Events

    2024 Mar 27

    Why Citizens Don’t Hold Politicians Accountable for Air Pollution

    4:00pm to 5:15pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Seminar Room 225, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge

    You’re invited to a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar Series event featuring Tariq Thachil, Professor, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India; Director, Center for Advanced Study of India; University of Pennsylvania.... Read more about Why Citizens Don’t Hold Politicians Accountable for Air Pollution

    2024 Feb 22

    The Environment Forum

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center 133, Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge

    "Inherently Limited by Our Imaginations: Health Anxieties, Politics, and the History of the Climate Crisis" with David Jones.

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    2023 Dec 01

    Climate and Sustainability Career Expo

    12:30pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Gutman Conference Center, HGSE, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

    Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? Come connect with over 60 employers, including the World Bank, Ceres, Natural Resources Defense Council, Avangrid, Carbon Reform, the Department of Energy, The Food Project, Green Corps, the MA Attorney General's Office, Morningstar, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, E3 and many more. Registration required, sign up today!... Read more about Climate and Sustainability Career Expo

    2023 Nov 17

    Pre-COP28 Harvard Climate-Health Delegation Briefing

    9:00am to 11:00am

    Location: 

    Hybrid

    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Global Health Institute will co-host an in-person climate-health delegation briefing for all Harvard members attending UNFCCC COP28. As space allows, we will invite additional Harvard faculty and Harvard ID holders to join the in-person convening. Students welcome!... Read more about Pre-COP28 Harvard Climate-Health Delegation Briefing

    2023 Nov 16

    Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Climate & Health

    5:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom

    The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a new series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this upcoming session, Professor Kari Nadeau will delve into the critical intersection of climate and health. Her insights will shed light on the significance of this relationship, especially as we approach COP28, where the topic of health is being addressed for the first time.... Read more about Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Climate & Health

    2023 Nov 01

    The Forever and Everywhere Contaminant: One Town's PFAS Story

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, HKS, 15 Eliot St., Cambridge & Zoom

    Concerns about the adverse impacts of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on environmental and human health are rising. Used in thousands of products since the 1940s, these so-called "forever chemicals" don't degrade easily in the environment or the human body.

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    2023 Oct 13

    Future of Cities: Extreme Heat

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge

    Extreme weather patterns are increasing; how should individuals and institutions decide what to do next? Future of Cities: Extreme Heat, the third installation of OVPIA’s Future of Cities series, will showcase a panel discussing concerns around environmental justice and public health as global average temperatures rise.... Read more about Future of Cities: Extreme Heat

    2023 Oct 05

    Temperature Is a Vital Sign: Climate Change and Population Health in Alaska

    3:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    R-414ab David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

    This seminar will highlight the efforts of physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Space, Ecological, Arctic, and Resource Limited Medicine to create a program of health monitoring with colleagues in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska to quantify and qualify the impacts of climate change on human health through the lens of emergency medical care. 

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