Monday Nutrition Seminar | Front-of-package labeling in the United States: The latest evidence informing policy
2026-03-30 13:00 - 13:50 (America/New_York) | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Aviva A. Musicus, ScD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition at HSPH. Dr. Musicus’s talk—”Front-of-package labeling in the United States: The latest evidence informing policy”—will take place on March 30 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 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Aviva A. Musicus, ScD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Science Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

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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
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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.

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Gabriella Stern
Journalist and former Director of Communications at the World Health Organization

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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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21st Kolokotrones Symposium
2026-04-03 13:30 - 15:30 | Kresge G1, Synder Auditorium & online, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115
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21st Kolokotrones Symposium – a CAUSALab event in Collaboration with the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research

CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 21st Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“External Controls for Causal Inference: Study Design and Analysis” features four expert talks and a panel discussion.

The symposium will provide an introduction to external control arms and explore methodology and study design for causal inference. The symposium will conclude with an expert panel that will consider the question: where do we go from here?

Speakers & panelists:

⭐ Christina Lalani (Moderator) (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Dhruv Kazi (Moderator) (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Sonia Hernández-Díaz (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐Lorenzo Trippa (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐ Daniel Burkhoff (CRF, PV Loops, Columbia University)

⭐ Issa Dahabreh (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

⭐ Robert Yeh (Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research)

⭐ Laura Mauri (Medtronic)

⭐ Rafael Cavalcante (Boston Scientific)

In person and online attendance free and open to the public. Limited spots available, so please register now to reserve your spot. Zoom link will be distributed to all virtual attendees the week leading up to the event. Additional information can be found on causalab.org.

Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, and not for Harvard University.

This event is hybrid, you can join in person or online by registering in advance.

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Why Stability Matters for Early Childhood Development
2026-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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Join the Center on the Developing Child’s upcoming webinar to explore why stability plays a critical role in shaping young children’s health and development.

Drawing on insights from the new working paper, From Resources to Routines: The Importance of Stability in the Developmental Environment, the conversation will examine how stability—or the lack of it—across children’s developmental environments can affect their well-being in the moment and across the lifespan, and highlight strategies to promote stability for young children and their caregivers.

The conversation will be moderated by our Chief Science Officer, Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP, and feature Nathaniel Harnett, PhD, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Natalie Slopen, ScD, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Lindsey Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP

Chief Science Officer at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Nathaniel Harnett, PhD

Director of the Neurobiology of Affective and Traumatic Experiences Laboratory at McLean Hospital, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Natalie Slopen, ScD

Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Food Environment Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Updates from California
2026-04-06 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Professor Laura Schmidt from the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Schmidt’s talk—”Food Environment Interventions to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption: Updates from California”—will take place on April 6 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 3:00 p.m. ET on the Friday before the seminar to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Laura Schmidt, PhD

Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco

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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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Nature and Health with Dr. Susan Abookire
2026-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 | FXB G-12, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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The Climate Change & Planetary Health Concentration invites you to their next Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, featuring Dr. Susan Abookire discussing the health benefits of nature.

Topic: Nature and Health

Speaker: Susan Abookire, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; & Founder, Nature Systems Institute

Date: April 8, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.

Location: FXB G-12, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

You can read more about Dr. Abookire’s work in this recent Washington Post article, “Forest Bathing: Why Harvard doctors are seeking out this natural remedy for themselves.”

The Climate Change and Planetary Health concentration helps students understand the consequences of the current planetary health crisis, including the effects on food, water, air, extreme weather events, heat, migration, and political stability and their subsequent impacts on infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, nutrition, and mental health. Each month, the concentration hosts a seminar, open to all students and faculty at Harvard Chan, featuring a special guest discussing their work at the intersections of climate and health. Learn more.

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Susan Abookire
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Brown Bag Seminar: AI×public health: Analytic tool and emerging population exposure
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Building 1, Room 1208, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Benjamin Rader is a computational epidemiologist who currently serves as the scientific director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Group and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Rader’s research focuses on leveraging digital technologies and data to improve public health and has appeared in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Economist, U.S. Presidential Addresses, and Supreme Court amicus briefs. He has helped advise numerous government agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Defense, and previously resided with his family in Berlin, Germany, while serving as an AI advisor to the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Rader, a former U.S. Army Officer and Johns Hopkins’ Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow, received his PhD from Boston University and MPH from Northwestern University.

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Benjamin Rader

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

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Forging better futures: Solutions-based science to address extreme weather with Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | HSPH, Bldg. 1, 1302 and Zoom
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Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Morello-Frosch will discuss “Forging better futures: Solutions-based science to address extreme weather.”

This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Lunch and refreshments provided! Register here

Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-3 pm! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!

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Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, is an environmental health scientist, epidemiologist, and professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. For over 25 years, her research has examined structural determinants of environmental health and how co-exposures to chemical and non-chemical stressors impact health. Much of her work has examined this question in the context of exposures to ambient air pollution, drinking water contaminants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, extreme weather, and effects on perinatal and developmental outcomes. In addition to using community-engaged approaches in her work, Rachel also collaborates with regulatory agencies to develop science-policy tools to assess the cumulative impacts of multiple environmental and social factors that inform regulatory decision-making. Morello-Frosch is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a 2025-26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow.

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Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH

Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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Crossroads Conversation Series
2026-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Kresge 110, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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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.

Follow the link below to register.

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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.

This year’s program includes:

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

Central European University Romani Studies Program

Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights (HKS)

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR), Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic

Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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Housing and homelessness: Solutions at the intersection of public health and public safety
2026-04-13 13:00 - 13:45 | The Studio & Online
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Presented jointly with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness

As the cost of living rises across the United States, a record number of people experienced homelessness in 2024*, and shelter, housing, and support services are struggling to meet the need. Join leaders across public health and public safety for a conversation that moves beyond emergency response toward prevention, housing-first strategies, and long-term solutions. Grounded in lived experience and evidence, this panel explores cross-sector solutions with a focus on dignity, safety, and sustainable housing.

*Data according to National Alliance to End Homelessness State of Homelessness: 2025 edition

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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Monica Bharel
Clinical Lead for Global Health, Public Health, and Public Sector Health, Google; Former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Leslie Credle
Founder of Justice4Housing in Boston

Gil Kerlikowske
Former Director of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama; Former Police Chief in multiple U.S. cities, including Seattle

Peter Koutoujian
Sheriff of Middlesex County, MA

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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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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Red tape and empty plates: understanding how administrative burden diminishes the effectiveness of food assistance policies
2026-04-13 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the Monday Seminar featuring Professor Erica Kenney, ScD, Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, and Research Director of the Harvard Prevention Research Center. Dr. Kenney’s talk—”Red tape and empty plates: understanding how administrative burden diminishes the effectiveness of food assistance policies”—will take place on April 13 at 1:00pm ET in FXB G-13 and via Zoom (registration is required).

Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

All of our Monday Seminars are free and open to the public. If you plan to attend this event and do not have a valid HUID, please fill out this form in advance to request a visitor pass to access the building.

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Erica Kenney

Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH; Research Director, Harvard Prevention Research Center

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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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Strength in Community: Navigating Careers with Harvard Alumni
2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Sebastian’s Cafeteria
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This event is designed to bring students and alumni together in conversation about career paths, job searching, and the value of professional community—particularly in today’s evolving job market. We hope to create a space where students can hear candid reflections from alumni about how they have navigated their careers, learn practical strategies for approaching the job search, and gain perspective on how the Harvard network can serve as a source of support and opportunity.

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The Voice of Hind Rajab Film Screening
2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Kresge Cafeteria, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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Film screening

On January 29, 2024, Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

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How our surroundings shape health: A conversation between environmental scientists
2026-04-16 13:00 - 13:30 | The Studio & Online
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For more than 50 years, Jack Spengler has advanced our understanding of how environment shapes health through pioneering research on the importance of air quality, healthy buildings, and climate resilience. In conversation with longtime collaborator Linda Powers Tomasso, Spengler explores how the places we live, learn, and work shape human health. Together, they reflect on the evolution of environmental health over five decades and the importance of continued collaboration and mentorship in shaping a more sustainable future.

Register for free to submit your questions.

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

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John D. Spengler

Research Faculty, Former Akira Yamaguchi Research Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Linda Powers Tomasso

Research Associate, Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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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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Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
2026-04-22 12:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
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Join us for a webinar on the Emerging Women Executives in Health Care program offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education, hosted by Program Director Karen A. Curley, MSW, MPH.

Ms. Curley will provide insights into the program, detailing what participants can expect to learn and gain. Although women form the majority of the health care workforce, few hold executive positions. This program is designed to empower senior, mid-career, and emerging health care leaders by enhancing their leadership strategies, preparing them for future career advancements, and equipping them with the skills needed to promote the advancement of women in executive roles.

If you’re interested in developing leadership skills and advancing your career in health care, we encourage you to attend this webinar to see how this program might align with your goals.

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Vice President, Client Services, The Leadership Development Group

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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
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CHDS Seminar with Christopher Jackson
2026-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | virtual only
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Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Christopher Jackson from the University of Cambridge, UK, titled, “Making Semi-Markov Multistate Models for Intermittent Observations Easily Usable.” Multi-state models for changes in a state (e.g. of health or illness) often assume that the transition rate is constant with time spent in the state (the “Markov” assumption). In this seminar, Jackson proposes a new method and software package to relax this often-unrealistic assumption, using hidden states known as “phases.” This is motivated by applications such as modelling the duration of infections, modelling time in a detectable state in cancer screening, and modelling cognitive impairment in studies of ageing.

Christopher Jackson is a Senior Statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge. His research involves incorporating statistical methods in models to combine evidence to inform population health policy. His publications cover Bayesian evidence synthesis, survival analysis, multi-state modelling, longitudinal data, decision theory, and model comparison. He has also developed several popular R packages, and co-authored two textbooks, “The BUGS Book” and “Value of Information for Healthcare Decision-Making.”

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Christopher Jackson
Senior Statistician at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge

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Monday Nutrition Seminar | AI-driven Integration of EMR and Molecular Data for Maternal and Child Health
2026-04-27 13:00 - 13:50 | FXB G-13 & Zoom
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Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research (Data Science) in the Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative, and Pain Medicine; Professor in the Department of Pediatrics; and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. Dr. Aghaeepour’s talk—”AI-driven Integration of EMR and Molecular Data for Maternal and Child Health”—will take place on April 27 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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Nima Aghaeepour, PhD

Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research (Data Science), Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-operative, and Pain Medicine; Professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University

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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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Monday Nutrition Seminar | 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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Screening for Major Diseases — Does it help?
2026-05-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
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The Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine – 10th Symposium

Part of the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine series, The 10th Cutter Symposium “Screening for Major Diseases—Does It Help?” will feature three separate lectures from expert speakers on the topic of screening for colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and infectious diseases followed by a moderated Q&A segment with all the speakers. This symposium is open to the public & is virtual only.

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1:00PM Introducing the Cutter SymposiumAlbert Hofman, MD, PhD1:05PMThe Power of Colorectal Cancer ScreeningHermann Brenner, MD. MPHAbstract: Over 30 years ago, in 1993, a groundbreaking analysis of the US National Polyp Study was published, which suggested that colonoscopic removal of colorectal polyps was associated with an 88% reduction of colorectal cancer incidence. Since then, numerous observational studies and randomized trials have confirmed effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening, even though most of them substantially underestimated screening effects for various reasons. Large heterogeneity in introduction of and adherence to screening programs across countries in the last three decades is mirrored in large heterogeneity of trends in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Modelling studies based on the accumulated evidence confirm that the vast majority of the approximately one million colorectal cancer deaths per year globally could be prevented by screening. 1:35PMControversies and Innovations in Screening for Prostate Cancer Lorelei Mucci, ScD Abstract: More than 1.6 million men across the globe are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, and it is the leading cause of cancer death in more than 50 countries. In randomized controlled trials, screening with prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been shown to reduce cancer mortality over two decades. However, PSA screening also has led to overdiagnosis of prostate cancers that have a low potential for metastasis and concomitant overtreatment of patients. What has ensued over the past two decades has been an active debate about the harms and benefits of screening, guidelines that are often in conflict with one another, and in the United States, a substantial reduction in prostate cancer screening that is now tied to an uptake in incidence of metastatic prostate cancer. This talk will provide an overview of the history of PSA screening, the evidence around risks and harms, the controversies, and recent innovations in approaches to accelerate a risk stratified approach to screening. 2:05PM Diagnostics, Screening, and Surveillance in Pandemics Marc Lipsitch, DPhilAbstract: This talk will describe challenges and opportunities for surveillance during large infectious disease events, with lessons from COVID-19 and earlier pandemics. Active testing of population-based random samples provide numerous advantages over passive case detection in many situations, while linked data on demographics, severity, and pathogen variant among other characteristics are far more valuable for decision making than the same data if unlinked. Better data can inform more efficient decisions about control measures that improve the ratio of disease control effectiveness to cost and disruption.2:35PMGeneral Discussion3:00PMClosing by Albert Hofman

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Hermann Brenner, MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology, Heidelberg University, Scientific Coordinator, National Cancer Prevention Graduate School, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Lorelei Mucci, ScD

Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Track, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil

Berberian Professor and Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Biology, Stanford University, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Albert Hofman, MD, PhD

Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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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)

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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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