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Calendar
Monday, September 28
"Motivational Factors in Learning: How Parents Can Help Their Children Do Well in School"
Speaker: Janine Bempechat, assistant professor, Graduate School of Education, and author of the forthcoming book Against the Odds: How At-Risk Children Exceed Expectations
Sponsor: Harvard University Office of Work and Family
2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Applications of the Sibship Disequilibrium Test (SDT) with
the NIMH Genetics Initiative Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Data"
Speaker: Marsha Wilcox, doctoral student, Department of Epidemiology
Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics, Psychiatric Epidemiology Seminar
SPH II-426, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"Public Health and Social Learning: The Case of Silicone-Gel Breast
Implants"
Speaker: Sheila Jasanoff, 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, September 29
"Homeostasis in the Pleural Space: Preliminary Thoughts for Future Research"
Speaker: Stephen Loring, associate professor, Department of Environmental Health
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program
Kresge 502, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
"Letting Infants Cry Alone: Does America Know Best?"
Speakers: Michael Commons, lecturer and research associate in psychiatry, HMS; and Patrice Miller, research associate in psychiatry, HMS
Sponsor: Harvard University Office of Work and Family
2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Development of Next Generation HEDIS Measures"
Speaker: Thomas Lee, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology
Sponsors: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education, Harvard Risk Management Foundation
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:35 p.m.
"Conversations on Health Care Management: Managing Medical Errors"
Speaker: Lucien Leape, adjunct professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Sponsor: Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Fainsod Room, KSG, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 1
"Income Inequality and Health in the United Sates: Empirical Evidence and Conceptual Considerations"
Speaker: John Lynch, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Sponsor: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
- SCC Elections!
Students may vote for Student Coordinating Committee officers and department representatives September 28 through October 2, either in the Kresge cafeteria at lunchtime or any time in the Office for Students (Kresge G-10).
- The deadline for submitting new and
continuing applications to the Human Subjects
Committee for its October 15 meeting is October 1.
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.
- 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.
