Department of Epidemiology
Learn how we advance public health globally by researching the frequency, distribution, and causes of human disease, and shaping health policies and practices.
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Past Events
Events from Spring 2025
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Fine-Mapping Causal Tissues and Genes at Disease-Associated Loci
Abstract: Complex diseases often have distinct mechanisms spanning multiple tissues. We propose Tissue-Gene Fine-Mapping (TGFM), which infers the posterior probability (PIP) for each gene-tissue pair to mediate a disease locus…
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Pandemic Preparedness: The Role of Virus-Restricted Vaccines and Universal Antiviral Drugs
BRIEF ABSTRACT Pandemic Preparedness as a concept has four unknowns to deal with: 1) how often can we expect a pandemic causing excess mortality and morbidity to occur, 2) what…
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How to Make People Immortal and Why it is Not a Good Idea: Improving the Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases
Abstract: The generation of “immortal time” is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of…
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Policy Relevant Effects in Infectious Disease Studies
Abstract: The treatment of one individual often affects the outcomes of others. A canonical example occurs in infectious disease settings, where vaccinating one individual can reduce disease transmission and thereby…
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Climate, Fossil Fuel Pollution and Respiratory Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention
Abstract: Dr. Mary Rice will discuss research on climate stressors including combustion pollution, weather extremes and aeroallergens on the respiratory health of children and adults in Project Viva, the Framingham…
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Are we already FAIR? – The future of data sharing
‘Data sharing’ is becoming increasingly important in terms of efficient use of resources. In 2007, the OECD called for easy access to research data for the scientific community. In 2016,…
