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Calendar
Monday, February 8
"Bivariate Regression of Multiple Informant Data: An Application to a Study of Psychiatric Comorbidity"
Speaker: Eric Mick, doctoral student, Department of Epidemiology
Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics, Psychiatric Statistics Seminar
SPH II-426, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 9
"The Role of Free Radicals in Host Immune Response"
Speaker: Gerald Rosen, A. Emerson professor of pharmacology, University of Maryland
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program
SPH I-1301, 9:30 a.m.
"The Evolution of HCFA Peer-Review Organizations' Quality Improvement Projects: Implications for Staffing and Capacities"
Speaker: Jack Needleman, assistant professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
Wednesday, February 10
"Genetic Approaches to Mycobacterial Pathogenesis"
Speaker: Eric Rubin, instructor in medicine, HMS
Sponsor: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
FXB G-12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"Homicides Related to Intimate Partner Violence in Massachusetts, 1991-1995"
Speakers: Bonnie Campbell, director, Violence Against Women Office, US Department of Justice; Nancy Isaac, Harvard Injury Control Research Center; Stacey Kabat, executive director, Peace at Home, Inc.; Linda Langford, Education Development Center
Sponsors: Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Peace at Home, Inc.
Snyder Auditorium, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 11
"Costing Rural Health Services: Cases from Zimbabwe and Mexico"
Speaker: Mark Mitchell, Harvard Institute for International Development
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health, International Health Systems Group
SPH I-1112, 12:15-1:25 p.m.
"Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism"
Speaker: Samuel Scheffler, professor of philosphy and law, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsor: Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, KSG, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, 4:30 p.m.
On January 20, the 1998 Harvard Award for Excellence in Children's Health was presented to Casa Myrna Vasquez, Inc., for its Children Services Continuum of Care Program. The competitive, $10,000 award is sponsored by the Harvard Center for Children's Health, Children's Hospital, and the City of Boston. Pictured at the presentation ceremony are (from left) David Weiner, president and CEO, Children's Hospital; Thomas Menino, mayor of Boston; Shiela Moore, CEO, Casa Myrna Vasquez, Inc.; Robert Fraser, of Goodwin, Procter, and Hoar and head of the award selection committee; and Barry Bloom, dean, Harvard School of Public Health.
- 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.
- New on the Web:
The Reproductive Technologies Web, an initiative of the Global Reproductive Health Forum that explores the impact of emerging reproductive technologies, both contraceptive and procreative. It can be found at www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21.
- Advisors to foreign students and scholars from the Harvard International Office will hold hours at HSPH on February 11 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.
