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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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...
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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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Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right?
Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right?
Join us on Wednesday, October 29 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Kevin Kensler discussing Prostate Cancer Screening: What’s Gone Wrong? What Can We Get Right? Abstract: Prostate cancer...
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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,...
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Creative Crafting with Reuse Item
Creative Crafting with Reuse Item
October Is National Zero Waste Month! Upcycle and make note cards from scrap materials. Join us to explore your inner re-use artist and build a community around sustainability. Materials provided and also feel free to bring your own to use or share.
4 events,
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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...
Brown Bag Seminar: Combating the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in urban India
Brown Bag Seminar: Combating the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in urban India
Amruta Nori-Sarma is an assistant professor of environmental health and population sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an environmental epidemiologist, Nori-Sarma studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable communities. Nori-Sarma aims to understand the impacts of interrelated extreme weather events on mental...
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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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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...
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Hands-on workshop: Ethically using generative AI in health communication
Hands-on workshop: Ethically using generative AI in health communication
Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how generative AI tools can be used—ethically and effectively—in health communication. Led by Amanda Yarnell, senior director of the Center for Health Communication, this session will help you build practical skills for incorporating AI into your workflow while navigating the ethical and strategic considerations unique to public health...
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Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning?
Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning?
Join us on Wednesday, November 5 for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Peter Kraft discussing Breast Cancer Genome-Wide Association Studies: The End of the Beginning? . Abstract: Breast cancer clusters...
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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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Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children
Raising Caring, Moral, and Thriving Children
On Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 and online, all are welcome to join us for the third installment in our Virtues for Well-being seminar series. This event will feature Dr. Richard Weissbourd, Director of the Making Caring Common Project and Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Event...
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Metabolic flexibility and healthy aging with William Mair, PhD
Metabolic flexibility and healthy aging with William Mair, PhD
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by William Mair, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Mair will discuss “Metabolic flexibility. and healthy aging.” This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register...
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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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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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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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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...
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U.S. Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future
U.S. Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future
Join us on Wednesday, November 19th for the Epidemiology Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Elizabeth Arias discussing U.S. Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future. Abstract:...
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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,...
3 events,
Brown Bag Seminar: Measuring out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
Brown Bag Seminar: Measuring out-of-pocket health spending using household-reported survey data
Chunling Lu studied international relations (BA) and political science (MA) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and sociology (MA) and applied statistics (MS) at Syracuse University, where she also received her PhD in economics. She received postdoctoral training on health care policy analysis at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy, and joined...
2 events,
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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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