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Today: Follow HSPH's landmark AIDS conference on Facebook, Twitter 
 

aids at 30HSPH is hosting a two-day symposium Dec. 1-2 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS. Updates from conference sessions will be posted live throughout both days on the AIDS@30 homepage and the HSPH Twitter feed.  

Around the School

  

Holiday donation drives at HSPH

toys for tots 

Drop off Toys for Tots at the Harvard Credit Union in Kresge by December 5.

  

The HSPH Student Government Volunteer Committee and the HSPH Student Leadership Circle Committee are collecting winter clothing and non-perishable food items for Rosie's Place and the Friday Night Supper Program. Learn more 

       

Harvard Community Gifts program
Sign up to donate to a charity of your choice by December 9.

Order up holiday fun from Outings & Innings 
 

Buy movie and sports tickets, museum passes, First Night buttons, and more online or in-person during one of O&I's regular visits to the Kresge Cafeteria. Upcoming service dates: December 7 and 14 from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM.    


David Hemenway honored for violence prevention work

David Hemenway HSPH Prof. David Hemenway, who has spent much of his career studying youth violence and implementing violence prevention programs, has received the Striving for Social Justice Award from Community Works, an umbrella organization that comprises 34 social justice groups. Hemenway is the director of the the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Center.
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Running for president in DRC, working in Chelsea and Botswana: HSPH alumni profiled

Kate Powlis HAIThe Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative Fall 2011 newsletter features a profile of HSPH alumnus Oscar Kashala, SD '92, who is running for president in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also profiled is Kate Powis (pictured), MPH '09, a physician and researcher who spends half the year at the Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic on the outskirts of Boston and the other half at HAI's facility in Botswana. Read more  
New computer training option

 

computer stock imageTraining courses on hundreds of software packages are available for free to the HSPH community at the Instructional Computing Facility in Kresge LL19. Log on to one of the two Lynda.com stations in the lab to access courses on common software titles such as Microsoft Excel or more technical topics. Learn more
 
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Event highlight

HSPH 10th Annual State of the School Address 
December 12

 

Refreshments: 2:30-4:30 PM
Presentation: 3:00-4:00 PM  

Kresge Cafeteria

 

RSVP by December 6 encouraged for seating and catering estimates. RSVP: HSPH State of the School.

Novel malaria research wins Gates funding
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Research by HSPH's Manoj Duraisingh and colleagues, aimed at identifying those genes most likely to respond to malaria drug therapies, will receive nearly $833,000 over two years. Read more