This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Learn more about the event here. Join here. The COVID-19 seminar series brings in outside experts, covers papers and preprints, and highlights local efforts in testing, production, and analysis.
This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Integrity Continuing Education. Learn more and register here. Although much remains unknown about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), knowledge is expanding every hour, and many healthcare providers, overwhelmed by infected patients and a struggling healthcare infrastructure, are unable to keep up with the changing landscape. Furthermore, the lag in peer-reviewed publication timelines means that the most critical information, when not disseminated…
This event will feature Megan Murray and be hosted by the Wyss Institute. Learn more about the event here. Register here. Diagnostics Grand Rounds brings clinicians with unmet needs to the Wyss Institute. The goal of these sessions is to inform technology developers about important clinical problems that can help them direct their technology development efforts. Presenters are asked to identify diagnostic needs that will have an impact on the quality…
This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by University College London. His presentation, "Mass testing as an exit strategy for the COVID-19 pandemic," will take place from 11:15am - 11:30am ET. Learn more about and register for the event here. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic. A year on, we are still in the midst of it and many…
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Presented by Dr. Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). Register for the event here. Dr. Castro's research focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches to identify the determinants of infectious disease transmission in…
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This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Learn more about the event here. Register here. Watch the livestream here. On the eve of the first anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown, the Institute of Politics gathers the experts from our final in-person Forum event last March to reflect on the past year. Our guests analyze the government and public health response, vaccine…
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This event will feature Stephen Kissler and be hosted by Verify at WUSA9. Learn more about the event here. Watch the livestream on WUSA9's Facebook page or Youtube channel. The one-year anniversary of coronavirus hitting the DMV is fast approaching, and the Verify team has been busy getting you the answers. We went straight to some of the top experts to answer the latest questions on vaccines and COVID-related questions,…
This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Deloitte. Learn more and register here. Join us as we convene the brightest minds in life sciences, health care, and public health in a conversation about coming together to emerge stronger amidst COVID-19. Our first conversation on March 11th will focus on how public/private partnerships can help establish resilient recovery. We invite you to join us as panelists explore strategies…
Presented by Dr. Tanja Stadler, Associate Professor at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) in Basel. Register for the event here. Tanja is a member of the Swiss National COVID-​19 Science Task Force. Tanja studied Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), the University of Cardiff (UK), and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). She obtained a Master…
This event will feature Bill Hanage and be hosted by the American Physical Society. Learn more about the event here. Attendance requires a free account with the American Physical Society. Register for an account here. In most pathogenic bacteria, the population is made up of multiple distinct lineages or ‘clones’ which are associated with properties like virulence or drug resistance. For the most part, this structure has been taken for…
This event will feature Stephen Kissler and be hosted by University of Colorado Boulder. Learn more about the event here. Join here with the password 747928. Mathematical models have provided key insights into SARS-CoV-2 dynamics at the global, local, and physiological scales. I will summarize some of our research efforts within each of these contexts. Early in the pandemic, a deterministic multi-strain coronavirus transmission model revealed how SARS-CoV-2 could behave during…
This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by The Wall Street Journal. Free to watch but a fee is required for participation. Learn more about the forum here. Register here. Join the editors as they convene business leaders, policy makers, scientists and other experts to explore a range of issues at the center of international conversations in 2021 — including the race to contain the spread of the coronavirus and…
This event will feature Michael Mina and be hosted by Axios. Learn more and register here. Join Axios for an event on COVID-19 testing and its role in the response to the coronavirus pandemic. We'll unpack the future of what testing looks like in a post-vaccine world. Features conversations with Harvard professor of epidemiology Dr. Michael Mina, Johns Hopkins senior scholar Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, and Director of the Center for Infectious…
Presented by Dr. Iruka N. Okeke, Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Register for the event here. Iruka is a molecular bacteriologist focused on diarrhoeal pathogens, bacterial drug resistance, and laboratory practice in Africa. Her laboratory studies the molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis and genomics of enteric bacteria and provides genomic support for public health surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in West Africa. The Okeke lab also engages in…
This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by CrisisReady. Learn more about the event here. Register here. We are delighted to invite you to the next panel by CrisisReady, a research-response platform at Direct Relief and Harvard University. This Panel will examine the practices of recent mobility data collaboratives in order to engage a conversation about the future of global capacity building for translational readiness and crisis response. One…
This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Global Health Network. Learn more about the seminar here. Register here. The unprecedented speed and scale of global rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines is playing a critical role in effectively responding to the pandemic. Decisions about global vaccine rollout have been made rapidly, informed by best available clinical research findings. What ethical responsibilities arise to monitor the safety and effectiveness…
This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by Boston City Council's Committee on Government Operations. Learn more about the hearing here. Read the docket here. Watch the event here. This hearing will address Docket #0261: Ordinance requiring equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the City of Boston. In addition to Dr. Lipsitch, witnesses include Dr. Cassandra Pierre of Boston Medical Center, Stan McLaren of Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center,…
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This event will feature Marc Lipsitch and be hosted by the Korean Academy of Science. Option to register here. Stream the event here. View the symposium agenda here. In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, predictive research on the number of infections and deaths using statistics is actively being carried out. In particular, we are extensively researching in the fields of big data and AI analysis technology that go beyond existing mathematical,…
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Presented by Dr. Koen Pouwels, Senior Health Economist at Oxford University's Health Economics Research Centre. Register for the event here. Dr Koen Pouwels is a health economist at the University of Oxford. His current work focuses on SARS-CoV-2 and antimicrobial resistance modelling, spatiotemporal modelling to predict local antimicrobial resistance and SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalences based on non-random survey data, design of randomised trials to determine optimal duration of antibiotic therapy, economic…
