Building: Posner Hall City: Boston, MA 02111 Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: Posner Auditorium (200 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111) and on Zoom Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience(s): Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Event Sponsor: School of Medicine Event Sponsor Details: TUSM Global Health Faculty Council and the Tufts Center for Global Public Health Speaker Name: Sheela Patel Event Contact Name: Kim Burke Event Contact Email: kimberly.burke@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D1v2S9KNRimWKDnd85oA6Q#/registration As climate change accelerates, the global development and climate change communities continue to ignore the plight of the urban poor, who face the brunt of challenges caused by rising global temperatures. Over the last five decades, the urban poor in the Global South have been failed by initiatives aimed at improving the human condition, including the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, WHO guidelines on social determinants of health, and the United Nations COP meetings on climate change. Alarmingly, despite all calls for action, the realities experienced by people living in urban informal settlements continue to be invisible to global stakeholders. However, people living in urban informal settlements in the Global South comprise more than one billion people, and their social and environmental determinants of health can no longer be ignored. This seminar will discuss how residents of urban informal settlements are using transnational movements to advance their living conditions and make challenges to their health and well-being visible to the global community. Speaker: Sheela Patel is the director of the SPARC, an organization she founded in 1984 that works in alliance with community-based organizations of the urban poor—the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan—in several Indian cities. She is a founder of Slum Dwellers International, a transnational social movement of the urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She was a commissioner on the Commission for Adaptation to climate change from 2018–2020 and is a trustee of the International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED), a global ambassador for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience, a member of the Club of Rome, and a board member of Climate-KIC. Since 2022, she spearheaded the campaign for Roof Over Our Heads (ROOH), which is part of the United Nations Race to Resilience campaign. She was awarded the 2023 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize by the Penn Institute for Urban Research and has received the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honor.

Open to Public: No Event Type: Community Engagement Event Sponsor Details: Office of the Provost Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdu2uqT8oGtP8B5om5KAowkpMjMz1QqTg#/registration Join an institutional neutrality listening session! This is an opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts about a statement of institutional neutrality for Tufts.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA) Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience(s): Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Event Subject: Education,Engineering/Technology,Innovation,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program RSVP Information: RSVP only needed for virtual attendants Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0b5Q14KDRByYNWqXHa_1Aw Infrastructure systems exist within a complex operating environment, influenced by social, natural, and regulatory systems. For example, climate change and environmental crises can have cascading impacts on the level of infrastructure services received by communities. It is imperative to understand such impacts to build community resilience and create more sustainable infrastructure services. In this talk, multiple case studies will be explored to understand: How can we improve the level of infrastructure services in rural Alaska despite the extreme and changing climate? By capturing community perspectives after the East Palestine train derailment, how can environmental disaster response be improved? To answer these questions, this talk will explore how systems thinking can be used to abstract uncertain contexts and identify leverage points that can spark change. Such leverage points include practical policy recommendations, engineering solutions, and managerial adaptations.

Open to Public: No Event Type: Community Engagement Event Sponsor Details: Office of the Provost Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdu2uqT8oGtP8B5om5KAowkpMjMz1QqTg#/registration Join an institutional neutrality listening session! This is an opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts about a statement of institutional neutrality for Tufts.

Building: Cousens Gym City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cousens Gymnasium 161 College Ave. Medford, MAEnter the gym through the doors at the top of the front steps. Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Community Engagement Event Sponsor Details: Office of Government and Community Relations & Tufts Athletics Event Contact Name: Maggie Carril Event Contact Email: margaret.carril@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3780 Come cheer on your hometown team as the Medford Mustangs and the Somerville Highlanders girls and boys basketball teams square off for the 6th annual Tufts Basketball Classic hosted by Tufts University. The girls game will tip off at 12 p.m. and the boys game will tip off at 1:30 p.m. Both games will be held in Cousens Gymnasium. Free parking will available with a special permit in Cousens Gym parking lot and Dowling Garage during the games.

Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus,Boston SMFA campus,Grafton campus,Medford/Somerville campus,Off-campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: University Holiday The university observes a holiday on this day.