Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics works to improve methods for infectious disease modeling and statistical analysis, quantify disease and intervention impact, engage with policymakers to enhance decision-making, and train the next generation of scientists.
677 Huntington Avenue
Kresge Building, Suite 506
Boston, MA 02115
ID Epi Seminar Series 2025
Each spring, the CCDD hosts the ID Epi Seminar Series featuring experts presenting the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. The series aims to bring in speakers from various disciplines within infectious disease epidemiology, broadly defined to include the population biology of pathogens and other allied topics.
Seminars will be held on Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. ET between January 30 and May 8 with the exception of March 20 (spring break). They are offered both in-person and over Zoom. Room information for each seminar is listed below. Please register in advance for virtual attendance.
Recordings of presentations will be made publicly available on this page and on our YouTube channel.
Harvard Chan School seeks to bring in speakers with a wide range of experiences and perspectives. They will share their own insights and will not speak for the School or the University.
Speaker information is still being added. Please continue to check back for our full seminar schedule.
Effects of Influenza Vaccination Among University Students Using Target Maximum Likelihood for Interference
Presented by Paul Zivich, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jan 30, 2025 | Kresge 502 and Zoom | Lunch provided
How should we be evaluating planning scenarios? Meditations inspired by the US COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub
Presented by Justin Lessler, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Feb 6, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom | Lunch provided
Not recorded
Spatial and genomic epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova
Presented by Ted Cohen, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health.
Feb 13, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom | Lunch provided
Infection dynamics and control in a changing world
Presented by Jessica Metcalf, Professor in the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Feb 20, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom | Lunch provided
Not recorded
The Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute (SPRI) – From Pandemic Preparedness to a West Nile Virus mAbnfection dynamics and control in a changing world
Presented by Gili Regev-Yochay, Professor, Director of the Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Feb 27, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom | Lunch provided
Optimizing antibiotic treatment for children with diarrhea in low-resource settings: promoting access and limiting excess
Presented by Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Mar 6, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom | Lunch provided
The economic impact of the HIV response: How do we know if it’s been worth it?
Presented by Gesine Meyer-Rath, Research Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and HE2RO, University of the Witwatersrand
Mar 13, 2025 | Kresge 502 and Zoom | Lunch provided
Who acquires infection from whom? Neutral allele frequency fluctuations can tell
Presented by Oskar Hallatschek, Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Leipzig University
Mar 27, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom
The signal is not flushed away: nowcasting and forecasting using wastewater pathogen surveillance
Presented by Volodymyr Minin, Professor of Statistics, Associate Director of the Infectious Disease Science Initiative at the University of California, Irvine
Apr 3, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom
*April 10th NO SEMINAR*
The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes
Presented by Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University
Apr 17, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom
Fitness flux in SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal influenza H3N2
Presented by Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Apr 24, 2025 | Kresge G3 and Zoom
Modeling human behavior to understanding infectious disease dynamics – examples of population-level mobility and injecting behaviors of people who injection drugs
Presented by Amy Wesolowski, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
May 1, 2025 | Kresge G2 and Zoom
More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases
Presented by Erin Mordecai, Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Stanford University
May 8, 2025 | FXB G12 and Zoom