BRIEF ABSTRACT Pandemic Preparedness as a concept has four unknowns to deal with: 1) how often can we expect a pandemic causing excess mortality and morbidity to occur, 2) what virus will cause it?, 3) are panzoonotic infections a harbinger of a human pandemic driven by human to human transmission, and 4) does the change...
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...
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 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...
ID Epi Seminar Series Oskar Hallatschek - The signal is not flushed away: nowcasting and forecasting using wastewater pathogen surveillance
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...
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...
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....
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...
Join us for a discussion with Katy Evans about how to effectively communicate about public health to the American public. Katy Evans is a Senior Program Officer with the de Beaumont Foundation and will...
At least 40 million American households—including half of all renters—spend more on housing than they can afford. Many lower-income renters are just scraping by, often sacrificing necessities like food and healthcare to pay the rent. And the number who are homeless is surging: 770,000 people, according to a 2024 count, many of whom have jobs...
Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On April 10, Jane Zhao, PhD, will present, "Why should we care about sex disparity in cardiovascular health?" Dr. Zhao is a Takemi Fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public...
CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 19th Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health! This hybrid symposium celebrates the 100th anniversary of research for our VA-CAUSAL collaborator, the VA Office of Research & Development. “Building a Learning Health System: the VA-CAUSAL Enterprise” will explore how VA-CAUSAL may serve as a...
