Ever struggle to find that file you saved last semester (or last week)? Having trouble remembering details to re-use your own data? Need others to understand & use your data? To ensure that you understand your own data and to enable others to find, use and properly cite your data, it helps to create capture...
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights invites you to join a webinar dedicated to the Palestinian women in Gaza. The webinar will bring together three feminist scholar-activists in conversation about Gaza, Palestinian women’s health, and resistance to genocide. The webinar is co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMuk82iVUxw In this fireside chat, Fatima Maada Bio, first lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, will discuss the critical importance of empowering girls and women to shape Africa’s future. Drawing from her personal experience of escaping child marriage, Bio has become a committed advocate for gender equality. Her flagship “Hands Off Our Girls” campaign...
Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series Speaker: JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, MACP Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presentation Overview and Objectives:...
Phillip Nicol, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Estimation in Poisson log-bilinear models Abstract: The Poisson log-bilinear model, also known as GLM-PCA, is a commonly used approach for dimension reduction in single-cell RNA-seq data. Model parameters are usually estimated via maximum likelihood. However, we show that the MLE can...
Lisa Berkman, PhD, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, will present “Chaos or community: The role of social ties in shaping population health.” The Hybrid Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population...
Join the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health for a refreshing mindfulness practice on Thursday afternoon, March 7th from 1 pm to 1:50 pm in the Department of Nutrition, Room 317. The drop-in mindfulness sessions include sitting and walking meditations, learning about mindfulness, and practicing mindfulness to enhance our energy of ease...
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series. On March 7, Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD, MPH, will present “Trajectories of Risk: Early Marriage among Adolescent Girls in Displacement”. Sawsan is a Palestine Program Health & Human Rights Fellow at FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University....
This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Kayoko Shioda, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G3 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. Dr. Shioda is an infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian. Her research aims to...
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