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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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Tanjala Purnell Dr. Tanjala Purnell is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with over a decade of research experience related to identifying and addressing patient/family, healthcare system, and community factors influencing health and healthcare disparities for adults with cardiovascular disease risk factors, including hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes. She is an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Epidemiology at the Johns…

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COVID-19 and Health Inequities Seminar Series   Joseph Lewnard and Maximiliano Cuevas Farmworkers are an essential workforce population in the United States whose continued work during the COVID-19 pandemic has been critical to the security of the food supply. However, the living and working conditions of this population, together with profound social, legal, and economic marginalization, have created a perfect storm in the context of the pandemic. We will describe…

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This event features Michael Mina and is hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics at Comenius University, Slovakia. Learn more about the department here. Enter the livestream here.