ID Epi Seminar Series – Erin Mordecai
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From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in Sierra Leone
*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom* Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Jalikatu Mustapha, MMed, MSc, BMBS, will present, “From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in...
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Medical Information and Misinformation – The Role of Epidemiology
HSPH, Kresge G1, Snyder Auditorium 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesThe Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine The 9th Symposium Join us as three preeminent speakers address topics on the intersection of health, misinformation, and epidemiology adapting to a rapidly changing information landscape. Produced by the Department of Epidemiology with co-sponsors the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Health Communications.This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person...
CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will...
CHDS Seminar: Citizen Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton's presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in "Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance," which established a theoretical model...