Abstract: The ongoing housing affordability crisis in the US poses significant challenges to the wellbeing of children. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of the relationship between housing instability and children's health drawing on a range of recent studies. I will also describe evidence from both quasi-experimental and experimental research to demonstrate how...
On Wednesday, April 16th, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, we invite all Harvard students, faculty, and staff to join us for a workshop exploring the role of nature in well-being. This event will be led by Center Student Steering Committee member Niharika Jhingan, MPH '26. Explore the connection between nature and well-being, learn about...
The Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, and the Education and Research Center invite you to a jointly sponsored seminar on Thursday April 17th, 2025, from 11:00 am – noon eastern time, in FXB G10 at the Harvard Chan School or online. This seminar on enhancing...
Jenna Nobles, PhD, professor of demography, University of California-Berkeley, presents at this Social Demography Seminar. The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the 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 that uses demographic methods...
Presented jointly with C-CHANGE A staggering 99 percent of the world’s people live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution. Dirty air has been linked to dementia, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory illnesses—and millions of premature deaths each year. And climate change is only worsening the problem. This panel brings together experts in clinical...
ID Epi Seminar Series Mathieu Maheu-Giroux - The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes
Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 17, Wanza Mbole, DSL, MBA, BSc, will present, "Financing universal health coverage through social health insurance: Kenya’s experience". Wanza Mbole is a LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. This seminar will be held in Building...
Join us to meet Douglas Dockery, Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Department of Environmental Health, and author of the new book, Particles of Truth (MIT Press, 2025). The Harvard COOP will be selling copies of the book at the event, and Dr. Dockery will be available to sign copies of the book (that...
Heart health and peak performance: Optimizing cardiovascular risk for high-risk occupations Presenter: Jeremy Berger, DO, MS, First-year resident in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Eddie Davenport, MD, FACC, FAsMA, Aerospace Cardiology Consultant to the USAF Surgeon General; Chair, NATO Operational Cardiology Working Group; FAA Cardiology Consultant...
On Tuesday, April 22nd, from 1-1:50 PM in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join us for The Art of Well-Being: A Science-Backed Approach to Emotional Release. This interactive workshop will use evidence-based practices like mindfulness, expressive writing, and grounding exercises to help you release emotional overwhelm and reconnect with...
Join us for a screening of Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi’s documentary, "A State of Passion" which captures ongoing human rights violations and the war in Gaza through the eyes of British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah. After 43 horrific days working around the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s...
TALK TITLE Speaker Information "Build to Learn: Engineering the Mycobacterial Cell Envelope"
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