Through our "Pop Center Seminars" the Center is committed to disseminating to the Harvard community and beyond the most recent and innovative research being conducted in our signature focal areas.
Location: Unless noted all seminars will take place at the Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, in Harvard Square.
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM.
Attendees: Open to all faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students.
Advanced Readings: Reminders and any advanced readings will be sent out before each session.
No need to RSVP, however, if you have questions, please contact Claudette Agustin at cagustin@hsph.harvard.edu.
Winter/Spring 2012 Schedule
February 6, Studies of leader functioning, work environment and employee health in a Swedish context, presented by Töres Theorell, Professor emeritus of Psychosocial Environmental Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.
February 13, Measuring and Visualizing Accessibility in Urban Areas: Revealing Invisible Spatial Structures in Public Health, presented by Kirk Goldsberry, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Center for Geographical Analysis and Assistant Professor of Geography at Michigan State University.
February 27, What's wrong with the narrative on NCDs in low and middle income countries?, presented by SV Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography - Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
March 5, What we have learned about education in developing countries, presented by Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, M.I.T
March 19, A Global Perspective on Physiological Change with Age, presented by Eileen Crimmins, AARP Chair in Gerontology. Demography of older populations, health and mortality. Director of Training, Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology, USC
March 26, Potential for Malaria Elimination and Eradication, presented by Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases, and Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
April 2, Living Forward, Understanding Backward: Transforming Public Health in the 21st Century, presented by David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada *Note location: Bowie Vernon Room (K262) at CGIS Knafel (2nd floor), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge*
April 9, Hypothetical lifestyle interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes: analysis of prospective data using parametric G-formula, presented by Goodarz Danaei, Assistant Professor of Global Health - Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
April 23, Educational Attainment and Widening Mortality Disparities in the United States, presented by Robert Hummer, Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts #1, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
April 30, The Evolutionary Significance of Human Social Networks, presented by Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Health Care Policy and Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
