Public Health is Personal: Cocktails and Conversation

Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Event Details

This event has been cancelled. Please direct any questions to events@hsph.harvard.edu

About the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) is a leading research and training hub for infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. CCDD’s research spans mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, vaccine effectiveness studies, evolutionary biology and genomics of pathogens, design of surveillance, and biosecurity to better prepare us to understand, detect, and control future disease outbreaks and epidemics. The Center provides a unique educational environment for the next generation of public health scientists, cross-training them in key areas to address growing scientific and policy challenges. 

Faculty

Marc Lipsitch

Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics | An internationally recognized expert in disease transmission modeling and a leading scientific authority during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Lipsitch serves as Senior Advisor to the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the U.S. CDC, which he helped establish as founding Director for Science.

Caroline Buckee

Professor of Epidemiology | Co-founder and Co-director of Crisis Ready, a joint platform between Harvard’s Data Science Initiative and Direct Relief. Dr. Buckee’s research spans infectious disease epidemiology with a focus on vector-borne diseases, human mobility, and the intersection of climate risks and public health.

Yonatan Grad

Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases | A physician-scientist whose lab focuses on preparing for and responding effectively to infectious disease threats through understanding processes from microbial evolution to human ecology. Dr. Grad’s work includes crucial research on antimicrobial resistance and developing new diagnostics and therapeutics.

Bill Hanage

Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics | An expert in the evolution and transmission of infectious disease, with special interest in how pathogens evolve in response to interventions such as vaccination or antimicrobials and using genomic data to unravel patterns of transmission.

The “Public Health is Personal” series features events that spotlight areas of work conducted at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with faculty giving short presentations followed by conversation among the faculty and guests.