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Population Research Exchange: “Hong Kong’s Elderly Biobank: An invaluable resource for global healthy aging promotion”

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Jane Zhao, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, Hong Kong University, and Takemi Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents at this Population Research Exchange (PRX). PRX...

Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Intergenerational education and cognitive performance among older adults: A comparison between rural Mexico and South Africa”

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Erika Meza, PhD, Harvard Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents at this Social Demography Seminar. The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for...

How are people suffering from the war? Story of a displaced health professional due to conflict in Myanmar

Building 1 – Room 1208 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 3, (Cindy) Su Su Lin, MB, BS, M.Med.Sc., will present “How are people suffering from the war? Story of a displaced health professional due to conflict in Myanmar”. Cindy is LEAD Fellow (2024) at the Harvard Global...

Unraveling injustice and power structures

Smith Campus Center, 10th Floor 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Massachusetts, United States

In partnership with the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee and the Women, Gender, and Health (WGH) Concentration and Working Group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Carr Center for...

U.S. v Skrmetti: Arguments and Consequences for Transgender Health Care

HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

Join us! Alejandra Caraballo will discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti will impact access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people.  Lunch will be served. This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Public parking is limited, so use of public transportation or ride services is recommended. Speaker...

Fine-Mapping Causal Tissues and Genes at Disease-Associated Loci

Virtual

Abstract: Complex diseases often have distinct mechanisms spanning multiple tissues. We propose Tissue-Gene Fine-Mapping (TGFM), which infers the posterior probability (PIP) for each gene-tissue pair to mediate a disease locus by analyzing summary statistics and eQTL data; TGFM also assigns PIPs to non-mediated variants. TGFM accounts for co-regulation across genes and tissues and models uncertainty...