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September 2021
The Workplace and Worker Well-Being: Work as a Social Determinant of Health
Join us online for the first seminar in our 2021-2022 seminar series, "The Workplace and Worker Well-Being: Work as a Social Determinant of Health," presented by Dr. Lisa Berkman. Dr. Berkman is the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research…
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Seminar Series: Dr. Arthur Brooks
Dr. Arthur C. Brooks is Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School. His research interests include conservatism, free enterprise, and philanthropy. Before joining the Harvard faculty in July of 2019, he served as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank in Washington, DC. Dr. Brooks became the 11th president…
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Seminar Series: Dr. Andrew Steptoe
Dr. Andrew Steptoe is Head of the Department of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London (UCL), and Director of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. He also directs the psychobiology research group at UCL. He was appointed British Heart Foundation professor of psychology at UCL from 2000-2016, and also served as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the Institute of Epidemiology and…
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Seminar Series: Dr. Cindy H. Liu
Dr. Cindy H. Liu is assistant professor of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital; director of multicultural research, Commonwealth Research Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on culture and socio-emotional development, and race and ethnic disparities as they related to maternal and child mental health. Location: TBD
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Seminar Series: Dr. Vish Viswanath
Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is Co-Director of the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness and Faculty Director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center…
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Seminar Series: Dr. Kristen Nishimi
Dr. Kristen Nishimi is a Research Advisor at the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness and a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. Her research examines the impact of trauma and adversity exposure on both mental and physical health outcomes across the life course. She aims to use rigorous epidemiological and data science…
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