Events

Non-Communicable Diseases Scientific Working Group Data Harmonization Workshop   Tuesday January 10, 2017 Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Pechet Room   Workshop RSVP https://fs3.formsite.com/divofaids/form243/index.html   Meeting Format **lunch will be provided** 5-minute presentations on SWG member datasets 30-minute Q&A Session Networking   The  HU CFAR Non-Communicable Diseases Scientific Working Group is planning a harmonization workshop for the presentation of existing datasets, cohorts, or specimens to discuss possible collaborations.   If you wish to present a cohort (sample template) at this…

Watch the Live Stream 12:30-1:00 pm EST TODAY Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Nabel has served as president of Brigham Health—comprised of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization—since 2010. A distinguished biomedical researcher and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Nabel brings a unique perspective to health care based on her experience as a physician, research scientist, academic medicine leader, and wellness advocate. In 2015, she was appointed chief health and medical advisor to…

Professor Deenan Pillay Director, Africa Health Research Institute Professor of Virology, University College London Prof Deenan Pillay is an academic clinical virologist with a research and clinical interest in HIV transmission, antiviral therapy and drug resistance. He was previously Head of the Division of Infection and Immunity at University College London (UCL). He was appointed as Director of the Africa Centre for Population Health in 2013, a Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme based in South Africa, and is now Director…

EXTREMIS (n) : in extreme circumstances; especially at the point of death. Join us for a screening of the Oscar-nominated Netflix Original documentary, Extremis, (24 minutes long) and a conversation with the physician featured in the film, Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter. The conversation will be led by Dr. Dara Lee Lewis of Brigham and Women's Hospital and The Lown Cardiovascular Group. Extremis is a verité documentary exploring the harrowing decisions that doctors, families and patients face in urgent end-of- life…

About the Boston Global Surgery Symposium The conference will include a keynote by Dr. John Meara, Chair of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. We will then have several panel sessions including: crisis and humanitarian aid, education and capacity-building, global surgery innovation, subspecialty global surgery, and global surgery research. The speakers are leaders in the field of global surgery and come from many surgical specialties, including: neuro, thoracic, trauma, general, orthopedic, ENT, plastics, cardiac, OMFS, pediatric, surg onc, OB/Gyn, and…

Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is pleased to invite you to a research seminar on Friday, March 10th from 12 to 1pm featuring Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr. El-Sadr is the University Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia University, the director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Columbia University, and director of the Global Health Initiative at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. She will speak on her current research. Lunch will be served.