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Extreme heat and health
OnlineExtreme heat can be deadly. Experts discuss steps to stay cool and safe.
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Introduction to Data Visualization with Python / Seaborn
ZoomThis hands-on workshop, hosted by the Countway Library, will cover the basics of data visualization using Seaborn, a library for the Python programming language. We will cover how to create plots using numeric and categorical data, as well as the creation of multi-panel figures for data exploration and presentation. For more information about the event,...
Parental mental health: Raising healthier families
OnlineParents today are facing unprecedented levels of stress, with many reporting symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, and loneliness. The U.S. Surgeon General’s 2024 advisory calls parental mental health and well-being an urgent public health issue, sighting the effects of parental health on the health and development of children.
The Studio Open House 2026
Harvard Chan School members are invited to attend The Studio's Open House.
Making Tradeoffs Explicit: Advancing Decision Science for Public Health Policy
Public health decision-making is increasingly complex, involving tradeoffs between competing considerations such as length versus quality of life, health gains versus economic costs, and efficiency versus equity. Health decision science provides structured, transparent approaches to evaluating these tradeoffs and informing decisions in the face of constrained budgets for health care and public health. Dr. Pandya's...
Mortality Displacement: Sixty Years of Debate and Consequences
Kresge 502 607 Huntington Ave, Boston, MassachusettsJoin 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 ZoomPlease 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...
Crisis leadership 25 years after 9/11
The Studio & OnlineMarking the 25th anniversary of 9/11, this event is a forward-looking conversation on what it means to lead in an era of cascading crises and persistent leadership vacuums.
Future of Public Health in the age of AI
Kresge G1 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MassachusettsJoin us on Wednesday, September 14th for a special Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Karl Lauterbach. Speaker Information Organizers
Wildfire smoke: The health and environmental impacts
The Studio & OnlineThis discussion will cover practical steps to protect against the health and environmental impacts of wildfire smoke.
Works In Progress Seminar: Wenxin Zhang & Salome Kuchukhidze
VirtualJoin us on Wednesday, November 11th for the Department of Epidemiology works-in-progress seminar series featuring Wenxin Zhang (advisor: Yuan Ma) and Salome Kuchukhidze (advisor: Jeff Imani-Eaton). Speaker Information Organizers
Rethinking Sex Differences in Disease: Lessons from Migraine on Biology, Measurement, and Classification
VirtualJoin 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...
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