2022 Jul 11
Advancing Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A step toward Universal Health Coverage
8:00am to 9:30am
Location: 
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University—Online
The webinar is a joint Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System event with the Population Foundation of India (PFI) and is being held to mark World Population Day. The webinar will focus on the investment and efforts needed to advance women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services, especially in the post-pandemic context. The webinar provides a unique opportunity to learn from and interact directly with leaders...
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2022 Jul 06
Protecting Health Care in Conflict Areas: Lessons from Ukraine to Tigray
9:00am to 10:15am
Location: 
Harvard Global Health Institute—Online
Violence against health workers, health facilities and patients has become a pervasive aspect of modern war. Conflict and unrest create a state of insecurity that makes maintaining a functional health system nearly impossible. To weaken an adversary’s resilience and will to fight, hospitals, ambulances, and supply vehicles are commonly targeted by military forces, while health care personnel and patients are often assaulted, threatened, or stripped of access to care.
These tactics violate basic human rights and international humanitarian law. In Ukraine, Russian forces carried...
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2022 Jun 13
Reconciling with our Historical Memory: Committing to HBCUs as Social Progression
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Office of Diversity & Inclusion—Online
In honor of Juneteenth and the recent conversations around Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, specifically the identified recommendation to Develop Enduring Partnerships with Black Colleges and Universities, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion welcomes Historian Theopolies J. Moton III.
Learn more and RSVP...
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2022 Jun 06
Dismantling Disinformation
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
The Studio at Harvard Chan School—Online
We’ve all seen the perils of disinformation. But how do we combat it? This panel will explore concrete proposals for dismantling disinformation in communities, on social media, and through public policy and regulation.
Moderator:
Brandy Zadrozny, Senior Reporter, NBC News
Speakers:
Dolores Albarracín, Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Vineet Arora, Dean for Medical Education, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Raven Baxter...
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2022 Jun 03
25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival
6:30pm to 11:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for the premiere screening of Community Art Center’s 25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival, the longest-running youth film festival in the country. Come early for a musical performance by Lisa Bello and snacks in the Calderwood Courtyard. A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers will follow the screening.
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2022 May 23
View from the Hill: A conversation with Sen. Michael Bennet
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
The Studio at the Harvard Chan School—Online
Sen. Michael Bennet has called for dramatically expanding the public health workforce by mobilizing and training hundreds of thousands of Americans to serve in a new ‘Health Force.’ The Colorado Democrat is also pushing for a comprehensive reform of our mental health care system to improve access, in part by leveraging services delivered through schools and workplaces. He’ll talk about these proposals and his other work in the health care arena including his efforts to spur development of new antibiotics — in this Q&A with POLITICO reporter Rachael Levy.
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2022 May 20
European Politics Seminar: The 2022 French Presidential Election
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Center for European Studies at Harvard—Online
Join us to explore the latest developments in French politics following the first round of French presidential elections on April 10, 2022. A panel of experts on French politics will analyze the results and discuss the prospects for the impending legislative contest. What do the results indicate about the state of French society, France's place in the world, and the future of the European Union? What are the implications for France's political parties? How has France changed over the five years since Emmanuel Macron burst onto the scene in 2017?
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2022 May 20
Considering the Needs of the Vulnerable in the Next Stage of the Pandemic
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
How do we navigate this coming phase of the pandemic? Who bears the cost of decisions to remove mask mandates and vaccine requirements? What is the role of the individual and what is the responsibility of public health and medical leadership in the coming years? What are we accepting when we call this period "the new/next normal"?
Panelists:
• Introduction and moderator: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
• Jasmine Harris, Professor...
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2022 May 20
View from the Hill: A conversation with Rep. Lauren Underwood
12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: 
The Studio at the Harvard Chan School—Online
Rep. Lauren Underwood brings a unique perspective to Capitol Hill. The youngest African-American woman ever to serve in the House, she is a registered nurse and former senior adviser to the Department of Health and Human Services, where she helped communities prepare for bioterrorism threats and other public health emergencies. The Illinois Democrat will discuss emergency preparedness, Black maternal health, gun violence, disinformation, and other issues at the top of her agenda in this Q&A with POLITICO reporter Lauren Gardner.
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2022 May 18
Education Now: Raising Children in Polarized Times
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Education Now is an HGSE webinar series that responds to the dramatic changes in the field of education in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our episodes provide insights and strategies to shape equitable new approaches to challenges across the education landscape.
This episode's speakers include:
• Richard Weissbourd, Faculty Co-Director, Human Development and Psychology...
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2022 May 16
Director’s Series | Life: The Arnold Arboretum as an Institution of Public Health
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
The Arnold Arboretum's sesquicentennial Director's Series traces the Arnold’s significance in the landscape architecture movement, value for the people of Boston, and leadership in creating global connections between plants and people.
Panelists include:
• Dr. Michelle Kondo, Research Social Scientist, UDSA-Forest Service

• Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space, City of Boston

• Laurence Cotton, Consulting Producer, “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing...
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2022 May 12
The Quest to Image Black Holes
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian—Online
Join the CfA live from the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC to learn about exciting new results from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the team that brought us the first-ever image of a black hole!
Moderated by Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research and former Chief Scientist at NASA, Dr. Ellen Stofan, this event will be live streamed and is open to the public. Panelists will include Shep Doeleman, founding director of the EHT; Kari Haworth chief technology officer of the CfA; and astrophysicists Angelo Ricarte and Paul Tiede.
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2022 May 09
Harvard Science Book Talk: "Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built"
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Division of Science, Harvard Library, and Harvard Book Store—Online
By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer. "Zero to Birth" takes you on an extraordinary journey to the very edge of creation, from the moment of an egg’s fertilization through each step of a human brain’s development in the womb―and even a little beyond.
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2022 May 03
Abolition, Activism, and the University: Practitioner Perspectives on Transformative Justice in Boston
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online
Grassroots organizers in Greater Boston are at the forefront of ongoing statewide movements for a world without predatory policing and mass human caging. Join us for a virtual panel discussion with Transformative Justice...
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2022 May 03
Planning for an Equitable Recovery: Using COVID Funding to Lift Learning and Support Every Student
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
New research from Professor Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is bringing the impact of the pandemic into stark relief — and adding fuel to the call for comprehensive, equitable, and effective solutions. Kane’s work — part of an ongoing collaboration with NWEA and AIR — reveals the consequences of remote and hybrid learning for student achievement in high- and low-income schools, using data from 10,000 schools in 49 states plus the District of Columbia.
Join us as we explore the findings and outline state and district strategies to help students...
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2022 Apr 22
Mayors Imagining the Just City
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Concluding the second annual Mayors Institute on City Design (MICD) Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the MICD and Harvard GSD’s Just City Lab–the Fellows discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial injustice in each of their cities.
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2022 Apr 20
Education Now – Navigating Trauma for Teachers and Learners
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the next episode of Education Now focused on navigating trauma for teachers and learners.
Speakers:
• Mark Tappan, Professor of Education, Colby College
• Aysha Upchurch, Lecturer on Education and Artist in Residence, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Host: Uche Amaechi, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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2022 Apr 20
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children's Mental Health
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Online
Public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the daily lives of many of us, including children. The next Population Mental Health Forum will focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant public health restrictions on children’s mental health. Dr. Karestan Koenen will be joined by Dr. Tamsin Ford from the University of Cambridge who will discuss recent research findings related to children’s mental health during this time. The event will conclude with a Q&A session with attendees.
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2022 Apr 19
Harvard Design Magazine #50 Issue Launch and Conversation
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
“Today is global” is a rather banal truism, but what really is today’s globalism? In a conversation with contributors from across the globe, Harvard Design Magazine introduces issue #50: Today’s Global, guest-edited by Sarah M. Whiting and Rahul Mehrotra.
Today’s world has entered a phase of critical backlash against globalization, which is for some a critique of...
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2022 Apr 11
Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity (Exhibition Opening)
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for a discussion featuring leading activists and scholars working toward menstrual justice. The program will open the exhibition Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity.
Register for this virtual event.
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