Joshua Aiken will explore the relationship between the mass proliferation of handguns in America and political, economic, and cultural responses to the black freedom struggle. Using the personal papers of federal legislators, the lobbying records of firearms manufacturing companies, social survey data, and oral histories, Aiken will describe how notions of “gun control” shifted throughout...
Harvard on the Move is a university-wide initiative that promotes various forms of physical activity in an effort to promote holistic wellbeing across the Harvard community. This Spring semester, there will be meetups for folks to run or walk together on Tuesdays at 6pm (Vanderbilt Hall) and Saturday at 9am (Gordon Hall steps). Come join...
Despite having extensive medical expertise, physician leaders have not always developed the financial literacy needed to manage organizations and create financially sound strategies for delivering health care. There are many financial characteristics unique to health care that significantly enhance the importance of financial management control – and can also make it challenging to assume fiscal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLS6p9wFEc Presented jointly with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights As the national conversation on reparations heats up, Boston has launched a task force to document the city's ties to slavery, examine the legacy of structural racism, and recommend paths for redress. Meanwhile, public health leaders are beginning to explore how they can...
Join small groups of Harvard Chan School alumni and faculty as they share the moments where they found themselves at a crossroads either personally or professionally, and talk about how they navigated those decisions. These events are held on campus and open to all Harvard Chan School students; dinner will be provided. Our March session...
Join us for an exciting discussion with BCG's Sid Thekkepat and Filipp Makoveev to explore current trends within generative AI in healthcare. This event will be virtual - join via Zoom!
Abstract: We introduce the ‘cram' method, a general, rigorous, and efficient approach to simultaneously developing and evaluating an individualized treatment rule (ITR). In a single pass of data, the proposed method repeatedly trains an machine learning algorithm and tests its empirical performance. Because it utilizes the entire sample for both learning and evaluation, cramming is...
Harvard on the Move is a university-wide initiative that promotes various forms of physical activity in an effort to promote holistic wellbeing across the Harvard community. This Spring semester, there will be meetups for folks to run or walk together on Tuesdays at 6pm (Vanderbilt Hall) and Saturday at 9am (Gordon Hall steps). Come join...
Effective negotiation skills help people to both land the career opportunities they seek and to build positive relationships with others. This highly interactive workshop offers participants a chance to consider what they bring to informal and formal negotiations that may help or hinder.
Indra Gonzalez Ojeda PhD candidate Lipsitch group- CCDD TALK TITLE: "Postvaccine population dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae" Rebecca Zash, MD Research Associate Shapiro group TALK TITLE: "Implementation and Safety of Long-acting Cabotegravir for PrEP in Lactation: the Tshireletso Study in Botswana" This seminar is a hybrid format. Please join us in FXB 301 if you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZlEsLhVPX4 Drug overdose deaths continue to climb in the U.S., taking more than 100,000 lives a year. In response, public health leaders are exploring harm reduction policies. Our panel of experts will explore drug policy reform proposals and discuss the emerging evidence for strategies such as safe consumption sites, improved access to medications for opioid...
