CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series
Talk title: Influenza vaccination strategies in older adults
Presenter: Ben Cowling, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology at Hong Kong University, School of Public Health
Ben Cowling is currently Chair Professor of Epidemiology and head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong, and co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control. He conducts research into the epidemiology of respiratory virus infections, with a focus on transmission dynamics, population immunity and the effectiveness of control measures including vaccination.
About the series: Each spring, CCDD hosts an annual seminar series featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. The ID Epi Seminar 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, unless otherwise noted, at 1pm ET between February 2nd and May 9th.
Register for the seminar here.
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.