This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Learn more about the event here. Contact Sam Peisch at speisch@hsph.harvard.edu to register. Recommended reading materials are A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus, Roadmap for Prioritizing Population Groups for Vaccines Against COVID-19, COVID-19 ACIP Vaccine Recommendations, COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity (blog post), and…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & WGBH. Join the Q&A here. In this live Forum Q&A, education expert Meira Levinson and epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch will look at how school closures and virtual learning are affecting K-12 students and their families during the coronavirus pandemic. They will examine the…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted jointly by the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Learn more about the event here. Register here. “The Center Debates” is a new initiative of the Center for Philosophy of Science. Our goal is to promote serious, but respectful and constructive exchanges about controversial topics of interest to historians and philosophers of science, scientists, and the lay…

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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by Emory University. Learn more about the event here. Register here. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is awash in data, including daily, spatially-resolved COVID case data, virus sequence data, patients' Omics data, and mobility data. Journals are now also awash in studies that make use of quantitative modeling approaches to gain insight into the geographic spread of SARS-CoV-2 and its temporal dynamics, as well as…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and NPR. Join the event here. As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines unfolds in the United States, numerous questions around distribution, supply, hesitancy and efficacy persist. And the stakes have never been higher, as numbers of deaths and cases repeatedly break records. In this discussion, experts will review…

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This conference is hosted by the MIDAS Coordination Center in cooperation with CCDD. Full agenda details to be announced. Learn more about the conference here. Apply now! (You will need to upload a resume, personal statement, and verification form. Details are provided via the application link). Application Deadline: January 8, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET. This conference is for undergraduate students or students in a post baccalaureate program from underrepresented groups who have…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Library of Congress. Learn more about the event here. Register here. Join experts from the Library of Congress and guest speakers for a presentation covering research on the 1918 Flu, the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century, and the lessons it can offer in our understanding of COVID-19. Dr. Sandra Charles, the Library’s Chief Medical Officer and Dr. Tomoko…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Vermont. Learn more about the event and register here. Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, will discuss the state of the Covid-19 Pandemic: what went wrong, the end game, preparing for future pandemics, and other topics. He will be…

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Presented by Dr. Leah Katzelnick, Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the Viral Epidemiology and Immunity Unit of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Register for the event here. Dr. Katzelnick pursued a Ph.D. studying antigenic variation among dengue viruses at the University of Cambridge and the National Institutes of Health as an NIH OxCam Scholar and Gates Cambridge Scholar. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2016, she…

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This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by RapidTests. Learn more and register here. One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid tests are still unavailable to most of the public. Rapid antigen tests, using lateral flow devices, have been proven effective in home and community settings for identifying people who are most likely to be contagious—even in the absence of symptoms—and to empower them to isolate before unknowingly…

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