HarvardSpeak LA: “What Actually Keeps Us Happy and Healthy?: Lessons from an 87-Year Study of Human Life” with HMS Prof. Robert Waldinger
Join us for a talk by Dr. Robert Waldinger, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 @ 12:00-1:00pm
Virtual Event via Zoom (details sent after registration)
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Cost: $0, members; $10, non-members
Contact: Neil Morganbesser, nmorganbesser@gmail.com
About our Speaker:
Prof. Waldinger directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, which has been tracking the lives and health of individuals and their children for 87 years and is one of the longest running studies of adult life ever conducted.
Prof. Waldinger will talk about “What Actually Keeps Us Happy and Healthy?: Lessons from an 87-Year Study of Human Life.”
Prof. Waldinger is also a Zen priest and sensei, and he teaches Zen and meditation in New England and internationally. He has won awards for teaching and research from Harvard Medical School, the American Psychiatric Association and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. His TED talk on lessons from the longest study of happiness has had over 40 million views and is one of the 10 most-viewed talks in the history of TED
About HarvardSpeak LA:
HarvardSpeak LA is a program designed to bring preeminent Harvard faculty and researchers to discuss current topics of interest with the Harvard Club of Southern California through one-hour webinars, consisting of a presentation followed by Q&A. In 2025, HarvardSpeak featured Harvard professors speaking on California wildfires (Loretta Mickley), extraterrestrial intelligence (Avi Loeb), the demise of Jim Crow (Randall Kennedy), conservatives at Harvard (Harvey Mansfield), civil discourse at Harvard (Ned Hall), America's governing crisis (Theda Skocpol), the latest developments in genetics (Joel Hirschhorn), Shakespeare and Marlowe (Stephen Greenblatt), and fairness in the workplace (Iris Bohnet).
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