https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZlEsLhVPX4 Drug overdose deaths continue to climb in the U.S., taking more than 100,000 lives a year. In response, public health leaders are exploring harm reduction policies. Our panel of experts will explore drug policy reform proposals and discuss the emerging evidence for strategies such as safe consumption sites, improved access to medications for opioid...
Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series Open to the public Speaker: Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Short abstract: Obesity and diabetes are among the most common medical complications in pregnancy, known to increase the risk of multiple adverse perinatal outcomes. Outside of pregnancy, glucagon-like...
Our community of scholars works to coordinate, support, and amplify climate and health research. All members of the Harvard community and affiliated hospitals are welcome to join our monthly meetings for networking, feedback on projects, funding opportunities, and upcoming events. To join, contact: Flanigan@hsph.harvard.edu Upcoming meetings:
With Christina Fuller, SeD, Associate Professor School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia
With Christina Fuller, SeD, Associate Professor School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia
In this workshop, we will practice working through common problems that arise when preparing mapping data for spatial analysis. You will leave with strengthened foundational GIS skills. We will also provide example approaches to especially challenging GIS data problems. We will use the open source desktop software QGIS for hands-on practice and demonstrate how to...
The Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion (IHSR) is delighted to invite you to a webinar with Prof. Therese Lysaught (Loyola University Chicago) on Dr Paul Farmer's Witness and Theological Ethics. For further information or to RSVP contact Xavier Symons at xavier_symons@hsph.harvard.edu. This event is part of a series of webinars convened by the IHSR...
Richard Siegrist will chair.
Corporations, Chemicals, and Chicanery Jim Morris, author of The Cancer Factory, in conversation with Tamarra James-Todd, associate professor of environmental reproductive epidemiology. Chemicals are pervasive in modern life, especially in industrialized nations. But the impact of chemicals on our health and environment are often after-thoughts, especially for the companies that use them. This is true...
Mónica Robles Fontán, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Leveraging Record Linkage To Enhance Public Health Research Abstract: Record linkage is the task of combining records from different populations that belong to a single entity to create a new single population. This task allows researchers to take advantage of...
Sarah Hayford, PhD, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Population Research, Ohio State University, will present “Childbearing careers & women’s mid-life well-being: Preliminary evidence from a cohort study in rural Mozambique.” The Hybrid Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars...
