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Global Health Colloquium: "The National Overdose Crisis: Causes, Solutions and What You Can Do"
Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

Almost 110,000 Americans died from drug overdose last year, more than car accidents or gun deaths. Join us for a pivotal talk by Scott Walters, PhD, on the roots and impact of the national overdose crisis. Dr. Walters will trace the history of the crisis through changes in prescribing practices, the evolution of the heroin supply, economic…

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
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Free & open to the public
Gender Policy Network Reproductive Justice Panel
Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

SPIA’s Gender & Policy Network, in partnership with CHW, GSS, and Public Affairs, is hosting a panel discussion on the changing policy and legal landscape for reproductive justice in the United States. The panel will take place in Arthur Lewis Auditorium in Robertson Hall. All undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, researchers,…

Location
Robertson Hall, Arthur Lewis Auditorium
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Free & open to the public
Asa Cristina Laurell: Health Reforms in Latin America
Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 3:00 pm4:20 pm

Health care systems in Latin America have been subject  to substantial reforms for many years. Over the past two decades, scholars and policy experts have debated between two models of health care reform: one that proposes the creation of a market for health insurance and the competition among private and public institutions, and an…

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Location TBA (open to students, faculty, visiting scholars & staff)
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Queer Demography Summit
Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 8:00 am6:00 pm

This historic day-long summit brings together some of the nation’s and the world’s leading demographers of queer populations to discuss the state of queer demography. It will examine how the field has challenged and advanced general understandings of core demographic methods and research practices, as well as contributed substantive new…

Conference on Determinants and Dynamics of Viral Emergence and Establishment in Human Populations
Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 8:00 amFri, Apr 12, 2024, 6:00 pm

Organizers: Andrea L. Graham, Bryan T. Grenfell, C. Jessica E. Metcalf

Most circulating viral infections of humans began as diseases of animals and established in humans via a pandemic. The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is on this transition. Its dynamics have illustrated how little we know about how non-linear…

Location
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Room 407 Jadwin Hall
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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 4:30 pm5:30 pm
Location
Robertson Hall, Arthur Lewis Auditorium (Room 100)
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Conference on The Promise and Potential of Animal Vaccines in Global Health
Wed, Oct 2, 2024, 9:00 amThu, Oct 3, 2024, 5:00 pm

Coordinated international efforts to expand access to human vaccines yielded vast gains in global health. Parallel efforts in animal vaccination could yield similarly vast benefits, increasing food security and reducing risks to human health, from evolution of antibiotic resistance to pandemic emergence. The area remains largely unexplored and…

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