The Space for Alternative Research Collaboration (SPARC)   Interested in sparking new collaborations and being eligible for a new funding opportunity? Come join us, all are welcome

The aim of our Center Research Presentation series is to encourage collaboration and showcase the exciting research our members are working on. Our Center’s Mid-Career Principal Investigator Jin-Ah Park will speak on: “The airway epithelium in health and disease: Beyond the barrier.” This session will be recorded. For questions, email niehsctr@hsph.harvard.edu.   Sponsored by NIH/NIEHS ES000002

Join us for the next installment of our 2020-2021 Colloquium Series: Racism, Disparities, and Environmental Health. Dr. Sacoby Wilson of the University of Maryland School of Public Health will speak on "The Outcry for Social, Racial, and Environmental Health: Can Science and Community-Engaged Research Answer the Call?"

Our monthly Center Chalk Talks (4th Wednesdays) is a chance for members and affiliates to showcase the exciting research they are working on and solicit collaboration. This month, Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD, MPH, will present her research on: "Work in progress: Story-telling and the arsenic epidemic in South Asia."  This session will be recorded.

  Join us for the next installment of our 2020-2021 Colloquium Series: Racism, Disparities, and Environmental Health. Dr. Chandra Jackson of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) will speak on “Understanding and Addressing Structural Racism and Health Inequities: The ‘Sleep Exposome Across the Life course’ Example”.

  Schedule 11:00am              Introduction by Marc Weisskopf, Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health 11:10am              Epidemiology of Air Pollution, Dementia, and Related Outcomes (20 mins) Melinda Power, GWU Milken Institute of Public Health 11:30am              Brief Q&A (5 mins) 11:35am              Causality of Particulate Air Pollution for Mental Illness? (20 mins) Günter Oberdörster, University of Rochester Medical Center 11:55am              Brief Q&A (5 mins) 12:00pm              MODEL-AD: Modeling Environmental Influences in Transgenic Mouse Models of LOAD (20 mins) Gareth Howell, The Jackson…

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The Center 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. We ask that your Specific Aims document be sent no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, March 15th.  This will allow us to distribute materials to the review panel…

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Our monthly Center Chalk Talks (4th Wednesdays) is a chance for members and affiliates to showcase the exciting research they are working on and solicit collaboration. This month, Bernardo Lemos, PhD, will present his research on: “Old and New Markers of Aging".  This session will be recorded.

Join us for the next installment of our 2020-2021 Colloquium Series: Racism, Disparities, and Environmental Health. Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch of UC Berkeley will speak on: From the cell to the street: Research and policy strategies to address structural determinants of environmental health *Students and Postdocs: A special Trainee Session with Dr. Morello-Frosch will take place after the talk from 2:00-2:30*pm. This is a chance for students and postdocs to meet privately with our speaker to discuss…

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