Brooke Nichols, PhD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University. She is a health economist and infectious disease mathematical modeler. Dr. Nichols’ research experience and interests include modelling and economic evaluation of treatment as prevention (HIV and HCV) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (HIV), geospatial modelling for efficient resource allocation, and translating research into public policy recommendations. Site: https://profiles.bu.edu/Brooke.Nichols

Dr. Lauren M. Childs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. She develops and analyzes mathematical and computational models to examine biologically-motivated questions. A main focus of her work is understanding the pathogenesis and spread of infectious diseases, particularly those transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria and dengue. She considers the interactions within a host organism, such as between an invading pathogen and the immune…

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Ben Lopman is Professor of Epidemiology at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.  He is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a research focus on vaccines and enteric viruses. His group conducts research globally and in the United States. Prior to joining the RSPH faculty in 2016, Dr. Lopman was with the Division of Viral Diseases at CDC where he led programs on enteric viruses and vaccine epidemiology.  Dr.…

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Dr. Phil Arevalo is a Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago with Professor Sarah Cobey and studies how infection history affects the development of the immune response to influenza. By modeling epidemiological and molecular data, he hopes to better understand how differences between people's immune responses arise and, in turn, feed back onto influenza evolution. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Professor Martin Polz at MIT,…

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Pia Abel-zur Wiesch received her PhD from ETH Zurich with the oversight of Sebastian Bonhoeffer, and was awarded a medal for completing an outstanding thesis in 2011. From 2012 through 2015, she completed postdoctoral work with Ted Cohen at Harvard and Yale, with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From 2015 through 2017, she held a role as Visiting…

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Sonja Lehtinen is a postdoctoral research associate at ETH Zurich and works on the relationship between pathogen ecology and evolution and public health. Her research to date has focused on explaining puzzling trends in the frequencies of antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Her current work centerson the role plasmids play in resistance dynamics. Site: https://tb.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.MjYyNjQ5.TGlzdC80MzQsMTE0NzUxNTQwNQ==.html

COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Bonnielin Swenor Dr. Swenor is an epidemiologist and Director of the newly established Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, which aims to address health disparities among people with all types of disabilities. This Center connects researchers and stakeholders focused on maximizing health, equity, and participation of people with disabilities. Her work is fueled by her personal experience with visual impairment, a perspective that…

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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Jarvis Chen Dr. Jarvis Chen is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on social inequalities in health, and especially racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer outcomes. As a methodologist, Dr. Chen's interests include the development of methods for geospatial and spatiotemporal analysis, disease mapping, handling missing data, and latent variable analysis.           The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States…

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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine. She is the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that generates actionable…

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