Calendar

"Systematic Observation of Urban Settings"

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

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Environmental Science and Engineering Program

Kresge 502, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Migration and Urban Adaptation in Kumasi, Ghana"

Speaker: Michael White, Brown University

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

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

"Expression Cloning and Characterization of a Receptor on Alveolar Macrophages that Mediate Particle Binding"

Speaker: Aiyappa Palecanda, research associate, Department of Environmental Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health

Kresge 502, 9:30 a.m.

"FDA in Transition"

Speaker: Peter Barton Hutt, lecturer, Harvard Law School; partner, Covington & Burling,

Washington, DC; former chief counsel, Food and Drug Administration

Sponsor: Department of Health Policy and Management

Kresge 429, 12:20-1:30 p.m.

"Effect of Patient Care Coordination on Quality and Efficiency Outcomes"

Speaker: Jody Hoffer Gittell, assistant professor of business administration, HBS

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

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

"American TB and Anti-TB Drug Programs: Epidemiology of an Environmental Injustice"

Speakers: Deborah Wallace, Public Interest Scientific Consulting Service; Robert Wallace, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, City University of New York

Sponsors: Department of Population and International Health, New Disease Group, and Global Chat

Kresge 213, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Strategies and Pitfalls of Patient Self-Assessment for Mental Disorders in Primary Care"

Speaker: Steven Locke, associate professor of psychiatry, HMS

Sponsors: Department of Biostatistics, Harvard Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Goldenson 122, HMS, 3:45-5:00 p.m.

(Continuing Medical Education credits available)

Title to Be Announced

Speaker: Chi-Man Yip, assistant professor, Department of Population and International Health

Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health

SPH I-1210, 12:15-1:25 p.m.

"Computational Algorithms for Censored Data Problems Using Intersection Graphs"

Speaker: Robert Gentleman, visiting scholar, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Statistics and the Clinical Trials Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics

• HSPH will be closed on Monday, January 18, in observance of Martin Luther King 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 hours at HSPH on January 17 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.
  
  
• Discounted T-passes are available to students for February through May. A variety of pass types can be purchased with an 11% discount. Order forms may be found in Kresge G-10 and must be returned with payment by January 12.
  
  

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