IID Seminar Series – Amy Bei
Title Talk
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THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
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Dr. Bei’s research interests in Plasmodium – the causative agent of malaria – lie at the intersection between population genetics, genomics, molecular genetics, epidemiology, and immunology. Her current research uses a translational systems biology approach to study the impact of antigenic diversity on immune evasion, transmission, and virulence in setting of declining malaria transmission. She is studying the development of genotype-specific and genotype-transcendent immunity and assess the effect of specific persisting genotypes on neutralizing humoral immune responses and their transmission potential in the mosquito vector. She also works on malaria vaccine candidate discovery and validation, studying the functional consequences of naturally arising diversity. Dr. Bei has ongoing research projects in Senegal in addition to many active collaborations in Sub-Saharan African countries in both East and West Africa.
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IID Seminar Series – Milka Koupenova
Title Talk
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THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
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Research in Dr. Koupenova’s lab focuses on the contribution of platelets to the immune response during viral infection and the consequent implications of that response to cardiovascular disease
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IID Seminar Series – Philip Kranzusch
Title Talk
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THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
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Principal Investigator, Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Kranzusch lab is working to understand how cells respond to viral pathogens, and how these signaling pathways can be harnessed for new potential therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Importantly, many aspects of the cellular response to viral infection remain unknown. Our lab uses an approach where we seek to reconstitute signaling outside of the cell using highly purified components to understand the mechanisms that control human immunity.
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IID Seminar Series – Melis Anahatar
Title Talk
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THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
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Melis N. Anahtar, MD, PhD
PriMelis N. Anahtat is a physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she leads a research lab and serve as an assistant director of the Clinical Microbiology laboratory.
Research Interests
Antibiotic discovery, antimicrobial resistance, diagnostic development, machine learning, vaginal microbiome, host-microbiome interactions.
Clinical Interests
Genomic sequencing, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, molecular testing
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What comes after the ‘End of AIDS’?
Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Jeff Imai-Eaton, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD), Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Seminar description
For the past 15 years, the vision to ‘end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030’ has unified the global HIV response and catalyzed remarkable progress toward reducing new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, particularly in eastern and southern African settings most impacted by HIV. As the 2030 milestone nears and the number of people living with HIV globally edges above 40 million, this naturally raises the question “what comes after ‘the end’?” This seminar will review progress and persistent challenges in the global HIV response, what programs have been impactful, evidence on the evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics, and the implications of these changes for long-term control of the HIV epidemic, opportunities and challenges to achieve impact with new interventions, and strategies for monitoring and surveillance of sustained progress.
Speaker bio
Jeff Imai-Eaton, PhD, is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a senior research fellow at the MRC Center for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. His research focuses on understanding HIV epidemic trends, transmission dynamics, and the demographic impacts of HIV in Africa. His team develop and support application of mathematical and statistical modelling tools used by HIV programs across Africa to plan and monitor national HIV responses.
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Occupational Safety and Health Seminar
The Department of Environmental Health and the Harvard Chan Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health invite you to the next Occupational Safety and Health Seminar on Friday, September 11, from 1:10-1:50.
Title: Occupational Medicine Implications of Race-Neutral Spirometry
Recent recommendations from the American Thoracic Society advocate for race-neutral spirometry reference values, a shift with significant implications for occupational health. This session explores how these changes affect medical surveillance, fitness for-duty evaluations, and impairment ratings. Participants will gain insight into the timeline behind use of reference equations, their impact on classification of lung function across racial groups, and the potential consequences for disability assessments and compensation.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize current American Thoracic Society recommendations for spirometry, including the shift to race neutral reference values.
- Identify key implications of race-neutral spirometry for eligibility for duty evaluations.
- Identify key implications of race-neutral spirometry for impairment and disability evaluations.
Presenter: Stella Hines, MD, MSPH
Location: Zoom only
RSVP: Please click here to register.
About the Presenter: Stella Hines, MD, MSPH is a Professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Boarded in Occupational, Pulmonary, and Internal Medicine, Dr. Hines has evaluated patients with work and environmentally related lung conditions since 2006. From 2023 to 2025, Dr. Hines served as Chief of the NIOSH Field Studies Branch, which led national investigations into workplace respiratory hazards. Dr. Hines is a Fellow of ACOEM and the American Thoracic Society, where she is the Chair-Elect of the Assembly on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health.
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar with Julia Behrman
Julia Behrman, PhD, associate professor of sociology, Northwestern University, presents “The deinstitutionalization of parenthood in the United States.”
The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.
With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.
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Harvard Pop Center Social Demography Seminar with Bocar Ba
Bocar Ba, PhD, Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University, presents “Understanding demand for police alternatives.”
The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.
With the aim of disseminating scholarly research, The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies hosts a diverse array of speakers. They do not represent or speak for the Center, the School or the University, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.
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Managing Your Electronic Records: Shared Drives and Email
Does it take ages to find a file in your shared drive? Are you running out of room in your email? Save yourself and your office time and money by learning to manage your electronic records. In this workshop, we’ll help you manage your email and electronic records efficiently and effectively by giving you guidelines for:
- Naming and organizing your files for fast and easy access
- Developing a file plan for your office shared drive
- Determining which emails you should keep, and how to store them
- Learning how to keep your digital records in compliance with Harvard’s records management policies
Workshops are about 45 minutes long. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (grs.harvard.edu) is helpful but not required.
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Managing Your Paper Records: Off-Site Records Storage
Run out of room for files in your office that you need to keep? The Harvard Depository records center is the perfect place for your office, department, or lab to store records that you need to keep but don’t use every day. In this online workshop, we’ll review step-by-step instructions for:
- How to set up an account
- How to pack and label boxes correctly
- How to complete transfer paperwork
- How to recall records back to your office
Workshops are about 30 minutes long. Familiarity with the General Records Schedule (GRS) is helpful but not required. Attendance is free and open to all members of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health communities.