Climate change is one of the, if not the, most significant threats facing our planet today. It affects life on Earth in countless known, and many still unknown, ways—from atmospheric … Continue reading “A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World”
Join us for this in-person film screening of “River of Gold,” followed by a discussion with Director Sarah duPont and Brazilian experts Cesar Diniz, Raoni Rajão, and Luiz Eloy Terena … Continue reading “Film Screening: “River of Gold” & Panel on Illegal Gold Mining in Amazonia”
Join the Department of Global Health and Population via Zoom for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series. On October 13th, Ana C. Gonzalez, MA, MD, PhD, will present, “Biolegitimacy and … Continue reading “GHP Thursday Brown Bag Seminar Series”
The Department of Epidemiology presents Speaker: Prof. Dr. Annette Peters Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München Director, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München Abstract: The German National Cohort (NAKO) is a … Continue reading “German National Cohort – A Large-Scale Longitudinal Cohort”
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker had spent his vacation huddled around the phone with advisers, trying to make sense of the “novel coronavirus” rapidly spreading through the state. On March 9, … Continue reading “Gov. Charlie Baker: An inside look at health policy challenges and solutions”
Join the Department of Global Health and Population in Building 1, Room 1208 or via Zoom for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series. On October 6th, Dr. Sima Samar will … Continue reading “GHP Thursday Brown Bag Seminar Series”
Lindsay Kobayashi, PhD, MSc, assistant professor, department of epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health and former Harvard Bell Fellow (2016–2018 cohort) and Molly Rosenberg, PhD, associate professor, department … Continue reading “Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar: “Socioeconomic conditions and cognitive aging in rural South Africa””
Longxiang Li, ScD, Research Associate, EER, HSPH Extensive unconventional oil and gas development (commonly known as “fracking”) in the past decades has changed the domestic and international energy landscape. An increasing amount of … Continue reading “MIPS Seminar: Estimating the mortality influence of exposure to unconventional oil and gas development”
Quan Lu, PhD, Professor of Environmental Genetics and Physiology, MIPS, HSPH My laboratory studies molecular mechanisms underlying complex gene-environment interactions in multigenic human diseases such as asthma and neurodegeneration, focusing … Continue reading “MIPS Seminar: Biology and application of extracellular vesicles”
Hirofumi Kiyokawa, MD PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine The proliferative state of tissue stem cells is strictly regulated to maintain the tissue structures … Continue reading “MIPS Seminar: Airway basal stem cells reutilize the embryonic proliferation regulator, Tgfβ-Id2 axis, for tissue regeneration”
