Calendar

Tuesday, October 13

"Managing Employee Records"

Speakers: From the Office of the General Counsel: Eileen Finan, Robert Iuliano, Marilyn Schriever; Lydia Cummings, associate director for labor and employee relations, Office of Human Resources

Sponsors: Offices of the General Counsel, Human Resources

MEC 227, HMS, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m..

"Mechanical Impedance of Cultured Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells from 0.05"

Speaker: Geoffrey Maksym, research fellow, Department of Environmental Health

Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health

Kresge 502, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

"Sociodemographic Adjustment of HEDIS Quality Measures"

Speaker: Alan Zaslavsky, associate professor of statistics, Department of Health Care Policy, HMS

Sponsors: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education

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

"Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Workshop"

Speaker: Christine Hollis, manager, Center for Wellness and Health Communication, UHS

Sponsors: Office for Students, Human Resources Office, Information Technology Department

Kresge 213, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Child Passenger Safety Research Forum"

Speakers: Maria Segui-Gomez, director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center; Roberta Glass, research specialist, Division of Public Health Practice; Toben Nelson, research specialist, Department of Health and Social Behavior; Eve Wittenberg, research assistant, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis; Anna Castro, Injury Prevention and Control Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Sponsors: Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Division of Public Health Practice

FXB G-12, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

"Reading Strategies and Information Management"

Speaker: Donald Halstead

Sponsor: Office for Students

Kresge 206, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

"Health Under Siege: Community-Based Initiatives in Settings of Oppression"

Speakers: Jaime Bayona, Socios En Salud, Carabayllo, Peru; Maria Contreras, Soldiers of Health, Roxbury; Julio Quinones and Marta Jimenez, Equipo de Apoyo En Salud y Educacion, Chiapas, Mexico; Bossuet Sainvilus and Loune Viaud, Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti; Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, Partners in Health, Cambridge; Jose Luis Reza, documentary filmmaker, Chiapas, Mexico

Sponsor: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 2nd Floor Conference Room, 641 Huntington Avenue, 3:00-5:30 p.m.

• HSPH will be closed on Monday, October 12, in observance of Columbus Day.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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