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...
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...
Join us in Kresge 200 for a presentation by Mila Kofman, with an introduction by Professor John McDonough. For more information, contact Cris at crisrobers@hsph.harvard.edu. Speaker Information Sponsored By:
On March 5th, 2025, we held the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lindsey Burghardt of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child....
Onur Altindag, PhD, associate professor of economics, Bentley University, and visiting scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “Mental health effects of having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease.”...
Erika Sabbath, ScD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, presents “Impacts of post-Dobbs state abortion bans on health and well-being of obstetrician-gynecologists.” Organizers
Advances in genomic surveillance have revealed that tuberculosis is vastly under-diagnosed around the world. A growing awareness of the prevalence of asymptomatic patients—and their roles in transmitting the deadly disease—is driving urgent research into new methods for diagnosing and treating tuberculosis. Our expert panel will bring us the latest on a major global health threat. ...
ID Epi Seminar Series Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade - Optimizing antibiotic treatment for children with diarrhea in low-resource settings: promoting access and limiting excess
Join us for a conversation with colleagues from Boston Medical Center’s Immigrant and Refugee Health Center to learn about programs and services designed for and with immigrant women. A light lunch will be served during this event. The Partnership for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being is co-led by Instructor and Health and Human Rights...
We hope you will join WGH for the annual International Women's Day (IWD) event. To get us started, Prof. Nancy Krieger (Chair of WGH) will give an introduction to the radical history of IWD. Then, we will hear from this year's prominent guest speaker: Dr. Dora María Téllez, a Nicaraguan historian, politician and social rights activist. A Q&A will follow. We...
HCSGA’s March General Student Body Meeting is this Friday, March 7 from 1-2 pm in Kresge G1! Come join us to voice your concerns, learn the initiatives HCSGA has been working on, upcoming events & more! Catering will be provided to students attending in person. Organizers
Kresge Room 439 Richard Siegrist will chair.
