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Calendar
Tuesday, November 10
"What If You're Never a Parent? Creating a Meaningful Life Without Parenting"
Speaker: Carol Frost Vercollone
Sponsor: Office of Work and Family
2 Brattle Square, 2nd floor, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Development and Utilization of a Computerized Quality Measurement Reporting System"
Speaker: Helen Burstin, director of quality management, Department of Quality Management Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
"Conversations on Health Care Management"
Speakers: John Kenagy, visiting scholar, Harvard Business School; Steven Spear, doctoral student, Harvard Business School
Sponsor: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, KSG
Fainsod Room, Litauer 3rd floor KSG, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 11
"Promoting a Cleaner, Healthier, and Safer Environment"
Speaker: Carol Browner, administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency
Sponsor: Ford Hall Forum, Boston Center for Adult Education
Boston Center for Adult Education, Ballroom, 5 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 12
"Social Networks and Fertility in Nyanza Province, Kenya"
Speaker: Susan Watkins, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Video Virus: "Leaving Las Vegas"
Speaker: Howard Shaffer, Division on Addictions, HMS
Sponsor: Student Coordinating Committee
FXB G-11, 5:30 p.m.
Friday, November 13
The 131st Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine: "Exploring the Physiology of Human Fitness: A Journey from Cambridge to Cape Town"
Speaker: Timothy Noakes
Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology
Snyder Auditorium, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 17
"Role of Nitric Oxide in Host Defense Properties of the Lung"
Speaker: Sadis Matalon, professor of anesthesiology, physiology and biophysics, and pediatrics, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program
Kresge 502, 9:30 a.m.
"Handling Illness and Loss During the Holidays"
Speaker: Elizabeth Bunn, director, Life Raft
Sponsor: Office of Work and Family
2 Brattle Square, 2nd Floor, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Medicaid Plans vs. Commercial Plans for Medicaid Managed Care: Report of a National Health Plan Survey"
Speaker: Bruce Landon, instructor in health care policy and medicine, HMS
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
Wednesday, November 18
"Pharmacoepidemiology"
Speaker: Philip Sarocco, Parke Davis
Sponsor: Department of Epidemiology
Kresge 904, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"The Natural Course of Hypochondriasis: A Five-Year Follow-Up"
Speaker: Arthur Barsky, professor of psychiatry, HMS, and director of psychosomatic research, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sponsors: Department of Biostatistics, Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Kresge 110, 3:45-5:00 p.m.
(Continuing Medical Education credits are available.)
"Update on Disability Issues"
Speakers: From the Office of the General Counsel: Eileen Finan, Heather Quay, and Marilyn Schriever; from the Office of Human Resources: Deedee Gaudette, associate director of disability programs; Elaine Pridham, associate director for labor and employee relations
Sponsor: Office of the General Counsel, Human Resources: Focus on Preventive Strategies Seminar
Kresge 502, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 19
Schweitzer Fellowship Information Session
Speaker: Kari Hannibal, Schweitzer Fellowship
Sponsor: Office for Students
Kresge 201, 12:30-1:20 p.m.
"The Mectizan Story: Is Donation the Answer to Getting Drugs for Tropical Diseases?"
Speaker: Adetokunbo Lucas, adjunct professor, Department of Population and International Health
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health
SPH I-1210, 12:15-1:25 p.m.
"Keeping in Touch, Letting Go: Enjoying Your Child's College Years"
Speaker: Elizabeth Studley, dean of freshman, Harvard College
Sponsor: Office of Work and Family
2 Brattle Square, 2nd floor, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Friends of the school John and Virginia Taplin with many current and past Taplin Fellows at a dinner in the fellows' honor on October 29. From left to right: Hannah Cooper, Department of Health and Social Behavior; Allison Lane Smith, Department of Population and International Health; Theresa Stichick, Department of Maternal and Child Health; John Taplin; Virginia Taplin; Nathan Wolfe, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Julie Pulerwitz, Department of Health and Social Behavior; James Ware, acting dean; and Mary Jean Brown, Department of Maternal and Child Health. Cooper, Smith, and Stichick are this year's new fellows.
- Around the School will not be published on
November 13. The next issue will be available on
November 20.
- HSPH will be closed on Wednesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans 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 office hours at HSPH on
November 19 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.
- An orientation session for recently hired non-exempt staff will be held from 9:00 to 12:00 p.m. on November 17 in MEC-L008, 260 Longwood Avenue, HMS. The program includes an overview of Harvard's organizational structure and mission, benefits, retirement plans, facilities, programs, and services. Benefits Office consultants will be on hand to answer questions.
