This online Q&A will feature Stephen Kissler and be presented jointly by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH. Learn more here. Register here. "The emergence of the omicron variant brings new questions and uncertainties during a time of increased holiday travel. How dangerous is omicron with its unusual combination of mutations? Will current vaccines protect against it? And, what do families…
This webinar will feature William Hanage and be presented by POCTRN. Learn more here. Register here. "During this webinar, Dr. Bill Hanage will discuss the current knowledge of Omicron epidemiology based on observations from South Africa, the UK, and other early outbreak areas. He will pay particular attention to the relative intrinsic infectiousness and severity of infections relative to Delta, and their ability to evade prior immunity. Taken together, these…
This online Q&A will feature William Hanage and be presented jointly by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and The World from PRX & GBH. Learn more here. Register here. "The Omicron surge is driving COVID-19 infections to historic highs, with more than half a million new cases diagnosed every day in the United States and healthcare systems threatening to buckle under the pressure. What have researchers learned…
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Presented by John M. Drake, Distinguished Research Professor at University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology. Register for the event here. John M. Drake is Director of the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia and Distinguished Research Professor of Ecology in the Odum School of Ecology. His research seeks to understand the dynamics of biological populations and epidemics, focusing on bringing experimental and observational…
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This webinar will feature Bill Hanage and is hosted jointly by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health India Research Center and Project SANCHAR. Learn more. Register here. "This webinar on “Pandemic to Endemic: What does it mean for Public Health Practice and Policy?” explores the impact of the Omicron variant in India and across the world, how to prepare for life with the pandemic in the near future,…
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This webinar will feature Stephen Kissler and be hosted by Stanford Health Policy. Learn more. "Stephen Kissler is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, where he studied the transmission of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. At Harvard, Stephen has focused on identifying drivers of antibiotic resistance and,…
Presented by A. David Paltiel, Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, Public Health Modeling Unit. Register for the event here. The objective that guides Dr. Paltiel's scholarly activities is to promote a reasoned approach to decision making and resource allocation in public health and medicine. Trained in the field of Operations Research, Dr. Paltiel designs and implements policy models and cost-effectiveness analyses. He has a special interest and…
Presented by Wanda Markotter, Professor at the University of Pretoria Centre for Viral Zoonoses. Register for the event here. Prof. Wanda Markotter is the Director of the Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria. She occupies two research chairs: DSI-NRF South African Research Chair in "Infectious Diseases of Animals " (Zoonoses) and a chair in People, Health and Places at the Future Africa Institute. Her interdisciplinary…
This webinar will feature Marc Lipsitch and be presented by ProPublica in partnership with STAT. Learn more here. "As we enter Year Three of COVID-19, many are wondering how the pandemic will end. Will the virus become endemic? What will it look like to coexist with the virus, and how might that differ around the globe? How will policies evolve over time? ProPublica has convened a panel of experts to…
Presented by Andrew F Read, Director of Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology, and Eberly Professor of Biotechnology at Pennsylvania State University. Register for the event here. Andrew Read is an evolutionary microbiologist. Originally from New Zealand, Read received a D.Phil. in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford. He held various fellowships at Oxford and then at the University of Edinburgh,…
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