Kresge G2, Harvard Chan School

This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Michael Hudgens, Professor and Chair of Biostatistics 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 seminar here. Dr. Michael Hudgens is a professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also serves as the director of the Biostatistics Core of…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. A sociologist and demographer, she studies racial inequity in mortality in the historical and contemporary…

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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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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 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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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 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 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 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…

Continue reading "Determinants of SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness and transmission (ID Epi Seminar Series)"

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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