Healthy hydration: Beverage choices and cancer risk
The Studio & OnlineHow can beverages increase or decrease health risks, particularly cancer?
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Brown Bag Seminar: Evidence triangulation in dementia research
Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MassachussettsMaria 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...
CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series – Curing More Than TB: Treating Bias in MDR/RR-TB Cohort Analyses
Kresge G3 & Online 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115Presented 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...
Film Screening: Poverty Inc. by Michael Matheson Miller
FXB Jonathan M Mann Conference Room 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MassachusettsFXB 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. Organizers
Wait Time Is Over for Eisner’s “Waiting-Room Willie”
Countway Library, Room 103More 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...
How bipartisan health policy is made
The Studio & OnlineThis conversation pulls back the curtain on what really happens when Democrats and Republicans hammer out health legislation in Washington.
Examining Immigration Enforcement from Minnesota to Boston: A teach-in on impacts and community resources
Kresge G2Come 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,...
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A public health success story: The near-eradication of Guinea worm
Kresge BuildingA free film screening about the near eradication of Guinea worm and Q&A.
(NEW DATE) Pressure points: Balancing clinical and financial priorities in health care
OnlineDue 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...
When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research
Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MassachusettsJoin 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...
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “The effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on fertility and newborn health”
Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA and online via ZoomSarah 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...
Brown Bag Seminar: Beyond the buzzwords: Why implementing people-centered care is essential to achieving universal health coverage
Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MassachussettsDavid 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...
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