Current Takemi Seminars
Takemi Program Calendar and Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule
* Please note that the Takemi Program Seminars are for Takemi Fellows and invited guests only
*Invited guests please RSVP 2 days in advance so that we have proper amounts of refreshments and handouts
The Takemi Program Seminars occur weekly September 15 through October 20 on Tuesdays 3:30-5pm and October 26 through December 14 on Mondays 1:30-3pm (unless otherwise noted)
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor Conference Room)
AUGUST
August 24-28 HSPH Orientation
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/student-life/orientation/index.html
August 24 (5:30-7:30pm)- Reception for New Students and Fellows with HSPH Dean Julio Frenk
Museum of Fine Arts/Bravo & the Upper Galleria (465 Huntington Avenue, Boston)
August 25
1-2pm- Harvard Bridge Program Advanced Elocution Training Program
HSPH Building 1, Room 1210A (Takemi Fellows Office)
2-3pm- Global Health and Population Department Orientation
HSPH Building 1, Room 1208 (12th Floor Conference Room)
SEPTEMBER
Monday, September 7- HSPH CLOSED- LABOR DAY
Thursday, September 10 (3:00-5:00pm)- Takemi Program Orientation and Reception, (HSPH Building 1, Room 1208/12th Floor Conference Room)
Tuesday, September 15
2:00-3:00pm: HSPH Researcher Directory Page Editing Tutorial- Amy Levin, Program Coordinator, Takemi Programin International Health, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH
3:30-5:00pm: Takemi Program Seminar- Marc Mitchell, Lecturer on International Health, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH- D-Tree International
Tuesday, September 22 (3:30-5:00pm) Takemi Program Seminar- Kavi Bhalla, Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health- Building estimates of the burden of road traffic injuries in information poor settings
Tuesday, September 29 (3:30-5:00pm) Takemi Program Seminar- Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on International Health, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH- Reducing the Public Health Impact of Natural Disasters: The Bangladesh Experience
OCTOBER
Tuesday, October 6 (3:30-5:00)- Takemi Seminar- Takashi Nagata (2004-2006 Takemi Program Fellow), PhD Candidate, Karolinska Institute- Road traffic injury as a public health issue
Thursday, October 8 (3:30-5:00)- Preliminary Presentations: * Please note that this is a Thursday *
3:40-4:05: Juhwan Oh (S. Korea)- Inequalities of cancer mortalities in Korea-individual and area level disparities
4:05-4:30: Miwako Hosoda (Japan)- Empirical research on social movements around health issues in the US and Japan
4:30-4:55: Elaine Thume (Brazil)- Assessment of Home Care in Brazilian primary health care services
Monday, October 12 (3:00-4:30)- Dr. Yasuhide Nakamura (1996-1997 Takemi Fellow), Professor, Department of International Collaboration, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University- Maternal and Child Health Handbook Program for MDGs 4 & 5 in Asian Countries *Please note that this session is on a Monday and that HSPH will be CLOSED for COLUMBUS DAY
Tuesday, October 13 (3:30-5:00)- Preliminary Presentations:
3:40-4:05: Roni Factor (Israel)- Social mechanisms that produce risk and health inequities among minority groups: A resistance perspective to road-accident involvement
4:05-4:30: Takeshi Yoda (Japan)- Comparative studies of two recently emerging infectious diseases, between SARS and new type of H1N1 influenza
4:30-4:55: Jesse Bump (USA)- Historical development of the concept of universal health coverage and its current policy implications
Tuesday, October 20 (3:30-5:30)- Preliminary Presentations: *Please note session is extended to 5:30*
3:40-4:05: Anais Tanon (Côte D'Ivoire)- Defining Patient Safety: Issues in terms of responsibility and accountability
4:05-4:30: Kayako Sakisaka (Japan)- Effect of nutrition, water supply related interventions and behavioral change among women in rural Kenya: preliminary results and further study plan
4:30-4:55: Jingdong Ma (China)- Effectiveness of the new cooperative medical schemes in protecting families with members with chronic illness against catastrophic health expenditures in rural China
4:55-5:20: Yanping Li (China)- The preventable cause of death in China: Comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors
Monday October 26 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Richard Levins, John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH- Does agriculture produce food? *Please note we will meet Mondays for the rest of the Fall Semester*
NOVEMBER
Monday, November 2 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Michael Reich, Program Director, Takemi Program in International Health/Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH- Political Analysis and Public Health (a tutorial in the use of PolicyMaker Software) *Please note that we will meet in the Takemi Fellows office for this session (Building 1, Room 1210A)
Wednesday, November 4 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Nancy Turnbull, Senior Lecturer on Health Policy, Associate Dean for Educational Programs, Department of Health Policy and Management, HSPH- US Healthcare for Beginners *Please note that this session is on a WEDNESDAY
Monday, November 9 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Michael Reich, Program Director, Takemi Program in International Health- Prof. Reich's book: "Access: How do good health technologies get to poor people in poor countries" by Laura J. Frost & Michael R. Reich
Wednesday, November 11- HSPH CLOSED- VETERANS' DAY
Monday, November 16 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Salih Mollahaliloglu (2007-2008 Takemi Fellow), Director, School of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Turkey- Does life background effect physicians’ practicing in rural areas?
Monday, November 23 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Brian Rosman, Research Director, Health Care for All- Massachusetts Healthcare Reform
Thursday, November 26 & Friday, November 27- HSPH CLOSED- THANKSGIVING
Monday, November 30 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Sofia Gruskin, Associate Profressor of Health and Human Rights, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights- Health and Human Rights: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality
DECEMBER
Monday, December 7 (1:30-3:00)- Takemi Seminar- Marcia Castro, Assistant Professor of Demography, Dept of Global Health and Population, HSPH- Community-based Environmental Management for Malaria Control: Evidence From a Small-scale Intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Monday, December 14
1:30-3:00- Takemi Seminar- Grace Wyshak, Associate Professor in the Departments of Biostatistics and Global Health and Population, HSPH; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HMS- The history of cancer in the US and globally
3:00-4:00- Meeting with Takemi Fellows- Rachel Lu- Professor and Associate Dean in the Department of Health Care Management, College of Management, at Chang Gung University- Taiwan’s experience in single-payer universal social insurance system; A discussion on comparative health systems.
Monday, December 21- Friday, January 1- WINTER RECESS (HSPH CLOSED December 25 through January 1)