Two CCDD Postdocs get Faculty positions

Congratulations to CCDD Postdocs Robyn Lee and Ayesha Mahmud for moving on to the next phase in their career! Robyn will join University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health as Faculty. Ayesha will join UC Berkeley Demography Department as Assistant Professor! Wishing you all the best!

Caroline Buckee receives Alice Hamilton Award

Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics for receiving the 2019 Alice Hamilton Award for her work using big data and mathematical models to study the spread of infectious diseases. The award honors the memory of Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in the fields of toxicology and occupational health and the first woman appointed to the faculty at Harvard…

Professor Grace Chan joins CCDD as Affiliate Faculty

We are very excited to announce that Dr. Grace Chan is joining the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) as affiliate faculty. Dr. Chan is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on improving maternal and child health in under-served populations by using epidemiologic methods to discover and deliver evidence-based interventions. In partnership with…

CCDD’s Rebecca Kahn selected as Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative Fellow

CCDD student Rebecca Kahn is one of the 30 professionals and scholars accepted into Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) fellowship program for 2019. This highly competitive fellowship program inspires and connects the next generation of leaders and innovators in the biosecurity community. The program is an opportunity for talented career professionals to deepen their expertise, expand their network, and build their leadership skills…

7th Annual Conference to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health

The 7th Annual Conference to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health was a great success! Over 60 students came together from all corners of the United States during this 1,5 day event. The Conference offered scientific presentations by experts in the field, as well as career and motivational talks. The students got plenty of opportunities to network with each other and with the presenters and the organizers got…

Dr. Hanage to be a keynote speaker at the 5th International Symposium on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance

CCDD Professor Dr. Hanage is among the invited keynote speakers at the 5th International Symposium on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance, which will take place in Hong Kong in June 2019. The key topics of the conference include: fundamental scientific aspects of environmental AMR including sources and drivers approaches to effective mitigation in different use sectors connections between environmental hotspots and point sources such as medical settings risk assessment…

Dr. Lipsitch’s talk on Computer Simulations to Enhance Vaccine Trials

At Berkman Klein Center CCDD Director, Professor Marc Lipsitch describes his work on computer simulation of vaccine trials during epidemics to assess options for trial design, as well as some of his recent work on the ethics of trials in emergencies, and stimulates discussion on the intersection of these two topics to help disentangle ethical from political and logistical concerns, as well as to reduce the time pressure to make…