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
Upcoming Events
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Interdisciplinary Concentration in Population Mental Health: Information Session
Interdisciplinary Concentration in Population Mental Health: Information Session
Join us in the Epi Library (Kresge 907) to learn about the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Population Mental Health and explore ways to engage with our community.
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Excess Deaths: History of a Contested Concept
Excess Deaths: History of a Contested Concept
Join us on Wednesday, September 3 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. David Jones discussing Excess Deaths: History of a Contested Concept. Abstract: The measure of “excess deaths” has become a familiar and important concept in epidemiology and health statistics, especially during crises when direct counts of mortality are complicated (e.g., COVID-19, heat waves...
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Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation
Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation
Join us for a webinar on the Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education. Program Director Dr. M. Rashad Massoud will share how this hands-on, simulation-based course guides participants through the full improvement cycle—from identifying gaps in care to designing, testing, and implementing effective...
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Protecting Young Children From the Impacts of Wildfires
Protecting Young Children From the Impacts of Wildfires
Wildfire smoke is becoming an increasingly common part of childhood in many parts of the US. While we often associate wildfires with remote or forested locations, they are increasingly happening in more urban settings—such as the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles—and the smoke can travel thousands of miles, remaining highly toxic. This means that exposure...
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The role of translational global health research in apocalyptic times with Caroline Buckee, D.Phil.
The role of translational global health research in apocalyptic times with Caroline Buckee, D.Phil.
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Caroline Buckee, D.Phil., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Buckee will discuss “The role of translational global health research in apocalyptic times.” This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg....
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Dementia Risk and Prevention – Lessons from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort
Dementia Risk and Prevention – Lessons from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort
Join us on Wednesday, September 10 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Josef Coresh discussing Dementia Risk and Prevention - Lessons from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort. Abstract: Dementia is one of the leading threats to the health of our aging population. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study contributed major insights by observing over...
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Seeking answers in women’s health: A research agenda for the coming decade
Seeking answers in women’s health: A research agenda for the coming decade
While we understand more about women’s health than ever before, critical gaps remain. How can we delve deeper into the lifestyle and genetic factors that shape women’s risks for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes? What new insights might we uncover about brain health by examining the interplay between nutrition, exercise, and memory? How do environmental...
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Pressure Points: The future of health care’s workforce
Pressure Points: The future of health care’s workforce
Pressure Points is a webinar series co-hosted by The Studio and Executive and Continuing Education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health bringing you inside the business of health care. With shifting demands, burnout, and evolving care models, how are health care organizations rethinking workforce strategy? Join this panel of leaders in workforce development,...
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Why Are Pathobiological Analyses and Insights Valuable in Epidemiology? A Primer for Epidemiologists
Why Are Pathobiological Analyses and Insights Valuable in Epidemiology? A Primer for Epidemiologists
Join us on Wednesday, September 17 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Shuji Ogino discussing Why Are Pathobiological Analyses and Insights Valuable in Epidemiology? A Primer for Epidemiologists. Abstract: Our understanding of disease pathogenesis, which has substantially advanced, is an integral component of epidemiology. However, there exists a gap between pathobiology and epidemiology in...
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Smart Solutions, Hidden Costs: Weighing AI’s Climate and Health Impact
Smart Solutions, Hidden Costs: Weighing AI’s Climate and Health Impact
The Department of Environmental Health and the Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) invite you to join us for this live webinar as part of Harvard Climate Action Week.
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Social Demography Seminar with John Wilmoth
Social Demography Seminar with John Wilmoth
John Wilmoth, PhD presents “The future of world population: Divergent trends, competing narratives, and the role of the United Nations.” Speaker Information Organizers
Brown Bag Seminar: Could altruism end the HIV epidemic? Evidence from South Africa
Brown Bag Seminar: Could altruism end the HIV epidemic? Evidence from South Africa
Jacob Bor, ScD, is an associate professor in the departments of global health and epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. His research applies the analytical tools of economics and data science to the study of population health, and his research interests include HIV treatment and prevention in southern Africa, structural causes of health disparities...
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Sept 19, 2025
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Sept 19, 2025
Topic: Healing on the Job: How Worksite Health Centers Drive Productivity Presenter: Jeremy Berger, DO, MPH, MS, Second-year resident in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Marie-Christine David, DO, MPH, FACOEM, Senior Physician, P&G The Gillette Company Location: Building 1, Room 1302 and Zoom Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity,...
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Heat, Health and the City: Community, Housing, and Health System Solutions
Heat, Health and the City: Community, Housing, and Health System Solutions
The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) invites you to join us for this in-person breakout session as part of Harvard Climate Action Week. Breakout sessions are first come, first served. Please plan to arrive early to the session. Extreme heat is an increasingly urgent public health problem in cities, where dense populations...
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Doctoral Oral Qualifying Examination: Meriam Mikre
Doctoral Oral Qualifying Examination: Meriam Mikre
Richard Siegrist will chair. Please be aware that only the student and committee members are permitted to attend the Oral Qualifying Exam.
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Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care
Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care
Join us for a webinar on the Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care program, offered by Harvard Chan School Executive and Continuing Education. Program Director Dr. Mary E. Fleming will share how this program equips participants to recognize, address, and dismantle health disparities. Through the program, participants will develop the leadership tools to identify...
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How to tell stories about health equity – A conversation with the filmmakers of “Critical Condition: Health in Black America”
How to tell stories about health equity – A conversation with the filmmakers of “Critical Condition: Health in Black America”
Join the Center for Health Communication for a special screening and discussion event centered around Critical Condition: Health in Black America, a PBS documentary produced by NOVA and Firelight Films. This event will feature a curated reel of clips from the film followed by a dynamic conversation exploring strategies for effective storytelling and communication about health disparities. The moderated Q&A...
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Finding Purpose in Stressful Times: Strengthening Well-Being in an AI-Transformed World
Finding Purpose in Stressful Times: Strengthening Well-Being in an AI-Transformed World
Presenting the "Virtues for Well-being" Seminar Series We are excited to present "Virtues for Well-being": a year-long seminar series exploring how core virtues—such as gratitude, kindness, compassion, and humility—promote psychological, physical, and social well-being. Throughout the year, we’ll delve into the science and practice of cultivating virtues across diverse contexts, discussing their definitions, measurement, and...
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: A demographic perspective on energy transitions: Linkages between population, land use, and economic dynamics in Malawi
Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: A demographic perspective on energy transitions: Linkages between population, land use, and economic dynamics in Malawi
Kate Beach, PhD, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “A demographic perspective on energy transitions: Linkages between population, land use, and economic dynamics in Malawi.” 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...
Brown Bag Seminar: Menstrual cycle characteristics as a window into whole body health
Brown Bag Seminar: Menstrual cycle characteristics as a window into whole body health
Shruthi Mahalingaiah is Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Women's Health in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also a physician in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mahalingaiah’s research explores how environmental and modifiable risk factors influence reproductive...
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Harvard Chan Community Day of Service
Harvard Chan Community Day of Service
Please register now to join the Harvard Chan Community Day of Service on Monday, Sept. 29. This is an annual event that brings together our full community—students, staff, faculty, trainees, and other academic appointees—to work side by side supporting nonprofits and neighborhood groups that are tackling social determinants of health across Boston. We have lined up more than 20 service projects...
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Marianne Wessling-Resnick Lecture
Marianne Wessling-Resnick Lecture
Meng Wang, Ph.D. Senior Group Leader Janelia Research Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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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 the last Monday of each month in HSPH Kresge 202A! This monthly working group meeting is held in person. Members discuss a wide range of issues related to analyzing health effects of complex mixtures of exposures in environmental health. During the 2025-2026 academic...
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Blood Drive – Harvard Chan Community Day of Service
Blood Drive – Harvard Chan Community Day of Service
Sign up by searching sponsor code HARVARDCHAN As part of the Harvard Chan Community Day of Service, sign up to donate blood with the American Red Cross on Tuesday, September 30th from 10:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. Event is located on the second floor of Kresge in the student lounge.
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Student Meet and Greet with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness
Student Meet and Greet with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness
✨ Come meet the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at Harvard Chan! ✨ Join us for an engaging meet-and-greet with the Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH), a collaborative hub bringing together research, practice, and policy to address one of today’s most pressing public health challenges. This is your chance to learn about our work,...
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Embodied Trauma Care: 23 years of breaking new ground and expanding access
Embodied Trauma Care: 23 years of breaking new ground and expanding access
Location: Epi Library (Kresge 907) Dave Emerson originated trauma sensitive yoga in 2002 and has been training and facilitating internationally since. In 2018, Dave co-founded the Center for Trauma and Embodiment to continue the work with yoga but also to be able to collaborate with others interested in advancing embodied trauma care through weight lifting, theater, physical therapy...
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Fall Freecyle!
Fall Freecyle!
Join us at the Kresge atrium for an Earth-friendly community swap. Bring extra office or school supplies, books, small household items, or clothes — and take home something new-to-you for free. Please do not bring used lab equipment or consumables. For more information please reach out to mailto: susan_bottino@harvard.edu. Organizers
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Zoom Town Hall with Dean Baccarelli
Zoom Town Hall with Dean Baccarelli
Dean Andrea Baccarelli will be hosting a Zoom Town Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 1-2 p.m. Please share your questions in advance using this form. Log in on Wednesday at 1 p.m. at this link: https://hsph.me/town-hall Speaker Information Organizers
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Brown Bag Seminar: Sharing experiences and discussing the future of Fukushima in radiation education at Fukushima Medical University
Brown Bag Seminar: Sharing experiences and discussing the future of Fukushima in radiation education at Fukushima Medical University
Isamu Amir is a research fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an assistant professor in the department of radiation health management at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) School of Medicine. Amir obtained his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2018, where he specialized...
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds
Topic: Clinical Approach to Occupational Dermatitis in Clinical and Lab Workers Presenter: Shannel Pegram, DO, MPH, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Stefanos Kales, MD, MPH, Professor & Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Location: Building 1, Room 1302 and Zoom Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of...
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