hsph.harvard.edu http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/student-affairs/april-13-2016/ April 13, 2016 Jessica Fixsen Apr 13 2016 Need to Know: Spring Cross-Registration Petitions Processed Please Double-Check Your ALICE Registration All full-spring, spring1, and spring2 cross-registration petitions of Harvard Chan School students registering for courses OUTSIDE of the Harvard Chan School have been processed. These cross-registered courses should now appear in Harvard Chan School students ALICE course schedules in myharvardchan. We encourage students to double-check their ALICE registrations to confirm all spring cross-registered courses are listed as expected. Any questions contact stlouis@hsph.harvard.edu. Do You Need to Extend Your Visa? If you need to extend your visa, you should begin this process right away. Please see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/visa-extension/ for more information. Documents submitted by April 18 th will receive expedited processing. Academic: Fighting Fat Stigma: What Public Health Can Do to Reduce Bias and Promote Health at Every Size Tuesday, April 26, 12:30 1:20pm, FXB G-12 Are you interested in learning about fat stigma reduction and intervention strategies for public health and clinical practice? Want to learn more after our Weight of Stigma event? Join STRIPED for: Fighting Fat Stigma: What Public Health Can Do to Reduce Bias and Promote Health at Every Size A discussion and workshop facilitated by Erica Kenney, ScD, MPH & Katrina Schroeder, RD, LDN Co-sponsored by Women, Gender & Health Concentration and Behavioral Insights Student Group. We hope to see you there! Any questions contact Kimberly.Yu@childrens.harvard.edu. 1/10

Academic: Student Voices: Spring Break Abroad Wednesday, April 13, 12:30pm-1:30pm, Kresge G2 Join us this Wednesday, April 13th, for another exciting Student Voices event from 12:30p-1:30pm in Kresege G2. This week we have Michael Tetwiler and Hayami Kikuchi presenting about trips that took abroad over Spring Break. Michael will be speaking about his week spent in Palestine, and reflections about the Israel-Palestine controversy from his experiences in the country. Hayami will be speaking about her trip to Japan and will explore the factors that lead Japan to accomplish the world s longest life expectancy and the consequences Japan is facing now as the world s most aged country. Lunch will be provided. Any questions contact areddy@mail.harvard.edu. 2/10

Is Late Stillbirth Preventable? Wednesday, April 13, 12:30-1:20pm, FXB G-12 All are welcome for this week s MCH concentration seminar with Dr. Ruth Fretts of Harvard Medical School. Any questions contact kholt@hsph.harvard.edu. Decision analysis and cost-effectiveness nanocourse: Register now! Tuesdays, April 19 & 26, 1:30 PM 4:30 PM, TMEC Walter Amphitheater (HMS) The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Postdoctoral Association presents our first Nanocourse of 2016: Introduction to decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis for public health and clinical decision making. The course is free and everyone is welcome to attend! This course is designed to provide an overview to the methods and applications of health decision science and cost-effectiveness analysis. During the first session attendees will be given an introduction to structuring and evaluating a decision problem. In the second session, attendees will learn the basic principles of conducting a cost-effectiveness analysis, including a hands-on lab in decision-analytic software (TreeAge ). 3/10

Does Purpose in Life Matter for Public Health in a Rapidly Aging Society? Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 12:30pm-1:20pm Kresge 202-A SBS Fellow Presentation: Dr. Eric Kim Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Research Fellow Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Department of Epidemiology (Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology) Contact sbs@hsph.harvard.edu with questions. Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Keeping Current Seminar Series No Patient Left Behind: Social Determinants of Health Impacting Access to Radiology and the PEER project (Sponsored by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital) Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 12:00 1:00 pm, O Keeffe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital Please join us for a presentation by Efrén Flores, MD, on disparities in patient access to radiology. In this seminar Dr. Flores will present preliminary findings from of the Patient Engagement for Equity in Radiology (PEER) study, which is focused on understanding the socioeconomic factors that result in missed appointments, or missed care opportunities, in order to provide culturally sensitive health care solutions for underserved patients. The goal of the PEER project is to develop a predictive model to identify risk factors and offer personalized plans for radiology patients to improve connectivity to services and prevent missed care opportunities. All Keeping Current Seminar series events are free and open to the public. Please RSVP. 4/10

Events and Activities: Go Beyond DAGs: Visualizing Disparities with Systems Maps Wednesday, April, 13, 5:30-6:30, Kresge 200 Often in class we call SES or race an effect modifier and stop there. At our workshop, Dr. Tamarra James-Todd and Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, two experts in the role of disparities in environmental exposures, will teach students how to go beyond DAGs and visualize mediation with systems mapping. Food will be provided! Any questions contact ser697@mail.harvard.edu. 5/10

Aiming for Zero in Three : Conversations on Sexual Assault Prevention, Changing Cultures and Leadership Thursday, April 14, 12:30-1:30, Kresge 201 AND 5:30-7:00pm, G-2 April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month! Join dlov for lunch and dinner with Lieutenant General Gina Grosso, Former Director of the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office. Lunch will be an informal discussion about her career and leadership, and the day will end with an evening keynote about innovative policies and prevention programming in the Air Force. Please RSVP here. See our website for more information. 6/10

Income Distribution, Distribution of Opportunities and Income Policies in Brazil: A Next Generation of Conditional Cash Transfers Tuesday, April 19th, 12:30 1:30, Kresge G1 Income inequality fell in Brazil and in most of Latin America countries since the beginning of the new millennium when Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programs started to spread throughout the continent. What was the exact contribution of CCTs to income and health inequalities? What is the connection between CCTs and social targets based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Given the current economic difficulties and lack of fiscal space in Latin American countries and especially in Brazil, is the CCTs agenda over? Dr. Marcelo Neri is the former Minister of Strategic Affairs in Brazil and former President of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA). Contact gta343@mail.harvard.edu with questions. Plant Powered Project Hosts Meatless Monday, Take 3! Monday, April 18, 6:30 pm at Life Alive, Cambridge Meatless Mondays have proved to be a great venue to discuss dietary habits and goals, while in an low key and safe environment. Come join your classmates and explore a top rated vegetarian restaurant! Sadly, this will be our final restaurant outing. Space is limited, so please message me ASAP for a possible spot. Contact Mamta Singhvi with questions. 7/10

Harvard Chan Toastmasters Meeting! Monday, 18th April, 12:30-1:30pm at Kresge G2 Do you want to hone your presentation skills? Or are you working on your leadership abilities? Come to Toastmasters to boost your public speaking skills and confidence! Harvard Chan Toastmasters Student Club is a branch of the international organization aimed at cultivating communication and leadership skills. All interested parties are welcome to join and become members. Please email hsph.toastmasters@gmail.com with any inquiries, and go to http://goo.gl/forms/mwy46hl2jo to sign up for the mailing list. See you there! Harvard-wide Convening of Student Leaders for Elimination of Sexual Assault Friday 04/15/16, 16:00-17:00, Harvard Graduate School of Education This weekend HGSE is hosting a Harvard-wide convening of student leaders for the elimination of sexual assault. 8/10

On Friday, we will be hosting a roundtable discussion for current and future TFs and RAs if you re interested and identify as a woman we d love to have you! Insights from the conference will be gathered together in a white paper and presented to the Provost s office and we want to represent a full range of perspectives. The discussion will be: 4.00pm 5.00pm on Friday 15th April at the Ed. School. A delicious range of refreshments will be available. Come to meet fellow student leaders working in this area and have your voices heard! Please email rebeccachoongwilkins@g.harvard.edu to reserve your place and confirm location. Funding Opportunities: The von Clemm Traveling Fellowship Applications Due Monday, April 25th, 2016 The von Clemm Traveling Fellowship has modest funds to support U.S. students traveling abroad during the summer. The application is now available on our website and is due on April 25th. More information here. Any questions contact ktomaier@hsph.harvard.edu. Volunteer: Youth and Public Health Conference: Be a VIP and have lunch with high school students! Friday, April 15th, 11:30-12:20, Kresge Cafeteria Be a mentor to high school students who are interested in Public Health by sitting down and chatting with them over lunch! You could be the person to convince them that Public Health is the right path for them! Sign up by 5pm on Thursday to reserve your spot. Also, did I mention free lunch!? (For the first ~20 volunteers) Sign up on this link under #VIPLunchSquad 9/10

General: Nominate a Staff Member for the Staff Recognition Award A complement to the Student Recognition and Faculty Mentoring Awards, the Harvard Chan School Student Government Staff Recognition Award award honors two exemplary staff who have demonstrated a passion for enhancing the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community by strengthening the connection between staff, students, and faculty. The award is open to any Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health staff, and is intended acknowledge the importance of non-classroom and mentoring activities on the lives of students. Contact hsphsg@gmail.com with any questions. 10/10