Kresge Cafeteria Registrants will enter through the FXB Lobby
10:00 am—Welcome Remarks
Kresge Cafeteria
Erin Driver-Linn, PhD Dean for Education, Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
10:30 am—Transition to Departmental Breakout Sessions
10:45 am—Departmental Breakout Sessions
Biostatistics
Speed Networking for Biostatistics Faculty and Alumni
Location: FXB Atrium Meet as a small group with individual faculty in rotating, 10-minute sessions. Discussions will have a career development focus.
Participating Faculty: Drs. John Quackenbush, Sebastien Haneuse, Junwei Lu, Paige Williams, and Heather Mattie
DrPH
A Public Health Crisis: Ukrainian Refugees
Location: Kresge 110 Meet your fellow graduates and participate in a case discussion with Dr. Bean about the public health crisis for Ukrainian refugees.
Moderator: Dr. Bill Bean
Environmental Health and Nutrition
Bridging the Gap Between Nutritional and Environmental Sciences
Location: Building 1, Room 1302 Participate in a discussion with faculty on environmental health and nutrition topics.
Presenters: Drs. Francine Laden, Jaime Hart, and Jorge Chavarro
Epidemiology, Clinical Effectiveness, and Quantitative Methods
Ask Me Anything: Q&A Roundtables with Harvard Chan Faculty
Location: Kresge 200 and 201 The Department of Epidemiology will be hosting a Q&A session with a number of faculty who serve as instructors of our core courses and directors of our graduate programs. Alumni will have the opportunity to connect with faculty in small group discussions. Topics will include research and other public health-related projects, educational work, and general career advice.
Presenters: Drs. Pamela Rist, Albert Hofman, Murray Mittleman, Heather Baer, John Orav, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Lorelei Mucci, and Howie Sesso
Global Health and Population
Vaccinating the World Against COVID-19: Rationale and Challenges
Location: Kresge 202 Meet your fellow GHP graduates and participate in an open discussion with faculty about vaccinating the world.
Moderator: Dr. Marcia Castro Panelists: Drs. Richard Cash, Margaret Kruk, Stephen Marks, Margaret McConnell, Nicolas Menzies, and Daniel Wikler
MPH in Health Management & Master in Health Care and Management (MHCM)
Revitalizing Marsh Manufacturing as a “Health” Business in the Community
Location: FXB G-13 Meet your fellow graduates and participate in a case study discussion with Dr. Siegrist about revitalizing marsh manufacturing.
Moderator: Mr. Rick Siegrist
MPH in Health Policy
Are We Moving Away from the Free Market Era in Health Care? Evidence in Both Directions
Location: FXB G-11 Meet your fellow graduates and participate in a case study discussion with Dr. McDonough about whether we are moving away from the free-market era in health care.
Moderator: Dr. John McDonough
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Public Health Response to the Pandemic
Location: Kresge 606 Presenters: Mr. Alan Geller and Dr. Shoba Ramanadhan
Racism and Health: New Developments Since 2020
Location: Kresge 708 Presenters: Drs. Nancy Krieger and Natalie Slopen
Meet your fellow SBS graduates and discuss current events as it relates to SBS with each other and participating faculty. Two concurrent breakout sessions will be held for SBS students. Please attend the session of most interest to you.
11:45 am—Break
12:00 pm—Faculty Panel Presentations
A Shared Vision: Working Across Disciplines to Address Health Disparities
Room Kresge G-1
Moderator
Tamarra James-Todd, PhD Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology
Panelists
Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management; Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
Monik Jimenez, ScD Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
Ichiro Kawachi, MBChB, PhD John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
Climate Change: Public Health Implications
Room Kresge G-2
Moderator
Howard Koh, MD, MPH Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership
Panelists
Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH Interim Director, Harvard C-CHANGE; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
Renee Salas, MD, MPH, MS Yerby Fellow, Harvard C-CHANGE; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Global Health Institute
Preparing for the Next Public Health Crisis
Room Kresge G-3
Moderator
Joseph G. Allen, MPH, DSc Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science
Panelists
Barry Bloom, PhD Joan L. and Julius Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Emeritus
Phyllis Kanki, DVM, DSc Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences
Eric McNulty, MA Associate Director, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
Note: These panels will be video recorded.
1:00 pm—Lunch
Kresge Cafeteria
Seating available in Cafeteria and Courtyard
