Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine
Matthew Potthoff, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
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Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine (Canceled)
*This event has been canceled. Please join us for the next Cutter Seminar with Scott Dixon, PhD, on May 12 Heidi McBride, Ph.D, FRSC Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Cell BiologyProfessor, McGill UniversityMontreal Neurological Institute
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Monday Nutrition Seminar | EAT-Lancet 2.0: Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Diets for All
Monday Nutrition Seminar | EAT-Lancet 2.0: Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Diets for All
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Director of the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Co-Chair of the EAT-Lancet Commission. Dr. Willett will present his talk...
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First, Do No Harm: A Symposium in Memory of Lucian Leape
First, Do No Harm: A Symposium in Memory of Lucian Leape
Join us for a symposium and reception in honor and memory of Lucian Leape, who passed away this past summer at the age of 94. The Department of Health Policy and Management will celebrate Lucian’s impact and look ahead to the challenges and opportunities for the patient safety movement he did so much to advance....
4 events,
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Treating violence against children as a disease
Treating violence against children as a disease
Violence against children is pervasive, but not inevitable. It is preventable. Like pervasive diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, we can diagnose and document violence against children, treat it and ultimately eradicate it. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion focusing on this topic to mark the publication of an important new book, Protecting the World’s Children:...
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Health Communication Fall Social – 40th Anniversary Celebration
Health Communication Fall Social – 40th Anniversary Celebration
Join us for a fall social celebrating the Center for Health Communication's 40th Anniversary. At the social, you will have the opportunity to learn about how the Center for Health Communication and the Health Communication Concentration can support your growth as a communicator and a leader and a chance to network with other professionals interested...
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Global Health in a Fractured World, featuring Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Global Health in a Fractured World, featuring Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
2025 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award Ceremony and Lecture Presented jointly by The Studio at Harvard Chan School and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative This year’s recipient of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 2025 Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award is Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, who is being recognized for...
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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
Join us for part one of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and Director of Communications at the World Health Organization. In this session, we’ll dig into a compelling piece of health journalism—how complex health topics are communicated to the public, what we can learn from journalistic choices, framing, and impact,...
7 events,
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?”
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?”
Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, University Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University, presents “Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?” 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...
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Innovations in immigrant mental health
Innovations in immigrant mental health
Join us for a conversation with colleagues from the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee and the Somerville Public Library to learn about innovative ways in which community-based programs and services are addressing the mental health and wellbeing of immigrants. The Partnerships for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being initiative is cohosted by the FXB Center for...
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Beyond the Feed: Social Media, Content Creators, Mental Health, and Digital Well-being
Beyond the Feed: Social Media, Content Creators, Mental Health, and Digital Well-being
Join us for a timely conversation at the intersection of social media and youth well-being. Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) trainees Katrine Bønneland Tølbøll, MSc, MA, and Yuning Liu, MBBS, MS, will explore how content creators shape online spaces, the implications for mental health, and strategies for fostering healthier digital...
5 events,
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Get Job Ready: A Career Panel with SBS Alumni
Get Job Ready: A Career Panel with SBS Alumni
Please join us for an SBS seminar session to help you navigate the current public health job market. Hear from a panel of accomplished SBS alumni, including Ana Warner, Sarah Belstock, Anna Hirshman, and Kaitlin Patton (Shroeder), who will share their unique journeys and offer insights on how to best leverage your own skills and...
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Monday Nutrition Seminar | From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience
Monday Nutrition Seminar | From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience
Please join the Department of Nutrition and Department of Global Health and Population for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Dr. Francesca Scazzina, Professor in Human Nutrition at the University of Parma, Italy. Dr. Scazzina will present her talk on "From Plate to Planet: Making Healthy and Sustainable Diets the Easy Choice. The Parma Experience" on...
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Complex Mixtures Working Group
Complex Mixtures Working Group
Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on complex mixtures, held in HSPH Kresge 202A! Note - the "October" meeting will be held one week later than usual, on November 3, 2025 at 1 pm. This monthly working group meeting is held in person. Members discuss a wide range of issues related to analyzing...
4 events,
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MELD Seminar
MELD Seminar
The Department of Environmental Health invites you to next the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar. Title: Aspartame Induced Cellular Stress, Inflammation, and Barrier Damage in Gut Epithelium Speaker: Yagiz Pat, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Environmental Health *Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They...
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Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Celebration of Early Career Investigators in Cancer Research
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Celebration of Early Career Investigators in Cancer Research
Early career investigators are a unique reservoir of new ideas, innovation, and excellence in cancer research. To celebrate this, we welcome you to join the Annual DF/HCC Celebration of Early Investigators in Cancer Research. This symposium will showcase the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who work in several areas...
6 events,
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Climate Change & Planetary Health Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
Climate Change & Planetary Health Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
The Climate Change & Planetary Health Concentration invites you to their next Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Title: Local Climate Policy Solutions: Case studies from the cities of Boston and Cambridge Location: Held in person in FXB G-12 With special guests: Speaker Information Organizers
5 events,
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Social Demography Seminar with Atheendar Venkataramani
Social Demography Seminar with Atheendar Venkataramani
Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, associate professor, medical ethics and health policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, presents “Political power and mortality: Heterogeneous effects of the U.S. Voting Rights Act.” This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Social Demography Seminar...
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Brown Bag Seminar: Mental health and psychosocial support for male former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq: Gaps in humanitarian response and legal obligations
Brown Bag Seminar: Mental health and psychosocial support for male former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq: Gaps in humanitarian response and legal obligations
Serhat Yildirim, MD, MMSc, obtained his medical degree from Ghent University in Belgium and completed his master of medical sciences in global health delivery at Harvard Medical School as a Fulbright and Fayat Scholar. His research, under Theresa Betancourt, focused on mental health services for former Yazidi child soldiers in northern Iraq. Yildirim is currently...
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Film Screening: Raising Bar
Film Screening: Raising Bar
A film screening and discussion about innovations in residential care for adults with IDD and autism and how public health students can contribute to this exciting movement. There will be popcorn and candy! This event is open to the public, but if you are not an HUID holder you will need a visitor's pass for...
4 events,
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Community-Engaged Research Working Group in Environmental Health
Community-Engaged Research Working Group in Environmental Health
Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center’s working group on community-engaged research in environmental health! This working group brings together faculty, trainees, students, and staff to discuss the methods and practice of conducting community-engaged research with a focus on environmental health. We'll meet in person in Kresge 201 on November 7, 1-2 pm, to establish our...
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds. Topic: Prevention of Laboratory Animal Allergy: A Case of Anaphylaxis after Laboratory Rat Bite
5 events,
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CHDS Seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California
CHDS Seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a seminar with Darius Lakdawalla of the University of Southern California. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) provides a direct method for measuring patient risk preferences and incorporating these into cost-effectiveness estimates. In this presentation, we will discuss: 1) the rationale for GRACE as a way of explaining discordance...
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Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances
Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific advances
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Greg Drescher; Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD; Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH. The speakers will present on "Three decades of the Mediterranean diet pyramid: A brief review of its history, evolution, and scientific...
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Launch Party: 2026 President’s Innovation Challenge
Launch Party: 2026 President’s Innovation Challenge
Join us for the exciting launch of this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC)! Experience an evening packed with inspiration as Harvard’s brightest founders come together to ignite new ideas. Hear from Executive Director Jill Kravetz and a panel of past winners, who’ll share insider tips on crafting a standout application and making the most of...
7 events,
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Mental Health in America: New Directions for Care and Connection
Mental Health in America: New Directions for Care and Connection
Recent reports have suggested we are experiencing a loneliness epidemic and mental health crisis. Is this true, and if so, what can we do about it? Harvard researchers are reshaping how we understand and treat depression, anxiety, and trauma. They are developing novel clinic-based interventions and showing how new technologies like smartphones, social media platforms,...
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FXB Center work in progress seminar – Out of sight, out of mind: Myanmar’s invisible crisis
FXB Center work in progress seminar – Out of sight, out of mind: Myanmar’s invisible crisis
Join the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University for a virtual work-in-progress seminar to hear from Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and Director of the Southeast Asia Human Rights Project at Harvard University’s Asia Center. The conversation will be moderated by FXB’s...
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Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children
Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children
On November 12th, 2025, we held the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event featured Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Event Description This talk discussed how we can raise caring, moral children in today's world. Richard Weissbourd...
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Brown Bag Seminar: The Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program: Addressing Indigenous health care disparities and support for AIAN pathway programs
Brown Bag Seminar: The Front Line Indigenous Partnership Program: Addressing Indigenous health care disparities and support for AIAN pathway programs
Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and emergency physician practicing clinically at Brigham Women’s Hospital, Tsehootsooi Medical Center, and Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Nation. Her current academic responsibilities include directing the Front Line Indigenous Partnership (FLIP) Program based in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine...
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Social Demography Seminar: “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development”
Social Demography Seminar: “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development”
Natalie Slopen, PhD, associate professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents “Where children grow: Neighborhoods, housing, and child development.” The event is co-sponsored by SBS. The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from...
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Ben Johnson: Introducing Nature Health
Ben Johnson: Introducing Nature Health
Join us for this exciting opportunity to hear about the new journal Nature Health from its chief editor, Ben Johnson. Ben will discuss the aims, scope, and themes of the journal and will answer questions from the audience. Ben Johnson trained in infectious diseases, with an undergraduate degree in virology from the University of Warwick,...
5 events,
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
The Department of Environmental Health and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program invite you to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds. Topic: Leading Recovery: The Occupational Physician’s Role in Addressing Alcohol Use Disorder in the Workforce Discussant: Justin Yang, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM, FASAM Learning Objectives: Location: Building 1, Room 1302, Harvard T.H....
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Hands-on masterclass: Social video strategy, filming, and editing
Hands-on masterclass: Social video strategy, filming, and editing
Join us for a special workshop where you will learn how to craft, film, and edit compelling social-video content that communicates public health in a way that drives engagement. This hands-on masterclass will be led by Kate Speer: mental health advocate, marketing executive, and content creator and strategist. This workshop is ideal for students and...
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20th Kolokotrones Symposium – Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?
20th Kolokotrones Symposium – Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?
CAUSALab is thrilled to invite you to the 20th Kolokotrones Symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health! “Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?" features four expert talks and a panel discussion. The symposium will provide an introduction to the epidemiology of autism, present what is currently known about the...
4 events,
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Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine
Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine
Diane Fingar, Ph.D. Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Program Director, Graduate Studies in Cell and Developmental Biology University of Michigan Medical School
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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging
Monday Nutrition Seminar | Intermittent Fasting and Diet Quality in Cardiometabolic Health and Aging
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MS, MA, Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition, Secondary Faculty at the Department of Molecular Metabolism, Director of Harvard-Chan Research Kitchen at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Peterson will present her talk on...
6 events,
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MELD Seminar
MELD Seminar
The Department of Environmental Health invites you to next the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar. Title: Maternal Arsenic Reprograms the Placenta–Lung Axis and Increases Offspring Asthma Risk Speaker: Wan-Yee Tang, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Engineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health *Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to...
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Information Sick: The Decline of Journalism, the Rise in Misinformation, and the Nation’s Health
Information Sick: The Decline of Journalism, the Rise in Misinformation, and the Nation’s Health
Award-winning journalist Joanne Kenen is the lead author of a new book on the information environment in the United States. She'll be joined by one of her co-authors, Johns Hopkins Professor Joshua Sharfstein. A former city, state, and federal public health official, Dr. Sharfstein has experienced and studied the consequences of these challenges for health....
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Doing more with less: Financing African health systems today
Doing more with less: Financing African health systems today
As foreign aid landscapes shift, we’ll explore whether smarter, more strategic collaboration—rather than simply more funding—is the key to sustainable, resilient healthcare in Africa.
7 events,
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MassCPR Annual Symposium- Innovation Without Borders: Academia and Pharma Driving Preparedness
MassCPR Annual Symposium- Innovation Without Borders: Academia and Pharma Driving Preparedness
This year’s hybrid symposium will explore how the partnership between pharma and academia fuels breakthroughs that strengthen outbreak preparedness. Join colleagues from across the consortium, industry, public health, and academia for a lively exchange of ideas and insights. The event is sponsored by Harvard Medical School, the Maxwell Finland Fund, and the Warren Alpert Foundation....
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Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
Health journalism case study series with Gabriella Stern
Join us for part two of an engaging case study series led by Gabriella Stern, journalist and Director of Communications at the World Health Organization. In this session, we’ll dig into a compelling piece of health journalism—how complex health topics are communicated to the public, what we can learn from journalistic choices, framing, and impact,...
7 events,
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The Prevalence and Policy Consequences of “mRNA Vaccine Stigmatization” in the US
The Prevalence and Policy Consequences of “mRNA Vaccine Stigmatization” in the US
Despite their life saving potential, many prominent voices in American public life have used their social and political platforms to spread misinformation about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy. In this talk, Dr. Motta provides new evidence that "mRNA vaccine stigmatization" is evident in the actions of policymakers across multiple levels of government. He also reviews...
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QERG @ Longwood Brown Bag Lunch
QERG @ Longwood Brown Bag Lunch
Bring your lunch to the Countway Cafe and join fellow Harvard LGBTQIA+ employees for community and connection on November 20 at 12 pm. This is the first of a series of meetups that will take place on the third Thursday of every month. All Harvard Chan School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Dental School, and Harvard-affiliated...
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Immigrant health and the duality of risk”
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Immigrant health and the duality of risk”
Arun Hendi, PhD, associate professor, sociology and public affairs, Princeton University, presents (remotely) “Immigrant health and the duality of risk.” The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard 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...
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Celebrating the life of Richard Cash
Celebrating the life of Richard Cash
Join the Department of Global Health and Population to celebrate the life and legacy of Richard Cash. Richard was widely recognized for his contributions to developing oral rehydration therapy (ORT), a technique that has since been credited with saving millions of lives and has been described by The Lancet as “potentially the most significant medical...
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Monday Nutrition Seminar | Biomarkers as an essential instrument in nutritional research
Monday Nutrition Seminar | Biomarkers as an essential instrument in nutritional research
Please join the Department of Nutrition for the Monday Nutrition Seminar featuring at Qi Sun, MD, DSc, Associate Professor at the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Director of Nutritional Biomarker Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sun will...
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