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Monday, March 8

"Selenium Regulation of Gene Expression: Underlying Mechanisms and Resulting Nutrient Requirements"

Speaker: Roger Sunde, professor, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Missouri in Columbia

Sponsor: Department of Nutrition

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


"Plurality and Resemblance in Functional MRI Data Analysis"

Speaker: Nicholas Lange, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, HMS; chief biostatistician, Brain Imaging Center and Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, McLean Hospital

Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics, Psychiatric Biostatistics Seminar

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




Tuesday, March 9

"Association of Serum Organochlorine Levels and K-ras Mutations in Exocrine Panreatic Cancer"

Speaker: Miguel Porta

Sponsor: Channing Laboratory, Epidemiology of Chronic Disease Seminar

Channing Laboratory, 5th Floor Conference Room, 181 Longwood Avenue, 12:30 p.m.


"How Community-Based Physicians Perceive and Cope with Conflicting Recommendations in Clinical Guidelines"

Speaker: Dennis Ross-Degnan, assistant professor, HMS; health services researcher, Drug Policy Research Group, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

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


"Population Biology, Evolution, and the Future of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy"

Speaker: Bruce Levin, Emory University

Sponsors: New Disease Group, Mathematical Biology Group

Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall, 16 Divinity Street, Cambridge, 4:00 p.m.




Thursday, March 11

"Guns and Violence"

Speaker: David Hemenway, professor, Department of Health Policy and Management

Sponsor: Institute for Health and Social Justice

Department of Social Medicine, 2nd Floor Conference Room, HMS

12:00-1:30 p.m.


"The Effect of War on Children"

Speaker: Carola Eisenberg, Physicians for Human Rights

Sponsor: François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights

Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:20 p.m.


"War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Sources of Humanitarian Emergencies"

Speaker: Wayne Nafziger, Department of Economics, Kansas State University

Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies

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





  • Special Around the School publication schedule:

    The newsletter will interrupt publication between the March 12 issue and the April 9 issue. The March 12 issue will include calendar listings covering March 15-April 11. Please submit calendar listings for events during this period to SPH I-1204, by noon on Monday, March 8. 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.





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