This event will feature Caroline Buckee as part of the World Migration and Displacement Symposium. Learn more about and register for the symposium here. Vulnerable populations are some of the hardest to measure. We have an astounding 1 billion people who are still not represented in detail in any public data source. We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis of nearly 80 million people. During migration, especially when…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of California, San Francisco. Learn more here. Link forthcoming.  

This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more and join here. "The global coronavirus pandemic picture is mixed. While vaccination rates increase and death rates drop in some countries, others are struggling with deadly surges and vaccine shortages. Meanwhile, COVID variants are driving questions about approaches to curb the pandemic. In this Forum, infectious disease and global health experts will…

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This event will feature Mauricio Santillana and be hosted by SIAM Mexico. A fee is required to attend. Learn more about the Annual Meeting here. Register here. The Annual Meeting aims to offer a platform for applied scientists from different institutions to interact. There will be plenary and contributed talks, parallel sessions and posters presentations for researchers and graduate students to present their work.

This event will feature Marc Lipsitch as a keynote speaker and be hosted by the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Learn more about his session here. Learn more about the conference here. Register here. A fee is required to attend. Martha Werler of Boston University will chair Lipsitch's session and moderate his Q&A.  

This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by Applied Machine Learning Days. Learn more and register here. A fee is required to attend. During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health advice, stay-at-home orders, and self-imposed limitations have dramatically changed human behaviors on a global scale. For the first time in an epidemic, such an unprecedented natural experiment has been sensed through digital platforms in real-time. Digital traces such as mobile…

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This event will feature Yonatan Grad and be hosted by Academic Medical Education. Learn more here. Register here. Conference description: "The COVID-19 Vaccine Development & Implementation Workshop aims to increase knowledge and facilitate discussion on the many aspects of vaccine development and rollout on a background of a firm understanding of pathogenesis and natural infection. Our goal is to address the many scientific, social, and policy challenges in the totality…

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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by Nature, Sunbelt, and NetSci Conference. Learn more about the event here. Register here. Buckee's session will be preceded by presentations by Duncan Watts, Jake Hofman, David Lazer, Claudia Wagner, and Mirta Galesic. Social and cultural forces shape almost every aspect of infectious disease transmission in human populations, as well as our ability to measure, understand, and respond to epidemics. For directly…

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Yonatan Grad will be presenting "The Evolution of Genomics in STIs – Including GC, MG, and Syphilis" as part of the STI & HIV 2021 World Congress, hosted by the International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR) and the International Union against STI World (IUSTI World). Learn more about the Congress here. Explore the tentative program here.  

This three-day program will feature Mauricio Santillana and be hosed by the University of Washington. It is the 12th module of the university's 13th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases. A fee is required to attend and increases after the early registration period ends on June 18, 2021. Learn more about Dr. Santillana's module here. Register for the full program here. About this module: This module…

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