Please join the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Infectious Disease Epidemiology for a guest speaker talk. Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay, Director of Infection Prevention and Control Unit from Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel will present a talk entitled "A Hidden Source for CPE Transmission in Hospitals."

Gili Regev-Yochay, Director of Infection Prevention and Control Unit from Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel will be presenting a talk entitled “The Palestinian-Israeli Collaborative Research (PICR) - Science as a bridge to cross-conflict collaboration.”

Vaughn Cooper, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | Computational and Systems Biology; Director, Evolutionary Genomics Research Facility; Associate Director, Center for Medicine and the Microbiome; Associate Director, Center for Innovative Antimicrobial Therapy, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Talk title: Why biofilm growth can generate fundamentally different dynamics and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance Biography: I am an evolutionary geneticist and microbiologist whose lab applies genomic technology to understand ecological and evolutionary dynamics…

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Karen Kotloff, MD, Professor of Pediatrics; Head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Pediatrics; Associate Director of Clinical Studies at the Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine Talk Title: The incidence, etiology, and clinical sequelae of diarrheal diseases in African children before and after rotavirus vaccine introduction Biography:  Dr. Kotloff is Head of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the University of Maryland School of Medicine…

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Samuel Scarpino, PhD, Assistant Professor, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University Talk title: On the predictability of infectious disease outbreaks Biography: Samuel V. Scarpino is a complex systems scientist investigating questions at the intersection of network science, human behavior, and disease.  His work spans a broad range of topics, including: infectious disease modeling, forecasting in complex systems, genetic topology of disease, and decision making under uncertainty. Sam is an Assistant Professor of Marine…

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John Stover, Vice President & Founder, Avenir Health Talk title: What is required to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030? Biography: John Stover is Director of Analysis and Modeling at Avenir Health, an organization dedicated to policy analysis, strategic planning and resource mobilization in international health programs. His work focuses on policy development, advocacy, strategic planning, resource allocation and monitoring and evaluation primarily in the fields of HIV/AIDS and…

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Eva Harris, PhD, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology; Director, Center for Global Public Health; Infectious Diseases and Immunity PhD Program Head, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health Talk title: Friend or Foe?: Immune responses to dengue and Zika Viruses Biography: Dr. Eva Harris is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology in the School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Global…

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