Scenes from the summer courses 📸 Week 1 welcomed participants to Key Topics in Causal Inference (KTCI) & Target Trial Emulation (TTE). Today kicked off Combining Information for Causal Inference (CICI) & Advanced Confounding Adjustment (ACA). Looking forward to a great Week 2!

⭐New Publication⭐ Published June 9th @annalsofim.bsky.social "Continuing Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Into the First Trimester of Pregnancy Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study Using Claims Information." ➡️ Read paper: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Kjetil Bjornevik helped confirm Epstein-Barr virus as the leading cause of multiple sclerosis and has found that healthy diets in midlife may benefit long-term cognitive health. He recently spoke about his research and what’s next for his work. https://bit.ly/433hdyE

⭐New Publication⭐ Published May 20th in @jamanetworkopen.com "Optimal Dietary Patterns for Lower Weight Gain and Risk of Obesity Surrounding Menopause." ➡️ Read paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Congratulations to the Class of 2026 🎉 With the academic year now concluded, we invite you to watch our annual year end video which reflects on the past academic year and celebrates the accomplishments of our community. ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmE4... #HarvardChan26

CAUSALab's Summer Courses on Causal Inference are back @hsph.harvard.edu! We are thrilled to kick off CAUSALab's week one courses today, Key Topics in Causal Inference (KTCI) & Target Trial Emulation (TTE). Attending KTCI or TTE? Be sure to tag us.

⭐New Publication⭐ Published in the May 27 issue of Cell Host & Microbe "Long-lasting gut microbiome and fecal metabolome alternations after colorectal adenoma removal and their relationship to colorectal cancer." ➡️Read: www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... ➡️HSPH article: hsph.harvard.edu/news/colorec...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Spring Rose Traveling Fellowship 🎉 This award recognizes the graduates' commitment to global public health and provides them a opportunity to enhance their research and contribute to chronic disease #epidemiology and #biostatistics.

Congratulations to all of this year's graduation awards winners! In particular, we would like to recognize the following members of our department who won: Teaching Fellow Awards Léa Cavalli Mai-Han Trinh Mentoring Awards Yuan Ma ➡️ Read more: hsph.harvard.edu/news/graduat...

Scenes from our department's May 26th graduation party! Please join us in congratulating again all the 161 graduates from our epidemiology department across our PhD, MPH, and SM programs! 🎉 #HarvardChan26 ➡️ Read about Convocation: hsph.harvard.edu/news/trust-t...

Today marks the conclusion of our May spotlight on the Human Flourishing Program! To stay informed about the latest events and news on #globalflourishing, be sure to visit their website: hfh.fas.harvard.edu!

Congratulations to Harvard Chan's Class of 2026, comprising 659 graduates. This morning, the graduates and their guests are in Cambridge for Harvard University's Commencement Morning Exercises at Tercentenary Theatre in Harvard Yard. Watch the ceremony at https://www.harvard.edu/live/

Harvard Chan School’s Class of 2026 gathered with their friends and family to celebrate at their Convocation ceremony today in Boston. Watch the ceremony at hsph.me/graduation #HarvardChan26

Congratulations to the 161 students graduating from our epidemiology department today across our PhD, MPH, and SM programs. Your hard work, resilience, and dedication have truly paid off, and we are incredibly proud of you all. #HarvardChan26

Please join us in congratulating our PhD graduates! #HarvardChan26 Rebecca Astatke, Léa Cavalli, Zhe (Gigi) Fang, Yijing Feng, Madeleine Kline, Omar Mansour, Jordan Rossen, Eva Rumpler, Denys Shay, Anna Siefkas, Michelle Sodipo, Mai-Han Trinh, Lawson Ung, & Yingzhe Zhang

Happy Graduation Week @harvard.edu! To kick off the week, we asked our graduating class to choose between a series of “this or that” options related to #studying, #publichealth, & #graduation. Check out their responses below, & stay tuned all week as we count down to commencement! #HarvardChan26

On Friday, May 15, 2026 the Department held the 10th Cutter Symposium “Screening for Major Diseases – Does it help?” featuring Hermann Brenner, Lorelei Mucci, and @mlipsitch.bsky.social. ➡️ Read article: hsph.harvard.edu/news/does-it... ➡️ Watch recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMkU...

Check out our new recent Graduate Q&A with Karolina Edlund on what it's like to be student in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology! ➡️ Read Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology... ➡️ Learn about our 13 areas of research: hsph.harvard.edu/department/e... #harvard #PhD #epidemiology #alumni

Meet Derek Chang, SM2 ’26, recipient of the Kennedy, Knox and Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from @harvard.edu. Learn about his experience as a master's student, his plans for the fellowship, and his plans for graduation and beyond. ➡️ Read the Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology... #HarvardChan26

Congratulations Uwe Siebert! 🎉

Announcing our new HOPE fellows: Anali Castellanos, Sunan Gao, Fangyuan Jiang, and Adviti Sarang. Congratulations! 🎉 ➡️ Learn more about the fellows and the HOPE program here: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology... #fellows #Harvard #Oxford

As part of our monthly series spotlighting The Global Flourishing Program, we’re excited to introduce the lab’s team of 30+ members, including staff, faculty, researchers, postdoctoral fellows & students, who help to advance #globalflourishing research through their roles. Meet the team below ⬇️

“It’s not the case fatality rate that matters for pandemic potential, it’s the ability to transmit between humans. If transmission happens efficiently enough before people become seriously ill, then there are very few constraints on virulence,” said @billhanage.bsky.social. #hantavirus

Congratulations to CAUSALab researcher Lawson Ung for successfully defending his PhD dissertation! 🎉 "Causal Inference Using External Comparators: Identification, Estimation, and Applications." We are so grateful to have Lawson on our team and congratulate him on his ongoing success.

At the end of each academic year our department recognizes the hard work done by our teaching fellows. The following were nominated by our faculty & students as having distinguished themselves and shown great commitment and dedication towards their roles. Join us in congratulating all of them!

Join us on TODAY 5/7 at 1PM ET with Nick Reich, Professor of Biostatistics, Director, COVID-19 Forecast Hub Director, Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health & Health Sciences. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Congrats to James Robins, 1 of 3 Harvard Chan faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Members are recognized for their achievements in research & excellence in science. Read more ➡️ hsph.harvard.edu/news/three-h...

On Thursday, April 30th our Department held its annual SM2 Thesis Symposium in Snyder Auditorium at the Harvard Chan School. Congratulations to our category winners Hanyu Lu for best presentation, @quintonhayre.bsky.social for most impactful research, & Derek Chang for most innovative research.

Celebrating #DDW2026 with a Song Lab group dinner 🍽️ DDW has always been a special time to wrap up our academic year of achievement—taking a moment to reflect, connect, and celebrate. Cheers to all the contributions to our lab, to science, and to improving human health! 🎉

This month, we are featuring The Human Flourishing Program in our series spotlighting our research groups. Launched in 2016 & led by Tyler VanderWeele, the group studies & promotes human flourishing & synthesizes knowledge across fields. Follow along to learn more about #humanflourishing

Join us in person or online on May 6th at 1pm ET for the Department's seminar series featuring Dr. Krista Huybrechts on "Psychotropic Medication Safety in Pregnancy: Moving Beyond Malformation Risk" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...

⭐New Publication⭐ Published in the March 2026 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology "Infancy IgE methylation score and childhood wheezing and asthma: Multicohort study." ➡️ Link to paper: www.jacionline.org/article/S009... #epidemiology #asthma #wheezing #pediatric

Congrats to Barbra Dickerman on her Outstanding Mentor Award! The Outstanding Mentor Award was established in 2010 to honor @hsph.harvard.edu faculty who demonstrate outstanding mentorship outstanding mentorship by cultivating professional development & research excellence.

Today marks 406 years since #JohnGraunt was born. Graunt was a London statistician who transformed how we understand populations and became one of the founding fathers of modern #demography. Happy Birthday John Graunt!

Join online on 4/29 at 1 for a joint seminar of the Epi Dept & Harvard Cancer Consortium with Dr. Ruth Travis on "Discovery to Translation in Molecular Epi: Unlocking the Potential of Large-Scale Biomarker Data for Cancer Prevention" Go to event page to register ➡️ hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...

Today, April 22nd, is Admin Professionals Day! We would like to thank our incredible admin workers who are the backbone of everything we do. We appreciate all of your hard work and dedication! #AdminProfessionalsDay

⭐New Publication⭐ Published 2026 in the SSM-Mental Health "Causal estimates of multidimensional well-being under hypothetical forgiveness shift scenarios: Longitudinal evidence from a national panel in New Zealand." ➡️ Find paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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... ➡️ Learn about our 13 areas of research: hsph.harvard.edu/department/e... #harvard #PhD #epidemiology #alumni #publichealth

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!

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

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...

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...

⭐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

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...

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...

Check out our new Recent Graduate Q&A with Naiyu Chen about what it's like to be student in cancer epidemiology! ➡️ Read Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology... ➡️ Learn about our 13 areas of research: hsph.harvard.edu/department/e... #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/...

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...