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)Â No advanced registration required. For more information, email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu.Â
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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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, Qi Sun, ScD, MD, associate professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, will present his work on: "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and cardiometabolic conditions in humans". For more information, email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu. Join by Zoom
*This Specific Aims Session has been postponed. Please check back for an updated schedule. The NIEHS Center’s Specific Aims Session is open to investigators at all levels with upcoming grant submissions.  A panel of faculty members offer their critique of and suggestions for improving Specific Aims sections for junior faculty and post docs in a friendly, constructive, open session. Open to all members, collaborators and their trainees. If you…
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Join us for our colloquium series on Re-envisioning the Environment: Diverse Voices in Environmental Health. This month, we invite Catherine L. Kling, PhD, Tisch University Professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Faculty Director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. The title of Dr. Kling's presentation is: “The Social Cost of Water Pollution" This presentation will be held virtually via Zoom.  Join Via Zoom
Please join us for a special HSPH-NIEHS SPARC session, the first in a three-part series about community research. This session will cover: 1) scientists working with community members to conduct research; 2) how to report back research findings to individual community members; and 3) how to use our research to benefit the community at large. Featured speakers will include: Robin Dodson, ScD, (she/her) research scientist at Silent Spring Institute Lisa…
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, Adam Haber, assistant professor of computational biology and environmental health, will present his work: "Towards healthy homes for all: Geospatial analysis of asthma can identify dangerous indoor exposures city-wide". This event will be held via Zoom only. *This event will NOT…