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Webinar: Mass Casualty Triage

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Wed, Nov 19, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am

Usha Periyanayagam, MD, International Emergency Medicine Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School When there are many injured people in an incident, non-medical personal might be needed to begin care of patients. This seminar will teach triage, a simple way to determine the priority of patient treatment, and the basics of […]

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Webinar: Incident Command

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Wed, Oct 1, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am

Shawn D’Andrea, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative South Asia is particularly vulnerable to disasters, from terrorist attacks, to floodings, to earthquakes that can affect large populations. In order to address these humanitarian crises, the fundamentals of mass casualty management are critical. This seminar will teach incident command, which is a […]

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Why Study the Brain?

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Fri, Mar 14, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am

SAI Webinar Venkatesh Murthy, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University How do you sense the world? How do you remember things? How do you sing, play or even just walk? How do you think? Of course, you do all of this with your brain, which has been called the most complex machine in […]

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Webinar: Women in Politics: The Case of India

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Thu, May 8, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am

VENUE
CGIS Knafel K031

ADDRESS
CGIS Knafel K031
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

SAI Webinar Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Women lag behind men on many metrics across the world (health, education, wages), including political representation. Professor Iyer will discuss two major questions: •Does electing women to political office make any difference? •Given that women comprise only 21.4% of national parliaments across the […]

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Societal Grand Challenges and the role of Engineering Education in the 21st Century

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Thu, Feb 27, 2014 from 08:30am — 10:00am

SAI Webinar Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, SEAS; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS In our rapidly transforming world, engineering plays an ever more central role, especially in advancing basic science, creating tools and everyday technologies, driving economic development and meeting societal challenges in areas from energy to […]

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Live Webinar: Tackling Gender Based Violence in South Asia – What Options Do We Have?

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Tue, Nov 26, 2013 from 08:30am — 10:00am

VENUE
CGIS Knafel, K354
Harvard University

ADDRESS
1737 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA

This discussion will explore the grave problem of gender violence on the subcontinent, in its different manifestations, and probe a series of strategies for addressing the problem. Watch live on the SAI website and particpate in the discussion on social media.

Join us live via this link: http://111.68.100.8/tcs/?id=FA264DB2-A872-47DE-B635-A9237E1B7002

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