Special Tests (in English and Español)

This event will feature Michael Mina and is hosted by Radio El Respeto. Watch the livestream here. Everything you always wanted to know about tests and never dared to ask: Do antigen tests work? Can I get one before Christmas dinner? Are there better alternatives? Dr. Mina will be accompanied by panelists Dr. Tomás Camacho García, Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology, and Dr. Antonio Osuna, professor at the…

COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity

This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Join the event here. With coronavirus vaccines now available, what are the timeline and prospects for "herd immunity" and return to a new normal? Marc Lipsitch of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health returns to JAMA's Q&A series with Paul Biddinger, MD, Director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Disaster Medicine, to discuss.…

Considerations in Prioritizing Limited COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies

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…

The Coronavirus Pandemic: The Disrupted School Year and Public Health

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…

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…