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Pilot funding: Up to $50K - Increasing the Impact of Clinical Research on Human Health
2025-01-01 00:00 - 23:59, 2025-01-08 00:00 - 23:59, 2025-01-15 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York)
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Proposals should focus on solutions to addressing common roadblocks that impact faculty and research staff in the conduct of research on human health. Learn more and see RFA on our website.

Applications are due January 15, 2025.

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Online gambling: The stakes for public health
2025-01-23 13:00 - 13:50 | Virtual
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Gambling has gone digital. Online casino games are legal in several states, and online sports betting in dozens more. But behind the flashy marketing and sign-up bonuses, what are the costs of having “a casino in your pocket” 24/7? In this discussion, our panel of experts will examine the forces driving the rise of online gambling, the emotional, health and economic harms of problem gambling, and how policy change and treatment can reduce the burden.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Timothy Fong
Co-Director, UCLA Problem Gambling Studies Program

Lia Nower
Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Gambling Studies & Co-Director of the Addiction Counselor Training (ACT) Certificate Program, Rutgers University School of Social Work

Victor Ortiz
Director of the Office of Problem Gambling Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Shekhar Saxena

Adjunct Professor of Global Mental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Laura Haefeli
Journalist, WBZ-TV News

About The Studio

The Harvard Chan Studio is the hub for the School’s premier in-person and live-streamed events. We convene global leaders in health policy, advocacy, industry, and research for insightful conversations about public health’s most pressing challenges and most promising solutions.

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In addition to our degree programs, we offer highly targeted executive and continuing education, directed and taught by Harvard faculty.

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Are we already FAIR? – The future of data sharing
2025-01-29 13:00 - 14:00
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‘Data sharing’ is becoming increasingly important in terms of efficient use of resources. In 2007, the OECD called for easy access to research data for the scientific community. In 2016, the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) for research data were published. In 2018, the German government decided to establish a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) where NFDI4Health takes responsibility for personal health data. This talk will present the infrastructures that have been realized so far and discuss potential (statistical) hurdles by giving illustrative examples. Further European developments such as the European Health Data Space will be addressed.

Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot is Full Professor for “Statistics focussed on Biometry and Methods in Epidemiology” at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bremen, Germany; Director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS; Head of the Department of “Biometry and Data Management” of the BIPS.

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Iris Pigeot,
Professor, University of Bremen, Germany

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Department of Epidemiology

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Building bipartisan support for public health
2025-01-30 13:00 - 13:30 | In-Person & Online
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Presented jointly with the Center for Health Communication

In an era of deep political polarization, how can we build bipartisan support for public health? During this fireside chat, Nir Menachemi, dean of the Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University, will share important insights for winning over allies based on scientific evidence. He will also share his personal experience forging successful partnerships with policymakers in Florida, Alabama, and Indiana to increase investment in public health.

Register for free to submit your questions.

An on-demand video will be posted after the event.

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Nir Menachemi
Dean of the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University

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Andrea Baccarelli

Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

About The Studio

The Harvard Chan Studio is the hub for the School’s premier in-person and live-streamed events. We convene global leaders in health policy, advocacy, industry, and research for insightful conversations about public health’s most pressing challenges and most promising solutions.

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In addition to our degree programs, we offer highly targeted executive and continuing education, directed and taught by Harvard faculty.

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ID Epi Seminar Series - Paul Zivich
2025-01-30 13:00 - 14:00
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Jan 30, 2025 | 1-2pm ET | Kresge 502

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Effects of Influenza Vaccination Among University Students Using Target Maximum Likelihood for Interference

Presented by Paul Zivich, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Paul Zivich is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His interests are in causal inference with potential outcomes and the computational aspects of epidemiology. His work has ranged from fusion study designs to assessing the performance of estimators through simulation studies to free and open-source software to collection of contact network data with electronic sensors to application of causal inference in the context of infectious disease and social epidemiology.

Each spring, the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics hosts an annual seminar series, featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling.

Speakers will share their own perspectives and do not speak for Harvard.

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Data-Thon: Data Preservation Event
2025-01-31 14:00 - 16:00 | Kresge G1 & Online
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Join us for an event focused on preserving vital public health datasets and information that are rapidly disappearing from US government websites. These resources are crucial for researchers worldwide, enabling them to generate credible insights and inform decisions in clinical care, health policy, health equity, and resource allocation. Learn how you can contribute to safeguarding public health data by identifying at-risk datasets and websites, implementing preservation measures, and ensuring proper documentation to keep information publicly accessible.

Data science skills are not necessary, but please bring your enthusiasm and your patience – we will be testing this process in real-time while fostering a supportive community!

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Macey Lavoie, mlavoie@hsph.harvard.edu

Unleash your potential at Harvard Chan School.
In addition to our degree programs, we offer highly targeted executive and continuing education, directed and taught by Harvard faculty.

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