The Climate Change & Planetary Health Concentration invites you to their next Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Title: Local Climate Policy Solutions: Case studies from the cities of Boston and Cambridge Location: Held in person in FXB G-12 With special guests: Speaker Information Organizers
Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc, obtained his medical degree from Ghent University in Belgium and completed his master of medical sciences in global health delivery at Harvard Medical School as a Fulbright and Fayat Scholar. His research, under Theresa Betancourt, focused on mental health services for former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq. Yildirim is currently...
Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Political power and mortality: Heterogeneous effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.” This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Social Demography Seminar...
A film screening and discussion about innovations in residential care for adults with IDD and autism and how public health students can contribute to this exciting movement. There will be popcorn and candy! This event is open to the public, but if you are not an HUID holder you will need a visitor's pass for...
Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on community-engaged research in environmental health! This working group brings together faculty, trainees, students, and staff to discuss the methods and practice of conducting community-engaged research with a focus on environmental health. We'll meet in person in Kresge 201 on November 7, 1-2 pm, to establish our...
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds. Topic: Prevention of Laboratory Animal Allergy: A Case of Anaphylaxis after Laboratory Rat Bite
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Greg Drescher; Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH. The speakers will present on "Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific...
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) provides a direct method for measuring patient risk preferences and incorporating these into cost-effectiveness estimates. In this presentation, we will discuss: 1) the rationale for GRACE as a way of explaining discordance...
Join us for the exciting launch of this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC)! Experience an evening packed with inspiration as Harvard’s brightest founders come together to ignite new ideas. Hear from Executive Director Jill Kravetz and a panel of past winners, who’ll share insider tips on crafting a standout application and making the most of...
Recent reports have suggested we are experiencing a loneliness epidemic and mental health crisis. Is this true, and if so, what can we do about it? Harvard researchers are reshaping how we understand and treat depression, anxiety, and trauma. They are developing novel clinic-based interventions and showing how new technologies like smartphones, social media platforms,...
Join us on Wednesday, November 12th for a joint seminar of the Department of Epidemiology and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, featuring Dr. Alpa Patel discussing The Science Behind the...
On November 12th, 2025, we held the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event featured Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Event Description This talk discussed how we can raise caring, moral children in today's world. Richard Weissbourd...
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