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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This event will feature Bill Hanage and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH. Learn more about the event here. Join here. "The highly infectious COVID-19 Delta variant is spurring global surges, sparking concerns among public health officials. In the U.S., more than 80 percent of new cases are from the Delta variant. What makes this variant so contagious? How protective are…
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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by the Ecological Society of America. Learn more here. Register here. A fee is required to attend. This dynamic session will use discussion-based exchange to explore how movement is integrated into studies of infectious disease spillover and transmission in humans and wildlife. Speakers will use 3-5 minute talks (30 minutes) to introduce overarching questions or key ideas followed by structured group discussion (30…
This webinar will feature Bill Hanage and is co-hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health India Research Center, Project SANCHAR, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Learn more about the event. Register here. "As India experiences substantive health and socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the webinar proposes to focus on emerging COVID-19 variants, how vaccines can adapt to these new variants, and how…
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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH. Learn more about the event here. Join here. "With many children returning to school, questions about the coronavirus pandemic– particularly the Delta variant — and children’s health risks have become even more pressing. What do we know about the variant’s impact on children in particular?…
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