https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQOnFxlR_c A Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum What health risks lurk in U.S. tap water? Our expert panel will explore what’s changed since the water crisis in Flint, Mich., 10 years ago and what still needs to be done to protect U.S. consumers from potentially unsafe levels of lead, arsenic, PFAS chemicals, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsAS6nqNYw Presented jointly with: Departments of Nutrition and Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School Last summer, 16 young plaintiffs won a pioneering lawsuit...
This will be an informal, dynamic conversation with Dr. Walter Willett about sustainable food systems, the planetary health diet, and how to effectively create change for public health. Dr. Willett...
Talk title: Living in a Parallel Universe? Difference-in-differences for infectious disease policy evaluation Presenter: Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Brown University School of Public Health Alyssa Bilinski is the Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy in the Brown University Departments of Health Services, Policy & Practice and Biostatistics. Her...
Join Harvard Chan Student Association (HCSA) Officers for a general body meeting, hear updates on HCSA work, bring your concerns or suggestion to the officer board. A light lunch will be provided.
Join Christine Heenan, Executive Partner and Chief Communications Officer at Flagship Pioneering, for a discussion of the techniques that executive communicators use to build trust. Lunch will be served. This event is presented in collaboration with the Stanford Health Equity Media Fellowship and the Harvard Chan Health Communication Concentration.
Join the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health for a refreshing mindfulness practice on Thursday afternoon, March 28th from 1 pm to 1:50 pm in Kresge, Room...
Corporations, Chemicals, and Chicanery Jim Morris, author of The Cancer Factory, in conversation with Tamarra James-Todd, associate professor of environmental reproductive epidemiology. Chemicals are pervasive in modern life, especially in industrialized nations. But the impact of chemicals on our health and environment are often after-thoughts, especially for the companies that use them. This is true...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZlEsLhVPX4 Drug overdose deaths continue to climb in the U.S., taking more than 100,000 lives a year. In response, public health leaders are exploring harm reduction policies. Our panel of experts will explore drug policy reform proposals and discuss the emerging evidence for strategies such as safe consumption sites, improved access to medications for opioid...
Join small groups of Harvard Chan School alumni and faculty as they share the moments where they found themselves at a crossroads either personally or professionally, and talk about how...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLS6p9wFEc Presented jointly with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights As the national conversation on reparations heats up, Boston has launched a task force to document the city's ties to slavery, examine the legacy of structural racism, and recommend paths for redress. Meanwhile, public health leaders are beginning to explore how they can...
This is a virtual presentation, but there will still be an in-person gathering for group attendance at Kresge G2. Talk title: What We Do, and Don't, Learn from the Black/White Mortality Disparity Presenter: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Professor at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. A sociologist...
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