Identifying vulnerabilities and supporting patients during COVID-19: cohort studies in 7 LMICs (ID Epi Seminar Series)

Presented by Dr. Dale Barnhart, Global Health Equity Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in affiliation with Partners In Health. Register for the event here. Dale Barnhart's research focuses on the application of epidemiological methods to implementation science and program evaluation. She completed her doctorate in epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2019. As a research fellow with Harvard Medical School and Partners In Health, she…

Keeping Abreast of the Development of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19: What Clinicians Need to Know

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Integrity Continuing Education. Learn more about the event here. Register here. This program is intended for infectious disease experts, immunologists, geriatricians, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team involved in, or interested in, education regarding COVID-19 vaccines. Although much remains unknown about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), knowledge is expanding every hour, and…

Advances in virology, immunology, and computation to monitor and control outbreaks

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Harvard University. Learn more about the seminar series here. Register here. Advances in biological and computational sciences have enabled massive leaps in basic research and medicine over the recent decades. Relative to these medical advances, advances in public health and particularly infectious diseases have been modest. The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has shown us the consequences of investing so fully in medicine without…

Epidemiology, Testing, and Public Health Policy for COVID-19

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted jointly by the Ragon Institute, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Medical School. It is part of a larger, free course called "Understanding COVID-19: Evolution of an Epidemic." Learn more about the course here. Register for the course here.   Understanding COVID-19 is a 2-day course (April 20th and 21st) intended to provide interested high…

The Coronavirus Pandemic: The Latest on Variants and Rapid Testing

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more about and join the event here. What are the implications that five COVID-19 variants that appear to spread faster than other variants are now circulating in the United States? How might continuing vaccination rollouts and the availability of over-the-counter rapid antigen at-home tests factor into controlling further spread? And what is…

On the Interface Between Chemical Kinetics and
 Population Biology: How to Design Drug Dosing Strategies (ID Epi Seminar Series)

Presented by Dr. Pia Abel-zur Wiesch, Associate Professor of Biology and Early Career Chair of Systems Pharmacology in The Pennsylvania State University's Department of Biology. Register for the event here. Dr. Abel zur Wiesch grew up in Freiburg, Germany where she attended latin school majoring in mathematics and chemistry. She went on to study biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Kiel, Germany, Griffith University, Australia and University Basel,…

Mechanisms and Control of COVID-19

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Learn more about the event here. Join the event here. This event will be moderated by Alan Engelman, Ph.D., and Kai Wucherpfennig, M.D., Ph.D. Michael's fellow panelists will be Ralph S. Baric, Ph.D., Dan H. Barouch, M.D., Ph.D.    

Methodological challenges and approaches in COVID-19 epidemiology

This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Alan Turing Institute’s JBC-Turing-RSS Laboratory. Learn more about the event here. Register here. In this seminar, Professor Lipsitch will discuss the challenges of understanding COVID-19 transmission, clinical course, and prevention. For transmission, he'll discuss the challenges of household and other secondary attack studies as described in a recent review, as well as some ways to address these challenges. For clinical course,…

A Look Back, A Path Forward: COVID-19

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more about the event here. Fourteen months into an unprecedented, worldwide pandemic, we now find ourselves on the precipice of hope. Thanks to the miracle of science and increases in production and distribution, the U.S. is now averaging more than 3 million vaccinations a day. Yet many hurdles remain. A race against…

Fc-dependent IgG parasite clearance as a guide for vaccine development against P. falciparum malaria (ID Epi Seminar Series)

Presented by Dr. Faith Osier, Professor of Immunology at Heidelberg University, Germany, and Executive Director of the IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory at Imperial College London. Register for the event here. Faith Osier trained as a paediatrician in Kenya, specialized in immunology in Liverpool, and obtained a PhD from the Open University in the UK. Her work in malaria vaccine development focuses on vaccine candidate discovery, the identification of correlates of protection…