Calendar

Monday, December 7

"Continuing Questions About the High Prevalence of Obesity in Black Women"

Speaker: Shiriki Kumanyika, professor, Nutrition and Epidemiology; head, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Illinois, Chicago

Sponsor: Department of Nutrition

FXB G-13, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

"Systematic Social Observation of an Urban Environment"

Speaker: Felton Earls, professor, Department of Maternal Child Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health

SPH I-1301, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"The Diffusion of School Education and Its Relationship with Population Dynamics and Social Change in the Arab Middle East"

Speaker: Philippe Farques, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health, Population and Reproductive Health Seminar

SPH I-1112, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

"The Invisible Heart: Care, Altruism, and Social Capital in the Global Economy"

Speaker: Nancy Folbre, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sponsor: Center for Population Studies and Development

9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Sol Levine Lecture on Society and Health

Speaker: Clyde Hertzman, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Sponsors: HSPH, Boston University School of Public Health, Health Institute at New England Medical Center

Bakst Auditorium, One Boston University Medical Center Place, Boston, 5:00-6:00 p.m.

"Sustainable Development and the Global Environment"

Speaker: Robert Watson, director, World Bank Environment; head, Environment Sector Board

Sponsor: Harvard University Committee on Environment

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, 8:00 p.m.

"Measuring Quality of Care in a Demonstration of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)"

Speakers: Diane Flanders, director, Senior Care, Massachusetts Division of Medical Assistance; Shyamal Sharma, senior health policy analyst, Massachusetts Division of Health Care Financing and Policy

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.

Child Care Briefings

Sponsor: Harvard University Office of Work and Family

2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

"Medication History and Alzheimer's Disease: Hormone Replacement and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs"

Speaker: Walter Kukull, professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington

Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology

Kresge 904, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Impact of Sex on Brain Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: Why Epidemiology Needs Neuroscience and Vice Versa"

Speaker: Jill Goldstein, associate professor of psychiatry, HMS

Sponsor: Harvard Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics

HMS, Goldenson (Bldg. B) 122, 3:45-5:00 p.m.

(CME credits available.)

"Social Health and Medicine: Gift of Turk-Islamic Culture"

Speaker: Seljuk Fatima Tomek, director, Social Health Research; Ege University Medical School, Turkey

Sponsor: American Institute of Religion, northeast branch

Braun Room, 45 Francis Avenue, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, 5:30 p.m.

• The December issue of the HSPH Web Digest, a monthly compilation of articles, news releases, and information about new HSPH websites, can be found at www.hsph.harvard.edu/digest.
  
  
• Submit calendar listings to Rachel Cunningham, SPH I-1204, by noon on Monday of the week preceding the event. Listings may be transmitted via Email: rcunning@sph.harvard.edu.
  
  
• See also the online HSPH calendar at www.hsph.harvard. edu/calendar/ for late-breaking events and a listing of events scheduled throughout the academic year.
  
  
• A personal safety and awareness information presentation for students will be held on December 8 at 6:00 p.m. at Shattuck International House, 203 Park Drive, Boston, in the study room. Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP to the Office for Students at 432-1034.
  
  
• The Office for Students is helping to organize a support group for students with learning disabilities. This self-facilitated group will serve as a forum for people to share learning techniques and give emotional support to others experiencing similar difficulties. Confidential inquiries can be made to Carol LaFleur, coordinator for students with disabilities, at 432-1034.
  
  
• Representatives from Outings and Innings will be available in the Kresge atrium on December 9 from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Faculty and staff may purchase tickets to theater events, movies, sporting events, and museums.
  
  
• Advisors to foreign students and scholars from the Harvard International Office will hold office hours on December 10 from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in Kresge G-10. Drop by or call 432-0488 to schedule an appointment. Please remember to bring your passport and other visa documents.

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