Initiative on Health and Homelessness
The Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH) fosters a network of researchers and practitioners dedicated to inspiring and supporting emerging public health professionals in addressing health and homelessness, providing resources to drive real-world change to improve the health and lives of unhoused individuals.
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Events
Our event series highlights leaders in the field of health and homelessness, fostering dialogue and sharing innovative approaches to addressing complex challenges.
Featured Past Events
The Intersection of Poverty and Place: Understanding and Ending Rural Homelessness
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
1-2pm ET
Featuring: Danielle Amrine, CEO Welcome House Kentucky
Moderated by: Gillian Steelfisher, Principal Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Using AI to Predict and Prevent Homelessness in Los Angeles
Monday, November 18, 2024
1-2pm ET
Featuring: Janey Rountree, Dana Vanderford
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
1-2pm ET
Featuring: Kevin F. Adler, Founder & CEO, Miracle Messages
Moderated by: Howard Koh, MD, MPH, Faculty Director, Initiative on Health and Homelessness, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Preventing and Ending Youth Homelessness in Massachusetts
Thursday, April 25, 2024
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Alice Colegrove, Director, Homeless Youth Services, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Moderated by: Margaret Sullivan, Instructor, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights; Family Nurse Practitioner and Director, Oasis ClinicBoston Health Care for the Homeless Program
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The Toxic Problem of Poverty + Housing Costs: Lessons from New Landmark Research About Homelessness
Thursday, March 21, 2024
6:30 pm ET
Featuring: Margot Kushel, Professor of Medicine, Division Chief, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations & Director, Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Moderated by: Chris Herbert, Managing Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Homelessness in the US: Insights from the Annual Homeless Assessment Report
Thursday, February 22, 2024
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Jeff Olivet, Executive Director, US Interagency Council on Homelessness and Beth Horwitz, VP of Strategy and Innovation, All Chicago
Moderated by: Howard Koh, MD, MPH, Inaugural Faculty Chair, IHH at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Vaughan Rees, PhD, Director, Center for Global Tobacco Control and Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderated by: Jill S. Roncarati, ScD, MPH, PA-C, Research Scientist, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Rethinking the Role of Federal Government in Addressing Homelessness
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Francis Torres, Bipartisan Policy Center
Moderated by: Jen Molinsky, Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
Friday, November 3, 2023
12-1 pm ET
Featuring: Gregg Colburn, Lyndia Downie
Moderated by: Chris Herbert
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Older Adults’ Pathways Into-and Out of-Housing Insecurity and Homelessness
Friday, October 6, 2023
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Samara Scheckler, Emily Cooper, LaTanya Wright
Moderated by: Howard Koh
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Monday, April 24, 2023
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Vanessa Davis, MPH, National Program Lead for Housing and Health at Kaiser Permanente
Moderated by: Jack Tsai, PhD, MSCP, Campus Dean and Professor of Public Health at UTHealth, and Research Director for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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What are the Community Level Drivers and Solutions to Homelessness?
Monday, March 27, 2023
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Thomas Byrne, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor at Boston University School of Social Work
Moderated by: Jill Roncarati, ScD, MPH, MSc, Research Scientist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Public Health and Homelessness: Intersections, Opportunities, and a Path to Partnership
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Ben Bradley, Systems Improvement Advisor, Upstream Strategies at Built for Zero, Community Solutions
Moderated by: Emily Lazowy, Program Manager, Initiative on Health and Homelessness
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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“It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way”: Homelessness and What To Do About It
Monday, December 5, 2022
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Beth Shinn, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Moderated by: Dr. Howard Koh, Faculty Lead, Initiative on Health and Homelessness, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Handling the Opioid Crisis for People Living on the Streets of New York
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Andrea Littleton and Luis Fernandez, Care for the Homeless (New York)
Moderated by: Robert Heckart, Senior Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (2016), Senior Consultant for the Initiative on Health and Homelessness, and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at Care For the Homeless
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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From Shelters to Supportive Housing: An Evolving Problem and Adaptive Solution
Monday, May 16, 2022
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Lyndia Downie, President and Executive Director of Pine Street Inn
Moderated by: Diana Barrett, MBA, DBA, Founder and President, The Fledgling Fund
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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A Pilot Intervention Program: From Shelter Hotels to Stable Housing
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Stephen Hwang, Physician, Research Scientist on Homelessness & Health, and Director of MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions
Moderated by: Jennifer Molinsky, Ph.D., Project Director of the Housing an Aging Society Program at the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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The Community Builders: Working to Increase Affordable and Supportive Housing Options in Boston
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Bart Mitchell, CEO, and Patricia Belden, Executive Vice President of Real Estate Development at The Community Builders
Moderated by: Karen Emmons, Ph.D., Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Justice 4 Housing: Leveraging Community Strength to De-Criminalize Housing
Thursday, December 9, 2021
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Leslie Credle, Founder and Executive Director of Justice 4 Housing
Moderated by: Monik Jimenez, ScD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Stefan Kertesz, Professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham
Invited Discussant: Dr. Jill Roncarati, Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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A History of NYC’s Response to Homelessness
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: George Nashak, CEO of Care for the Homeless (New York)
Moderated by: Robert Heckart, Senior Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (2016) and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at Care For the Homeless
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Building Bridges: Dermatology and Homeless Medicine
Thursday, April 29, 2021
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Jennifer Tan, Adult and Pediatric Dermatologist, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program & Mass General Hospital
Moderated by: Dr. Ernesto Gonzalez, Dermatologist, Mass General Hospital
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Keith McInnes, Investigator, CHOIR, & Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Moderated by: Dr. Jill Roncarati, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CHOIR & Instructor on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Press: Health Care Experts Discuss Technological Interventions to Tackle Veteran Homelessness at HSPH Seminar, The Harvard Crimson
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Homelessness In America: The Search for Solutions During COVID-19
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
12-1 pm ET
Presented Jointly by The Forum at HSPH, GHB News, and The Initiative on Health and Homelessness
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Homeless Policy and Politics: Political Challenges to Ending Homelessness in the US
Wednesday, December 18, 2020
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Charley Willison, Research Fellow & Political Scientist, Harvard Medical School & Dr. Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor and Political Scientist, Boston University
Moderated by: Robert Heckart, Senior Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (2016)
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Life on Albany: Responses to Homelessness at Boston University School of Public Health
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Harold Cox, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences & Anne Fidler, Assistant Dean for Public Health Practice and Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Moderated by: Ra’Shaun N’alls, Director of Community Engagement, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Building Hope: Navigating Care for People Experiencing Homelessness During A Pandemic
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Jessie Gaeta and Dr. Denise De Las Nueces, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Moderated by: Dr. Howard Koh, Faculty Lead, Initiative on Health and Homelessness
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Using Data-Driven Insights to Improve Outcomes for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Sean Burpoe and Shivan Sarin, Associate Directors, Social Finance
Moderated by: Dr. Meredith Rosenthal, C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Perspectives on Family Homelessness
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. Ellen Bassuk, Founder and President, Bassuk Center and C4 Innovations & Dr. Jackie Hart, Director, Bassuk Center
Moderated by: Dr. Henning Tiemeier, Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Health, Homelessness, and Immigration: Patient and Provider Perspectives from the Boston OASIS Clinic
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
1-2 pm ET
A Lived Experience Panel Discussion Led By: Dr. Maggie Sullivan, Director of the Boston Oasis Clinic
Opening Remarks by: Dr. Howard Koh, Faculty Lead, Initiative on Health and Homelessness
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Caring for the Community: Lessons from Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
1-2 pm ET
Featuring: Dr. James O’Connell, President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program & Dr. Jessie Gaeta, Chief Medical Officer, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Opening Remarks by: Dr. Howard Koh, Faculty Lead, Initiative on Health and Homelessness
Presented by: The Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health