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We are very excited to announce that Dr. Grace Chan is joining the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) as affiliate faculty. Dr. Chan is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on improving maternal and child health in under-served populations by using epidemiologic methods to discover and deliver evidence-based interventions. In partnership with…

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Read the recent article of CCDD Director Prof. Lipsitch and Dr. Tom Inglesby of Johns Hopkins University about the potentially dangerous experiments to enhance some of the world’s most lethal viruses by making them transmissible by air supported the US Government.

CCDD student Rebecca Kahn is one of the 30 professionals and scholars accepted into Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) fellowship program for 2019. This highly competitive fellowship program inspires and connects the next generation of leaders and innovators in the biosecurity community. The program is an opportunity for talented career professionals to deepen their expertise, expand their network, and build their leadership skills…

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The article “Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria“published in New England Journal of Medicine by Prof. Caroline Buckee, Buckee lab members and colleagues ranked #1 as the “most popular article” in NEJM in 2018 and is #3 in popularity compared to articles in other medical journals! Congratulations, Dr. Buckee and team!

The 7th Annual Conference to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health was a great success! Over 60 students came together from all corners of the United States during this 1,5 day event. The Conference offered scientific presentations by experts in the field, as well as career and motivational talks. The students got plenty of opportunities to network with each other and with the presenters and the organizers got…

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CCDD Professor Dr. Hanage is among the invited keynote speakers at the 5th International Symposium on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance, which will take place in Hong Kong in June 2019. The key topics of the conference include: fundamental scientific aspects of environmental AMR including sources and drivers approaches to effective mitigation in different use sectors connections between environmental hotspots and point sources such as medical settings risk assessment…

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At Berkman Klein Center CCDD Director, Professor Marc Lipsitch describes his work on computer simulation of vaccine trials during epidemics to assess options for trial design, as well as some of his recent work on the ethics of trials in emergencies, and stimulates discussion on the intersection of these two topics to help disentangle ethical from political and logistical concerns, as well as to reduce the time pressure to make…

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Dr. Hanage spoke with BMC Biology about the different types of selection that determine pathogen populations, asking reviewers to highlight positives of papers, and whether we’re closer to a causal framework for studying the microbiome. Read the full interview here.

CCDD’s poster “Lineage calling can identify antibiotic resistant clones within minutes” presented at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics (LAMG) Conference by CCDD researchers Karel Břinda, Lauren Cowley, Derek MacFadden, Prof. Bill Hanage and collaborators is recognized as the “Most Innovative” poster of the conference. You can read more about the study here.

On the anniversary of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico CCDD’s Prof. Caroline Buckee and colleagues came together in a panel discussion “Beyond Hurricane Maria: Leading With Science” hosted by Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. The panelists discussed the motivation and rationale for the study, the significance of their findings, the impact of their research, and their decision to release all their data and code online. You can…

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