COVID-19 Events

CCDD faculty regularly host and contribute to online events about COVID-19. Register to join one of our upcoming events or explore material from past events below.

Upcoming Events

Update on COVID-19 Testing – How Do We Reopen?

Tuesday, 7/14/20 from 1:00 – 2:00pm ET, featuring Michael Mina. Hosted by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Past Events

• 6/30/20: COVID, Health, and Climate
  • Featured Michael Mina and jointly hosted by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Community Programs and the Rocky Mountain Harvard University Club
• 6/26/20: The Ongoing Challenges of Reopening: Managing Risks Amidst the Shifting Reality of COVID-19 to Prevent Resurgence
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and Michael Mina. Hosted by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
• 6/26/20: Contact Tracing: Improving Outcomes with Speed, Intelligence, and Trust
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by RingCentral
  • Requires registration to view
• 6/25/20: COVID-19 and the Economy: Labor Markets and the Economics of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and hosted by Brookings
  • Link to Caroline’s slides
• 6/24/20: State of the State: 6 Months of COVID-19 in the U.S.
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by ASCP
• 6/17/20: Machine Learning para la detección temprana de brotes epidemiológicos: caso de estudio durante la epidemia por covid-19
  • Contó con Mauricio Santillana y fue realizado por la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
• 6/10/20: Safer Together: How to Reduce Risk by Layering Return-to-Workplace Strategies
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by Buoy Health
  • Requires registration to view
  • Link to transcript
• 6/4/20: COVID-19 Update
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• 6/4/20: The Virus’s Tale: A Live Discussion
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by The Boston Globe
• 5/28/20: Epidemiology of COVID 19: What we know, what we need to know
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine
• 5/26/20: Tech for COVID
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and hosted by the World Economic Forum
• 5/20/20: A COVID-19 Primer, and How to Stop its Spread
  • Featured Megan Murray and hosted by Partners in Health
  • Link to slides (PDF)
• 5/19/20: Innovation and Biotech in the Time of COVID-19: Public Health
  • Featured Yonatan Grad and hosted by LabCentral
• 5/15/20: Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness: Inaugural Public Briefing
  • Featured Megan Murray and hosted by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
  • Link to summary
• 5/12/20: Reopening the Coronavirus-Closed Economy — Principles and Tradeoffs
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and hosted by the Brookings Institution
  • Link to Caroline’s slides (PDF)
• 5/11/20: World Medical Innovation Forum: Big Tech and Digital Health
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by Partners HealthCare
• 5/5/20: COVID-19 and the Role of Modeling
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and jointly hosted by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and the American Statistical Association
  • Link to summary
  • Link to Marc’s slides (PDF)
• 5/5/20: Innovation and Biotech in the Time of COVID-19: Testing Strategies
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by LabCentral
• 5/1/20: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic with Geospatial Research and Applications
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and hosted by the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
  • Link to summary (PDF)
• 5/1/20: Symposium on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Detection Methods
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
• 5/1/20: Data-Driven Precision Medicine and Translational Research in the Era of Big Data
  • Featured Bill Hanage and hosted by St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
  • Link to Bill’s slides (PDF)
• 4/30/20: How Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19 Got Us Into, and Will Lead Us Out of, the Pandemic
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital
• 4/24/20: The Science Behind COVID-19
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and hosted by the Harvard South Asia Institute
  • Link to transcript (PDF)
• 4/22/20: Ethical Dilemmas in Mask and Equipment Shortages: Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by Harvard Law School
• 4/22/20: Coronavirus Q&A: Predicting Pandemics
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by the JAMA Network
• 4/22/20: After The Lockdown
  • Featured Bill Hanage and hosted by Novara Media
• 4/21/20: COVID-19: Where do we go from here?
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and jointly hosted by Harvard Chan School of Public Health and New England Journal of Medicine
• 4/17/20: SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies: Prospects for Therapy, Vaccines and Return to Work
  • Featured Megan Murray, Michael Mina, and Marc Lipsitch. Hosted by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
• 4/16/20: Coronavirus: A Survival Guide
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by Science
• 4/16/20: Immunological Testing During COVID-19
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by Harvard Medical School
  • Link to transcript
• 4/15/20: What Happens After We Beat Back the First Wave? COVID-19 and Our Future World
  • Featured Yonatan Grad and hosted by Fulbright University (Vietnam)
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• 4/15/20: Town Hall: Emergency Management and Communication During COVID
  • Featured Bill Hanage and hosted by Massachusetts State Representative Marjorie C. Decker
• 4/13/20: COVID-19 Symposium
  • Featured the majority of CCDD faculty and hosted by CCDD
• 4/13/20: Big Picture: Road Map to Reopening
  • Featured Bill Hanage and hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
  • Link to summary
• 4/10/20: Infectious Disease & Microbiome Program Meeting: COVID-19 Testing
  • Featured Michael Mina and and hosted by the Broad Institute
• 4/3/20: Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic: From Life Raft to Dry Land
  • Featured Yonatan Grad and hosted by the Broad Institute
• 4/2/20: COVID-19 Data Science Zoomposium
  • Featured both Caroline Buckee and Michael Mina, and jointly hosted by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Columbia University
  • Link to Caroline’s slides (PDF)
  • Link to Michael’s slides (PDF)
• 3/31/20: After the First Wave
  • Featured Caroline Buckee and hosted by the Santa Fe Institute
• 3/26/20: Social-Medicine: Response to COVID 19
  • Featured Megan Murray and hosted by Harvard Medical School
  • Link to summary
• 3/25/20: The Science of Social Distancing
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and jointly hosted by the American Public Health Association and the National Academy of Medicine
  • Link to transcript (PDF)
  • Link to Marc’s slides (PDF)
• 3/13/20: Coronavirus COVID-19: Fact vs Fiction
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by the Corporate Health & Wellness Association
• 3/12/20: A Coordinated, Boston-Wide Response to COVID-19
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
• 3/6/20: Pop-Up Forum: Coronavirus
  • Featured Michael Mina and hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics
• 3/3/20: The Coronavirus Outbreak: Tracking COVID-19
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by Harvard Chan School of Public Health
  • Link to transcript
• 3/2/20: The COVID-19 Outbreak: Local and Global Decisions During Uncertainty
  • Featured Marc Lipsitch and hosted by the China Health Policy and Management Society