Events

    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 Apr 12

    The Harvard Global Health Institute's Inaugural Global Health Symposium

    9:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Global Health Institute—Online

    The Harvard Global Health Institute is thrilled to announce that registration is now open for virtual attendance to our Inaugural Global Health Symposium! While in person capacity is limited, we invite our longstanding global and Harvard-based community to join us virtually on April 12 for a series of conversations centered around the theme "Global Health Equity through Community Engagement." 

    Our inaugural symposium will bring together experts from across the globe and from within Harvard University to highlight innovative, community-driven approaches aimed at achieving...

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    2019 May 20

    2019 Harvard/Glenn Symposium on Aging

    1:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

    Each year, the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging hosts the Harvard Symposium on Aging with a mission to educate the wider research community about advancements in this fast-paced field and to stimulate collaborative research in this area. We have been fortunate to have many of the leaders in the aging field speak at the symposia.

    The 2019 speakers for the symposium include Coleen Murphy, PhD., (Princeton University); Manolis Kellis, PhD., (MIT); Beth Stevens, PhD., (Harvard Medical School) and Nir Barzilai, MD., (Institute for Aging Research).

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    2018 Nov 09

    Conference: Disability and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives

    9:00am to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    This conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability—and how this has manifested itself, in particular, in higher education.

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