Events

    2023 Dec 08

    Telehealth: Zooming Into the Future of Medicine

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Telehealth use has rapidly increased over the last five years. It promises the potential to reduce health disparities in hard-to-reach populations and ease of access to care. However, telehealth also raises questions about patient confidentiality, informed consent, and clinicians’ scope of practice. This session will discuss the growth in telehealth use, opportunities to meet more health needs, and the policy and ethics questions that arise from this recent entrant into health care provision.

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    2023 Dec 08

    Telehealth: Zooming Into the Future of Medicine

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Telehealth use has rapidly increased over the last five years. It promises the potential to reduce health disparities in hard-to-reach populations and ease of access to care. However, telehealth also raises questions about patient confidentiality, informed consent, and clinicians’ scope of practice. This session will discuss the growth in telehealth use, opportunities to meet more health needs, and the policy and ethics questions that arise from this recent entrant into health care provision.

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    2023 Oct 11

    From Loneliness to Social Connection: Lessons from research and a global pandemic

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online

    Decades of evidence across multiple scientific disciplines have accumulated pointing to widespread health impacts associated with social connection, or lack thereof. Despite this evidence, social connection has been widely assumed to be a personal issue primarily associated with emotional well-being, underappreciating the physical and public health ramifications. While a global pandemic raised awareness of loneliness and the importance of social connection, it simultaneously revealed gaps in our understanding.

    Drawing upon her work with the US Surgeon General Advisory and the...

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    2023 Oct 04

    Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Sustainable Seafood with Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO, Becca Millstein

    4:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Dining Services - Food Literacy Project—Online

    Recently featured in Forbes “30 Under 30, North America 2023,” in the Food and Drink category for “redefining the way we eat, drink and think about consumption,” is Becca Millstein, the CEO/co-founder of tinned seafood company, Fishwife.

    Fishwife is a female-founded and led food company aiming to make ethically-sourced, premium, and delicious tinned seafood a staple in every cupboard. The company has been proclaimed the leader of “America’s tinned fish Renaissance” by INSIDER, and has been featured in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Refinery29, New...

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    2023 Sep 28

    A Foundation for Health Equity: Diversity Inclusion in Medical and STEM Professions

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

    Join faculty from the Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School for a lunch discussion on the importance of diversity inclusion in medical and STEM professions, hear about the strategies to strengthen educational and career pathways, as well as priorities for future action.

    Part of the 2023 Cambridge Science Festival.

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    2023 Sep 25

    2023 Science and Cooking Lecture Series

    Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Nov 27 2023 except Mon Nov 13 2023, Mon Nov 20 2023.
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    Location: 

    Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Harvard Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series returns in 2023! The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series, organized by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter”.

    All talks will be on Mondays at 7 pm E.S.T. and will take place in the Harvard Science Center (1 Oxford St., Cambridge...

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    2023 Sep 24

    Objects of Addiction: Perspectives on the Opioid Crisis in New England

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In conjunction with the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, join the Harvard Art Museums for a discussion about the opioid crisis, featuring specialists in addiction medicine, harm reduction, and public health policy.

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    2023 Sep 07

    Food Politics 2023: What Matters and Why

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein 414AB, 1 Eliot St., Cambridge

    This hybrid seminar will be given by Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University. It will be moderated by Bill Clark, Harvey Brooks Research Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at HKS.

    Lunch will be served for those joining in person in Rubenstein 414AB. Others should register to join remotely via Zoom.

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    2023 Sep 07

    Arctic Pandemics: Arctic Yearbook Special Issue Virtual Launch

    11:00am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online

    The COVID-19 pandemic was a global phenomenon, but its impacts in the Arctic, and the experiences of Arctic communities, were distinct.

    Join us for the official launch event of the Arctic Yearbook’s Special Volume on Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned. The volume includes 15 peer reviewed articles and ten shorter contributions, and is available open access on the Arctic Yearbook's website.

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    2023 May 22

    The Annual Harvard/Glenn Virtual Symposium on Aging

    1:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Each year, the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research hosts the Harvard Symposium on Aging with a mission to present new advances in aging research and to stimulate collaborative research in this area. The symposium has become a significant forum for aging research at Harvard Medical School.

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    2023 May 08

    Climate, Health & Equity: Toward a Sustainable Future

    1:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Spangler Center, Harvard Business School Campus

    Climate change is actively harming human health — not in some distant future, but now, in communities around the globe. The more we understand these harms, the better we can confront and overcome them. That’s the goal of this symposium.

    We’re bringing together leading scientists, policy makers, and activists to examine our most urgent challenges and explore the most promising solutions. The audience will include professionals from a wide array of disciplines engaged in issues of climate, health, and environmental justice. We expect the afternoon to inform and inspire, to spark...

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    2023 May 05

    The 7th Cutter Symposium - Longevity: The Role of Epidemics

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1), 677 Huntington Ave., Boston

    With talks from three preeminent speakers, The 7th Cutter Symposium "Longevity: The Role of Epidemics" promises to address the important role of epidemiology in studying life expectancy and longevity, in particular in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis.

    This is an-person event with limited seating. Tickets are for seating in either the main auditorium or the overflow room. Seats in the main auditorium are first come, first served. There will also be a livestream of the event for those who cannot attend.

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    2023 Mar 01

    When Wounds Travel: Ecologies of War and Healthcare East of the Mediterranean

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A presentation from 2022–2023 Hrdy Fellow Omar Dewachi

    Trained in medicine and anthropology, Dewachi works at the intersections of global health, history of medicine, and political anthropology. At Radcliffe, he will conduct a critical historical and ethnographic exploration of the biopolitical unravelings following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and its reverberations across the region, focusing on the individual, collective, and institutional struggles to cope with, and care for, war-related afflictions.

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    2023 Feb 27

    The Good Life: A Discussion with Author Dr. Robert Waldinger

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online

    What makes for a happy life? A fulfilling life? A good life? According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer to this question may be simpler than you think. Throughout their new book The Good Life (Simon & Schuster; January 10, 2023), Robert Waldinger, MD—whose TED...

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    2023 Feb 15

    Better Together: Reflections on Medicine, Racism, and Society

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School—Online

    Lundy Braun is a Professor of Africana Studies and a member of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Brown University and a Professor of Medical Science, Alpert Medical School. She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she studied human papillomavirus infection. Her current research analyzes the history of science in the production of racialized medical knowledge and racial hierarchies in the context of imperialism, genetics, and public health. Braun co-directs an interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Race, Medicine, and Social...

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    2023 Feb 10

    Climate Change and Health: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School—Online

    As one of the largest economic sectors globally, health care represents nearly 10% of GDP spending across O.E.C.D. countries. This significant activity produces an estimated 5-10% of global greenhouse gases, presenting opportunities to directly reduce this impact through changes to energy supply, waste, purchasing, and care models. Equally important, health care has a special interest in addressing climate change. Across the globe, human health is negatively impacted by the ramifications of climate change, such as heat, storms, flood, and fires. The health care sector must provide...

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    2022 Oct 26

    Supporting People with Severe Disability or Late-stage AIDS to Live with Dignity at Home: Lessons from the Community Medical Alliance Demonstration, 1992–1996

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A presentation from 2022–2023 Sally Starling Seaver Fellow Lisa I. Iezzoni.

    Iezzoni conducts health services research focusing on risk adjustment methods for predicting cost and clinical outcomes of care and on health care experiences and outcomes of persons with disabilities. At Radcliffe, she will use findings from interviews conducted with clinicians and patients in the early 1990s Massachusetts Medicaid program Community Medical Alliance to make recommendations for future efforts to support people with disabilities or complex health needs in their homes, with fidelity to...

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    2022 Oct 11

    PIER Public Seminar: Sam Trejo, The Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children

    4:30pm to 5:45pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Center for Education Policy Research—Online

    Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting the negative effects of elevated blood lead levels on academic and behavioral outcomes. In April of 2014, the municipal water source in Flint, Michigan was changed, causing lead from aging pipes to leach into the city’s drinking water. In this study, we examine the effect of the Flint Water Crisis on educational outcomes of Flint public school children. Our results highlight a less well-appreciated consequence of the Flint Water Crisis – namely, the psychosocial effects...

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    2022 Sep 28

    (In)Visible Agency: Ukrainian Women’s Experiences of the Russian War on Ukraine

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies—Online

    The myriad effects of Russia’s war on Ukrainian women and the women’s movement. Participation has ranged from military service to humanitarian and volunteering initiatives, including extraordinary actions by many women and girls. How have Ukrainian feminists and the transnational women’s movement responded? What was the effect of feminist anti-war manifestoes? As the war continues, how has its impact on women evolved?

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