This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Jess Edwards, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the Zoom here. Jess Edwards is an infectious disease epidemiologist who focuses on sharpening quantitative methods to inform public health decisions using imperfect data sources, particularly those collected…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Ajit Lalvani, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Founding Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre and Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Respiratory Infections, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here. Ajit leads the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections to…

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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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