Past Events

  • 2024 Mar 26

    Canada Program Special Event

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School, WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, 15 Eliot Street Cambridge

    Supporting Caregiving for a Thriving Economy: Lessons with MP Karina Gould

    Karina Gould, MP, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons , Canadian Cabinet

    Moderator: Rachel Pulfer, Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow, Harvard University

    REGISTRATION REQUIRED. PLEASE REGISTER HERE

    Minister Gould is currently on maternity leave from the Canadian Cabinet, the first and subsequently second person in history to do so. She serves as the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and previously was the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Minister for International Development and Minister of Democratic Institutions.

    Gould will be discussing Canadian social programs (childcare, school food and health care) and their impact on women, the economy and society. She will highlight why the Canadian Government made social programs a priority, how the Government of Canada was able to sign agreements across the federated country and look at the lessons Canada can learn from the United States and lessons the United States can learn from Canada.

    Co-sponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Business School Race, Gender & Equity Initiative, and the Harvard University Center for International Development.

    All participants require a Harvard University ID or any form of government issued ID to enter Harvard Kennedy School buildings. Non-HU ID card holders (invited guests and visitors) may enter through the Wexner courtyard door only.

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  • 2024 Mar 19

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Weatherhead, CGIS Knafel, Bowie Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

    Canadian Leadership through Media Development: How Truth and Facts Can Change the World

    Rachel Pulfer, Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University

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  • 2024 Mar 04

    Canada Seminar

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Faculty Club, Library (2nd floor), 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge

    The State of Journalism and Its Impact on Democracy

    Lisa LaFlamme, Journalist

    Moderator: Rachel Pulfer, Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University... Read more about Canada Seminar

  • 2024 Feb 27

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Weatherhead, CGIS Knafel, Bowie Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

    Hate and Harm: Rethinking Dignity, Dissent & Equality in Canadian Law

    Pearl Eliadis, Associate Professor, McGill University

    Chair: Antonia Maioni, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Professor of Politics, Science, and Public Policy, McGill University

    Cosponsored by the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

    In person. Light lunch served. Please register here to attend.

    Pearl Eliadis is an award-winning lawyer, educator and author. She has 25 years of experience in human rights, national institutions, and democratic governance. Pearl has led global projects on law reform, access to justice and national institutions and has participated in human rights missions three continents. An Associate Professor (professional) at McGill University at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Pearl also teaches a seminar on “Democracy and Dissent”  at the Faculty of Law. She has a longstanding interest in the relationship between dissent rights and equality which was developed in her monograph Speaking Out on Human Rights (2015) and in the 2023 special edition of the Global Justice Journal which she guest edited.

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  • 2024 Feb 20

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Weatherhead, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

    Why is Coal Still Mined? Insights from Asbestos and the Structures of Risk Invisibilization

    Gabriel Levesque, Department of Sociology, McGill University

    Chair: Antonia Maioni, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Professor of Politics, Science, and Public Policy, McGill University

    Cosponsored by the Politics and Social Change Workshop, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

    In person. Light lunch served. Please register here to attend.

    Gabriel Lévesque is a PhD student in Sociology and Tomlinson Doctoral Fellow at McGill University. He studies regulatory politics and the role of science and expertise in political processes. His dissertation investigates controversies over toxic substance regulations in Canada and the United States.

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  • 2024 Feb 13

    Canada Program Special Event

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Weatherhead, CGIS Knafel, Bowie Vernon Rom (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

    Determinants of Genetic Essentialist Beliefs about Race: A Comparison of Canada and the United States

    Wendy D. Roth, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

    Derek J. Robey, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    Moderator: Cat O'Donnell, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    Cosponsored by Culture and Social Analysis Workshop

    Wendy D. Roth is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on how social processes challenge racial and ethnic boundaries and transform classification systems, as well as how these processes change conceptions of the nature of race. Her book, Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race (Stanford University Press 2012) examines how immigration changes cultural concepts of race, not only for the migrants themselves, but also for their host society, and for the societies they left behind. Her current work focuses on how genetic ancestry testing influences racial and ethnic identities, conceptions of race, racial attitudes, and racial interactions.

     

    Derek J. Robey is a PhD student in Sociology at Harvard University studying how people in multicultural and diverse societies define cultural membership, adjudicate social worth, and distribute symbolic resources. His dissertation analyzes how people in the United States and Canada make sense of their nation’s historical legacy of racism, race, and ethnicity and project their nation’s future in these domains. He has also analyzed the impact of discrimination on decision-making processes and how cultural producers understand their professional obligations in relation to their moral values.

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  • 2023 Nov 14

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    WCFIA, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (Room K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge


    To attend in person, please register here.


    A Comparative Perspective on Canada’s Medicare: Fact, Fiction, and Foolishness


    Ted Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Yale University


    Ted Marmor, Yale Professor emeritus of public policy, taught for three decades in the Political Science Department, the Law School, and the School of Management. Marmor has published widely in the fields of medical politics, policy and law. His most widely known book, The Politics of Medicare 1973, is slated for a third edition in 2024. Recent publications address the controversies about the fiscal health of American social insurance programs.

  • 2023 Nov 07

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    WCFIA, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (Room K262)


    To attend in person, please register here.

    Lessons Not Learned from Covid-19


    Tim Evans, Director, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University

    Respondent: Dr. Lisa Berkman, Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
     

    Dr. Timothy Grant Evans joined McGill University in September 2019, as the Inaugural Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) in the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Vice-Principal (Global Policy and Innovation). Since joining McGill, and in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, he was named as the Executive Director of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force in April 2020. Prior to McGill, he spent 6 years as the Senior Director of the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank Group. From 2010 to 2013, Tim was Dean of the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Senior Advisor to the BRAC Health Program. From 2003 to 2010, he was Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to this, he served as Director of the Health Equity Theme at the Rockefeller Foundation. Earlier in his career, he was an attending physician of internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and was Assistant Professor in International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Tim has been at the forefront of advancing global health equity and strengthening health systems delivery for more than 20 years. At WHO, he led the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and oversaw the production of the annual World Health Report. He has been a co-founder of many partnerships including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) as well as efforts to increase access to HIV treatment for mothers and innovative approaches to training community-based midwives in Bangladesh. Tim received his Medical Degree from McMaster University in Canada and was a Research and Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He earned a D.Phil. in Agricultural Economics from University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

    Lisa F. Berkman, Ph.D.- Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, School of Public Health. Dr. Berkman is the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on population health. Her research is aimed at understanding inequalities in health-related to socioeconomic status, social networks, and isolation with an emphasis on workplace conditions and labor policy.

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  • 2023 Oct 31

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    WCFIA, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (Room K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge


    To attend in person, please register here.
    To attend the Webinar, please register here.

    Constructing the Future of Health Care in Canada

    Dr. Jane Philpott, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Director of the School of Medicine, Queen's University


    Dr. Jane Philpott is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Director of the School of Medicine at Queen's University, and CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization based in Kingston, Ontario. She is a medical doctor, a Professor of Family Medicine, and former Member of Parliament. Prior to politics, Jane spent the first decade of her medical career in Niger, West Africa. She was a family doctor in Markham-Stouffville, Ontario for 17 years and became Chief of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital in 2008. From 2015 to 2019 she served as Canada’s Minister of Health, Minister of Indigenous Services, President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government. She played a lead role in policies that shaped the country: bringing Syrian refugees to Canada; legislating Medical Assistance in Dying; negotiating a health accord with resources for mental health and home care; improving infrastructure for First Nations to provide clean water on reserve; and reforming child welfare to reduce the over-apprehension of Indigenous children. She is currently the Chair of the Ontario Health Data Council, Vice-Chair of the Ontario Life Sciences Council and was recently appointed as a Commissioner to the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

  • 2023 Oct 24

    Canada Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    WCFIA, CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie Vernon Room (Room K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge


    To attend in person, please register here.

    From Professional Football to Pandemic Front Lines: the Journey of an Athlete-Doctor

    In conversation with


    Dr. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, President, Fondation Laurent Duvernay-Tardif


    The meteoric rise of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has been so remarkable that the Kansas City Star called him “the most interesting man in the NFL.” And for good reason: not only is Duvernay-Tardif a nine-year NFL Veteran and Super Bowl Champion, he is also studying medicine at McGill University. In May 2018, he graduated with his doctorate in medicine, earning one of the biggest accomplishments of his life.

    In May 2014, at the age of only 23, the Mont-Saint-Hilaire native became the 10th Canadian to be drafted by an NFL team from a Canadian university. In his second season in Kansas City, the six-foot-five-inch 320-pound player earned the position of starting right guard on the team.

    Passionate about both football and medicine, Laurent turned a deaf ear when counsellors and family members advised him to choose between sports and studies. And it proved to be the right choice! “It’s all about balance. Don’t give up on your passions!” he tells the young people he meets at the many talks he gives at schools.

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