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From Testing to Mortality: COVID-19 and the Inverse Care Law in Switzerland

Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series Speaker: Matthias Egger, Prof.Dr.med., MSc FFPH DTM&H Head of Research Group Research – HIV, Hepatitis and Tuberculosis Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) University of Bern Abstract: Dr Egger will briefly introduce Julian Tudor-Hart’s inverse care law (“The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for the population served”), and the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland. He will then present a comprehensive analysis of the association between neighbourhood socio-economic position and testing for SARS-CoV-2, test positivity, COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths in Switzerland, based on surveillance data reported to the Federal Office of Public Health.
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anti-racism
climate change
health justice
anti-racism
climate change
health justice
health justice
leadership
health justice
leadership

Careers in Humanitarianism Webinar: Anaïde Nahikian and Saira Khan

On Tuesday, February 9 at 1:00 PM, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will host a special webinar on Careers in Humanitarianism, featuring Anaïde Nahikian, Program manager of HHI’s Executive Negotiation Project, and Saira Khan, Research Coordinator for HHI’s Signal Program on Human Security and Technology. Our panelists will describe their current humanitarian research work, chat about their career in the sector, and field questions from attendees. This event is open to all, and we encourage students who are interested in pursuing a career in the humanitarian field to join us and learn about potential career paths.
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pandemics
pandemics

Lessons from Canada’s COVID-19 Response

Canada took early steps to manage the spread of COVID-19 by closing borders, limiting travel, and instituting lockdowns at the provincial level. Although these early efforts initially succeeded in managing the spread of COVID-19, they failed to prevent a second wave of cases from overwhelming the country’s public health system. The situation became so dire in Canada’s largest province, Ontario, that private long-term care facilities required military support to manage patient care. The Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan, Canada’s Minister of National Defence, will join Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security and Faculty Director of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard Kennedy School, to discuss these and other experiences in Canada’s response to COVID-19. This conversation is part of a year-long, virtual discussion series “Crisis Leadership in a Pandemic: Lessons Learned in the Fight Against COVID-19”, sponsored by the Program on Crisis Leadership and the Ash Center. About the Speaker Minister Sajjan is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the British Columbia Regiment, with which he participated in four operational deployments. He also spent 11 years as a detective addressing gang crime with the Vancouver Police Department.
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leadership
leadership

Game Changer: Intercepting Cancer

Presented by The Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention in partnership with the American Cancer Society.
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leadership
leadership

WAPPP Seminar Series: The State of Women’s Participation and Empowerment: New Challenges to Gender Equality

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). It is therefore timely to take stock of the overarching picture of the state of women’s participation and empowerment in public life. Part I summarizes and captures relevant normative and legal policy frameworks and compares the conceptual and empirical interconnections among the three focus areas of the priority theme: women’s participation in civic society, their empowerment in political decision-making, and the elimination of violence against women in public life. The results of the analysis suggest that when women’s participation and empowerment are understood as multidimensional, evidence suggests that progress across all pillars has not advanced at the same pace worldwide. Progress in women’s participation and empowerment is limited by the continued prevalence of socially conservative cultural attitudes and by persistent gender gaps in women’s civic engagement, their representation in legislative and executive office, and their impact in transforming the public policy agenda. In many places, advancement towards gender equality in public life has commonly faltered and stagnated in recent years – or else even deteriorated – thereby falling well short of the world’s commitments to advancing fundamental principles of women’s empowerment and participation. In short, warning signs suggest that the world has been entering a chillier climate for advancing gender equality women’ rights during the 21st century. Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at HKS, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Government, has taught at Harvard for more than a quarter century. A comparative political scientist, her work focuses on democracy, public opinion and elections, political communications, and gender politics aroound the world. Google Scholar ranks her 5th worldwide in political science citations, with an H index of 104, the SSRN ranks her in the top 5% of scholars across all disciplines, and Ioannidis et al (2019) rank her as the most cited political scientist in the world.
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health justice
health systems
anti-racism
health justice
health systems

Impact of Unresolved Trauma on American Indian Health Equity

Donald Warne, MD, MPH is the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as well as the Director of the Indians Into Medicine (INMED) and Master of Public Health Programs, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota. He also serves as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board in Rapid City, SD. Dr. Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men. He received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine and his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. His work experience includes: several years as a primary care physician with the Gila River Health Care Corporation in Arizona; Staff Clinician with the National Institutes of Health; Indian Legal Program Faculty with the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; Health Policy Research Director for Inter Tribal Council of Arizona; Executive Director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board; and Chair of the Department of Public Health at North Dakota State University.
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migration
health justice
migration

‘Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era’, with Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado in Boulder Law School

Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion.The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. But the social reality is more complicated. Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. To understand citizenship from the perspective of noncitizens, this book utilizes interviews with more than one-hundred immigrants of varying legal statuses about their attempts to integrate economically, socially, politically, and legally during a modern era of intense immigration enforcement. Studying the experiences of green card holders, refugees, military service members, temporary workers, international students, and undocumented immigrants uncovers the common plight that underlies their distinctions: limited legal status breeds a sense of citizenship insecurity for all immigrants that inhibits their full integration into society. Bringing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen builds a case that formal citizenship status matters more than ever during times of enforcement and argues for constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants. Ming Hsu Chen is an Associate Professor of Law & Political Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is the Faculty-Director of the Immigration and Citizenship Law Program and holds faculty affiliations in Political Science and Ethnic Studies. Professor Chen brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of citizenship, immigration, and the administrative state and teaches courses in each of these subjects. Her book, Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford University Press, August 2000) is the subject of a TEDx talk (A New Way to Think about Citizenship, December 2020.
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health systems
pandemics
health systems
pandemics

Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: COVID-19’s Legacy & Evolving Legal Doctrines

Join us on February 2 for the first installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy Seminar Series. This seminar series will consider the ethical, legal, regulatory, and broader social and institutional impacts that COVID-19 has had, as well as the longer-lasting effects it may have on our society. This first seminar in the series will focus on the interaction of COVID-19 with health law and policy. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the United States and around the world, disrupting the global economy as well as countless institutions. The issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic present a critical juncture for the U.S. and other countries around the world. Our actions now have the potential to shape responses to future pandemics, and to ensure institutions serve all of our populations. How have our institutions, including the structure of our health care system and its attendant regulations, affected the evolution of the pandemic? What lasting changes have legal responses to COVID-19 introduced? Which institutions and intersectional issues have worsened or complicated the impact of and response to the pandemic? Join us for a critical reflection on changes the pandemic has introduced and their anticipated legacy. Join the conversation or submit questions on Twitter at @PetrieFlom using #COVIDLawPolicy.
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leadership
nutrition
leadership
nutrition
anti-racism
health justice
anti-racism
health justice

pandemics
pandemics

Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes a slightly slower arrival of the pathogen. A standard epidemiological model predicts no decrease in the harm of the pathogen if travel ceases thereafter and only a slight decrease in the harm (for plausible parameters) if travel does not cease.
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