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Calendar
Monday, November 23
"Evaluating Differential Cost of Sharing Drugs Using Administrative Databases"
Speaker: Sebastian Schneeweiss, doctoral student, Department of Epidemiology
Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology
Kresge 904, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"New Findings on Bangladesh Fertility Decline"
Speaker: Jack Caldwell, Australian National University
Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Musical Performance: Banco Industrial de Venezuela Chorale, directed by Raul Delgado
Sponsor: ÑThe Spanish Speaking Committee
Snyder Auditorium, 3:45 p.m.
Tuesday, November 24
"Pro-Inflammatory Signaling During Bacterial Pneumonia"
Speaker: Joseph Mizgerd, research associate, Department of Environmental Health
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program
Kresge 502, 9:30 a.m.
"Functional Outcomes After Rehabilitation: Geriatric Experience"
Speaker: David Krebs, professor, Institute of Health Professions, and director, Biomotion Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
"How to Run a Great HMO"
Speaker: Harris Berman, chief executive, Tufts Health Plan
Sponsor: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, KSG
Fainsod Room, Littauer Building, 3rd floor, KSG, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 25
"Association Between Coffee and K-ras Mutations in Exocrine Pancreatic Cancer"
Speaker: Miquel Porta, associate professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology
Kresge 904, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Monday, November 30
"The MSW Incinerator Plant: A Monitoring Tool for Waste Management"
Speaker: Leo Morf, University of Technology of Vienna, and Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Environmental Science and Engineering Program
SPH I-1301, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"Residency Programs: What Is the Future?"
Speaker: Erin Tracy, instructor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sponsor: Master of Public Health Program
Kresge 502, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"From Biafra to the Bronx: Harmonizing Health and Human Rights"
Speaker: Patrick Aeberhard, head, Centre Cardiologique du Nord Saint-Denis, Paris
Sponsor: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
FXBG-11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"New Evidence on the Fertility Transition in Bangladesh"
Speaker: Jack Caldwell, Australian National University
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health, Population and Reproductive Health Seminar
SPH I-1112, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 1
"Eating Disorders: Distress or Disorder?"
Speaker: Seda Ebrahimi, instructor of psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Treatment Program, McLean Hospital
Sponsors: Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, Office of Work and Family
Dudley House, Common Room, Lehman Hall, 2nd Floor, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Performance Measures and Quality Improvement via the Internet"
Speaker: John Halamka, executive director, CareGroup Center for Quality Value
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
"Functional Analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Products"
Speaker: David Livingston, Emil Frel professor of genetics and medicine, HMS, and chief, Charles A. Dana Division of Human Cancer Genetics, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Sponsor: Division of Biological Sciences
FXB G-13, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 2
"Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Choices and Consequences"
Speaker: Robert Fletcher, professor of ambulatory care and prevention, Harvard Medical School
Sponsor: Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
Kresge 502, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"Why Women's Health"
Speaker: Marlene Goldman, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology
Sponsor: Radcliffe College, Bunting Institute
Bunting Institute, 34 Concord Avenue, 2nd floor Colloquia Room, Cambridge, 4:00 p.m.
"Introduction to Grantsmanship for Minority Students and International Students"
Sponsor: GSAS Office of Student Affairs
Dudley House, Graduate Student Lounge, Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 3
"New Institutional Economics and Reform of Health Care Delivery Systems"
Speaker: Alex Preker, World Bank
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health
SPH I-1210, 12:15-1:25 p.m.
"Disabling Occupational Morbidity in the US: An Alternative Way of Viewing the BLS Data"
Speaker: Theodore Courtney, visiting lecturer, Department of Environmental Health and associate director, Research Center for Safety and Health, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Sponsors: Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Kresge 439, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Friday, December 4
"Meeting the Water Challenges of the 21st Century"
Speaker: More than 15 academic and professional experts on water issues, including Joseph Brain, professor, Department of Environmental Health, and Timothy Ford, associate professor, Department of Environmental Health
Sponsor: Ionics, Inc.
Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, One Amherst Street, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
(Preregistration is required. To register or receive a complete schedule of speakers and topics, contact Francine Bernitz at 617-926-2510 by November 23.)
"Social Environment and Aging: Examining Possible Neuroendocrine Pathways"
Speaker: Teresa Seeman, Division of Geriatrics, UCLA School of Medicine
Sponsor: Harvard Center for Society and Health
FXB G-12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
- HSPH will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, in observance of Thanksgiving.
available on December 4.
- Due to the Thanksgiving holiday,
Around the School will not be
published on November 26 The next issue will be
available on December 4.
- 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.
- The Longwood Campus Mail and Receiving Services are coordinating with United Postal Service (UPS) to offer discounted and speedy services. While most other delivery services make a bulk delivery to the mailroom where packages must be sorted and delivered by HSPH personnel, UPS delivers personally to each department. For more information, or to set up a UPS account, phone Paul Gagnon, UPS sales associate, at 432-2289.
- The deadline for submitting
new and continuing applications to the Human Subjects
Committee for its December 17 meeting is December 3.
Submit applications to Angie Foss, Kresge 505.
Also, all faculty, researchers, and students who plan to use
humans in their research should discuss their plans with
Foss, who can be reached at 432-4513.
- Advisors to foreign students and scholars from the Harvard International Office will hold office hours at HSPH on December 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 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.
