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2017 Feb 11

Give Kids a Smile

9:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Dental Center


Join us for our annual Give Kids a Smile event. Children ages 1-17 will receive free dental exams, cleanings and referrals. Medical well-child screenings are also available. Call 617-432-1434, option #1 to make an appointment. 

 

2017 Jan 31

January Wellbeing Events

12:30pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

HSDM REB Lobby and Auditorium

January is Wellbeing Month. The Harvard Longwood Community is invited to attend the following events at HSDM focused on health and wellbeing:

Work/Life Panel
Tuesday, January 31 12:30-1:30, 
HSDM, REB Auditorium
Note: No registration required

HLC Faculty, Postdocs, Staff will share their approaches to meeting Work/Life challenges such as; integrating their unique identities with their careers, overcoming cultural expectations in achieving their goals, building resilience in the times of hardship, nurturing their interests outside of work, and Read more about January Wellbeing Events

Change makers: Students Receive Grant to Spread Awareness of Nutrition and Oral Health

Change makers: Students Receive Grant to Spread Awareness of Nutrition and Oral Health

December 7, 2016

HSDM students Morgane Amat and Tiffany Chien (DMD 2019 candidates) and their HMS teammates George Agyapong and Jun Liu (MD 2019 candidates) were recently awarded an Agents of Change grant for their project Interventions in Family Oriented Optimal Diet for Development (iFOODD) which aims to spread awareness of nutrition and oral health in families that have children with special needs.

Agents of Change grants from the Center for Primary Care provide Read more about Change makers: Students Receive Grant to Spread Awareness of Nutrition and Oral Health

Leadership Forum Brings Together Powerful Advocates for Integrating Dentistry and Medicine

Leadership Forum Brings Together Powerful Advocates for Integrating Dentistry and Medicine

November 9, 2016

Leaders in academia, healthcare, and business recently came to together at forum hosted by Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) to address the idea of integrating dentistry and medicine. The two-day event, “Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 2.0,” featured thought-provoking speakers, panelists, and discussion around the idea of connecting oral health to overall health to achieve better patient outcomes and lower costs. The forum looked at integration from all Read more about Leadership Forum Brings Together Powerful Advocates for Integrating Dentistry and Medicine

2016 Nov 18

Season of Giving: Toy Drive

Nov 18 (All day) to Dec 16 (All day)

 

The Harvard Longwood Campus community is helping families in need by participating in the Phillips Brooks House holiday gift drive. The drive will run from Nov. 18 through December 16. The goal is to provide books, games, toys, art supplies and sports equipment to children in need. Faculty, staff and students are invited to donate new, unopened gifts for children of preschool through high-school age.

Collection box locations for both the food and toy drives will be at the following locations:

HMS
Read more about Season of Giving: Toy Drive

2016 Nov 07

Season of Giving: Food Drive

Nov 07 (All day) to Nov 18 (All day)

The Harvard Longwood Campus community will be hosting a food drive starting on Nov. 7 and running through Nov. 18. Well-marked donation boxes will be located throughout the three Longwood Campus schools. The boxes will be collected on the last day of the food drive.

2016 Nov 03

The Good Life: How strong relationships impact our health, happiness and communities

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Armenise Amphitheater (200 Longwood Ave.)

The Season of Giving officially launches with this special Talk@12 hosted by the Harvard Longwood Campus (Harvard Chan School, HSDM and HMS) on Thursday, November 3. Please see below for details about the talk and locations where the event will be live-streamed.

The Good Life: How strong relationships impact our health, happiness and communities

What really keeps people happy and healthy? The Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life, tracked the lives of two groups of men for 78 years to understand how childhood experience Read more about The Good Life: How strong relationships impact our health, happiness and communities

2016 Nov 03

Harvard Longwood Campus launches Season of Giving

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

REB Lobby

 

The Season of Giving celebrates the good work and the goodwill of those within our community by offering you the opportunity to send messages of appreciation to colleagues who have enriched your work experience through good deeds and small kindnesses. It also offers us all the opportunity to support our Boston area neighbors in need.

Here are some highlights of this year’s Season of Giving:

2016 Jul 20

Pride on the Quad

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Kresge Courtyard

During the Longwood Summer Music Series

Rainbow sno-kones and popsicles for all!

Sponsored by: Harvard Longwood Campus -- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine

2016 Jun 17

Panel Discussion: Local Efforts to Combat the Opioid Epidemic

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

HMS TMEC Amphitheater

The special Grand Rounds panel discussion "Local Efforts to Combat the Opioid Epidemic," led by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, is full and there are no longer seats available. However, the program will be live streamed the day of the event. To register for the video live stream, please visit: https://hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3jZjQ3PjFfNQsMl. After you register, you will receive a link to watch the event. 

The live stream will be Friday, June 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m. EDT.

Read more about Panel Discussion: Local Efforts to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
2015 Nov 16

Talk@12 Launches Season of Giving

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Armenise Amphitheater (200 Longwood Ave.)

The Season of Giving officially launches with this special Talk@12 hosted by the Harvard Longwood Campus (HMS, Harvard Chan School, HSDM and HUECU) on Monday, Nov. 16. The talk will also be live-streamed in the REB Auditorium.

Mindfulness for a new year and a new you

Speaker: Sara Lazar, PhD  
Associate Researcher in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Take time for yourself and step out of the stress that can come Read more about Talk@12 Launches Season of Giving

HSDM and Northeastern University School of Nursing Collaborate on a $1.2 Million HRSA-Funded Program That Aims to Bring Primary Care Services Into a Dental Care Practice

HSDM and Northeastern University School of Nursing Collaborate on a $1.2 Million HRSA-Funded Program That Aims to Bring Primary Care Services Into a Dental Care Practice

October 19, 2015

A $1.2 million cooperative agreement from Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will fund an innovative new program and partnership between the two universities that focuses on serving the primary care and oral health care needs of Boston area patients and their families.

The three-year funded project supports the creation of an interprofessional collaborative practice model in which primary care services are integrated into a primary academic dental practice. The program will give Northeastern University nurse practitioner Read more about HSDM and Northeastern University School of Nursing Collaborate on a $1.2 Million HRSA-Funded Program That Aims to Bring Primary Care Services Into a Dental Care Practice