Calendar

Monday, May 17

"Carotenoid and Antioxidants and Lung Cancer in Men and Women"

Speaker: Dominique Michaud, research fellow, Department of Nutrition

Sponsor: Department of Nutrition

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

Title to Be Announced

Speaker: Brooke Massman, professor of pathology, University of Vermont

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program

SPHI-1301, 9:30 a.m.

"How the Visiting Nurses Association Can Help You and Your Family"

Speaker: Rachael Barabell, vice-president of planning, Visiting Nurses Association of Boston

Sponsor: Faculty and Staff Assistance Program

Office of Work and Family, 2nd Floor, 2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

"Update from the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program"

Speaker: Jennifer Daley, director, Center for Health System Design and Evaluation, MGH/Partners Health Care System; staff physician and co-chair, National VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

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

"Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare: Mankind's Act of Nature"

Speaker: Frank Young, former commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; dean emeritus, University of Rochester; executive director, Reformed Theological Seminary

Sponsors: Joseph D. Norris Esquire Health, Law, and Policy Fund

FXB G-12, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

"New World Orders and Structural Violence"

Speaker: Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics, MIT

Sponsor: Institute for Health and Social Justice, Department of Social Medicine, HMS

MEC 227, HMS, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

"Modern Use of Twin Studies--with Examples in Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis"

Speaker: Tim Spector, Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St. Thomas's Hospital, London

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Program for Population Genetics

FXB 105, 3:00 p.m.

"Fertility Transitions: Puzzles and Controversies"

Speaker: John Bongaarts, Population Council

Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies

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

"Ethics and Research"

Speaker: Allan Brandt, Amalie Moses Kass professor, Department of Social Medicine, HMS

Sponsor: Human Subjects Committee

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

"Humanitarian Crises and Military Intervention"

Speaker: Jennifer Leaning, senior research fellow, Center for Population and Development Studies

Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies

9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

• New on the Web:
  Information about this summer's English for Professional Communication program at www.hsph.harvard.edu/mph/epc/.
  
  
• Special Around the School publication schedule: The newsletter will interrupt publication between the May 21 issue and the June 9 commencement issue. The May 21 issue will contain calendar listings covering May 24-June 9. Please submit calendar listings for events during this period to SPH I-1204, by noon on Monday, May 17. The June 9 issue will contain calendar listings covering June 10-July 5. Listings for events during this period must be submitted by noon on Wednesday, June 2. 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 May 20 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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