Where Climate Change and Child Protection Meet
Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights on Zoom for a timely discussion on the intersection between climate action and child protection. FXB Research Director Professor Jacqueline Bhabha...
Upcoming Events
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Celebration of Life: Remembering Robert (Bob) J. Blendon
Thank you for joining us for a gathering to recognize Bob's pathbreaking career and impact on the field of health policy. Colleagues and mentees from all stages of his career...
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar with Julia Behrman
Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA and online via ZoomJulia Behrman, PhD, associate professor of sociology, Northwestern University, presents “The deinstitutionalization of parenthood in the United States.” The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work...
Health resilience in polycrisis: Reinforcing a health systems approach
Building 1, Room 1208 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Vanessa Kerry, co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health and WHO Special Envoy for Health Resilience. Please note that an HUID is required to attend this in-person seminar. Speaker bio Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, is the co-founder and CEO of Seed...
Landscape of Immigrant Mental Health in Greater Boston: What community members and service providers have to say
Kresge 200 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MassachusettsJoin us for an in-person panel discussion moderated by Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan, Director of the Program on Immigrant Families and Unhoused Communities at FXB. The event will engage researchers, community members and service providers in discussions on the state of immigrant mental health in the Greater Boston area. Dr. Sullivan will be joined by...
Finding a Match: Donor Diversity and the Path to a Cure
Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MassachusettsLunch and Learn event about the National Marrow Donor Program, which is a global nonprofit organization that connects patients with blood cancers and blood disorders (such as leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle cell disease) to life-saving blood stem cell and bone marrow donor. This event is to raise awareness about becoming a donor, and is being...
Healthy Conversations with Michaela Kerrisey
Kresge G2 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MassachusettsMichaela Kerrissey, PhD, will offer insight on Julia Minson’s HEAR framework, suggesting complementary techniques for creating space for oneself as well as others to be heard across lines of disagreement. Speaker Information Organizers
Poster Design Essentials and Presentation Delivery – Countway @ Kresge Brown Bag Series
Kresge G7 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MassachusettsJoin Countway and HSPH for a new lunchtime brown bag series focused on common topics that come up in research and scholarly communication! Posters are a great, concise method to present your research as it forces you to focus on the highlights and share the most captivating bits. And just like your poster, your presentation...
Midweek Mindfulness Reset
OnlineReduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset. Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of...
Implementation Science: The Key to Ensuring that Epidemiologic Research Impacts Health
Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MassachusettsJoin us on Wednesday, November 4th for the Department of Epidemiology seminar series featuring Dr. Karen Emmons. Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of the field of implementation science, with a particular focus on its potential intersections with epidemiology. A major point will be that it is critical to understand implementation science in order to...
Building Stronger, More Trusting Relationships Across Health Belief Divides
FXB G12 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MassachusettsOn Wednesday, November 4th from 1-1:50 p.m. in FXB G12 and online, please join us for the third installment in our Trust and Well-being Seminar Series, featuring Dr. David Bersoff. All are welcome. Lunch provided. Event Description In this year’s health study, we asked respondents to evaluate a set of health claims: About 25%-33% said...
Race in the Machine: The Making of Algorithmic Bias (Hybrid lecture)
Zimmer Hall Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, CambridgeThough many of us may think of race as a social construct, exactly how race has been (and continues to be) constructed is often unclear, with deadly consequences. This panel discussion brings together scholars who investigate how racial categories are hidden in numerous technologies central to modern life—clinical algorithms, internet search engines, computer vision, and...
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