This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more and join here. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is now underway. But it will be some time before the vaccine is available to all who want it, and as people wait in line, the virus continues to spread and mutate, “pandemic fatigue” intensifies, and many schools and businesses remain shuttered. In…

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Presented by Dr. Colin Russell, Professor of Applied Evolutionary Biology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. Register for the event here. Dr. Russell's research is driven by his desire to understand how viruses evolve so that we can design better intervention strategies to combat them. His previous work has uncovered the global dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses showing that A/H3N2 viruses spread globally from E&SE Asia each year (Science 2008) and…

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This event will feature Yonatan Grad and be hosted by Harvard Medical School Executive Education. Learn more and register here. As the coronavirus pandemic enters a new phase, science that can guide vaccination prioritization and business’ return-to-work strategies are more important than ever. In this webinar, we will explore the experience of the NBA bubble, in which players were sequestered at the Walt Disney World Resort. Data from this longitudinal…

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This event will feature Bill Hanage and be hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more and join here. The emergence of COVID-19 variants raises questions about ongoing efforts to slow the pandemic. In this online Q&A, epidemiologist William Hanage and The World’s Elana Gordon will explore the implications of these variants for vaccine effectiveness, prioritization and distribution. They also will discuss the continuing need to…

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This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Brown University’s School of Professional Studies. The lecture is part of a greater course that has a tuition fee. Explore the course agenda here. Learn more about registration and pricing here. Pandemics are prolonged crises that require innovation and versatility from public agencies and business leaders to quickly absorb new knowledge, build new networks, and reorganize their operations. But pandemics…

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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by Harvard Hillel. Register here. Watch live here.      

This event will feature Michael Mina and Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Harvard-Oxford Program in Epidemiology. Learn more about the mini symposium here. Register here. At 9:05am, Michael Mina will present "COVID-19 Testing: Where Science, Policy and Regulation Collide." At 10:00am, Marc Lipsitch will contribute as a discussant.

Presented by Dr. Nicholas Grassly, Professor in the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Register for the event here. Dr. Grassly is interested in the individual immune response to vaccination – particularly for enteric infections such as enteroviruses (including poliovirus) and rotavirus – and how this translates to impact at the population level. Inevitably he is also working on the epidemiology of COVID-19, including testing and vaccination strategies,…

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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by CrisisReady. Learn more about the event here. Register here. CrisisReady is organized around the principles of Data Readiness, Methods Readiness, and Translational Readiness, and seeks to advance data-driven decision-making during public health emergencies. CrisisReady evolved from the Covid-19 Mobility Data Network, a research network of 100+ scientists from around the world who volunteered their time to serve as trusted intermediaries between technology…

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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by MIDAS. Learn more about the event here. Register here. During this webinar, aspects of diversity in infectious disease modeling will be presented, as an introduction to the Ninth Annual Conference to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health that will start directly after the webinar.