Past Infectious Disease Epidemiology Seminar Series

Paul Zivich, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “Effects of Influenza Vaccination Among University Students Using Target Maximum Likelihood for Inference”

Justin Lessler, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “How should we be evaluating planning scenarios? Meditations inspired by the US COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub”.

This seminar was not recorded.

Ted Cohen, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, presented “Spatial and genomic epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova”.

Jessica Metcalf, , Professor in the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, presented “Infection dynamics and control in a changing world”.

This seminar was not recorded.

Gili Regev-Yochay, Professor, Director of the Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, presented “The Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute (SPRI) – From Pandemic Preparedness to a West Nile Virus mAb”.

Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, presented “Optimizing antibiotic treatment for children with diarrhea in low-resource settings: promoting access and limiting excess”.

Gesine Meyer-Rath, Research Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and HE2RO, University of the Witwatersrand, presented “The economic impact of the HIV response: How do we know if it’s been worth it?”.

This seminar was not recorded.

Oskar Hallatschek, Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Leipzig University, presented “Who acquires infection from whom? Neutral allele frequency fluctuations can tell”.

Volodymyr Minin, Professor of Statistics, Associate Director of the Infectious Disease Science Initiative at the University of California, Irvine, presented “The signal is not flushed away: nowcasting and forecasting using wastewater pathogen surveillance”.

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, presented “The impact of structural factors on HIV outcomes”.

This seminar was not recorded.

Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, presented “Fitness flux in SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal influenza H3N2”.

Amy Wesolowski, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presented “Modeling human behavior to understanding infectious disease dynamics – examples of population-level mobility and injecting behaviors of people who injection drugs”.

Erin Mordecai, Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Stanford University, presented “More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases”.

Trevor Bedford, Professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, planned to present “Data rich viral phylodynamics”. Unfortunately, this seminar was cancelled and not recorded.

Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, presented “Disease dynamics, in and out of context”. This seminar was not recorded.

Caroline Buckee, Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Making ‘data for good’ better”. This seminar was not recorded.

Mark Loeb, Professor in the Departments of Pathology of Molecular Medicine and Health Research, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University, presented “Cluster randomized trials of influenza vaccination and herd effect: Lessons from the Hutterites”. This seminar was not recorded.

Katia Koelle, Professor of Biology at Emory University, presented “Transmission bottlenecks, with implications for disease severity”.

Kayoko Shioda, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, presented “Target trial emulation for vaccine emulation: Possibilities and challenges”.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “What We Do, and Don’t, Learn from the Black/White Mortality Disparity”.

Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Brown University School of Public Health, presented “Living in a Parallel Universe? Difference-in-differences for infectious disease policy evaluation”. This seminar was not recorded.

Michael Hudgens, Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “Assessing spillover effects in vaccine studies”.

Eva Harris, Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at The University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, presented “Immune imprinting of dengue and Zika viruses: immunological, epidemiological, and clinical consequences”.

Kai Kupferschmidt, Freelance Science Journalist for the Science Magazine, presented “3Ps in a Pandemic: On Trust and Truth”. This seminar was not recorded.

Ben Cowling, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology at Hong Kong University, School of Public Health, presented “Influenza vaccination strategies in older adults”. This seminar was not recorded.

Susan Huang, Chancellor’s Professor at University of California Irvine School of Medicine, presented “Antibiotic resistant pathogens in healthcare – burden, spread, and mitigation strategies”.

Carl Bergstrom, Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Washington, presented “The impediments to high-risk, high-return research”.