Our monthly Center Chalk Talks series (4th Wednesdays) is a chance for members and affiliates to showcase the exciting research they are working on and solicit collaboration. This month, Dr. Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, will present her work on: "Community and Precision-Based Approaches to Reduce and Prevent Asthma Disparities." This event will be held virtually via Zoom. For more information, email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu.
The Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Heath offers to review your Specific Aims for upcoming grant submissions. In a friendly, constructive open session, a panel of Center senior faculty members offer to review and critique of your document. Sessions are open to investigators at all levels. For more information please email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu
***Updated 10/20/21: This session has been changed to a ZOOM only presentation (no in-person). We hope to still see you at 2pm!*** Join us for our colloquium series on Re-envisioning the Environment: Diverse Voices in Environmental Health. This month we invite Sam Myers, MD, MPH, principle research scientist in the HSPH Department of Environmental Health and director of the Planetary Health Alliance, to speak on “Introducing planetary health with some…
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Do you want to learn how you can use social media to share your research with peers, the press, and other stakeholders? Then join us for our next SPARC session on “Social Media for Environmental Scientists,” featuring Emily Copeland from the Science Communication Network. Co-hosted by the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the MEMCARE Superfund Research Center, this session will involve a one-hour presentation followed by informal…
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Our monthly Center Chalk Talks series (4th Wednesdays) is a chance for members and affiliates to showcase the exciting research they are working on and solicit collaboration. This month, Peter James, MHS,ScD, will present his work on: “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Novel Approaches to Understanding How Exposure to Nature Influences Human Health." Due to the Harvard Graduate Student Union’s planned strike, this presentation will be via Zoom only.…
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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we will hold this year’s retreat as a virtual meeting on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Please save the date in your calendar! We want to take this opportunity to start thinking about the direction of our next competing renewal. As climate change is one of the most urgent environmental issues facing the planet today, this seems like a natural and important area on which…
Please join us on Wednesday, Nov. 10 from 1-2pm via Zoom for the next installment of our Center’s colloquium series on Diverse Voices in Environmental Health. Rick Woychik, PhD, director of the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIEHS), will speak on: Climate Change and Health and Precision Environmental Health: Emerging New Areas of Focus for NIEHS. This talk will be held via Zoom only. Unlike our previous colloquium series…
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**UPDATE** This SPARC session has been canceled. The next session will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Do you miss informally chatting with colleagues to stimulate new scientific ideas? Then join us for a SPARC Session. The topic of this month's session is: (TBD) No advanced registration required. For more information, email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu.
Join us for our colloquium series on Re-envisioning the Environment: Diverse Voices in Environmental Health. This month, we invite Kevin Elliott, PhD, a philosopher at Michigan State University who studies the role of values in science as well as a range of ethical issues related to science and technology. Much of his scholarship is related to social issues raised by environmental pollution, and he is the author of the book Is a…
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Join us for our colloquium series on Re-envisioning the Environment: Diverse Voices in Environmental Health. This month, we invite Tracey Heatherington, PhD, associate professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia, whose research examines environmental concerns in the context of social justice. The title of her presentation is: "Nourishing Futures: Rethinking Agriculture in Un/Predictable Environments" This presentation will be held virtually via Zoom. Students and Postdocs: We will…
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