On Wednesday, Dec. 11th, from 1-1:50 p.m. in Kresge 202A, all Harvard students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join the Lee Kum Sheung Center Student Steering Committee as we explore the links between card games and human connections! Lunch will be provided.
Join us as Rose Service Learning Fellows and Winokur Fellows present on the transformative learning they discovered through Community Engaged Practice.
On Wednesday, December 4th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the second installment in our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series. This event will feature Dr. Joe Allen, Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health. Dr. Allen is also director...
Please join us for a talk by Jill Escher, JD, MA, on December 4, 2024 at 2 pm ET on Zoom. In a seeming paradox, research has found steadily increasing rates of autism while also finding the condition is strongly heritable. These phenomena may be at least partly reconciled, however, when viewed through the lens...
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health for a talk by Jill Escher, JD, MA, on December 4, 2024 at 2 pm ET on Zoom. Visit hsph.me/NIEHS-seminar to register. In a seeming paradox, research has found steadily increasing rates of autism while also finding the condition is strongly heritable. These phenomena may...
Dorit Stein, PhD candidate, Population Health Sciences, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate (GSA), will present “Modeling the impact of cardiovascular disease prevention on health equity and financial protection in low- and middle-income countries.” The Population Research Exchange (PRX) series delivers...
The President’s Innovation Challenge is more than a startup competition. It’s a global call for Harvard students and alumni entrepreneurs to imagine new solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. The Harvard Innovation Labs invites student founders from all 13 Harvard schools to apply by December 5 for a chance to win a share of...
For Center members, their collaborators, affiliates, and trainees Are you preparing for an upcoming environmental health-related submission? Have your Specific Aims page reviewed by our senior NIEHS Center faculty! In a friendly, constructive, small-group open session, a panel of Center members will offer critique and suggestions to improve your Specific Aims. Proposals are welcomed that...
Jennifer Glass, PhD, Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the department of sociology and research associate in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and current president of the Population Association of America (PAA), presents “The motherlode: Why most mothers end up financially supporting their children.” The Social Demography Seminar (SDS)...
Countway Library and the MCPHS Center for Health Humanities are thrilled to welcome Deena Mohamed to campus while she is in town for the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE)! Deena Mohamed is an Egyptian designer, illustrator, and writer, including of the award-winning urban fantasy comic Shubeik Lubeik, and loves to focus on work involving community...
Both helping others and maintaining a sense of optimism and gratitude in our personal lives can yield numerous mental and physical health benefits, from improving our mood to reducing blood pressure. Recent research has shown that people who frequently volunteer tend to live longer lives and that practicing gratitude can reduce smoking cravings. Our panelists...
