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SUMMARY:Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission on Depression - Official Launch Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission: time for united action on depression is set to be the most comprehensive report on depression to date.\nRegister Here!\nBy aligning knowledge about depression from many fields\, the Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission on depression has synthesised evidence from diverse contexts and generated action-oriented recommendations for a variety of stakeholders: communities and those affected by depression and their families; clinicians and public health practitioners; researchers who work to understand and address depression; and policy makers and financiers of health care. \nJoin The Lancet’s Richard Horton and Miriam Lewis Sabin for the launch of this Commission where Commission co-Chairs will present the key messages and invited speakers representing these stakeholders will discuss and reflect on the significance and implementation of these recommendations. The session will conclude with a Q&A session with the co-Chairs. \nFeatured speakers:\n• Afzal Javed\, President\, World Psychiatric Association (WPA)\n• Helen Herrman\, Chair\, The Lancet-WPA Commission on Depression\n• Vikram Patel\, Chair\, The Lancet-WPA Commission on Depression\n• Christian Kieling\, Co-Chair\, The Lancet-WPA Commission on Depression\n• Opeyemi Lawal\, Director\, Asido Foundation for Mental Health\n• Vivek H. Murthy\, U.S. Surgeon General\n• Soumya Swaminathan\, Chief Scientist\, World Health Organization\n• Anna Stavdal\, President\, World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/lancet-commission-depression-launch/
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SUMMARY:Global Equity During Pandemics: Lessons from HIV and COVID for Designing a New Paradigm
DESCRIPTION:Ongoing global Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutic inequities threaten to prolong and exacerbate the pandemic for all countries. As advocates\, academics\, and policymakers alike call for the U.S. and other wealthy nations to share these lifesaving resources with the world\, it is prudent to consider the lessons learned from the HIV pandemic that can be translated into this current moment. PEPFAR and the experiences of HIV health workers offer a roadmap and over 20 years of learnings for implementing vaccine and therapeutic scale-up and delivery efforts in low resource settings. On January 20th\, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research grand rounds event will bring together members of the HIV research and advocacy communities to critically reflect upon applicable lessons for approaching Covid-19 healthcare delivery and identify necessary steps for a paradigm shift in how the world responds to global health crises. The grand rounds will include a 1-hour panel discussion between leaders of the global HIV response and a 30-minute fireside conversation between Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. John Nkengasong. These conversations will be oriented towards practical\, timely steps that advocates\, academics\, and policymakers can take to advance equity in this and future global health crisis. Register today to join us for what promises to be insightful and urgently needed dialogue. \nRegister here! \nPanelist Biographies\nRuth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr\, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development\, Professor Okediji has advised inter-governmental organizations\, regional economic communities\, and national governments on a range of matters related to technology\, innovation policy\, and development. Her widely cited scholarship on IP and development has influenced government policies in sub-Saharan Africa\, the Caribbean\, Latin America\, and South America. Her ideas have helped shape national strategies for the implementation of the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). She works closely with several United Nations agencies\, research centers\, and international organizations on the human development effects of international IP policy\, including access to knowledge\, access to essential medicines and issues related to indigenous innovation systems. Professor Okediji was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the 2015 – 2016 High Level Panel on Access to Medicines. \nPaul Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School\, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital\, and Co-Founder and Chief Strategist at Partners In Health (PIH). For over three decades\, he has remained a dedicated leader in community-based solution\, improving health system infrastructures\, and providing equitable\, accessible\, high-quality health care for low-income countries across the globe. As a medical anthropologist and physician\, Professor Farmer has received numerous honors and awards including the Margaret Mead Award from the Society of Applied Anthropology\, the Outstanding International Physician Award from the American Medical Association and received the MacArthur Fellowship Award for his interdisciplinary work in medicine and the social sciences. \nJames Krellenstein is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Strategy & Policy at PrEP4All\, where he leads the organization’s research and policy agenda. At 18\, James designed and built the first online directory of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) providers. In New York\, he identified a previously unknown reduction in delivery of critical HIV testing and prevention services and helped lead a successful effort to increase the city’s public health budget by tens of millions of dollars to reverse this. In 2017\, James discovered a pattern of alleged anticompetitive practices by the nation’s largest manufacturer of HIV medications\, which led to a class-action antitrust lawsuit currently being litigated in Federal Court in San Francisco. James holds degrees in physics\, natural science\, and mathematics\, and has worked as a researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine\, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine\, and the CUNY School of Medicine. \nFireside Chat Speaker Biographies\nAnthony S. Fauci is the Director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases where he oversees an extensive research portfolio to prevent\, diagnose\, and treat established infectious diseases as well as emerging diseases. Throughout his fifty-year career\, Dr. Fauci has made contributed significantly to science from improving our understanding of the human immune response to developing therapies for formerly fatal diseases. He has advised seven Presidents and was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for which he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of the most cited scientists in history\, Dr. Fauci has been a key figure since the onset of the pandemic as a lead member on both White House COVID-19 Response Teams as well as providing trusted medical advice to the public. \nJohn Nkengasong is the Director of the Africa CDC and was recently nominated by President Biden for Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator of the U.S. Government Activities to Combat AIDS/HIV Globally. In March of 2020\, he was appointed as one of the Special Envoys on COVID-19 Preparedness and Response to the Director-General of the World Health Organization. Dr. Nkengasong received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2020 Global Goalkeeper Award for his commitment and contributions to ensuring vaccines and medicines for Africa. Previously\, he was awarded\, by the US CDC\, the Shepard Science Award for outstanding scientific papers as well as the William Watson Medal of Excellence for his extraordinary scientific and technical achievements. Additionally\, for his significant contributions to public health\, he received the Knight of Honour Medal by the government of the Cote d’Ivoire\, knighted by the President of Senegal\, and knighted by the government of Cameroon.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/global-equity-during-pandemics-designing-a-new-paradigm/
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SUMMARY:Young Mental Health Leaders Series: LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:Register here.  \nA recent report from the Trevor Project showed that almost half of all LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in 2020. At the same time\, only half of the youth surveyed could access wanted mental health care. As we work to build better systems\, young people are leading the way in creating conversations and solutions to improve mental health among LGBTQ+ youth. \nJoin Mental Health America and the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative for the next 60-minute conversation in our Young Mental Health Leaders Series. In each session\, we bring together leading researchers and young mental health advocates to discuss the current challenges and successes in youth mental health.  \nIn this session\, activist Juan Acosta will join Trill Project co-founders Ari Sokolov and Georgia Messinger to talk about their experiences as advocates in programs\, policy\, and organizations. The session will be moderated by Dr. Ana M. Progovac\, Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at the Health Equity Research Lab. \nPresenters\nGeorgia Messinger (she/her) is a 21-year-old founder and activist who is the current Co-Founder and COO of Trill Project\, an anonymous and safe mobile application for mental health peer support. Originally from Los Angeles\, CA\, Georgia is a rising senior at Harvard University studying psychology and computer science. In addition to social impact technology\, she is passionate about venture capital and supports Black founders seeking funding for their startups through her role at Valence. \nAri Sokolov (she/her) is a 20-year-old founder\, designer\, and developer that has won national and international awards from the National Center of Women in Information Technology\, the U.S. Congress\, South by Southwest\, Target\, and Apple for her work. Currently\, Ari is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trill Project\, a mental health application with over 75\,000 users. She is also a contributor to mental health technologies in the open-source community and an advocate for minorities in STEM. \nJuan Acosta (he/him) is an award-winning LGBTQ+\, Mental Health Advocate who serves on national committees\, speaks at conferences and festivals\, and is an NYT Bestselling Author for a book co-authored with Lady Gaga “Channel Kindness”. He drafted a historic LGBTQ+ proclamation for his hometown of Woodland\, CA. He currently serves as one of the Regional Managers for the CalHOPE Warm Line. \nAna M. Progovac\, Ph.D. is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at the Health Equity Research Lab. Her research focuses on improving the quality of mental health care in the U.S.\, with a focus on reducing disparities for underserved populations. Dr. Progovac’s projects use a variety of research methods\, including quantitative\, qualitative\, mixed-methods research\, implementation research methods\, and community-engaged research. She is interested in approaches to improve mental health that span across systems\, and therefore enjoys collaborating with students\, community members\, other researchers\, clinicians\, administrators\, and policy advocates. She is currently the Primary Investigator on an NIMHD R03 award (and past recipient of a Harvard Catalyst Health Disparities Pilot Award) which both focus on measuring and reducing mental health care disparities for gender minority individuals in the United States. She is also the recipient of a Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Kaplen Award to conduct a mixed-methods analysis of an implementation of a behavioral health home for patients with serious mental illness\, as well as its potential for dissemination to additional sites within Cambridge Health Alliance.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/gmh_and_mha_youth_webinar_series_lgbtq/
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SUMMARY:A Perpetual Crisis: Reflections on Renewed Public Health Failures at the U.S./Mexico Border
DESCRIPTION:In March 2021\, a record number of children arrived at the U.S./Mexico border\, challenging capacity at US Customs and Border Protection facilities and placing newfound pressure on the Biden Administration to act promptly. However\, this humanitarian crisis is not new\, nor is it a direct result of a new U.S. government administration. For decades\, the U.S. has failed to improve a system ill-equipped to handle the needs of vulnerable refugees and migrants. As children wait in overcrowded jail-like structures and COVID-19 remains a threat\, concerns about who will continue to suffer at the border\, and for how long\, persist. \nThe Harvard Global Health Institute and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights invite you to join us on Thursday\, May 13th for a follow-up conversation building off 3 previous events focused on the health crisis at the border. Given the historical patterns of inaction from the U.S. and Mexico governments\, and the evolving humanitarian crisis at the border\, expert panelists will critically evaluate the current situation and address what steps must be taken to establish a humane environment at the border. \nRegister here!
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/a-perpetual-crisis-reflections-on-renewed-public-health-failures-at-the-u-s-mexico-border/
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SUMMARY:Young Mental Health Leaders Series: Peer Support & Youth Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:Co-Hosted by GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard & Mental Health America  \nRegister for the webinar here!  \nWith increasing rates of distress among young people\, young leaders are stepping up to transform how we approach mental health. Youth peer support programs are growing in popularity because young people want them and because research shows peer support works. To build on this momentum\, we must equip young people with the tools and skills to support themselves and their peers and invest in youth peer support programs wherever young people spend their time. \nJoin us for the first webinar in Mental Health America and the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative’s Young Mental Health Leaders Series\, Peer Support and Youth Mental Health. Satvik Sethi of Runaway App will discuss how his app creates opportunities for young people to receive support and promote positivity. Martin Raffety and Tia Barnes of Youth Era will discuss UpLift\, a 5-day virtual event developed alongside the University of Oxford that empowers young people with the tools to support themselves and their peers. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Cindy Liu\, Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program within Pediatric Newborn Medicine and Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. \n  \nPanelist and Moderator Bios: \n  \nSatvik Sethi is a 22-year-old mental health activist and social entrepreneur on a journey to make the world happier. Originally from New Delhi\, India\, Satvik currently lives and works in New York. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Runaway\, a social venture promoting mental health awareness and helping those in need of emotional support. Runaway has been featured by UNICEF\, the World Health Organization\, Vice\, etc. Satvik also serves as an Independent Expert Advisor at Wellcome Trust UK to guide research and policy development for youth mental health. \nMartin Rafferty is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Youth Era\, a national nonprofit that is revolutionizing current thinking about how we view youth engagement. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center highlighted Martin Rafferty as one of eight global changemakers. He was awarded the “2010 Oregon Mental Health Award of Excellence”\, “Advocate of the Year” by the Oregon Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2013 and was named one of the “20 Under 40 Rising Business Stars” in 2018. Most recently\, Martin was awarded the “2020 Henry J. Grass MD Access Award” by the Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association. \nTia Barnes is the Chief Program Officer at Youth Era where she oversees the organization’s international direct services\, program development\, and national technical assistance. She was a key designer of the Youth Era Drop Model\, a co-creator of Youth Peer Support Specialist certifications across the nation and has provided training to agencies to increase youth voice within their programs. Most recently\, she was a lead designer of an international cultural responsiveness training for youth and young adults. Barnes was one of the authors to create UpLift\, an international peer-to-peer course provided to high schoolers from four different countries as a joint research project with the University of Oxford. In addition to her extensive experience\, among other honors\, Tia received an Award of Excellence in the Field of Youth Peer Support in 2015. \nDr. Cindy H. Liu is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School\, the Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program within the Departments of Pediatric Newborn Medicine and Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital\, and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on stress and mental health within the lifespan\, including the perinatal period and young adulthood\, and she is currently a principal investigator for the COVID-19 Adult Resilience Experiences Study\, a longitudinal study that seeks to understand the experiences of college students and young adults throughout the pandemic. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and featured in various outlets included the New York Times\, USA Today\, and CBS News.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/gmh_and_mha_youth_webinar_series_peer/
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SUMMARY:Decarceration as a Public Health Strategy: Stopping the Spread of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:The second event in our series will consider prison depopulation or decarceration in response to the threat of COVID-19 in places of incarceration. In response to the growing number of COVID-19 outbreaks in these facilities\, public health experts\, civil rights attorneys\, and advocacy groups have made urgent appeals for decarceration. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, prison decongestion measures have been adopted in over 100 countries worldwide. However\, decarceration and prison depopulation isn’t straightforward. It raises a host of questions and challenges around issues such as recidivism\, racial equity\, and support systems for those reentering society.   \nTo examine these issues\, this webinar will bring together a diverse panel of researchers\, practitioners\, and activists to discuss the role of decarceration as a part of the public health response to COVID-19 and examine current decarceration efforts around the world.   \nSpeakers: \nRahul Vanjani \nRahul Vanjani (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Rahul received his MSc at the University of Oxford in Integrated Immunology\, and MD at George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian. \nRahul is a primary care physician with board certifications in Internal and Addiction Medicine. His clinical work is based out of the Rhode Island Hospital Center for Primary Care\, the academic residency clinic of Brown University’s Internal Medicine residency program. There\, he works in the Transitions and Recovery Clinics\, where\, in partnership with community health workers/peer recovery specialists\, he provides primary care and wraparound services to patients with histories of carceral exposure and substance use. Rahul’s clinical practice also includes street medicine outreach once weekly in partnership with peers and case managers from House of Hope. Partnering with and teaching medical students and residents is a central part of his clinical work. \n=Rahul’s research interests include structural violence with a focus on the intersection between the carceral and medical systems\, use of buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid use disorder\, the roles and responsibilities of community health workers in health systems\, and the public defender-medical partnership. Rahul also directs the Social Medicine course\, a month-long clinical elective for third- and fourth-year Brown University medical students with three central tenets: providing housing and other forms of advocacy support to patients via a Social Medicine Assistance Clinic\, participating in patient care with peers\, social workers and health care providers who practice street outreach and addiction medicine\, and engaging in a weekly social medicine reading group that grounds the work in theory. \n  \nMadhurima Dhanuka \nMadhurima Dhanuka is the Programme Head of the Prison Reforms Programme. In this capacity\, she leads\, manages and develops initiatives of the team in order to improve prison conditions; strengthen prison oversight mechanisms; strengthen pre-trial decision making; ensuring access to prompt and effective legal aid for persons in custody; and protecting rights of vulnerable prisoners including women\, transgenders and foreign nationals. She is a lawyer with an LL.M. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nottingham\, UK.  She has been associated with CHRI since 2008\, and has published numerous studies\, reports and resource materials on issues relating to prisoners\, legal aid and the criminal justice system.  \n  \nLisa Puglisi \nLisa Puglisi\, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale University where she practices primary care and addiction medicine. She is the director of Transitions Clinic-New Haven\, a multi-disciplinary clinic that is part of a national network of programs that focus on care of individuals who are returning to the community from incarceration. Her clinical practice includes treatment of addiction and hepatitis C in primary care and she also oversees a medical legal partnership. She has developed specific skills in training\, hiring and supervising community health workers and directing interdisciplinary teams of physicians\, midlevel providers\, community health workers\, research personnel and legal colleagues around the work of clinical care and research to improve the health of people with recent incarceration. She is originally from the New Haven area and deeply committed to the community. Lisa received her undergraduate degree from Tufts University\, her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her medical training at Yale New Haven Hospital. \nLeslie Credle \nLeslie Credle was released from Federal Prison in 2018. Since release she has been on a mission to dismantle the carceral system and end incarceration for women and girls. \nSadly\, while incarcerated\, Leslie endured the loss of her beloved daughter\, Brianna aka “Breezy” to gun violence. Turning her pain into purpose\, utilizing her lived experience\, Leslie has become a fierce prison abolitionist and social justice advocate. You can find Leslie advocating for formerly incarcerated individuals and those with a criminal record to obtain sustainable equitable housing.   \nThrough her creative soul\, Leslie developed a model\, Hands On Defense (HOD)\, which is designed to disrupt the screening criteria used by Public Housing Authorities\, who determine if justice-involved applicants merit housing. \nNortheastern University Alumni and 2020 Cohort of Columbia University\, Women Transcending Collective Leadership Institute\, Leslie is someone to pay attention to.  She is destined to be a future leader in the movement to end incarceration of women and girls.  \n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/decarceration-as-a-public-health-strategy-stopping-the-spread-of-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Pandemic Preparedness: Making Equity a Strategic Priority
DESCRIPTION:Disjointed\, nationalist treatment and prevention efforts have largely characterized the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The failure by governments to establish an equitable\, coordinated pandemic response has perpetuated oppressive global inequities. Nowhere is this more apparent than with vaccine distribution efforts. Despite the rapid development of life-saving vaccines\, nationalist distribution approaches and weak global solidarity have left the most vulnerable populations with inadequate support. Given that global infectious disease outbreaks will only become more common in the future\, identifying ways to center equity in pandemic preparedness remains more relevant and critical than ever. Join us on Thursday\, April 29th from 9:00 – 10:00 AM EST for a forward-looking discussion with global experts on how we can learn from the failures of the COVID-19 pandemic response to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself.\n\n\n\nRegister here
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/reimagining-pandemic-preparedness-making-equity-a-strategic-priority/
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SUMMARY:Building Vaccine Confidence: Global Trends and Practical Solutions
DESCRIPTION:Despite the rapid development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines\, resistance to immunization threatens to prolong the arc of the pandemic globally. The drivers of vaccine concern are both vast and population-specific\, ranging from misinformation and media manipulation campaigns to historical legacies of medical exploitation among marginalized communities. As such\, responses must be intentional\, data-driven\, and account for the full spectrum of motivations that may prompt resistance to immunizations. Addressing a truly multidisciplinary challenge\, efforts to build vaccine confidence require engagement from an array of key stakeholders\, including civil society\, government officials\, academics\, and the private sector. Join us on Thursday\, April 8th from 9:00 – 10:30 AM EST for a timely discussion on the global implications of vaccine concern\, sociotechnical drivers of resistance\, and strategies for increasing vaccine confidence among the most vulnerable communities.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here!
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/building-vaccine-confidence-global-trends-and-practical-solutions/
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons\, Jails\, and Detention Centers: Historical Perspective and Global Context
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons\, Jails\, and Detention Centers: Historical Perspective and Global Context is the first event in a new series hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute in partnership with Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. This webinar will bring together a diverse set of panelists to address the current state of the COVID-19 virus in places of detention and incarceration around the world\, and discuss how historical contexts for present-day carceral conditions\, like overcrowding\, and current practices\, such as solitary confinement\, have enabled the virus to spread. By critically examining the history of global carceral systems\, we aim to highlight how deliberate design has exacerbated harm to this population\, reinforcing inequality and discrimination\, and thwarting efforts to respond to the virus. \nREGISTER HERE \n\nSpeakers: \nKeynote Speaker & Panelist: Bruce Reilly \n \nBruce Reilly\, is Deputy Director of both VOTE\, and Voters Organized to Educate. He is a writer\, and founding member of the Formerly Incarcerated\, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM). Bruce provides expert analysis on discrimination in employment\, housing\, and voting rights. Originally born into foster care\, he found his identity as a young jailhouse lawyer for 12 years before his parole\, and a 2-hour bus ride to a minimum wage job. Bruce put his knowledge to work by joining Direct Action for Rights & Equality in 2005\, and played a vital role in passing significant criminal justice reforms\, such as the restoration of voting rights\, eliminating mandatory minimums\, statewide Ban the Box\, the Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Act\, unshackling incarcerated pregnant women\, and probation violation reform. In 2011\, Bruce moved to New Orleans\, team up with VOTE\, and enroll in Tulane Law School\, despite having no undergrad degree\, and graduated in 2014. Bruce co-founded Transcending Through Education Foundation (TTEF) with two friends who also entered prison at a young age\, and earned law degrees after being released. He is the author of “Communities\, Evictions\, and Criminal Convictions\,” a foundational report on public housing\, and “The Racial History of Felon Disenfranchisement in Louisiana\,” which served as a key building block to VOTE v. Louisiana and the re-enfranchisement of 40\,000 people\, including himself. Bruce serves on the board of All Square\, a reentry/restaurant program in Minneapolis; the National Clean Slate Clearinghouse Advisory Committee; Steering Committees for Unanimous Jury Coalition\, Louisianans for Prison Alternatives\, Power Coalition; the IRB for American Institutes of Research; and advisory board of Prison Policy Initiative.  Bruce is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leader\, and has also worked as an artist\, lighting designer\, DJ\, and theatre director. \nModerator: Salmaan Keshavjee MD\, PhD\, ScM \nSalmaan Keshavjee MD\, PhD\, ScM\, is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Global Health Delivery.  He is also a physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital\, where he is Associate Professor of Medicine. \nDr. Keshavjee is a leading expert in tuberculosis treatment and the anthropology of health policy. He is the author of Blind Spot: How neoliberalism infiltrated global health­.  He has worked extensively with the Boston-based non-profit Partners In Health (PIH) on the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).  Over the last 20 years\, Dr. Keshavjee has conducted clinical and implementation research on MDR-TB in Russia\, both in the prison and civilian sectors.  He was Deputy-Director for the Partners In Health’s health programs in Lesotho (2006-2008)\, launching one of the first community-based treatment programs for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis/HIV co-infection in sub-Saharan Africa. More recently\, he has been working with Advance Access & Delivery\, a non-governmental organization for which he is a co-founder and clinical advisor for projects in India and South Africa.  His research has resulted in a number of clinical and policy manuscripts on TB and MDR-TB\, which have had significant clinical and policy impact. \nDr. Keshavjee is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Zero TB Initiative\, a global coalition of implementers\, policy-makers and activists working to create islands of tuberculosis elimination in a number of countries worldwide.  He was the Chair of the World Health Organization/Stop TB Partnership’s Green Light Committee for Multidrug-resistant TB from 2007-2010.  He has been involved in a number of global guidelines for tuberculosis treatment including at the World Health Organization and the American Thoracic Society.  During the Covid-19 epidemic he has been involved with the work of the START coalition\, committed to using layered technologies to keep public spaces safe from airborne disease transmission. \nPanelists:  \nDr. Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda \nDr. Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda is a public health specialist and researcher with over 30 years of experience. Her broad experience lies in health systems research\, design\, implementation\, monitoring and evaluation of public health interventions inclusive of HIV/AIDS\, maternal\, child and adolescent health. She has conducted evaluations in public health interventions within Zimbabwe and the SADC region. She currently works as a researcher and technical advisor within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences\, Family Medicine\, Global and Public Health Unit\, Centre for Evaluation of Public Health Interventions\, University of Zimbabwe. In the past seven years she has mainly focused on research on health of people in penal institutions within the Southern African Region. She is a reviewer for the International Journal of Prisoner Health. In 2020 she was appointed a committee member for the World-Wide Prison Health Research and Engagement Network (WEPHREN) Scientific Conference but this was postponed to a date yet to be announced due to Covid-19 global pandemic. \n \nCharlene J. Fletcher \nHistorian\, educator\, and writer\, Charlene J. Fletcher\, is the Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and Justice at Brown University. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University\, specializing in 19th century United States and African American history and gender studies. Prior to attending IU\, Charlene led a domestic violence/sexual assault program as well as a large reentry initiative in New York City\, assisting women and men in their transition from incarceration to society and also served as a lecturer of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. She currently serves as National Publications Director for the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH). \n  \n  \n \nMarcelo Bergman \nMarcelo Bergman is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Argentina and writes on a variety of issues related to crime\, public security\, illegal drugs and public policies in Latin America. Other areas of research include taxation\, compliance and rule of law in the region. Bergman is particularly interested in evidence-based research on criminal justice\, citizen security and illegal drug polices in Latin America\, with a focus on sound data collection. Over the past two decades\, he has dedicated much of his work to developing data sets for the analysis of these social issues.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/covid-19-crisis-in-prisons-jails-and-detention-centers-historical-perspective-and-global-context/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210401T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210401T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
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SUMMARY:Protection and Mental Health Assistance for Communities Affected by COVID-19 in Peru
DESCRIPTION:Carmen is a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Global Health and Population. She is also a Harvard LEAD Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. Currently\, Carmen serves as the Director of Mental Health at Socios En Salud (Partners In Health) in Peru where she coordinates diverse research projects on the understanding and improvement of tuberculosis (TB) affected populations\, community health\, and mental health. She has over 25 years of experience as a public health professional. \nThis event is open to the public. No registration is necessary!
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/protection-and-mental-health-assistance-for-communities-affected-by-covid-19-in-peru/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Virtual: Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210311T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210311T103000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210223T140103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T154758Z
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SUMMARY:Promoting Vaccine Equity: A Global Perspective on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Promoting Vaccine Equity: A Global Perspective on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution is the first event in a new series focused on global vaccine equity hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute\, in partnership with Ariadne Labs and the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). In this webinar\, global experts will convene to lay the groundwork for understanding the current scope of the vaccine distribution crisis and the historical relevance of its challenges. Panelists will review the status of national and bilateral vaccine distribution efforts\, offer insights into pertinent lessons learned from analogous public health responses\, and discuss anticipated on-the-ground challenges to vaccine rollout in countries in Africa and across the globe. Join us on Thursday\, March 11th from 9:00am EST – 10:30am EST as we consider the current state of global COVID-19 vaccine distribution and necessary steps for a path towards equity.\n\n\nRegister here!\n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/from-vaccine-nationalism-to-equity-a-global-perspective-on-covid-19-vaccine-distribution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210309T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210309T110000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210113T131434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T171550Z
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SUMMARY:Creating Women Leaders: The Missing Links of Mentorship and Networking
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) invites you to participate in a dynamic satellite session\, “Creating Exceptional Women Leaders: The Missing Links of Mentorship and Networking.” \nThis event will feature a power-packed panel discussion with HGHI’s esteemed LEAD Fellows\, a skills workshop with an executive leadership coach and exclusive mentorship mini-meets. Participants will gain insights on applicable lessons learned from the professional journey of women leaders from around the world\, get answers to courageous questions on cultivating leadership in your context\, build networking skills and experience flash-mentorship. Join us in what will be a phenomenal opportunity to unleash your leadership potential.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/creating-women-leaders-the-missing-links-of-mentorship-and-networking/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210225T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210225T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T111313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T171419Z
UID:10000116-1614258000-1614261600@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Donald R. Hopkins\, MD\, MPH: “Eradicating the Guinea Worm: Challenges in the Beginning and at the End”
DESCRIPTION:The global Guinea Worm Eradication Program began at the CDC in 1980 and has been led by The Carter Center since 1986 in cooperation with the endemic countries\, CDC\, WHO\, UNICEF and other partners.  It has reduced the number of human cases of Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5 million in 20 countries in 1986 to 54 cases in 5 countries in 2019.  After successfully overcoming several challenges such as under-reporting\, misunderstanding\, and lack of funding at the outset\, the campaign now faces end-stage challenges such as unexpected infections in some dogs and other animals\, as well as insecurity and unsafe access to some endemic areas.  New or modified control measures and robust research efforts are in place to help stop transmission in the remaining areas.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/donald-r-hopkins-md-mph-eradicating-the-guinea-worm-challenges-in-the-beginning-and-at-the-end/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210223T130000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T114216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T153640Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: The Use of Biotech in the COVID-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 23 for the third installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption\, Impact\, and Legacy Seminar Series. \nThis 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 third seminar in the series will focus on the use of biotech in the COVID-19 pandemic. \nThe 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. \nHow 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.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-series-covid-19-and-the-law-the-use-of-biotech-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210223T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210223T113000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210114T123826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T153638Z
UID:10000105-1614072600-1614079800@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Global Diet Quality Score: A New Method to Collect and Analyze Data on Diet Quality
DESCRIPTION:This remote launch event will include a series of presentations to describe final results of work to develop and validate the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS)\, a new metric of diet quality appropriate for use in low- and middle-income countries. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about a GDQS-focused supplement submitted to the Journal of Nutrition and to preview the technology assisted data collection system that has been developed for collecting GDQS data in population-based surveys.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/global-diet-quality-score-a-new-method-to-collect-and-analyze-data-on-diet-quality/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210216T131500
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T113505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T153640Z
UID:10000121-1613476800-1613481300@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Health Justice and the Path Forward
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 16 for the second installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption\, Impact\, and Legacy Seminar Series. \nThis 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 second seminar in the series will focus on the impact of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable populations. \nThe 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. \nHow 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. \nJoin the conversation or submit questions on Twitter at @PetrieFlom using #COVIDLawPolicy.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-series-covid-19-and-the-law-what-covid-19-teaches-us-about-health-justice-and-the-path-forward/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210216T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210216T123000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T113913Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Unconscious Bias
DESCRIPTION:All of us have unconscious biases that may prevent us from making equitable\, inclusive decisions. In this workshop\, you will explore what unconscious bias is and how it manifests in the workplace. You will leave this session with an understanding of: \n\nthe different types of bias and where they originate from\nhow biases can influence workplace decisions and interactions\nhow to recognize bias within yourself and others\nstrategies for mitigating bias and making more informed decisions\n\n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/understanding-unconscious-bias/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210211T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210211T180000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210204T151157Z
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SUMMARY:Lessons from Mexico's COVID-19 Response
DESCRIPTION:With daily reported cases reaching approximately 12\,000\, Mexico is among the top 15 countries with known cases of COVID-19. This high rate of infection has challenged Mexico’s leaders to adapt and respond effectively while also forcing them to spend considerable time countering criticism of their efforts. Zoé Alejandro Robledo\, Director General of the Mexican Institute of Social Security\, will join Ricardo Hausmann\, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School\, to discuss the country’s experience with COVID-19\, including both the successes and the many challenges its leaders have encountered as they seek to bring the crisis to an end. Thalia Porteny\, postdoctoral fellow at the Lab on Research\, Ethics\, Aging and Community Health (REACH Lab)\, will offer intro remarks and will recite the Harvard Land Acknowledgement. \nThis 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. \nZoé Alejandro Robledo earned his Masters in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and also holds certificates from George Washington University and John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has served in several senior government roles including Senator for the State of Chaipas and Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/lessons-from-mexicos-covid-19-response/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210211T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T111806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T171419Z
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SUMMARY:Department of Global Health and Population Thursday Brown Bag Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th at 1PM ET for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series which features an informal talk and Q&A session. \n\nTopic: Promoting Access to HIV Services among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Malawi\nSpeaker: Cynthia Mambo\, MA\nCynthia is currently a Visiting Scientist within the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also a Harvard LEAD Fellow. Additionally\, she is the Deputy PEPFAR Coordinator at the US Embassy in Malawi.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/department-of-global-health-and-population-thursday-brown-bag-series/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210210T190000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210204T150138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T165804Z
UID:10000128-1612980000-1612983600@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Where Do We Go from Here? Making Progress Toward Racial Equity
DESCRIPTION:In his inaugural address\, President Biden denounced the rise of political extremism and white supremacy\, stating: “A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear. And now a rise of political extremism\, white supremacy\, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.” In recognition of Black History Month\, Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean Iris Bohnet will moderate a conversation with Dr. Robert Livingston regarding the most effective path for addressing systemic racism on Wednesday\, February 10th at 6 pm ET. The interview will draw from Professor Livingston’s newly published book: The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations \nSpeakers and Presenters\n​Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean Iris Bohnet will moderate a conversation with Dr. Robert Livingston \n 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/where-do-we-go-from-here-making-progress-toward-racial-equity/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210210T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T111500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T165804Z
UID:10000117-1612962000-1612965600@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:From Testing to Mortality: COVID-19 and the Inverse Care Law in Switzerland
DESCRIPTION:Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series \nSpeaker: \nMatthias Egger\, Prof.Dr.med.\, MSc FFPH DTM&H\nHead of Research Group\nResearch – HIV\, Hepatitis and Tuberculosis\nInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)\nUniversity of Bern \nAbstract: 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.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/from-testing-to-mortality-covid-19-and-the-inverse-care-law-in-switzerland/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210210T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T110426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T165804Z
UID:10000115-1612962000-1612965600@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Outcry for Social\, Racial\, and Environmental Justice: Can Science and Community-Engaged Research Answer the Call?
DESCRIPTION: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?”
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/the-outcry-for-social-racial-and-environmental-justice-can-science-and-community-engaged-research-answer-the-call/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210202T135627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T171419Z
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SUMMARY:Careers in Humanitarianism Webinar: Anaïde Nahikian and Saira Khan
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur panelists will describe their current humanitarian research work\, chat about their career in the sector\, and field questions from attendees. \nThis 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.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/careers-in-humanitarianism-webinar-anaide-nahikian-and-saira-khan/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210204T145549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T153640Z
UID:10000127-1612803600-1612807200@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lessons from Canada's COVID-19 Response
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. \nAbout the Speaker \nMinister 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.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/lessons-from-canadas-covid-19-response/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210129T121917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T171419Z
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SUMMARY:Game Changer: Intercepting Cancer
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention in partnership with the American Cancer Society.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/game-changer-intercepting-cancer/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210204T130000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210121T144436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T171419Z
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SUMMARY:WAPPP Seminar Series: The State of Women’s Participation and Empowerment: New Challenges to Gender Equality
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration\nand Platform for Action (1995). It is therefore timely to take stock of\nthe overarching picture of the state of women’s participation and\nempowerment in public life. Part I summarizes and captures relevant\nnormative and legal policy frameworks and compares the conceptual and\nempirical interconnections among the three focus areas of the priority\ntheme: women’s participation in civic society\, their empowerment in\npolitical decision-making\, and the elimination of violence against women\nin public life. \nThe results of the analysis suggest that when women’s participation\nand empowerment are understood as multidimensional\, evidence suggests\nthat progress across all pillars has not advanced at the same pace\nworldwide. Progress in women’s participation and empowerment is limited\nby the continued prevalence of socially conservative cultural attitudes\nand by persistent gender gaps in women’s civic engagement\, their\nrepresentation in legislative and executive office\, and their impact in\ntransforming the public policy agenda. In many places\, advancement\ntowards gender equality in public life has commonly faltered and\nstagnated in recent years – or else even deteriorated – thereby falling\nwell short of the world’s commitments to advancing fundamental\nprinciples of women’s empowerment and participation. In short\, warning\nsigns suggest that the world has been entering a chillier climate for\nadvancing gender equality women’ rights during the 21st century. \nPippa Norris\, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at\nHKS\, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Government\, has taught\nat Harvard for more than a quarter century. A comparative political\nscientist\, her work focuses on democracy\, public opinion and elections\,\npolitical communications\, and gender politics aroound the world. Google\nScholar ranks her 5th worldwide in political science citations\, with an H\nindex of 104\, the SSRN ranks her in the top 5% of scholars across all\ndisciplines\, and Ioannidis et al (2019) rank her as the most cited\npolitical scientist in the world.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/wappp-seminar-series-the-state-of-womens-participation-and-empowerment-new-challenges-to-gender-equality/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210203T130000
DTSTAMP:20260726T234739
CREATED:20210128T105758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T165805Z
UID:10000114-1612353600-1612357200@globalhealth.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Impact of Unresolved Trauma on American Indian Health Equity
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/impact-of-unresolved-trauma-on-american-indian-health-equity-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210203T130000
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SUMMARY:'Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era'\, with Ming Hsu Chen\, University of Colorado in Boulder Law School
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMing 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.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/pursuing-citizenship-in-the-enforcement-era-with-ming-hsu-chen-university-of-colorado-in-boulder-law-school/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Law: COVID-19’s Legacy & Evolving Legal Doctrines
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 2 for the first installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption\, Impact\, and Legacy Seminar Series. \nThis 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. \nThe 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. \nHow 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. \nJoin the conversation or submit questions on Twitter at @PetrieFlom using #COVIDLawPolicy.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/seminar-series-covid-19-and-the-law-covid-19s-legacy-evolving-legal-doctrines/
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SUMMARY:Nutrition and Global Health February Seminar: Estimating the burden of disease related to multiple micronutrient deficiencies
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will provide an overview of the process of estimating the burden of disease related to multiple micronutrient deficiencies (i.e. zinc deficiency\, vitamin A deficiency\, Iodine deficiency\, and Iron deficiency ) in the Global Burden of Disease study.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/nutrition-and-global-health-february-seminar-estimating-the-burden-of-disease-related-to-multiple-micronutrient-deficiencies/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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