This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Saki Takahashi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here. Saki Takahashi is broadly interested in developing mathematical and statistical models, closely linked to empirical data, to understand how immunity shapes the risk, burden, and spread of infectious diseases, and to harness these…

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This virtual webinar will be presented by Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Assistant Professor at University of California San Francisco. Unlike other events in the seminar series, this seminar is only virtual. Register here. Isabel is an Assistant Professor in the Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine at UCSF. She is interested in applying novel epidemiological and statistical methods to understand the dynamics of infectious diseases. Most of her experience is related…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Beatriz Martinez Lopez, professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here. Beatriz Martínez-López, D.V.M, M.P.V.M., Ph.D., is Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the Department of Medicine & Epidemiology, Veterinary School, UC Davis and Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) since January 2014,…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Florian Krammer, Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here. Florian Krammer, PhD, graduated from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria) in 2010. He received his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Palese at the Icahn School of Medicine at…

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Fundação Getulio Vargas’ School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) is holding an International Colloquium on Mathematical Modelling in Epidemiology, aimed at consolidating and strengthening advances in the application of mathematics in epidemiology. This public event will take place from August 14 to 17, starting at 8 am, in FGV’s main building. During the four-day meeting, the speakers will explore the following topics: Mathematical modeling; Statistical methods to analyze infectious diseases;…

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Please join us for an afternoon of talks and poster presentations by faculty, students, postdocs, and research scientists participating in the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration in ​Infectious Disease Epidemiology in memory of Professors Freeman and Seage. This event honors their leadership and many contributions to the interdisciplinary ID Epi Program. Talks will occur from 1:30-4:30pm in HSPH Kresge G3. Poster Reception will occur from 4:45-6:30pm in HSPH FXB Atrium.

This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. Trevor Bedford is a Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Affiliate…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Caroline Buckee, Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. Dr. Caroline Buckee is a Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work is focused on understanding the mechanisms driving the spread of infectious diseases…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Mark Loeb, Professor in the Departments of Pathology of Molecular Medicine and Health Research, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. Dr. Mark Loeb is a Professor in the Departments of Pathology of Molecular Medicine and Health Research, Evidence, and Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology…

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