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Fri, Apr 18, 2025 from 09:00am — 05:00pm, ET
VENUE
Cambridge – Thompson Room, Barker Center
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Please join us for the Mittal Institute Annual Symposium 2025, focused on Media, Climate, and Arts! This event is free and open to the public. Please note that there won’t be a live stream available.
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Tue, Feb 18, 2025 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
VENUE
Cambridge – CGIS South, S250
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Join us for a seminar with Arpit Shah, Mittal Institute Raghunathan Fellow 2024–25! His talk will focus on two channels by which caste can influence heat stress exposure in India.
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Thu, Oct 17, 2024 from 01:00pm — 02:00pm, ET
VENUE
Boston – Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave (Level 7)
In collaboration with hundreds of workers from the Self Employed Women’s Association, an interdisciplinary team at the Salata South Asia Climate Adaptation Cluster is following hundreds of workers across indoor and outdoor occupations using microsensors, biosensors, and biomarkers. The team is working on quantifying the impact of heat and humidity in the microenvironment that the poor work and live in on their health, well-being, and wages.
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Tue, Sep 24, 2024 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET
VENUE
New York City
Join the Salata Institute’s Climate Action Accelerator for a panel discussion at Climate Week NYC on Tuesday, September 24. The panel of Harvard faculty from medicine, public health, and law will be in conversation with experts and leaders from the domestic and global labor movements to examine the impact of rising global temperatures on workers’ health, livelihoods, and productivity.
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Fri, Sep 20, 2024 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, IST
VENUE
Hybrid - Conference Room 2, India International Centre, New Delhi and on Zoom
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute New Delhi Office
Join us for an insightful discussion on “Building Climate Resilience in Urban India” that aims to explore the climate change impacts of the built environment in urban landscapes.
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Fri, Sep 20, 2024 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
VENUE
Cambridge – CGIS South, Room S250
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Please join us for a session on “Genetics and the Future of India’s Biodiversity” with Indian geneticist Uma Ramakrishnan and L. Mahadevan, Harvard Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
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Thu, Jul 25, 2024 from 08:30am — 09:30am, ET
VENUE
Online / Zoom
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute New Delhi Office
Join us for Heatwaves 101 Part 2: Understanding the Impact of Extreme Heat where we look at the impact of heat stress on-the-ground in the South Asian region, particularly on workers in the informal economy.
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Thu, Jul 18, 2024 from 08:30am — 09:30am, ET
VENUE
Online / Zoom
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute New Delhi Office
Join us for Heatwaves 101 Part 1: The Science of Extreme Heat where we discuss the science around extreme heat, including methodologies of predicting heatwaves, the impact of extreme heat on health, and the scope and limitations of Heat Action Plans of India.
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Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 05:30pm, ET
VENUE
Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South (Concourse), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
This lecture is a keynote event of the workshop on ‘Adapting to Climate Change in South Asia and West Africa’ organized by the Harvard Climate Research Clusters on the Gulf of Guinea (Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea) and South Asia (Climate Adaptation in South Asia), in collaboration with the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Salata Institute at Harvard University.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023
COST Free - open to all.
VENUE
See details below.
Please join us for a series of conversations with Atul Bhalla, Distinguished Climate Artist in Residence.
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Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET
VENUE
Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Senator Sherry Rehman is Chair of the Climate and Environment Caucus of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister of Climate Change, first woman Opposition Leader in Senate of Pakistan, Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Pakistan.
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Thu, Sep 28, 2023 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
VENUE
Harvard University Center for the Environment, Room 429 (26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138)
2023 has seen a new wave of climate extremes causing disruptions and displacement throughout the world, from heat and wildfires in North America and Europe to unprecedented flooding in Greece, Libya, and Hong Kong. Novel data sources and methods for analyzing human population dynamics and health impacts during extreme weather events are opening up new perspectives on the scale and speed of change, the dimensions of humanitarian response, and the possible futures of vulnerable communities.
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