This webinar will feature Caroline Buckee and be presented by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Learn more here. Register here. "Caroline Buckee is a professor of epidemiology and the associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is writing a book focused on the impact of gold mining on the epidemiology and control of malaria in the Amazon…

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Presented by M. Kate Grabowski, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pathology. Register for the event here. Dr. Grabowski’s research focuses on the epidemiology, prevention, and control of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last decade, she has made major contributions to understanding the role of mobility and migration on HIV transmission dynamics, impact of HIV prevention and treatment programs on HIV…

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Presented by Vanessa Ezenwa, Professor at Yale University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Register for the event here. Dr. Vanessa Ezenwa is a Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. She received a BA in Biology from Rice University, and PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Her research focuses on the ecology of infectious diseases in wild animal populations, with a specific focus on…

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This virtual summit will be hosted by the The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and feature Marc Lipsitch, speaking as Director for Science for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. Watch the recording here. "The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) is a new center established as a national resource at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CFA’s goal is to enable…

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Presented by Cristian Koepfli, Assistant Professor at the Eck Institute for Global Health and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame. Register for the event here. Dr. Cristian Koepfli has obtained his PhD at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute working on Plasmodium vivax epidemiology and population genetics. He then moved to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia as a postdoc, where he worked closely with…

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Presented by Elodie Ghedin, Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health. Register for the event here. Elodie Ghedin, PhD leads the Systems Genomics Section at the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIAID/NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland since May 2020. She also holds an affiliation with New York University where she was Director of the Center for Genomics and…

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