Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series Speaker: Elizabeth Arias, PhD Mortality Statistics & Research Team, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics Abstract: Beginning with the 2020 decennial census and the 2020 American Community Survey (ACS), the U.S. Census Bureau implemented changes in question design, data processing, and coding procedures for the race and...
Leah Pierson, PhD, MD candidate, Harvard Medical School, and recipient of the 2023 Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize, will present "Moral uncertainty and procedural justice in health care priority setting." The seminar will be followed by a reception. This hybrid series sponsored by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies delivers timely...
Jodeci Wheaden, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A multivariate Poisson-log normal mixture model for clustering transcriptome sequencing data Abstract: This talk will discuss the paper "A multivariate Poisson-log normal mixture model for clustering transcriptome sequencing data" by Silva et al. (2019), available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636065/, in relation to the...
Jesse Bump will chair. Please be aware that only the student and committee members are permitted to attend the Oral Qualifying Exam.
Shauna Dyer, PhD, David E. Bell Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Education can’t fix everything: Job quality and gender stratification in the labor market.” The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) hybrid series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss...
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On October 17, Morgan Broccoli, MD, MPH, MSc, will present “Strengthening Emergency Care Globally”. Morgan Broccoli is an instructor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty in the Emergency Health Systems Program at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. This seminar...
The Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health welcomes students, staff, and faculty to come together for an afternoon mindfulness practice throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. We will meet twice monthly on Thursdays from 1 to 2 pm beginning September 5th, 2024. We will usually meet in the Kresge building, room 110 (right...
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Nirav Shah, Principal Deputy Director of the CDC, about navigating the rhythms of public health crisis communication. Lunch will be served.
This interactive online session introduces participants to searching in PubMed. Learn how to formulate and execute effective searches using automatic term mapping. Additionally, we will discuss how use Medical Subject...
Date and Time: Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 1:00p.m. – 2:00p.m. ET Location: Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave (Level 7), Boston, MA 02115 This event is only open to HUID holders. Preregistration is required. Please email Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu to register. Description: As days...
Are you passionate about reproductive health and eager to understand its evolution? Countway's Center for the History of Medicine invites you to a tour dedicated to the rich history of reproductive medicine! Discover rare documents and artifacts from pioneering figures in reproductive medicine, learn about how advocacy groups shaped the history of reproductive technologies, and...
