The Center Debates: COVID-19

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…

SARS-CoV-2 modeling: What have we learned from this pandemic about how (not) to model disease spread?

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…

The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: What’s Ahead?

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…

9th Annual Conference to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health

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…

The 1918 Flu: Applying Lessons from the Past to COVID-19

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…

COVID Pandemic: How We Got Here, How it Ends

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…

Immune interactions between dengue and Zika viruses and protection versus enhancement of disease (ID Epi Seminar Series)

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…

It’s wrong not to test: The case for universal, frequent rapid COVID tests

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…

The Coronavirus Pandemic: Testing, Vaccines, and the Way Forward

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more and join here. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is now underway. But it will be some time before the vaccine is available to all who want it, and as people wait in line, the virus continues to spread and mutate, “pandemic fatigue” intensifies, and many schools and businesses remain shuttered. In…

Timing is everything – the within and between host evolutionary dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses (ID Epi Seminar Series)

Presented by Dr. Colin Russell, Professor of Applied Evolutionary Biology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. Register for the event here. Dr. Russell's research is driven by his desire to understand how viruses evolve so that we can design better intervention strategies to combat them. His previous work has uncovered the global dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses showing that A/H3N2 viruses spread globally from E&SE Asia each year (Science 2008) and…