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Monday, February 22

"Epidemiology of Homocysteinemia"

Speaker: Paul Jacques, acting chief, Epidemiology Program, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University

Sponsor: Department of Nutrition

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




Tuesday, February 23

"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.


"Test-Taking Strategies: Pitfalls and Opportunities"

Speaker: Loring Brinckerhoff, learning specialist

Sponsor: Office for Students

FXB G-11, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

(Pre-registration requested. Sign up in Kresge G-29.)


"Evaluating the Impact of the Process of Care on the Outcome of Total Knee Replacement Surgery: A Multinational Comparison"

Speaker: Liz Lingard, research fellow, Department of Orthopedic Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

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




Thursday, February 25

"The Global Pairwise Approach to Radiation Hybrid Mapping"

Speaker: Robert Tibshirani, professor of health research and policy statistics, Stanford University

Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics

FXB G-12, 4:00-5:00 p.m.


"Government Capacity to Regulate Health Care"

Speaker: Sara Bennett, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health

SPH I-1112, 12:15-1:25 p.m.


"Child Labor in Pakistan"

Speaker: Robert Jensen, assistant professor of public policy, KSG

Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies

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




  • 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.

  • The Office for Students is sponsoring a workshop, "Test-Taking Strategies: Pitfalls and Opportunities," on February 23 from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in FXB G-11.

  • Advisors to foreign students and scholars from the Harvard International Office will hold office hours at HSPH on February 25 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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