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Check out our new Recent Graduate Q&A with Rienna Russo on about what it's like to be student in cardiovascular epidemiology!
➡️ Read Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
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#harvard #PhD #epidemiology #alumni #publichealth
Department members' dogs and cats
Our community marked #NationalPetDay by celebrating the animals who are part of their daily lives.
Pets have sat in on virtual meetings, helped us decompress during busy times and offered comfort when it mattered most.
In celebration, we interrupt your feed to showcase our cute & furry friends!
Group photo in front of colorful wall of plates at Community Servings, Jamaica Plain, MA
On Thursday, April 9, 2026, a group of us volunteered at Community Servings, Jamaica Plain, MA to scoop, prep, bag and assemble meals part of our department's annual tradition since 2018.
➡️ Learn more about Community Servings and how to volunteer there: www.servings.org
#NationalVolunteerMonth
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Congratulations to Yuan Ma a recipient of the Aramont Felllowship for her project "Decoding the Biology of Longevity and Cognitive Resilience Over Four Decades: Integrating Geroscience and Population Science."
➡️ Learn more about the awardees and their projects: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Join us online on April 15th at 1pm ET for a joint seminar of the Epi Dept and Maternal & Child Health Concentration with Dr. Bill Copeland on "The Grand Challenge of Child Mental Health: Lessons from the Great Smoky Mountains Study" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
Authored by Binkai Liu, Caroline Himbert, Jane B. Vaselkiv, Colleen B. Mcgrath, Leeann Lucas, Yiwen Zhang, Chaoran Ma, Mingyang Song, Rebecca Graff, Edward Giovannucci, Meir J Stampfer, Konrad H. Stopsack, Qi Sun, and Lorelei Mucci.
Brief quote "Our findings highlight that diet remains an important modifiable factor even after a cancer diagnosis. Improving dietary quality may meaningfully reduce mortality risk among men with prostate cancer, particularly from cardiovascular disease, underscoring the role of nutrition in long-term survivorship care." By Binkai Liu, first-author.
⭐New Publication⭐
Published March 15, 2026 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute "Healthy dietary patterns and survival among men with prostate cancer."
➡️ Find paper: academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...
#healthydiet #cancer #prostate
21st Kolokotrones Symposium group photo
The 21st Kolokotrones Symposium was a success!
Thank you to our wonderful speakers for contributing their perspectives at this event, a collaboration with the Smith Center.
Recordings will be posted on YouTube in the coming weeks. Subscribe for notifications: www.youtube.com/@CAUSALab
Join us May 15th for "Screening for Major Diseases - Does it help" with speakers Hermann Brenner, Lorelei Mucci and Marc Lipsitch. The 10th Symposium in the Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine series. We invite you to register for this virtual event here: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
Two common misconceptions when repurposing data for #causalinference:
1) the target trial is an ideal trial
2) the target trial protocol can be prespecified
Our new paper examines how the target trial protocol depends on the causal question AND the available data.
journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...
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Join us online on April 8th at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Rulla Tamimi on "Research Addressing Cancer Disparities in New York City" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
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Check out our new Recent Graduate Q&A with Naiyu Chen about what it's like to be student in cancer epidemiology!
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#harvard #masters #cancer #epidemiology #alumni #publichealth
⭐New Publication⭐
“The physiological stress level with which one enters pregnancy might play a role for the pregnancy course, its outcomes, and potentially even the life-course of the child,” first-author Richard Kunzel, @hsph.harvard.edu.
➡️ Read: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Join us in person or online on April 1st at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. David Hunter on "Some Recent Results on the Epidemiology of Dementia" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
Apply now: T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Searching for a postdoc opportunity?
CAUSALab is reviewing applications for the T32 Training Program in Comparative Effectiveness Research for Suicide Prevention (Funded by NIMH, T32 MH125815).
🔗 Apply:
form.jotform.com/201476846966...
Learn more in comments. #causalinference
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Join us online on March 25th at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Elizabeth Arias on "US Life Table Program: Data Challenges, Methodological Solutions, and Moving into the Future" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
Happy Spring Recess
Spring recess begins today! We hope everyone has a relaxing and refreshing break. #springbreak #HarvardChanSchool
Happy Birthday John Snow!! March 15, 1813
Happy (early) Birthday to the father of Field Epidemiology! John Snow, who turns 213 on March 15th, is legendary for using disease mapping to determine the source of the London cholera outbreak in 1854. #JohnSnow #Epidemiology
5. Have people w/ LE review grant applications
These are their recommendations to increase both scientific rigor and the societal impact of psych gene research.
1. Create specific community engagement grants for genetics and genomics
2. Form an empowered stakeholder advisory board/steering committee @ NIMH
3. Have people w/ LE have more involvement in the strategic planning process
4. Require that people with LE are part of any research
People with LE have historically been excluded from meaningful participation in psych gene research, despite being directly affected by its goals and outcomes. The authors argue that NIMH, the largest funder of MH research worldwide, recommend 5 key changes to start correcting this.
Silhouette of a person with their head down with a bunch of crinkled printed papers around the top of their head.
A new commentary in @natureportfolio.nature.com by @annehstevenson.bsky.social, Karestan Koenen, and co-authors calls on the National Institute of Mental Health to change how people w/ lived experience of mental health (LE) conditions are included in psych gene research.
➡️ Read here: rdcu.be/e4IaT
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Join us online on March 11th at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Jordan Smoller on "Cross-Disorder Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings and Methodologic Challenges" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
Check out our new Recent Graduate Q&A with Emnet Sisay about what it's like to be student in infectious disease epidemiology!
➡️ Read Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
➡️ Learn about our 13 areas of research: hsph.harvard.edu/department/e...
#harvard #masters #infectiousdiseases #epidemiology
Members volunteering at American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge.
Members of our Cancer Epidemiology Lab volunteered at the American Cancer Society’s AstraZeneca Hope Lodge Center, where they prepared meals.
The Hope Lodge Center in Boston provides comfortable, home-like lodging for cancer patients and their caregivers during treatment. #CancerPreventionMonth
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Join us in person or online on March 4 at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Ronald Kessler on "When and How Best to Use Online Panels for Epidemiologic Research" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
2026 CAUSALab Summer Courses on Causal Inference: KTCI, TTE, CICI, ACA. Online prerequisite course: FCA.
See you in June? ☀️
Applications for the 2026 Summer Courses on Causal Inference are open! Join CAUSALab this summer to learn from the #causalinference experts on campus
@hsph.harvard.edu or online.
Learn more & secure your spot today:
hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...
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Join us online on Feb 25th at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Alfredo Morabia on "What If … Public Health Had to Be Built From Scratch? Revisiting 19th-Century Debates" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
➡️ Learn about our seminar series: hsph.harvard.edu/department/e...
New Q&A with upcoming February 25, 2026 Department of Epidemiology seminar series speaker, Alfredo Morabia, Professor of Epidemiology at Queens College, CUNY, and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
➡️ Read Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...