Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Event: Dissertation defense of PhD Candidate Hantao Wang
Title: Lung Function, Interstitial Lung Abnormalities, and Mortality in Shanghai Textile Workers
Location: HSPH, FXB #G-05
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Event: Dissertation defense of PhD Candidate Chih-Fu Wei
Title: Prenatal Arsenic Exposure, Folic Acid Use and Spina Bifida in Bangladesh
Location: HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Friday, May 3, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Event: Dissertation defense of PhD Candidate Shelton Lo
Title: The Impact of Environmental Exposures on Lung Cancer Recurrence and Progression
Location: HSPH, FXB #G-13
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Event: MELD Seminar
Title: Public health genetics: What it is, why it matters, and how to use it in environmental health
Speaker(s): Charleen D. Adams, PhD, MPH, Research Fellow and Lead Scientist
Location: HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Event: Harvard NIEHS Center Environmental Health in Action 2023-2024 Colloquium Series
Title: Community-Driven Research on Environmental Injustice, Energy and Health in Southern California
Speaker(s): Jill Johnston, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Spatial Sciences, USC
Location: HSPH Building 1, 1302 or Virtual
Register: Email here for Zoom access and click here to register for the trainee lunch with Dr. Johnson from 12:00 – 12:45 PM.
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Event: 22nd James L. Whittenberger Lecture
Title: Unraveling the Multifaceted Intergenerational Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: from Harvard Six Cities Study to Boston Birth Cohort Study
Speaker(s): Dr. Xiaobin Wang, Zanvyl Krieger Professor in child health, and Director of the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of pediatrics and a board-certified pediatrician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Location: HSPH, Kresge G2
Monday, May 20, 2024, 4:00 PM
Event: MEMCARE-SRC Speaker Series – Akram Alshawabkeh
Title: Environmental Contamination and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome in Puerto Rico: Overview of the PROTECT Superfund Research Center and Update on Water Purification Technology Development
Speaker(s): Akram Alshawabkeh, PhD, PE, University Distinguished Professor and Snell Professor of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University Director, PROTECT Superfund Research Center
Location: HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302 or Virtual
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Event: Department of Environmental Health Seminar Series
Title: Nature and volunteerism for youth health and well-being in our warming world
Speaker(s): Kevin Lanza, PhD, Assistant Professor at UT Health School of Public Health in Austin, member of the U.S. EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors’ Climate Change subcommittee.
Location: HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
