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Heat and The Health of Mothers and Children: Impacts and Resilience in Action
Come learn from public health scientists how high temperatures produced by climate change are affecting pregnant people and young children, and from on-the-ground practitioners how policies and programs at the local level can put the concept of ‘heat resilience’ into action. Featured speakers: Researchers: Kari Nadeau, John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies and...
Promoting Children and Youth Well-being in Mississippi: Opportunities and Challenges
Kresge BuildingJoin us for a conversation with Dr. Linda Southward as she shares about the importance of intersectoral partnerships in enacting change in Mississippi. Speaker: Linda Southward, PhD, Executive Director, Children’s Foundation of Mississippi Be sure to register using the link below if you plan to attend the event. Link to Register
Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar
Building 2, Room 426Elizabeth Graff, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussion of "Contrastive Learning Inverts the Data Generating Process" by Zimmerman et. al (2021) Abstract: Contrastive learning has recently seen tremendous success in self-supervised learning. So far, however, it is largely unclear why the learned representations generalize so effectively to a...
Call for Applications: Harvard Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2025–2027 cohort
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (The Pop Center) 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is now accepting applications for the 2025–2027 cohort of the David E. Bell postdoctoral training program, designed for researchers and practitioners in the broad field of population sciences. Fellows conduct self-directed research and writing under the mentorship of Harvard faculty members. The program includes weekly seminars, leadership...
Data Literacy: Principles of Finding and Citing Data
There are many publicly available data sources on the internet, including those maintained by government agencies or non-profit groups. Instead of cycling through lists of data portals, sites, and sources, the more you know about the data you are looking for the easier searching will be. This webinar will provide an overview of online resources...
Enrollment Open Date – HSPH Courses: WinterSession
HSPH courses open for enrollment for all students across the University at 11:00am.
A community of song
Kresge BuildingLift your spirits with a communal singing experience led by music theater writers the Lazours In this participatory event, designed to bring our community together through the power of music, Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour will teach us songs from their new musical Night Side Songs, which will premiere at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at...
Mindfulness Practice
Kresge BuildingThe 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 usually meet in the Kresge building, room 110 (across from Sebastian's Café) twice monthly on Thursdays from 1 to 2 pm. These drop-in mindfulness sessions...
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Social Demography / Thursday Brown Bag Seminar with Thomas Gaziano
Thomas Gaziano, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School in the division of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and co-principal investigator of Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies in South Africa (HAALSA) presents “Meeting the United Nations goal of reducing premature cardiovascular disease mortality: Global trends, policies and implementation.”
Decoding Climate Vulnerability: Harnessing the Power of Data Science
The Department of Environmental Health Seminar Series* Presents: Decoding Climate Vulnerability: Harnessing the Power of Data Science Speaker: Francesca Dominici, PhD Director of the Harvard University Data Science Initiative; and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Location: Building 1, 1302 *Seminar...
FXB Center Child Protection Certificate Program: Apply Now!
Harvard Longwood Campus Boston, MA, United StatesAre you passionate about Child Protection and interested in increasing your skills and building your professional network across sectors? The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University is accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Child Protection Certificate cohort. This interdisciplinary qualification is open to students from any Harvard graduate school, but admission is...