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Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

Halving Premature Death by 2050: Is it Feasible? Is it Ethical?

Hybrid Hybrid Event

Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our first installment in the Thursday Brown Bag Series! On February 27, Ole F. Norheim, MD, PhD will present “Halving Premature Death by 2050: Is it Feasible? Is it Ethical?” Dr. Norheim is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the...

Occupational Safety & Health Seminar

Please join this special double OSH seminar with two presenters and topics: Topic 1: “Understanding Mental Health in Residency – The Perspective of Program Leadership” Speaker: Aditya Nellore, MD Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: Topic 2: “Asthma and small airway dysfunction in post-deployment veterans” Speaker: Christopher Leopardi, DO, MPH Learning Objectives: Participants will...

13th Annual Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop

The Inn at Longwood Medical 342 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, United States

The Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop is an annual event for undergraduates or students in a post baccalaureate program from underrepresented groups who have an interest in public health and/or mathematical modeling, and are studying quantitative disciplines and/or public health at their home institutions. Organizers

SBS Alumni Panel: Exploring Career Pathways Outside of Academia

Join us for a session with HSB-MPH and SBS doctoral alumni as they share their journeys in diverse career paths beyond academia! Learn how they applied their education and skills in impactful roles in various industries. We will also be joined by Alison McAlear from the Office of Career Services to provide helpful resources. Whether you're planning your next...

CHDS Seminar with Maddalena Ferranna

The Welfare Burden of Type 1 Diabetes About the Seminar Common methods to estimate the full health and economic burden of diseases include the cost-of-illness approach and the value-per-statistical-life approach. Both methodologies have well-known drawbacks, including the dependence on income and the treatment of inequities. This presentation discusses an alternative methodology for estimating the full...

The power of public health storytelling

The Studio & Online

Presented jointly with the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  How can storytelling raise awareness of urgent public health issues — and begin to shape a meaningful response? This panel of skilled storytellers will share insights from their own experience and offer ideas about how journalists, authors, and...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

How to Make People Immortal and Why it is Not a Good Idea: Improving the Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract: The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time...