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Mortality Displacement: Sixty Years of Debate and Consequences

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

Join us on Wednesday, September 9th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. David Jones. Abstract: As scrutiny of air pollution epidemiology increased in the 1960s, researchers wondered whether pollution crises mostly killed people with preexisting cardiac or respiratory disease who would have died soon anyway. This idea, named “mortality displacement,” “harvesting,” or...

A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward with Mary Jean Brown, ScD

HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom

Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Mary Jean Brown, ScD, Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Brown will discuss “A world without lead exposure: Pursuing the path forward.” This event...

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AI and humanitarian data: Evidence on reliability, limits, and human oversight

Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts

Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Patrick Vinck, PhD, research director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We will discuss the reliability and limits of AI for qualitative humanitarian data analysis, with a...

Future of Public Health in the age of AI

Kresge G1 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Join us on Monday, September 14th for a special Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Karl Lauterbach. Abstract: While the mainstream discourse surrounding artificial intelligence in medicine remains heavily focused on drug discovery, diagnostics, and curative care, these near-term promises often overshadow a more consequential frontier: prevention. This talk examines the paradigm shift toward preventive...

Rethinking Sex Differences in Disease: Lessons from Migraine on Biology, Measurement, and Classification

Virtual

Join us on Wednesday, September 16th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Tobias Kurth. Abstract: Migraine is substantially more prevalent in women than in men, a difference commonly attributed to biological factors. Yet observed prevalence may also reflect differences in symptom expression and reporting, measurement, and disease classification. Using migraine as a...

A Conversation about Generative AI: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

Kresge Cafeteria

The Office of Educational Programs, Office for Student Services, and Countway Library are partnering to present a four-part series on using AI tools. A Conversation about Generative AI: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters, led by Countway Library, will discuss applications and ethics of LLMs and the resources available to you...

Informational Session for Harvard HealthLab Accelerator

Hawk's Nest in Harvard's Smith Campus Center 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Information session will be held on Sept. 16 at Hawk's Nest in Smith Campus Center from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Burritos will be offered. Join in this year’s Harvard HealthLab Accelerators cohort! Application is open now through September 20. If you have an idea for a social impact venture, we're the accelerator for you! You...

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