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...
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...
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...
Marking 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.
Join us on Wednesday, September 14th for a special Department of Epidemiology seminar featuring Dr. Karl Lauterbach. Speaker Information Organizers
This discussion will cover practical steps to protect against the health and environmental impacts of wildfire smoke.
Join 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
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...
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...
Join us for a virtual gathering to meet the HHI team and learn more about our global work. Members of the general public, as well as all members of the Harvard community are welcome to join us and kick off the new semester, build connections, and foster collaboration. Organizers
Join us for an in-person gathering to meet the HHI team and learn more about our global work. All members of the Harvard community are welcome to kick off the new semester, build connections, and foster collaboration. Organizers
Please join us in person if you can (or online) for this special start to our Social Demography Seminar Series with Maria Glymour who will present “Evidence triangulation in dementia...
ⓘ 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.
