Best Practices for Creating Charts and Graphs
This workshop will cover key design principles you should consider when planning data visualizations -- from choosing the optimal chart or graph type for your data to the effective use...
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EcoOpportunity Book Exchange
Informal gathering to chat about books we've enjoyed and build a sustainable community through reuse. Bring books to share. (All types of books: fiction, non-fiction, memoir, how-to, etc.). Don't have any extra books? Bring some book recommendations. There will be extra books. Invite a friend! HUID required for building entry
The fight against Ebola
OnlinePresented jointly with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative As the number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda climb, health infrastructure and resources are stretched thin. The outbreak response is complicated by conflict, remote terrain, and population movement. With no vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo strain, surveillance, cross-border coordination, and community engagement...
Community-Engaged Environmental Data Science Training
Hybrid (Virtual or in person at University of Washington)Join a two-day intensive course featuring lectures on key concepts in solution-oriented, community environmental health research. Sessions will cover areas ranging from exposure assessment techniques to epidemiologic methods, community engagement practices, health policy applications, data science, and statistical analytic approaches for doing environmental health science that is in partnership with and relevant for improving community...
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Extreme heat and health
OnlineExtreme heat can be deadly. Experts discuss steps to stay cool and safe.
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
The Studio Kresge Building, 10th FloorHarvard Chan School members are invited to attend The Studio's Open House.
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...
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
Tobias Kurth Seminar
VirtualJoin us on Wednesday, September 16th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Tobias Kurth. Speaker Information Organizers
ⓘ 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.