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
Registration Deadline Exec. Ed.: Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives
Program dates: May 5 - 9, 2025 Registration Deadline: April 28, 2025 Focusing on management systems specific to health care, this program provides skill building in the critical areas of leadership and management development. The curriculum is designed to develop conflict resolution, operational analysis, employee management, and quality management techniques necessary to achieve individual and...
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Global health after USAID: A conversation with Atul Gawande
Global health after USAID: A conversation with Atul Gawande
Presented jointly with the PhD Program in Population Health Sciences Join renowned surgeon, best-selling author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD ’95, MPH ’99, for a conversation about the future of global health. Gawande, who served as assistant administrator for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development from January 2022 to 2025,...
Complex mixtures working group
Complex mixtures working group
Join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center's newest working group on complex mixtures, held the last Monday of each month in HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302! This will be a monthly working group meeting to discuss a wide range of issues related to analyzing health effects of complex mixtures of exposures in environmental health. The January meeting...
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20th Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
20th Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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IID Seminar: Lindy McBride
IID Seminar: Lindy McBride
TALK TITLE Speaker Information “Evolutionary origins of human-biting mosquitoes” THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event will be hybrid.
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Epidemiologic Methods and Data Science: Stronger Together
Epidemiologic Methods and Data Science: Stronger Together
Abstract: Epidemiologic methods often focus on a statistical model as the main step to getting “the” result. This talk will attempt to widen the perspective on epidemiologic methods. How do...
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Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum
Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum
“Springtime and Sustainability at Arnold Arboretum” featuring Head of Arboretum Operations and Projects Danny Schissler. Learn about Harvard’s “Museum of Trees” and what it takes to keep North America’s first...
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Global Health Week Symposium: Building Sustainable Health Systems
Global Health Week Symposium: Building Sustainable Health Systems
Global Health Week returns on April 28 to May 2! Please join the Department of Global Health and Population’s Global Health Week Symposium on "Building Sustainable Health Systems" featuring Keynote speaker Muhamad Chatib Basri, PhD, Chairman, PT Bank Mandiri tbk. and Former Minister of Finance of Indonesia, followed by a panel discussion from international experts and Harvard faculty....
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Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice
Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice
Join us for a webinar on the Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive Education and hosted by Program Director Dr. Santiago Romero-Brufau,...
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Harvard International Office: Summer Travel Planning
Harvard International Office: Summer Travel Planning
Harvard students considering international travel for the summer are encouraged to attend an online meeting with Elizabeth Capuano of the Harvard International Office. Please register for the Zoom meeting using the registration link. Speaker Information Organizers
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Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Title: Work-related injuries and illnesses among public sector workers in Massachusetts Presenters: Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to Location: Kresge 502 and Online via Zoom. Register: Click here to register to attend via Zoom. Speaker Information Organizers
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Longwood Festival
Longwood Festival
Join faculty, students, staff and researchers from across the Longwood Schools on the Harvard Medical School Quad Lawn for a day of games, free food, and music. Whether you want to join in for a game of soccer, be the first team to solve a puzzle, or relax by enjoying nachos, churros, and popcorn while...
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Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
Film screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
Bring your lunch and join us for a screening of the film 13th, followed by open-ended discussion. Watch the trailer here. About the film:Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America....
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Trust and ethics in public health
Trust and ethics in public health
The landmark Belmont Report articulated key principles to protect humans in scientific studies. This distinguished panel of bioethics experts will examine the impacts of those guidelines, particularly on communities of color.
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Promoting Public Health Through Consumer Product Innovations
Promoting Public Health Through Consumer Product Innovations
Please join us for an engaging seminar on how innovative consumer products can advance public health. Facilitated by Dr. Todd Reid, this session will explore the power of creative tools to improve well-being. Ben Kertman will introduce Disagree Differently, a card game designed to foster respectful conversations across differences, and Laura Guay will present Connections,...
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MELD Seminar
MELD Seminar
Please join the Department of Environmental Health for the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar Series. Date: May 6, 2025, 9:30am – 10:30am Location: Building 1, Room 1302 Topic: Infrared Molecular Fingerprinting and Proteomic Profiling of Firefighters: Assessing Occupational Exposure-Related Biochemical Alterations Speaker Information Organizers
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CHDS Seminar: Answering Causal Questions Through Decision Analytical Models
CHDS Seminar: Answering Causal Questions Through Decision Analytical Models
Join the Center for Health Decision Science for a Seminar with Jeremy Labrecque and Maurice Korf from Erasmus MC for a virtual seminar showing that many decision analytical models are inherently causal in nature. They explicitly present decision analytical models as causal models, highlighting that, the more a decision model deviates from its underlying causal...
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ERC Alumni Seminar: Enhancing our understanding of lung cancer in Asia — A Singapore perspective
ERC Alumni Seminar: Enhancing our understanding of lung cancer in Asia — A Singapore perspective
Join the Harvard Chan Education & Research Center for this seminar from an ERC alumna: Title: Enhancing our understanding of lung cancer in Asia — A Singapore perspective Presenter: Wei Jie Seow, BSc, MSc, ScD, Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore...
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Why Medicaid matters: A conversation with former NC Gov. Roy Cooper
Why Medicaid matters: A conversation with former NC Gov. Roy Cooper
Before leaving the office of Governor due to term limits earlier this year, Roy Cooper expanded North Carolina’s Medicaid program, enrolling more than 650,000 residents, many in rural areas. He also worked with hospitals to create a medical debt relief program aimed at helping nearly 2 million residents get out from under the weight of...
IID Seminars: Catera Wilder
IID Seminars: Catera Wilder
TALK TITLE: Speaker Information "Specificity of Immune Responses through Dynamic Control of Signaling Networks" THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event will be hybrid.
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Epidemiology of Autism: Substantive Results and Methodological Issues
Epidemiology of Autism: Substantive Results and Methodological Issues
Abstract: Since the mid 1960’s, 165 prevalence surveys of autism were conducted worldwide and their main findings will first be summarized. While the contribution of genetic factors to autism etiology is high, the increase in autism prevalence has raised concerns about additional contribution of environmental factors. Autism risk has been statistically associated with myriads of...
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ID Epi Seminar Series – Erin Mordecai
ID Epi Seminar Series – Erin Mordecai
ID Epi Seminar Series Erin Mordecai - More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases
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From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone
From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone
*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom* Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Jalikatu Mustapha, MMed, MSc, BMBS, will present, “From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in...
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Canceled Measuring household out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
Canceled Measuring household out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
* This seminar will be rescheduled in the fall* Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Chunling Lu, PhD, will present, “Measuring household out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data”. Dr Lu is Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Global Health and Social...
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Deadline for Registration – Exec. Ed.: Leading in Health Systems: Activating Change
Registration Deadline: May 9, 2025 Program runs on-site: May 14 – 16, 2025 A High-Impact Health Care Leadership Development Program Health systems face enormous challenges in an era of ongoing transformation. Pressures to improve outcomes, expand access, manage attrition, and control costs continue to mount as populations age and technologies advance. Leading in Health Systems:...
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Medical Information and Misinformation – The Role of Epidemiology
Medical Information and Misinformation – The Role of Epidemiology
The Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine The 9th Symposium Join us as three preeminent speakers address topics on the intersection of health, misinformation, and epidemiology adapting to a rapidly changing information landscape. Produced by the Department of Epidemiology with co-sponsors the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Health Communications.This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person...
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Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Occupational Safety & Health Seminar
Title: Human exposure to airborne pathogens and secondary contaminants associated with germicidal UV lights disinfection. Presenter: Seongjun Park, PhD, Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to Location: Kresge 502 and Online via Zoom. Register: Click here to register to attend via...
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Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine
Cutter Distinguished Lecture on Molecular Metabolism and Preventative Medicine
Scott Dixon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of BiologyDepartment of Biology Stanford UniversitySchool of Humanities and Sciences
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CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will...
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IID Research Updates: Catteruccia Lab & Bryan Bryson
IID Research Updates: Catteruccia Lab & Bryan Bryson
Talk 1 Bryan Bryson, PhD (Adjunct Associate Professor, Phillip and Susan Ragon Career Development Professor, MIT) Talk Title: "Meet the Bryson Lab" Talk 2 Yan Yan, PhD (Catteruccia Lab) Talk Title: "Mapping the transitions and interactions of malaria parasites in mosquitoes" THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301. The event will be hybrid. THE...
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Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview with Prof. Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview with Prof. Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, PhD, of the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Andersen will discuss “Health effects of air pollution in the Danish Nurse Cohort and Danish Nationwide Administrative Cohort: An overview.” This event will be held...
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Harvard Chan Spring Stroll
Harvard Chan Spring Stroll
On Thursday, May 15, 2025 get away from it all with a community-wide Spring Stroll through the Arnold Arboretum. Open to everyone! Ride together: Meet at 1 p.m. outside Kresge and take the #39 bus to the Arboretum Meet at the Arboretum: Meet at 1:30 p.m. at the main gate: 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130 Organizers:Office...
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CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton's presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in "Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance," which established a theoretical model...
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GenAI for Exploratory Data Analysis
GenAI for Exploratory Data Analysis
Generative AI has proven to reliably and rapidly develop code and data analysis. Advancements in technology have provided in-built containers for running of generated code within the AI environment, providing a streamlined experience for rapid exploratory data analysis. This workshop aims at providing instruction on Harvard generative AI resources, best practices, and understanding of the...
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Deadline for Application – Exec. Ed.: Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
Application Deadline: May 26, 2025 Program runs on-site: June 3 – 6, 2025 STRENGTHEN THE CAREER PATH OF FEMALE EXECUTIVES Health care executives must overcome diverse and complex challenges to improve the health of patients and populations. In an industry of escalating demands to improve quality and access while managing costs, addressing these issues requires...
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Doctoral Oral Qualifying Examination: Veronica Adamson
Doctoral Oral Qualifying Examination: Veronica Adamson
Richard Siegrist will chair. Please be aware that only the student and committee members are permitted to attend the Oral Qualifying Exam.
ⓘ Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.