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Calendar
Monday, October 5
"Research Issues for the Development of an International Growth Reference"
Speaker: Edward Frongillo, Jr., associate professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
Sponsor: Department of Nutrition
FXB G-13, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"On Suffering and Structural Violence: New Agendas for Health
and Human Rights"
Speaker: Paul Farmer, associate professor, HMS; director, Institute for Health and Social Justice
Sponsor: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
FXB G-11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"Intermarriage, Race and Ethnicity, Heritability"
Speaker: William Alonso, professor, Department of Population and International Health
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health, Population and Reproductive Health Seminar
SPH I-1112; 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 6
"Cost and Quality Under Managed Care: Irreconcilable Differences?"
Speakers: Eugene Litvak, senior research associate, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and Department of Health Policy and Management; Michael Long, senior anesthetist, MGH; assistant professor of anesthesia, HMS
Sponsors: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education, Harvard Risk Management Foundation
Kresge G-2, 12:30 PM - 1:25 PM.
"Regulation of Macrophage Inflammatory Gene Expression by Hyaluronan: The Role of HA Size and CD44"
Speaker: Paul Noble, associate professor, Yale University School of Medicine
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health
Kresge 502, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, October 7
"Use of Technology in Community Programming"
Speaker: Richard Kneece, president, Digitial Salad, Inc.
Sponsor: Office of Government and Community Programs
FXB G-11, 10:00-11:45 a.m.
(A Community Partnership Day event. A community agency fair featuring exhibits from more than 45 agencies will be held in the Kresge cafeteria from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
Thursday, October 8
"Mad Cow Disease in Britain: Why the Institutions Failed"
Speaker: Sheila Jasanoff, professor, Department of Population and International Health
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health
SPH I-1112, 12:00-1:25 p.m.
"Adolescents as Collaborators: In Search of Well-Being"
Speaker: Felton Earls, professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health
Sponsor: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Seminar Series
FXB G-11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"The Power of Media: Fighting AIDS with Words and Images"
Speakers: Michael Bronski, author of The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom; Mary Fisher, founder, Family AIDS Network; Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories; Loretta McLaughlin, former editorial page editor, Boston Globe; Kim Swann, executive producer of One with Magic Johnson and Time Out: The Truth about HIV, AIDS, and You
Sponsor: Harvard AIDS Institute
Snyder Auditorium, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
"Community-Level Determinants of Contraceptive Use in the Philippines: A Structural Analysis"
Speaker: Deborah DeGraff, Department of Economics, Bowdoin College
Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 9
Information Session: "Presidential Management Intern Program"
Speaker: Anna Hundt, intern, Health Resources and Services Administration
Sponsor: Career Services Office
FXB G-3, 12:30-1:20 p.m.
- An orientation session for recently hired exempt staff will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on October 6 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.
- 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 October 8 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.
- Submit calendar listings to Bob Brustman, Kresge 1012, by noon on Monday of the week preceding the event. Listings may be transmitted via Email: croache@hsph. harvard.edu.
