[gov3009-l] April 27: ANSOLABEHERE

*************************************** Research Workshop in Applied Statistics *************************************** This Wednesday, April 27th, please join the Applied Statistics Workshop at 12 noon for Stephen Ansolabehere's presentation, "Competition in U.S. Primary Elections." There is no corresponding paper. Lunch will be served at noon, and the presentation will begin at 12:15 PM in Room 22 of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, 34 Kirkland Street. We hope you can attend. Also, see below for a note on another upcoming event that may be of interest to many of you. Sincerely, Dan Hopkins Workshop Coordinator **************************************** Harvard "Health Disparities & The Body Politic" -- Symposium #3 "Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to Action" Date: Thursday, May 5, Time: 2:00 - 5:00 pm EST Place: Harvard Medical School Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston (near terminal of M2 shuttle) The event is free and open to the public and the Harvard community. Moderated by Nancy Krieger, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor. Speakers include: --John Fox, PhD, Director of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement, NHS Health & Social Care Information Centre, United Kingdom; --Eduardo Mota, MD, MPH, Chief of Health Statistics, Instituto de Saude Coltiva, Brazil; --Francois Heran, PhD, Director, Institute national d'etudes demographiques, France; --Vickie Mays, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, and past chair, Subcommittee on Populations, US National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Discussant: Godfrey Woelk, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe. Sponsored by the HSPH Working Group on Health Disparities. RSVP attendance at the symposium at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities Info: 617-432-3056, or email: hlthdisp(a)hsph.harvard.edu. The symposium will be web cast live, accessible (at no cost) at the same URL above, and will be archived for future viewing (also at no cost).