Calendar

Monday, March 15

"Promoting Nutrition to the Public: Lessons Learned from Health Promotion Campaigns"

Speaker: William DeJong, lecturer, Department of Health and Social Behavior

Sponsor: Department of Nutrition

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

"The Molecular Basis of HIV Infection in Lung Epithelial Cells"

Speaker: Nathalie Goletiani, research fellow, Department of Environmental Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program

SPH I-1301, 9:30 a.m.

"Gender Violence in Reproductive Health: Birthing Practices"

Speaker: Simone Dinis, International Reproductive Rights Research and Action Project

Sponsor: Interdepartmental Working Group on Women, Gender, and Health

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

"The Real World of Pharmacovi-gilance: Managing Product Safety to Minimize Corporate Risk"

Speaker: Stanley Garbus, president and chief medical officer, Global Safety Surveillance, Inc.

Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology

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

"Linkage Disequilibrium in Anqing, China"

Speaker: John Rogus, assistant professor, Department of Environmental Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health

FXB 105, 3:00-4:00 p.m.

"Is Airway Hyperresponsiveness a Consequence of Unperturbed Actin-Myosin Binding?"

Speaker: David Inouye, research fellow, Department of Environmental Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program

SPH I-1301, 9:30 a.m.

"DNA Mismatch Repair and Sensitivity to Chemotherapeutic Drugs in Human Tumor Cells"

Speaker: Peter Karran, Clare Hall Laboratories, Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Sponsor: Department of Cancer Cell Biology

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

Video: "Something Like a War"

Sponsor: Interdepartmental Working Group on Women, Gender, and Health

FXB G-13, 5:30 p.m.

"Cardiovascular Responses to Inhaled Particles"

Speaker: John Godleski, associate professor, Department of Environmental Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program

SPH I-1301, 9:30 a.m.

"Analysis of Agreement in Longitudinal Multiple-Informant Studies: The Need for Clever Modeling Strategies"

Speaker: Constantine Daskalakis, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biostatistics

Sponsor: Psychiatric Biostatistics Seminar

SPH II-426, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Research Data: Ownership, Retention, and Release"

Speaker: From the Office of the General Counsel

Sponsors: Office of the General Counsel, Human Resources

Kresge 502, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

"Development and Testing of Clinical Performance Measures for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, and Hypertension"

Speakers: Barbara McNeil, head, Department of Health Care Policy, HMS; Heather Palmer, director, Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

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

• The next issue of Around the School will be available on April 9. That issue will include calendar listings for April 12-19. Submit calendar listings for those dates to SPH I-1204, by noon on Monday April 5. Listings may be transmitted via Email (rcunning@sph.harvard.edu).
  
  
• The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is accepting submissions for the 1999 Health and Human Rights Essay Award. This award recognizes the best student essay or other paper of outstanding scholarship and creativity linking health and human rights.

  Permitted entries include papers prepared in courses or seminars, dissertations, op-ed pieces, articles, or any other original work. Preference is given to individual rather than collective work. The award includes a certificate and a $200 prize.

  Submissions should be sent with a cover note by April 12 to the following address: Health and Human Rights Essay Award, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, 651 Huntington Avenue, 7th floor, Boston.
  
  

• Save the date: April 10 is the annual International Night performance showcase and food festival. Look for ticket sales in the Kresge cafeteria at lunchtimes soon!
  
  
• 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 Thursdays 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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