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FXB Center Child Protection Certificate Program: Apply Now!

Longwood Campus

Are you passionate about Child Protection and interested in increasing your skills and building your professional network across sectors? The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University is accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Child Protection Certificate cohort. This interdisciplinary qualification is open to students from any Harvard graduate school, but admission is...

Fall student membership for the Harvard Innovation Labs is now open!

Fall student membership for the Harvard Innovation Labs is now open! Whether you’re exploring innovation, testing an idea, or advancing a venture, becoming an i-lab member helps you go further, faster. The Harvard Student i-lab welcomes students from all 13 Harvard schools, regardless of their innovation stage. Membership provides access to expert advising, workshops, networking...

Fall student membership for the Harvard Innovation Labs is now open!

Fall student membership for the Harvard Innovation Labs is now open! Whether you’re exploring innovation, testing an idea, or advancing a venture, becoming an i-lab member helps you go further, faster. The Harvard Student i-lab welcomes students from all 13 Harvard schools, regardless of their innovation stage. Membership provides access to expert advising, workshops, networking...

Fall student membership for the Harvard Innovation Labs is now open!

Fall student membership for the Harvard Innovation Labs is now open! Whether you’re exploring innovation, testing an idea, or advancing a venture, becoming an i-lab member helps you go further, faster. The Harvard Student i-lab welcomes students from all 13 Harvard schools, regardless of their innovation stage. Membership provides access to expert advising, workshops, networking...

Social media cravings can be overcome with healthy habits

Virtual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bgIgoHocs8&list=PLmRw3WVY-55lD-z_GMIOzFIMepm9bV42g Experts have identified practical ways to help young people who feel as though their lives have been “hijacked” by social media. Annie Margaret, co-founder of the Post-Internet Project and a researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder, explains how students can free themselves from social media addiction in just one month. You can learn...

The healthcare workforce is diversifying — which will save lives

Virtual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7zKJasXGZs&list=PLmRw3WVY-55lD-z_GMIOzFIMepm9bV42g&index=2 Increasingly, public health leaders are recognizing the critical importance of expanding the diversity of the health care workforce. Stanford’s Cesar Padilla explains why he’s on a mission to encourage more Latino and Black individuals to become physicians — and why he thinks he’ll succeed.

Bio-based fabrics may reduce microplastic pollution

Virtual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv_YI0xur9k&list=PLmRw3WVY-55lD-z_GMIOzFIMepm9bV42g&index=3 The fashion industry produces a huge amount of waste — but more sustainable fabrics are gaining ground. One example: TômTex, which manufactures a compostable, bio-based fabric from shrimp shells and mushrooms. Ross McBee, co-founder of TômTex, explains how such textiles could make a huge difference for the environment and human health.

People with disabilities are (slowly) gaining a voice in science

Virtual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok8PxNxWJ88&list=PLmRw3WVY-55lD-z_GMIOzFIMepm9bV42g&index=4 For too long, people with disabilities have been on the margins of science — but that’s starting to change. Kiana Jackson of the nonprofit New Disabled South calls for academia to include more people with disabilities in leadership roles — and to consider the intersectionality of disability, health, and disparities. Such inclusivity can boost...

Barbers are helping Black men talk about mental health

Virtual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqIDxp12LCE&list=PLmRw3WVY-55lD-z_GMIOzFIMepm9bV42g&index=5 In communities with healthcare inequities, The Confess Project works to improve mental health access by recognizing that the barbershop is an important social hub in Black communities. The project trains barbers in therapy-backed techniques to encourage Black men to open up about their mental health.