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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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 Population Biology: How to Design Drug Dosing Strategies (ID Epi Seminar Series)"

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.    

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,…

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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…

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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…

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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by CrisisReady. Learn more about the event here. Register here. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic digital data on human mobility has played crucial roles in response efforts ranging from monitoring non-pharmaceutical interventions like physical distancing, evaluating different types of testing and seroprevalence strategies, and assisting with targeted re-opening efforts to maximize health and reduce economic harm. But persistent questions remain about the…

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Presented by Dr. Bryan Bryson, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Register for the event here. Dr. Bryon's interests lie at the intersection of infectious disease, innate immunity and systems biology. At his lab, he develops biochemical and computational tools to decipher macrophage function during infection and across a variety of diseases and states to understand the generalizable molecular features that govern innate immune function. Dr.…

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