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<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><font size="6"><font color="#ff0000">*</font> Richard Levins <font color="#ff0000">*</font> </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center">

<font size="1"><b>John Rock Professor of Population Sciences</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><font size="1"><b>Harvard School of Public Health</b></font></div>

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<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><font size="6" color="#134f5c">The Three Contexts of Science</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center">

<font color="#444444"><b>Scientists are at the same time searchers for understanding, </b><b>workers in the knowledge industry, </b><b>and activists trying to make science serve humanity</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><font color="#cc0000"><b><font size="4">Thu. Oct. 10 | </font></b><b><font size="4">12:30 pm</font></b></font></div>

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<font size="1"><b>Harvard School of Public Health</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><font size="1">677 Huntington Ave. Boston</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center">

<i style="font-size:x-small"><br></i></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><i style="font-size:x-small">Open to public. No Harvard ID - email <a href="mailto:healthroots.hsph@gmail.com" target="_blank">healthroots.hsph@gmail.com</a></i><br>

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<font size="1"><i><b>LIVE STREAM & RECORDING: </b></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.545454025268555px"> </span><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ThreeContexts" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;line-height:14.545454025268555px" target="_blank"><b>www.tinyurl.com/<span style="display:inline-block"></span>ThreeContexts</b></a></font></div>

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<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">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 </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">ecology</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small"> 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.  </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">He teaches </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">Human</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">Ecology</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small"> (</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">GHP</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">253) in Fall 2 and The </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">Ecology</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small"> of Health in Development (</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:x-small">GHP</span><span style="font-size:x-small"><b> 520) in Spring 2.  </b><a href="http://www.richardlevins.com/" target="_blank">www.richardlevins.com</a> </span><span style="font-size:x-small"><i><br>

</i></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;text-align:center"><font size="1"><b>HealthRoots is a forum for student engagement with public health from the perspective of social and political activism. We are interested in how social structures, relations of production, and distributions of power in society influence, produce, and reproduce population health. </b></font></div>

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