Past Infectious Disease Epidemiology Seminar Series

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”.

Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, presents “Within-host evolution and its implications for pathogen genomic surveillance”.

Carlos Grijalva, Professor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology at the Departments of Health Policy and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, presents “Transmission of respiratory viruses in households”.

Jared Kehe, Chief Scientific Officer at Concerto Biosciences, presented “Massively parallel screening of microbial communities to discover live biotherapeutics”. This seminar was not recorded.

Claire Duvallet, Founding Staff Data Scientist at Biobot, presented “Supporting and scaling nationwide Covid-19 wastewater monitoring”.

Akiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, presented “Immunology of long COVID”.

Caitlin Rivers, Assistant Professor and Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, “Infectious disease modeling to support rapid outbreak response: insights from academia and government”. This seminar was not recorded.

Lelia Chaisson, Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, presented “Tuberculosis screening and prevention for people with HIV”. This seminar was not recorded.

Jess Edwards, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “Merging statistical models, mechanistic models, and causal inference in outbreak response”. This seminar was not recorded.

Ajit Lalvani, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Founding Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre and Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Respiratory Infections, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, presented “Determinants of SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness and transmission”.

Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Assistant Professor at University of California San Francisco, presented “Opportunities and challenges of seroepidemiology for understanding pathogen dynamics”.

Beatriz Martinez Lopez, Professor of Infectious disease epidemiology and Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, presents “Precision epidemiology to better prevent and control endemic and emerging diseases in livestock”.

Florian Krammer, Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, presented “Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination”.