Harvard’s Annual Conference: Psychedelics Intersections: Cross-Cultural Manifestations of the Sacred February 17, 2024: 9-6:40 pm, James Room, Swartz Hall, 45 Francis Ave. Organized by: The Center for the Study of … Continue reading “Harvard’s Annual Conference — Psychedelics Intersections: Cross-Cultural Manifestations of the Sacred”
The Health and Human Rights journal (HHR), co-published by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center) and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, … Continue reading “Deadline: Health and Human Rights Journal Call for Papers on Distress Migration and the Right to Health”
The Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series Speaker: Naomi Allen, DPhil, MSc Professor in Epidemiology The Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford Open to the public Abstract: UK Biobank, … Continue reading “UK Biobank: A Unique Global Resource for Health-Related Research and Discovery Science”
Research involves increasingly complex arrangements for the storage and transmission of research data. Data privacy and security planning is necessary to protect research subjects and to safeguard sensitive, personally identifiable … Continue reading “I’ve Generated Data, Now What?: The When, Where, and How of Data Storage”
Over the next six weeks, Countway Library will play host to the National Library of Medicine’s traveling exhibit on comics in medicine, titled Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! Join us for … Continue reading “Defining Graphic Medicine: Opening Panel for the NLM Traveling Exhibit “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!””
Ultra-processed foods are everywhere; the category includes many cereals, breads, yogurts, and frozen dinners — not to mention sweets and sodas. In fact, they make up nearly 60% of the … Continue reading “The dangers of ultra-processed foods”
The 175th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine Speaker: Rochelle Walensky Fellow, Petrie Flom Center, Harvard Law School Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School … Continue reading “An Action-Oriented Response to Public Health: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go”
Join us for an insightful online session on bias with AI in healthcare featuring Dr. Leo Anthony Celi of MIT & Harvard and Robin Farmanfarmaian, co-author of How AI Can … Continue reading “AI and Healthcare Bias”
While homelessness is a consistent and growing problem throughout the US, rates of homelessness vary around the country. What explains these variations? Why, for example, are rates are so much … Continue reading “Homelessness is a Housing Problem”
Among the potential drivers of disease, the puzzling role of inflammation has captivated scientists. While acute inflammation is beneficial in protecting our immune systems, chronic inflammation has been linked to … Continue reading “The hidden link between inflammation and disease”