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Calendar
Tuesday, February 16
"Pressure Volume Characteristics of the Pulmonary Microcirculation"
Speaker: George Topulos, assistant professor, Department of Environmental Health
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program
SPH I-1301, 9:30 a.m.
"Collaborative Improvement Models"
Speaker: Charles Kilo, director, Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practices, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
William A. Hinton Lecture: "Community Capacity and Health Promotion from a Human Rights Perspective"
Speakers: Keynote: Felton Earls, professor of human behavior and development; panelists: Harold Cox, chief public health officer, Cambridge Public Health Department; Rhoda Creamer, director, AHOPE/SafePlace; Barbara Gomes Beach, executive director, Multicultural AIDS Coalition
Sponsors: HSPH and Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Snyder Auditorium, 2:00 p.m.
"Courting Disaster: Endocrine Mediators of Effects of Psychosocial Support on Breast Cancer"
Speaker: David Spiegel, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
Sponsors: Harvard Center for Society and Health, Department of Oncology and Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Kresge G-2, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
"How is Blood Vessel Growth Controlled?"
Speaker: Judah Folkman, Andrus professor, Pediatric Surgery, Cell Biology, HMS; director, Surgical Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital
Sponsor: Division of Biological Sciences
FXB G-12, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 18
"Long-Term Care in Developing Countries"
Speaker: A. K. Nanda Kumar, Brandeis University
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health
SPH I-1112, 12:15-1:25 p.m.
"Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: Issues for Communities of Color"
Speaker: Sherry Riva
Sponsor: Minority Student Health Organization
Kresge 209, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 20
1999 Charity Ball
Sponsor: Student Coordinating Committee
Westin Copley Place Hotel, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 9:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
Annual winter ball to benefit Rosie's Place, a shelter for battered women. Black tie is optional. Tickets on sale in the Kresge cafeteria at lunchtime through February 16. Tickets cost $35 for faculty and staff and $25 for students.
- HSPH will be closed Monday, February 15, in observance
of Presidents' Day.
- 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.
- Advisors to foreign students and scholars from the Harvard International Office will hold office hours at HSPH on February 18 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.
