President, Population Science, American Cancer Society

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Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G12 or online, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On November 12th, 2025, we held the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event featured Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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This talk discussed how we can raise caring, moral children in today’s world. Richard Weissbourd argued that the intense focus on achievement and happiness in child-raising has crowded out attention to children’s moral development and that all the focus on happiness is, ironically, making children less happy. He offered concrete ideas for how we can raise children who are both moral and likely to thrive. Weissbourd also discussed how moral failures in our public life pose specific threats to moral development and how we can mitigate these harms and develop in children key capacities they will need to strengthen our communities and democracy.

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Richard Weissbourd is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and he also teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses on moral development, meaning, and purpose, mental health challenges among teens and young adults, and effective schools and services for children facing risks. He directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child-raising, and to provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting in children caring, a commitment to justice and other key moral and social capacities. He leads an initiative to reform college admissions, Turning the Tide, which seeks to elevate ethical character, reduce excessive achievement pressure, and increase equity and access in the college admissions process. He is also conducting research on how older adults can better mentor young adults and teenagers in developing caring, mature romantic relationships.

He is a founder of several interventions for children facing risks, including ReadBoston and WriteBoston, city-wide literacy initiatives that were led by Mayor Menino. He is also a co-founder of a pilot school in Boston, the Lee Academy, that begins with children at 3 years old. He has advised on the city, state and federal levels on family policy, parenting and school reform and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications and blogs, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today and NPR. He is the author of The Vulnerable Child: What Really Hurts America’s Children and What We Can Do About It (Addison-Wesley, 1996), named by the American School Board Journal as one of the top 10 education books of all time. His most recent book, The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development (Houghton Mifflin 2009), was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 24 books of 2009.

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FXB Center work in progress seminar - Out of sight, out of mind: Myanmar’s invisible crisis
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
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Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University for a virtual work-in-progress seminar to hear from Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and Director of the Southeast Asia Human Rights Project at Harvard University’s Asia Center. The conversation will be moderated by FXB’s Director of Research, Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc. Harvard ID required to attend.

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Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tom Andrews

Special Rapporteur, United Nations

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Brown Bag Seminar: The Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program: Addressing Indigenous health care disparities and support for AIAN pathway programs
2025-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”

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Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and emergency physician practicing clinically at Brigham Women’s Hospital, Tsehootsooi Medical Center, and Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Nation. Her current academic responsibilities include directing the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) Program based in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine Office of IDEaS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice) and serving as core faculty at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative leading the Program on Indigenous Health Disparities.

Dr. Dobiesz is the director of the FLIP Program with a mission to improve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) health and eliminate existing health disparities through educational, clinical, and administrative partnerships and the development of healthcare career pathway programs. In this capacity, she works clinically and oversees BWH emergency physicians that work at Tribally managed hospitals in the Navajo Nation to increase the clinical capacity and quality of care provided in this rural and historically underserved health care context.

Her research and scholarship have focused on eliminating health disparities for AIAIN populations, developing the AIAN healthcare workforce, simulation medical education, maintaining medical education during war, and improving maternal health in emergency and low resource settings. She currently leads and collaborates on multiple projects focused on mitigating AIAN health disparities such as creating an academic medical center partnership with a Tribally managed hospital as an innovative mutually beneficial healthcare delivery model and studying the impact of healthcare career pathway programs for Native students.

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Valerie Dobiesz
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program

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Social Demography Seminar: “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development”
2025-11-13 13:00 - 14:15 | Kresge 200, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Natalie Slopen, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development.” The event is co-sponsored by SBS.

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 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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Natalie Slopen, PhD
Associate professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Ben Johnson: Introducing Nature Health
2025-11-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for this exciting opportunity to hear about the new journal Nature Health from its chief editor, Ben Johnson. Ben will discuss the aims, scope, and themes of the journal and will answer questions from the audience.

Ben Johnson trained in infectious diseases, with an undergraduate degree in virology from the University of Warwick, UK, a PhD in influenza virus from Public Health England and the University of Reading, UK, and a postdoc on smallpox vaccines at Imperial College London. Ben has more than 15 years of experience in publishing, journalism, communications and engagement, including as an Associate Publisher at BMC, Head of Communities & Engagement at Springer Nature and Senior Magazine Editor at Nature Medicine, with responsibility for news and opinion content. He has a strong interest in research conducted in resource-limited settings, including in the global south, in how research influences health policy and in equitable strategies to involve patients and communities in research. He is based in the London office.

Visit the Nature Health website to learn more about the new journal.

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Ben Johnson
Chief Editor, Nature Health

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20th Kolokotrones Symposium - Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?
2025-11-14 13:30 - 15:30 | Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 20th Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health!

“Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?” features four expert talks and a panel discussion.

The symposium will provide an introduction to the epidemiology of autism, present what is currently known about the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, describe possible explanations for this association, and explore the challenges and opportunities to design better studies to estimate the causal effect. The symposium will conclude with an expert panel that will consider the question: where do we go from here?

NOTE: In-person attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders due to space restrictions. Online attendance is free and open to the public. Limited spots are available, so please register now to reserve your spot.

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Marc Weisskopf
Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Physiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Krista Huybrechts
Professor, Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-Director, The Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology

Brian Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University; Research Fellow, A.J. Drexel Autism Institute

Sonia Hernández-Díaz
CAUSALab, H4P, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Alec Walker
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging
2025-11-17 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MS, MA, Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Secondary Faculty at the Department of Molecular Metabolism, Director of Harvard-Chan Research Kitchen at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Peterson will present her talk on ” Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging” on November 17, 2025 at 1:00pm ET. This seminar will take place 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. Friday, November 14 to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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

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Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MS, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Secondary Faculty, Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Harvard-Chan Research Kitchen

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Information Sick: The Decline of Journalism, the Rise in Misinformation, and the Nation's Health
2025-11-18 11:30 - 12:30 | 401 Park Drive Fl. 3, 401 Park Drive Fl. 3 West, Boston, 02215
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Award-winning journalist Joanne Kenen is the lead author of a new book on the information environment in the United States. She’ll be joined by one of her co-authors, Johns Hopkins Professor Joshua Sharfstein.

A former city, state, and federal public health official, Dr. Sharfstein has experienced and studied the consequences of these challenges for health. They’ll lead a discussion about how we got here —and what comes next.

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Doing more with less: Financing African health systems today
2025-11-18 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and in person
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As foreign aid landscapes shift, we’ll explore whether smarter, more strategic collaboration—rather than simply more funding—is the key to sustainable, resilient healthcare in Africa. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, former Minister of Health (Ethiopia), and Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, former Minister of Economy, Finance and Development (Burkina Faso), will discuss how integrated national planning, efficient donor alignment, and strengthened governance can create health sovereignty.

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Rosine Sori-Coulibaly
Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow; Former Minister of Economy, Finance and Development, Burkina Faso

Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin

Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Former Minister of Health, Ethiopia

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Fatou Jallow
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Navigating a critical moment for public health education and research
2025-11-19 13:00 - 13:45 | Online
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We invite you to a faculty panel discussion exploring the current landscape and future of public health research and education. Department Chair Sarah Fortune will discuss how IID is navigating this pivotal moment, setting priorities, and looking ahead. Yonatan Grad will share insights on emerging research opportunities, while Flaminia Catteruccia will address the critical intersection of graduate education and international research. The panel will be moderated by Bailey Bowcutt, a PhD student in the Biological Sciences in Public Health Program, who will offer her perspective on building a scientific career during these uncertain times.

This 45-minute Zoom session includes 30 minutes of conversation followed by 15 minutes for your questions. Whether you’re an alumnus or friend of the department or School, we hope you’ll join us to learn about the exciting research underway in IID and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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

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Sarah Fortune
John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Yonatan Grad
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Flaminia Catteruccia
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

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Bailey Bowcutt
Doctor of Philosophy candidate, Biological Sciences in Public Health

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Inherited trauma, inherited equity: Reparations as a determinant of health
2025-11-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for a virtual conversation between Dr. L’Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc, and FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, to explore the intersection of reparative justice and racial trauma’s legacy. Is there a pathway to healing for the descendants of the enslaved? For instance, reparations can serve as a transformative health intervention for Black men in Jackson, Mississippi, illuminating how structural repair can advance collective well-being across the South.

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Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. L'Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc

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MassCPR Annual Symposium- Innovation Without Borders: Academia and Pharma Driving Preparedness
2025-11-19 13:00 - 17:00 | Ragon Institute, 600 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
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This year’s hybrid symposium will explore how the partnership between pharma and academia fuels breakthroughs that strengthen outbreak preparedness. Join colleagues from across the consortium, industry, public health, and academia for a lively exchange of ideas and insights. The event is sponsored by Harvard Medical School, the Maxwell Finland Fund, and the Warren Alpert Foundation.

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The Prevalence and Policy Consequences of "mRNA Vaccine Stigmatization" in the US
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Rubenstein Building – R-414-AB David Ellwood Democracy Lab
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Despite their life saving potential, many prominent voices in American public life have used their social and political platforms to spread misinformation about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy. In this talk, Dr. Motta provides new evidence that “mRNA vaccine stigmatization” is evident in the actions of policymakers across multiple levels of government. He also reviews the state of public opinion about mRNA vaccines, drawing on both original and secondary survey research. He argues that although it is presently unclear whether elites’ efforts to stigmatize mRNA vaccines has spilled over to impact broader US public opinion, there is growing reason to believe that it will. Ultimately, Motta concludes that mRNA vaccine stigmatization could come at an important cost; both by eroding public confidence in mRNA vaccination, and by limiting access to life-saving vaccines.

Registration is required in advance. Event is open to the public. To attend in person, use the Wexner Building entrance at Harvard Kennedy School to locate the Rubenstein Building – R-414-AB David Ellwood Democracy Lab.

Lunch will be provided!

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Matt Motta, PhD
Associate professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, & Management, Boston University School of Public Health; Affiliated research faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty affiliate in the Department of Political Science at Boston University

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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: "Immigrant health and the duality of risk"
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:15 | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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Arun Hendi, PhD, associate professor, sociology and public affairs, Princeton University, presents (remotely) “Immigrant health and the duality of risk.” 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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Arun Hendi, PhD
Associate professor, sociology and public affairs, Princeton University

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Brown Bag Seminar: Measuring out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
2025-11-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Chunling Lu studied international relations (BA) and political science (MA) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and sociology (MA) and applied statistics (MS) at Syracuse University, where she also received her PhD in economics. She received postdoctoral training on health care policy analysis at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy, and joined the School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in 2008 after three-years work at the Harvard Institute for Global Health as a senior research associate.

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Chunling Lu
Director, Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change; Associate Professor in Medicine, Associate Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine

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Working With Your Brain: Compassionate Strategies for Focus and Follow-Through
2025-11-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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On Thursday, November 20th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 502, we welcome all members of the Harvard community to join us for a well-being workshop led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Kris Berg, MPH ’26.

This workshop will explore how stress, guilt, and unrealistic expectations exacerbate executive dysfunction, making it difficult to start or complete tasks. Participants will learn compassionate, neurodiversity-affirming strategies to work with their brains to reduce overwhelm, increase focus, and build sustainable motivation. Fidget toys and pizza provided.

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Kris Berg, MPH '26
Student Engagement Committee Member

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Celebrating the life of Richard Cash
2025-11-21 13:30 - 16:00 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join the Department of Global Health and Population to celebrate the life and legacy of Richard Cash.

Richard was widely recognized for his contributions to developing oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a technique that has since been credited with saving millions of lives and has been described by The Lancet as “potentially the most significant medical advance of the century.” Beyond his public health impact, Richard influenced innumerable students, colleagues, and friends over his nearly five decades at the School. Throughout his career, he remained dedicated to working with communities to find simple, accessible, and effective solutions.

At this memorial, we will celebrate Richard’s life by hearing from panel of experts about Richard’s impact on the field of public health and from close friends, family, and colleagues about how he touched their lives. We will unveil a commissioned portrait, which will later be hung in the Department of Global Health and Population, and hold a small reception in the Kresge Cafeteria.

Please note that registration is required to attend this event.

For those wishing to honor Richard’s legacy, please donate the Richard Cash Memorial Fund.

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Lincoln Chen
Former President, China Medical Board; Former Taro Takemi Professor of International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Tim Evans
Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Impact, Concordia University; Former Dean, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University

David Nalin
Professor Emeritus, Center for Immunology and Microbial Diseases, Albany Medical College

Malabika Sarker
Associate Dean of Global Engagement, Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University; Former Associate Dean and Professor, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University

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Marcia C.de Castro

Andelot Professor of Demography

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Biomarkers as an essential instrument in nutritional research
2025-11-24 13:00 - 13:50 | Massachusetts
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring at Qi Sun, MD, DSc, Associate Professor at the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Director of Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sun will present his talk on “Biomarkers as an Essential Instrument in Nutritional Research” on November 24, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ET. This seminar will take place 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 3:00pm ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Qi Sun, MD, DSc
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology, Director of Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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Social Connection and Health Across Adulthood and Later Life
2025-12-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 110/ Zoom
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Please join us for an SBS seminar session led by Visiting Professor, Dr. Anthony Ong, as he discusses the importance of social connection, a central determinant of health across the life course. This talk synthesizes evidence on age-related patterns in loneliness and social isolation, the ways pandemic conditions disrupted connection, and why mismatches between objective isolation and subjective loneliness (social asymmetry) carry distinct health risks. Comments on the construct of cumulative social advantage—a multidimensional profile of sustained connections across family, community, religious/civic, and emotional domains—will be made, showing that stronger profiles are associated with slower biological aging and a lower inflammatory burden.

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Anthony Ong
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Human Health Labs at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Harnessing planetary health data science approaches to understanding food safety and food security in Madagascar
2025-12-01 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Online
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health, Director of the MPH in Nutrition Program, Co-Director of the Concentration in Climate Change and Planetary Health; Giacomo De Nicola, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; Oladimeji Mudele, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The speakers will present their talk on “Harnessing planetary health data science approaches to understanding food safety and food security in Madagascar” on December 1, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ET. This seminar will take place in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required in advance).

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Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health, Director of the MPH in Nutrition Program, Co-Director of the Concentration in Climate Change and Planetary Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Giacomo De Nicole, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Oladimeji Mudele, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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What’s at stake for health care reform? Insights from Florida and Massachusetts
2025-12-02 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Health care access, costs, and coverage – particularly for lower-income Americans – are expected to undergo dramatic changes in the next few years. Enhanced subsidies that make coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace more affordable are set to expire at the end of 2025. Meanwhile, Medicaid faces billions in cuts and a high probability that people will lose coverage due to new work requirements, stricter eligibility rules, and more frequent eligibility reviews. In addition, changes in Medicaid reimbursement rules and new rural health grants could have nationwide effects. In this event, former health care leaders from Florida and Massachusetts share their perspectives on how state officials and health care providers will respond in this shifting policy environment.

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Justin Senior
CEO, Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida

Kathleen Elizabeth Walsh

Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow

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Adrianna McIntyre

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics

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The Global Flourishing Study
2025-12-03 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 502, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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Join us on Wednesday, December 3 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Tyler VanderWeele discussing The Global Flourishing Study.

Abstract: The Global Flourishing Study is a longitudinal panel study of over 200,000 participants in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries, spanning all six populated continents, with nationally representative sampling and intended annual survey data collection for 5 years to assess numerous aspects of flourishing and its possible determinants. The study is intended to expand our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of flourishing around the world. Relations between a composite flourishing index and numerous demographic characteristics are reported. Participants were also surveyed about their childhood experiences, which were analyzed to determine their associations with subsequent adult flourishing. Analyses are presented both across and within countries, and discussion is given as to how the demographic and childhood relationships vary by country and which patterns appear to be universal versus culturally specific. Brief comment is also given on the results of a whole series of papers in the Global Flourishing Study Special Collection, employing similar analyses, but with more-specific aspects of well-being. The Global Flourishing Study expands our knowledge of the distribution and determinants of well-being and provides foundational knowledge for the promotion of societal flourishing.

Bio: Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance, and biostatistics. His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).

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Tyler VanderWeele, PhD
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Post-Launch of the Lancet One Health Commission Report
2025-12-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Countway Library, 695 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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We are delighted to invite you the post-launch event of the Lancet One Health Commission Report.

Date: Wednesday December 3, 2025

Time: 2:00-4:00pm EST

Location: Hybrid | Countway Library & Zoom

The event will highlight the urgent challenges at the intersection of health and sustainability – including health inequity, climate change, biodiversity loss, antimicrobial resistance, infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as weak health systems. These issues illustrate the inseparable links between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and underscore the need for a One Health approach to achieve effective solutions.

With only five years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, the event will explore how the implementation of One Health can decisively strengthen global health and sustainability efforts.

The event will be moderated by Andrea Winkler, Co-Chair of the Lancet One Health Commission and co(joint)-Director of the Center for Global Health of the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

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Kari C Nadeau

John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies

Gaurab Basu

Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health

Vikram Patel

Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population

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Brown Bag Seminar: Advancing global mental health delivery: The role of digital innovation, task sharing, and reciprocal learning
2025-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Mental disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet in most countries, individuals living with mental disorders are more likely to have access to a mobile phone than basic mental health care. As digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we interact with each other and with the world around us, there are new opportunities to leverage these devices for addressing the significant barriers to implementing and extending the reach of mental health services, and ultimately towards improving outcomes for those facing the challenges of mental illness. In this presentation, John Naslund will draw from his field research in both India and in the United States to illustrate how emerging digital technologies can advance task sharing and early intervention in both lower and higher income settings. Importantly, this involves shifting from ‘digital promise’ to ‘digital practice’, and realizing the impact of digital innovations in advancing mental health care delivery in real-world settings. Naslund will discuss the potential challenges and hurdles ahead and consider emerging innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) to advance implementation science and strengthen capacity of health systems, empower community providers, and combat stigma towards bridging the global mental health care gap.

John Naslund is co-director of the Mental Health For All Lab at Harvard Medical School, and faculty in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. He holds expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, implementation science, and digital mental health. Naslund’s scholarship seeks to advance efforts aimed at improving the lives of individuals facing the challenges of mental illness worldwide. His work focuses on low-resource settings in India and the U.S., using digital innovations to train frontline providers, support recovery in people with severe mental illness, and promote peer-to-peer support and mental health advocacy. Naslund’s work is supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Fellowship, Grand Challenges Canada, the H.E. Butt Foundation, the Tepper Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust. Naslund has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is an Honorary Research Fellow with Sangath, a world-leading NGO and research organization based in India. He has a longstanding track record advocating for the rights, dignity, and quality of healthcare for those living with mental illness.

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John Naslund
Co-Director, Mental Health for All Lab; Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Cultivating compassion: Strategies for bullying prevention
2025-12-04 14:00 - 14:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University

Inspired by the world premiere musical, Wonder, performing December 9th through February 8th at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), this panel discussion explores the power of empathy and kindness in the face of bullying. Drawing on Wonder’s story of Auggie Pullman—a young boy with a facial difference navigating a new school—the conversation will examine the challenges of social belonging and the importance of creating inclusive environments where differences are celebrated. This event will feature a sharing of a song from the musical composed by Ian Axel and Chad King, the GRAMMY Award-winning duo behind A Great Big World.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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Jason Fogler

Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Ari Ne’eman

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

Sarah Ruhl
Playwright, Wonder, the musical

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Howard Koh

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

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Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care
2025-12-08 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Program Director Ted Witherell will share how this program helps health care leaders build confidence and skill in managing conflict, providing feedback, and navigating complex negotiations.

If you’re looking to strengthen your leadership and communication skills to handle challenging conversations more effectively, this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.

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Ted Witherell

Lecturer on Health Management

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Origami Workshop
2025-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Kresge Atrium, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Join us for an origami-making workshop! Monday, December 8th, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ Community and Belonging committee invites all students, staff, and faculty to join us for an origami-making workshop! Learn a new artform, let your creative energy flow, and get to know your fellow community members. Stop by the Kresge atrium anytime between 12 and 2 p.m. to take part. We hope to see you there!

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Report-back from the 2ND Africa-CARICOM summit on reparations
2025-12-08 13:00 - 14:00 | online
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Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights for a virtual conversation between FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, and FXB Visiting Scientist Brittney Francis, PhD, MPH, who will share their takeaways after attending the 2nd Africa-CARICOM Summit in Addis Ababa in September 2025. The summit brought together member states from the African Union and CARICOM, along with UN entities and international NGOs, including the global African diaspora. The goal was to strengthen unity, deepen integration, and jointly pursue reparations and reparatory justice through a comprehensive transcontinental partnership framework, under the theme: “Transcontinental Partnership in Pursuit of Reparatory Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations.” The conversation will be moderated by FXB Research Associate, Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc.

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Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH

Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Brittney Francis, PhD, MPH

Research Scientist, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

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The State of Biomedical Science in the US — How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do?
2025-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”

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The 177th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine Abstract: The decades following the Vandervar Bush report on governmental investment in scientific research were times of extraordinary growth and innumerable accomplishments for the US biomedical research enterprise. NIH funding grew from 45 million dollars in 1945 to over 41 billion dollars by 2020. Health outcomes improved dramatically, at least in part because of the science generated by that investment. Heading into 2020, the future of US biomedical research appeared remarkably bright. Adding in the extraordinary response of our scientific and clinical systems to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted the current challenges facing biomedical research in the US. Understanding how we got here is a first step towards restoring the trajectory of biomedical research in the US.

This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person viewing options (with limited in-person seating). Seats in the main auditorium are first come, first served. There will also be a recording of the event for those who cannot attend.

Stay for the reception 5:00-6:00PM in Sebastian’s Cafe.

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Katrina Armstrong, MD

Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Columbia University; Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Chief Executive Officer of Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of Medicine

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CHDS Seminar With Kayoko Shioda of Boston University
2025-12-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Kayoko Shioda of Boston University, “Target Trial Emulation for Vaccine Dosing Schedule Evaluation.” Target trial emulation (TTE) is a causal inference framework that uses observational data to emulate a randomized trial. It has become a valuable tool for evaluating treatments and health interventions when randomized trials are not feasible. However, applying TTE to infectious diseases requires caution due to transmission-related interference. In this talk, Dr. Shioda will illustrate how TTE can identify optimal vaccine dosing schedules, including for COVID-19, and discuss current methodological limitations and possible solutions.

Dr. Shioda is an infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian focusing on two research areas: (1) One Health and climate change, and (2) vaccine epidemiology. For vaccine epidemiology, she aims to inform vaccine policy by developing novel analytic methods for intervention evaluation, especially in resource-limited settings where public health data often have various challenges that make it difficult to draw reliable conclusions. She has collaborated with partners across local, national, and international organizations in more than 30 countries worldwide.PhD, DVM, MPH

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Kayoko Shioda, PhD, DVM, MPH
Assistant Professor, Boston University

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Documentary Screening - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
2025-12-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02120-2702
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Join the Harvard Chan Student Committee for Health Equity & Justice in Palestine for a screening of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. Light refreshments from Aceituna Grill and popcorn will be provided!

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Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations
2025-12-10 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education.

Program Director Lou DiBerardinis will share how this program helps professionals design and manage laboratories that prioritize health, safety, and sustainability while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

If you’re looking to enhance your understanding of safe and effective lab design—from new construction to renovation and decommissioning—this webinar is a great opportunity to see how the program can support your goals.

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Louis J. DiBerardinis

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War and the public’s health
2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts
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Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for a fireside chat with physician and epidemiologist Barry Levy, MD, MPH, and discussion with FXB Visiting Scientist Yara M. Asi, PhD. They will describe the impacts of war on the health and human rights of noncombatant civilians and related issues, including forced displacement and destruction of civilian infrastructure. They will also discuss the prevention of war and the promotion of peace. Dr. Levy will draw on his book, From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War, and Dr. Asi on her book, How War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Health.

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Barry Levy, MD, MPH
Physician, epidemiologist

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Yara M. Asi, PhD

Visiting Scientist, FXB; Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics

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Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH

Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Brown Bag Seminar: Can remote personalized digital counseling improve postpartum contraceptive use?
2025-12-11 13:00 - 14:00 | 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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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.

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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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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 | Massachusetts
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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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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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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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, 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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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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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Population, environment, and infectious disease ecology: History, progress, and innovation.”

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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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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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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

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📅 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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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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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.

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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.

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

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Sue J. Goldie

Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health

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

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

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

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Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD

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

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

How to set up an account

How to pack and label boxes correctly

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

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

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

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

*Figures are provisional until officially confirmed.

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Emily Staub
Associate Director, The Carter Center

Rochelle Walensky
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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

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

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

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

🎙 Webinar 2: ”The Making of Negotiating Organizations”

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

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

🔗 Free and open to the public

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

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

Questions? Contact hhi@harvard.edu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Randall Akee, PhD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
2026-04-01 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 201, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

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

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

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Michael Emch, PhD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University

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Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic

Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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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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"Rovina's Choice" Screening and Q&A with Atul Gawande
2026-04-16 17:45 - 18:45 | Kresge G1, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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You are invited to a special screening of the New Yorker film “Rovina’s Choice,” a harrowing account of a mother’s efforts to save her daughter from sickness and starvation in the wake of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rovina Naboi’s devastating story represents the global impact of that decision on the world’s most vulnerable populations, and how it stopped decades of progress combating severe malnutrition and disease.

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

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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

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Managing Your Electronic Records: Shared Drives and Email
2026-04-21 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
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Does it take ages to find a file in your shared drive? Are you running out of room in your email? Save yourself and your office time and money by learning to manage your electronic records. In this workshop, we’ll help you manage your email and electronic records efficiently and effectively by giving you guidelines.

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

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Harmonizing for Happiness: Finding Calm, Connection, and Joy Through Song
2026-04-22 13:00 - 13:50 | Kresge 202A, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Harmonizing for Happiness: Finding Calm, Connection, and Joy Through Song is an interactive well-being workshop that invites all members of the Harvard community to explore how group singing can reduce stress, lift mood, and build a sense of connection—no musical experience required. Led by Center Student Engagement Committee member Priyam Bhushan Aturi, MPH ’26, this 50-minute session will combine a brief, accessible overview of the science behind singing and well-being with guided warm-ups, simple humming exercises, and inclusive group singing activities in a low-pressure, non-judgmental environment. Participants will have the chance to notice the emotional and physical effects of singing together, reflect as a group, and leave with practical tools—like humming or simple vocal exercises—that they can use in daily life to support their mental health and resilience. Lunch will be provided.

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Priyam Bhushan Aturi
MPH '26

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

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

For more information on the event and the poster reception, please visit this link.

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

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

Contact:levesque@hsph.harvard.edu

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Eric Rubin, MD, PhD with opening remarks

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

Michael Fischbach, PhD

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

Laura Cox

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

Robert Britton, PhD

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

Jose Clemente, PhD

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

Jean McGee, MD, PhD, MS

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

James Collins, PhD

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

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