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Leadership in the Quest for Health Equity | David Satcher | Voices in Leadership
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- Leadership in the Quest for Health Equity | David Satcher | Voices in Leadership
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- 24:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States and Founding Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on October 27, 2015.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
David Satcher is Director of the...
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- Lessons of the brain: the Phineas Gage case
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The story of Phineas Gage illustrates some of the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between personality and the functioning of the brain's frontal lobe. A construction foreman from Vermont, Gage survived an accident while laying railroad tracks, during which a 13-pound tamping iron blew straight through his head.
Gage’s skull, along with the tamping iron that bore through it, are two of the approximately 15,000 artifacts and case objects conserved at the Warren Anatomical Museum, which is a part of the Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard.
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- Targeted Delivery of Vascular Therapeutics
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The Wyss Institute has developed a targeted vascular nanotherapeutic (Vascular NanoRx) platform that targets drugs to stenotic (narrowed) sites in blood vessels to treat life-threatening and debilitating clotting disorders, such as stroke, pulmonary embolism, acute coronary syndrome (myocardial infarction, unstable angina), thrombosed hemodialysis access sites, and potentially atherosclerosis. The platelet-sized Vascular NanoRx microaggregates (large blue aggregates) disperse into drug-carrying nanoparticles (blue dots) when exposed to high shear stress caused by a clot that narrows a blood vessel, resulting in concentration of drug-coated nanoparticles at the site of the stenosis. Learn more at wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/443
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- ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On John Wieners | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:37:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- This wide-ranging, poignant, revelatory, and often hilarious exploration of John Wieners featured a conversation with his dear friends: Ammiel Alcalay, Jim Dunn, Raymond Foye, Fanny Howe and Gerrit Lansing. With an introduction by Robert Dewhurst, co-editor of SUPPLICATION: SELECTED POEMS BY JOHN WIENERS (Wave Books, 2015) and the author of a forthcoming biography of Wieners.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: October 21, 2015, at the Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University.
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- Ancient Food and Music at Harvard
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- As part of the Harvard class “Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives” students assembled, tuned and played replicas of the world’s oldest known instruments, and sampled food based on 4,000-year-old recipes.
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- Drug Pricing: Public Health Implications | The Forum at HSPH
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- 1:03:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- A full course of treatment with the blockbuster Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi costs $84,000 in the United States. A year on the new injectable cholesterol drugs Repatha and Praluent tops $14,000. The price of new cancer drugs now averages $10,000 per month, according to one estimate. Straining under the pressure, doctors, patients, and insurers are raising alarms over skyrocketing prices. Earlier this year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology released a new “value framework” for drugs that considers health benefit and price to help guide doctor-patient conversations around treatment options. For their part, pharmaceutical companies and some economists argue that the high cost of drug development justifies the price. This Forum explored the factors driving the high cost of new drugs. What policy changes, from the drug approval process to patent law, could change the equation? Are some of these drugs worth the cost? And what can be done to make sure that patients can afford the medi...
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- Harvard Explores the Trouble with Jellyfish
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- They can be pretty, but having too many of them is a problem. The subject is jellyfish, the focus of a new exhibit at Le Laboratoire Cambridge.
“The Trouble with Jellyfish” was created by artist Mark Dion in collaboration with marine biologist Lisa-ann Gershwin and David Edwards, the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Idea Translation in Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a core faculty member in Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and founder of Le Laboratoire.
Working with Edwards’ Harvard students, Dion and Gershwin explored future solutions to increasingly large and frequent jellyfish blooms that are a telltale sign of degraded ocean ecosystems. The Trouble with Jellyfish illustrates the problem is less the jellyfish than the pollution, overfishing, and climate change that are undercutting healthy ocean life, and helps to show what is happening and what can be done about it.
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- Karole Armitage | Punk Ballerina || Radcliffe Institute
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Karole Armitage views ballet as a science of motion—and a brilliant science, at that. Ballet “gives you tools to use your body, to control your body, to have freedom to do what you want.” Armitage has earned her liberation in dance through her philosophies and her infusion of punk rawness, crowning her the punk ballerina. She is the Mildred Londa Weisman fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2015-2016.
From her lecture, “Naked Body Language; Dance is Time and Gesture is Meaningless”
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- The Girls of War in 1914 and 2014: The Evolution of the Protection Racket
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- 1:17:49
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- How have gender roles in war changed over the last century? As women have openly joined militaries and paramilitary organizations, the roles of women in service have advanced and diversified. In the United States, the Combat Exclusion Policy was recently lifted to allow women to serve in frontline combat and complete combat operations. Despite increasing numbers of countries beginning to expand the role of women in their militaries, an analysis comparing the U.S. media coverage of British girls in World War I and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign in 2014 suggests that significations of girls as wars’ innocent, hapless victims in need of men’s protection remain prominent in media outlets. This seminar revisits Sue Rae Peterson’s (1977) idea of the ‘protection racket’ to analyze the current status of women in 21st century war and conflict.
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- DNA | The Future Utility of DNA || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:42:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- THE FUTURE UTILITY OF DNA SCIENCE
Moderator: Christine Seidman (00:44), Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jacob Corn (2:41), Scientific Director, Innovative Genomics Initiative; Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Murdoch (32:54), Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Head of Department, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Fertility Centre for Life, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Floyd Romesberg (59:45), Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
AUDIENCE Q&A (1:27:35)
CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards (1:38:24), Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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- DNA | Mammoths, Neanderthals, and Your Ancestors || Radcliffe Institute
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- 2:23:20
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
INTRODUCTION
Janet Rich-Edwards (9:17), Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MAMMOTHS, NEANDERTHALS, AND YOUR ANCESTORS
Moderator: George Church (24:37), Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
John Hawks (29:29), Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beth Shapiro (54:36), Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spencer Wells (1:20:16), scientist, author, entrepreneur, and former explorer-in-residence and director of the Genographic Project at National Geog...
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- DNA | The Ethical Frontier of DNA || Radcliffe Institute
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- 39:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- THE ETHICAL FRONTIER OF DNA
Arthur Caplan (2:20), Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU School of Medicine
Introduced by Danielle Allen, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and Professor, Department of Government and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
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- DNA | Forensic DNA Investigation || Radcliffe Institute
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- 44:42
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- FORENSIC DNA INVESTIGATION
Greg Hampikian (1:06), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Joint appointment in Department of Criminal Justice, Director of the Idaho Innocence Project, Boise State University
Introduced by Janet Rich-Edwards, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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- Energy Revolution
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- 1:04:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- We can launch an energy revolution that drastically decreases CO2 emission and other deleterious consequences associated with fossil fuel burning. Energy extraction can be cut by more than 50% by converting fossil fuel burning engines to electric motors and replacing fossil fuel burning power plants with renewable sources. In addition, energy efficient systems and improvements in computation and connectivity can significantly reduce energy consumption and lower energy costs. These goals can be achieved using commercially available technologies. New technologies may offer even greater opportunities.
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- RoboBee: From Aerial to Aquatic
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The RoboBee is a miniature robot that has long been able to fly. But what if the RoboBee lands in water? Using a modified flapping technique, researchers at the Harvard John Paulson School and Wyss Institute have demonstrate that the RoboBee can also swim. This is the first-ever aerial and aquatic capable insect-scale robot. For more information, please visit http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/592
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- teamLab brings interactive art to Harvard's Radcliffe Institute
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- What’s it like to walk into a living dream, one you can control with a simple wave of your hand? To find out, stop by Radcliffe’s newly refurbished Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery in Byerly Hall, where a new interactive installation on view through Dec. 19 transforms the viewer into the virtual artist.
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- Harvard Climate Change Experts Focus on China
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- A new, multidisciplinary, collaborative project to investigate climate change, energy security, and sustainable development in China has received the first $3.75 million grant from the new Harvard Global Institute.
The project, led by atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, and economist Dale Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor, and designed with Harvard China Project Executive Director Chris Nielsen, will join with Chinese collaborators to explore the intersections of diverse fields. A core group of studies will leverage Harvard strengths in energy science, atmospheric chemistry, and climate science. Another will link economics, engineering, atmospheric science, and environmental health in national policy assessments. A third will relate urban transportation, air quality, and associated risks to human health in a case city, Chengdu. The project will also seed new work in social sciences, history, and Chine...
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- HUBweek Fenway Forum at Faneuil Hall
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- 1:21:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Should we try to live forever? Make machines that can outthink us? Create perfect kids?
HUBweek hosted an unprecedented civic event, led by one of the world’s leading political philosophers, in an iconic Boston setting: Faneuil Hall, on Sunday October 4th.
Harvard’s Michael Sandel has been described as “the most relevant living philosopher,” a “rockstar moralist,” (Newsweek) and “currently the most popular professor in the world.” (Die Zeit)
During the Fenway Forum at Faneuil Hall, he led an all-star panel featuring Arianna Huffington, Yo-Yo Ma, Alexis Wilkinson, Andrew McAfee and Sherry Turkle in a lively discussion—with audience participation—about some hard ethical questions and the meaning of citizenship today.
The event featured special musical performances by the Silk Road Ensemble.
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- The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts: David Grossman
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- 1:40:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Born in Jerusalem in 1954, David Grossman is a leading Israeli writer of his generation, and his work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels and two powerful journalistic accounts, as well as a number of children’s books and a play. His latest book, Falling Out of Time, was published in 2014. In a New York Times review of Grossman's 2010 novel To the End of the Land, Colm Toibin wrote, “He weaves the essences of private life into the tapestry of history with deliberate and delicate skill; he has created a panorama of breathtaking emotional force, a masterpiece of pacing, of dedicated storytelling, with his characters whose lives are etched with extraordinary, vivid detail . . . . To say this is an antiwar book is to put it too mildly, and in any case such labels do an injustice to its great sweep, the levels of its sympathy. . . . This is one of those few novels that feel as though they have made a difference ...
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- State of the Podcast, 2015 | Berkman Center
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- 1:09:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Less than 15 years after the RSS 2.0 standard was developed (by Berkman Center fellows!), paving the way for the subscribe-able audio medium we know as "Podcasts," four leading figures in the invention and re-invention of the podcasting come together to discuss the past, present, and future of serialized audio content.
Chris Lydon (Radio Open Source), Jake Shapiro and Kerri Hoffman (PRX), and Benjamen Walker (Radiotopia's Theory of Everything) are led in conversation by Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Chris Bavitz.
More info on this event here:
https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/99040
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- 2015 Harvard Horizons Symposium
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- 1:20:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Harvard Horizons, a competition at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the ideas and innovations of PhD students at Harvard, selected 8 finalists as 2015 Horizon Scholars. Their talks were delivered at the Harvard Horizons Symposium in Sanders Theatre on May 6, 2015.
See all of the talks and read about Harvard Horizons: http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/horizons
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- teamLab at Radcliffe | What a Loving and Beautiful World || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- teamLab has created a multimedia installation that generates a colorful and multisensory experience that continuously evolves. Based in Japan, teamLab is a consortium of artists, engineers, and computer scientists specializing in unique “Ultra-technological” installations at the intersection of contemporary art, design, engineering, and computer science. Find out more at http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-teamlab-exhibition.
teamLab at Radcliffe: What a Loving and Beautiful World opens on October 16, 2015, and runs through November 14, 2015.
This exhibition will be on view in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard. The gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, from noon to 5 PM.
Free and open to the public.
Concept: Sisyu and teamLab
Calligraphy: Sisyu
Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
teamLab at Radcliffe: What a Loving and Beautiful World is presented with support ...
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- THE POET’S VOICE: Erin Moure & Chus Pato | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:22:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- During their first shared U.S. reading tour, Canadian poet/translator Erin Moure and Galician poet Chus Pato gave a riveting reading from SECESSION/INSECESSION (Bookthug, 2014). Additional works included Erin Moure’s KAPUSTA and Chus Pato’s CARNE DE LEVIATAN/FLESH OF LEVIATHAN (Chus Pato, trans. Erin Moure). The event was co-sponsored by Rethinking Translation.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: September 29, 2015, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
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- The Influence of Decision Contexts and Role Models on Women's Risk Preference
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- 1:18:43
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Research on gender and risk taking indicates men have a greater tolerance for risk compared to women. This seminar explores the effects of gendered contextual cues on women’s risk preferences. Heidi Liu discuses experimental and archival data that finds women become more risk averse in masculine stereotypical realms in decision contexts. She shares analysis from an intervention tested to mitigate women’s risk aversion in masculine decision contexts: exposure to a counter-stereotypical role model (e.g., women succeeding in masculine-stereotypical performance domains).
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- The European Refugee and Migrant Crisis | The Forum at HSPH
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- 59:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Staggering numbers of refugees and migrants are flooding into Europe, fleeing war and political instability and seeking safe haven and economic opportunity. They are risking their lives on perilous journeys into an uncertain future. Who are the refugees and migrants, and what forces are driving them from their homes? What will it take to meet their urgent and immediate needs for food and shelter, and what will be the long-term economic impact of the migration on the cities and countries where the displaced ultimately settle? To understand this crisis, and accompanying public health challenges, this Forum brought together experts in human rights, international relations, and humanitarian response.
Presented October 6, 2015 in collaboration with PRI's The World & WGBH.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
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- Women in Biotech | Defining and Analyzing the Problem || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:42:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Daniel Carpenter (12:26), Director of the Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
DEFINING AND ANALYZING THE PROBLEM
Laurel Smith-Doerr (23:04), Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Deborah Dunsire (38:28), President and CEO, Forum Pharmaceuticals
Alison Wood Brooks (54:50), Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Moderated by Monica Higgins (17:44), Kathleen McCartney Professor in Education Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Panel discussion 1:07:52
Audience Q&A 1:17:21
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- Women in Biotech | Solutions and Strategies || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:56:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- SOLUTIONS AND STRATEGIES: WHAT WORKS AND WHAT HAS NOT?
Victoria A. Budson (13:15), Executive Director, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Ann DeWitt (31:52), Senior Director of Investments, Sanofi-Genzyme Bioventures
Robin Ely (48:23), the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
Moderated by Anula Jayasuriya (00:53), Founder, EXXclaim Capital; Cofounder, Evolvence India Life Science Fund and India Life Science Fund II
Panel Discussion 1:09:19
Audience Q&A 1:27:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Janet Rich-Edwards (1:51:33), Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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- Mamphela Ramphele | Can African Women Redefine Liberation for All? || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 56:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Mamphela Aletta Ramphele BI ’89, of South Africa, is interested in whether African women can redefine freedom for the benefit of all. If so, what would it take to redefine freedom? How different would such redefined freedom be from the postcolonial and postapartheid freedom Africa is experiencing now? What values, systems, and practices would characterize freedom for all as a lived experience? And why should we focus on African women as agents of change?
Opening remarks by Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University
Introduction by Jane Kamensky, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library
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- Revisiting Race, Criminal Justice and Health: What Has -- and Has Not Changed -- in the U.S.
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- 1:03:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, last year, the U.S. has seen the growth of a new social movement that has focused national attention on policing tactics, criminal justice, and the continued health and social inequalities confronting black Americans today. Legislation that would require states to notify the U.S. Justice Department of all police shootings, fatal and non-fatal, has been introduced. President Obama made an historic visit to a federal prison to draw attention to the need for criminal justice reform. This Forum explored these efforts and other policy shifts over the past year, looking at what has — or has not — occurred in addressing these serious problems facing black Americans in today’s policing policies, the operation of the criminal justice system, and the continued presence of inequitable health and social conditions.
This discussion built upon a February 2015 Forum production that examined the intersection of race with policing practices,...
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- Helpful Guidance for an Effective Search Process
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- 1:30:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Panelists:
Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Women and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science and Chair of the Astronomy Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Moderators:
Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Senior Advisor to the FAS Dean on Faculty Development, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Judith D. Singer, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
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- How Coffee Loves Us Back
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Coffee is everywhere, through history and across the world. And increasingly, science is demonstrating that its popularity is a good thing.
Harvard scientists have for years put coffee under the microscope. Last year, researchers announced they had discovered six new human genes related to coffee and reconfirmed the existence of two others. The long-running Nurses’ Health Study has found that coffee protects against type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Researchers are continuing to follow up on 2001 findings that it protects against Parkinson’s disease.
The work at Harvard is just part of an emerging picture of coffee as a potentially powerful elixir against a range of ailments, from cancer to cavities.
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- Rethinking Cholesterol: Drug Developments and Lifestyle Choices
- Runtime
- 1:00:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- For decades, statins have served as the “go-to” drug for patients with high cholesterol. Now, a new class of cholesterol-reducing drugs, PCSK9 inhibitors, just approved by the FDA, offers a possible alternative to statins. Adding to the changing landscape of cholesterol treatment are recommendations from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, issued in 2013, that dramatically expanded the number of people who could potentially receive statins to prevent heart attack or stroke. Together,
these developments have renewed focus on cholesterol as a major health issue. What role might this new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs play? How might their cost impact access and insurance coverage? What lifestyle factors, especially dietary fats, influence the prevention and treatment of cholesterol-related risk factors?
Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this webcast was presented September 24, 2015 in Collaboration with Reuters...
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- Leadership in Public Service | Howard Koh | Voices in Leadership
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- 32:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Howard K. Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on September 22, 2015.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Dr. Howard K. Koh is Harvey ...
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- The Biases that Blind Us: How Gender Stereotypes Constrain Opportunities for Women in STEM
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- 1:13:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- What is the impact of gender biases on promotion and advancement in the scientific community? Dr. Corinne Moss-Racusin shares her latest research exploring the impact of gender biases on meritocracy, diversity, and the pursuit of knowledge throughout academic science. She discusses educational strategies designed to increase awareness and reduce bias, and provides examples of effective scientific diversity interventions.
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- New Faculty Institute 2015 | Introduction: Judith D. Singer, Provost Alan Garber
- Runtime
- 26:27
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Judith D. Singer, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity
Alan Garber, Provost
Elizabeth Ancarana, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity
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- Exploding Stars with Dan Milisavljevic | CfA
- Runtime
- 56:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Approximately once every second, somewhere in the universe a star ends its life in a catastrophic explosion called a supernova. These cosmic blasts shape and enrich their parent galaxies, produce exotic objects like neutron stars and black holes, and manufacture the heavy elements that make planets like Earth – and its life – possible. Dan Milisavljevic explores cutting-edge research that is unraveling the many mysteries of supernova explosions, and highlight recent breakthroughs in our ability to survey supernova debris fields in 3D and diagnose a star's impending doom.
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- New Faculty Institute 2015 | Katia Bertoldi, James Mitchell, Laurence Ralph
- Runtime
- 56:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- New Faculty Institute 2015 | Perspectives from Associate Professors: Establishing Your Reputation as a Scholar
Katia Bertoldi, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
James Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Laurence Ralph, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
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- New Faculty Institute 2015 | Julie Buckler, Darren Higgins, Devah Pager
- Runtime
- 1:03:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- New Faculty Institute 2015 | Perspectives from Tenured Faculty: Navigating Your Professional Path as a Scholar
Julie Buckler, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Darren Higgins, Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
Devah Pager, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Harvard Kennedy School
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- Reserving Time for Daddy: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Fathers' Quotas
- Runtime
- 1:16:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Paternity leave, men's role in childcare, and their work-life balance have become more commonly discussed topics by policymakers and business leaders. What kinds of policies succeed in getting fathers involved in their children's lives from the beginning? What are the long-term consequences for families, in terms of fathers' and mothers' careers, incomes, and the division of household labor at home? In this seminar, Ankita Patnaik discusses how parental leave schemes can be designed to induce fathers to participate and whether small changes in the initial parenting experience can have lasting effects on both parents' behavior. She presents findings from a study that shows that even a few weeks of paternity leave can have a large and persistent impact on sex specialization in the long-term by encouraging a more equal distribution of household responsibilities.
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- In Memoriam: Stanley Hoffmann (1928 - 2015) | Mahindra Humanities Center
- Runtime
- 26:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 20 Questions with Stanley Hoffmann, discussing his essay "The Foreign Policy the U.S. Needs." From November 21, 2006.
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- Leadership in Innovation | Gerald Chan | Voices in Leadership
- Runtime
- 27:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Gerald Chan, Chairman and CEO of Morningside Group, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on September 9, 2015.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Gerald Chan is the co-founder of Morningside, a private investment group with venture, private equity and property investments. In the...
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- What Works: Gender Equality, By Design
- Runtime
- 1:15:47
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- With gender equality increasingly a business imperative, in addition to being a human right, many leaders across the sectors wonder how we can get there. In the first WAPPP Seminar of 2015-16, Professor Bohnet discusses her forthcoming book What Works: Gender Equality, By Design (Harvard University Press 2016). Reviewing the impact of what we have been doing to date, including diversity and leadership trainings, networking, and mentorship/sponsorship programs, Bohnet proposes a new approach to leveling the playing field. Building on insights from Behavioral Economics, she argues that to overcome gender bias in organizations and society, we should focus on de-biasing systems—how we evaluate performance, hire, promote, structure tests, form groups—rather than on trying to de-bias people.
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- HUBweek 2015
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- HUBweek is an invitation. An invitation to wander. To ask why and why not. To be a part of something bigger. And to celebrate the world-changing work, art and thinking being imagined and built in Greater Boston. Join robots, change-makers, leaders and the curious from October 3-10, 2015 for a series of events, unexpected experiences and celebrations taking place all across the city.
For more information, visit http://hubweek.org/.
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- Bioinspired Robotics: Smarter, Softer, Safer
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- 6:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Bioinspired Robotics platform at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering looks into Nature to obtain insights for the development of new robotic components that are smarter, softer, and safer than conventional industrial robots. By looking at natural intelligence, collective behavior, biomechanics, and material properties not found in manmade systems, scientists at the Wyss Institute and around the world are building new kinds of robots that can co-exist and coordinate with humans. In the future, researchers envision humans and robots will interact in ways we never previously imagined.
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- Harvard’s Dunster House Renewed, Reopening August 29, 2015
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- 0:27
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The sun is set to rise over a renewed Dunster House, as Harvard College prepares to reopen one of its earliest River Houses after an 15 month renovation project that was the first in the University’s House Renewal effort.
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- Time-lapse of Harvard College Class of 2019 Move-In Day
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- 0:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Harvard Yard bustles with activity on move-in day as the Class of 2019 makes Harvard their home. For more: https://storify.com/harvard/move-in-2015
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- Harvard report: Dogs reduce stress
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A recent Harvard Medical School report, “Get Healthy, Get a Dog,” (http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/having-a-dog-can-help-your-heart--literally) highlights the many health and social benefits of having a dog, including reducing stress, being more active, and promoting social connection. Here we meet a few prominent members of Harvard’s canine community, and learn from Elizabeth Pegg Frates, clinical assistant professor at the Medical School, about how they might be a wonderful addition to any community.
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- Pathogen-Extracting Sepsis Therapy
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- 2:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This video explains how sepsis induced by an overload of blood pathogens can be treated with the Wyss Institute’s improved pathogen-extracting, spleen-mimicking device. Blood is flown through a cartridge filled with hollow fibers that are coated with a genetically engineered blood protein inspired by a naturally-occurring human molecule called Mannose Binding Lectin (MBL). MBL is found in our innate immune system and binds to toxic invaders, marking them for capture by immune cells in the spleen.
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- Repository Services
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- 1:13:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Paul Bracke, Michael Witt, and Merce Crosas discussed their knowledge of repositories. Many universities are developing data repository services, and many others are considering the development of similar services. This panel presented and discussed established research data repository services. Speakers discussed the design, deployment, and sustainability of such services, as well as strategies for faculty and researcher engagement around the data repositories.
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- Effective Data Management Use & Reuse: Closing Summary
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- 34:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Rick Luce, Ph.D. summarized the symposium and presented ideas for next steps.
