<div style="text-align:center"><b>HealthRoots Political Economy of Health Seminar Series</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="1">p r e s e n t s </font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4" color="#990000"><b>Richard Levins</b> </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><i><font size="1">John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Dept. of Global Health & Population, </font></i></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><i><font size="1">Harvard School of Public Health</font></i></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>on </b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="6" color="#009900">Complexity</font></b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><i><font color="#000099">How we call for interdisciplinarity but don't quite make it</font></i></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b style="color:rgb(102,0,0);font-size:large">THU. FEB 21 | 12: 30 pm</b></div><div style="text-align:center">Kresge G-1, Harvard School of Public Health</div><div style="text-align:center">
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<div><b>About:</b></div><div><div>Why a large number of variables doesn't make a complex system?</div><div>How is chaos not chaotic?</div><div>How do narrow boundary conditions thwart the goal of understanding wholeness?</div>
<div><br></div></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center">Richard Levins is an ex-tropical farmer, ecologist, labor organizer, mathematical biologist, activist, and philosopher of science. He investigated birth defects caused by defoliants in Vietnam, pioneered in ecology movement in Puerto Rico, organized Science for Vietnam, started the Working Group on New and Resurgent Disease at HSPH, was active in ecological agriculture in Cuba, is a member of the Cuban Academy of Science. Authored Evolution in Changing Environments and with RC Lewontin, The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. He currently leads the unofficial ecology program at the HSPH. He has received awards for teaching and mentoring at HSPH. He teaches Ecology of Health in Development (GHP 520) in Spring 2.</div>
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