2020 / 2021
May 8, 2020, Roberta de Vito, Brown University – cancelled
April 10, 2020, cancelled
March 6, 2020, cancelled
February 21, 2020, Shixian Zhai, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, “PM2.5 and its composition changes in China, 2013-2018: contributions from meteorology and emissions”
February 7, 2020, Boyu Ren, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of causal exposure-response curves”
December 6, 2019, David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Guns and Public Health”
November 1, 2019, Ander Wilson, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Colorado State University, “Kernel Machine and Distributed Lag Models for Assessing Windows of Susceptibility to Mixtures of Time-Varying Environmental Exposures in Children’s Health Studies”
October 25, 2019, Mark Meyer, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Georgetown University, “Bayesian Wavelet-packet Historical Functional Linear Models”
October 15, 2019, Emma Thomas, Doctoral Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Multi-outcome regression with tree-structured shrinkage”
2019-2020
May 10, 2019, Josh Barback, Doctoral Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Statistical methods for understanding physical activity using smartphone accelerometer data”
March 8, 2019, Wenying Deng, Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Robust Bootstrap Testing for Nonlinear Effect in Small Sample with Kernel Ensemble”
February 22, 2019, Emma Preston, Postdoc, Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, “Associations Between Urinary Diphenyl Phosphate and Thyroid Function“
January 28, 2019, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Adaptive and Calibrated Ensemble Learning using Bayesian Nonparametrics”
December 14, 2018, Christine Choirat, Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Reproducibility and replicability in environmental health: tools and challenges of open science”
November 16, 2018, Andrew Rosenberg, Director, Center for Science and Democracy
Union of Concerned Scientists, “Fighting Back: standing up for science in the Time of Trump“
October 26, 2018, Xiao Wu, PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Causal Inference in Air Pollution Epidemiology Using Generalized Propensity Score Matching”
September 28, 2018, Anna Rosofsky, Staff Scientist, Health Effects Institute, “Ambient air pollution in Massachusetts: Inequality trends and childhood weight growth trajectories”
2018-2019
May 10, 2019, Josh Barback, Doctoral Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Statistical methods for understanding physical activity using smartphone accelerometer data”
March 8, 2019, Wenying Deng, Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Robust Bootstrap Testing for Nonlinear Effect in Small Sample with Kernel Ensemble”
February 22, 2019, Emma Preston, Postdoc, Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, “Associations Between Urinary Diphenyl Phosphate and Thyroid Function”
January 28, 2019, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Adaptive and Calibrated Ensemble Learning using Bayesian Nonparametrics“
December 14, 2018, Christine Choirat, Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Reproducibility and replicability in environmental health: tools and challenges of open science”
November 16, 2018, Andrew Rosenberg, Director, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists, “Fighting Back: standing up for science in the Time of Trump”
October 26, 2018 – Xiao Wu, PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Causal Inference in Air Pollution Epidemiology Using Generalized Propensity Score Matching“
September 28, 2018, Anna Rosofsky, Staff Scientist, Health Effects Institute, “Ambient air pollution in Massachusetts: Inequality trends and childhood weight growth trajectories”
2017-2018
April 19, 2018, Marianthi Kioumourtzoglou, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
“Traffic-related air pollution and pregnancy loss”
April 13, 2018, Lu Shen, PhD Student, Harvard University, “Statistical models for understanding present-day air quality and for predicting the future”
March 19, 2018, Fulton Wang, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Dimension Reduction for Handling Covariate Shift”
March 8, 2018, Alex D’Amour, Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, “Overlap in Observational Studies with High-Dimensional Covariates”
February 23, 2018, Georgia Papadogeorgou, PhD Student
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Statistical challenges in air pollution research: from spatial confounding to interference”
January 26, 2018, Rachel Nethery, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Adjustment for Confounding and Identification of Subgroups in the Presence of Non-Linear Treatment Effects and Non-Overlap Using Machine Learning Techniques”
December 8, 2017, Kevin Cummiskey, PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“A Data-Driven Approach to Source-Receptor Mapping of Power Plant Emissions to Exposed Populations”
November 17, 2017, Lucas Henneman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Characterization and evaluation of zip-code level exposure to power plant emissions”
2016-2017
May 12, 2017 Chanmin Kim, Research Associate, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, “Public Health Impact of Pollutant Emissions”
April 28, 2017 Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Graduate student, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, “Robust Hypothesis Testing for Nonlinear Feature Interaction using Targeted Kernel Ensemble”
April 14, 2017 Marie-Abele Bind, Postdoc, Harvard Department of Statistics, “Valid and informative p-values from big data, illustrated in an epigenomic cross-over experiment”
March 10, 2017 Emily Slade, Doctoral student, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, “Missing Data in Canonical Correlation Analysis”
February 24, 2017 Marc Weisskopf, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Transgenerational Neurodevelopment and Exposure to Environmental Endocrine Disruptors’
December 9, 2016 Georgia Papadogeorgou, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “A Causal Inference Approach for Estimating Health Effects at Low Air Pollution Levels”
November 4, 2016 Glen McGee, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Corrections for Measurement Error Due to Delayed Onset of Illness for Case-Crossover Designs”
2015-2016
April 29, 2016 Ander Wilson, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Identifying Perinatal Windows to Air Pollution in Child Health”
April 15, 2016 Georgia Papadogeorgou, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Spatial Confounding Adjustment with Propensity Score Matching”
April 1, 2016 Linda Valeri, Ph.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School “Does DNA-Methylation Mediate the Effect of Maternal Smoking on Birth Weight? The Potential for Inflated Mediation Effects in the Presence of Exposure Measurement Error in Environmental Epigenetic Studies”
March 18, 2016 Loretta Mickley, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, “The Climate Penalty on US Surface Air Quality”
February 19, 2016 – Chirag Lakhani, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, “Building an Exposome API”
November 20, 2015 – Yan Wang, Doctoral Student, Exposure, Epidemiology & Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Health Effects of Heat Waves in the United States”
October 9, 2015 – Christopher Lucas, Graduate Student, Department of Government, Harvard University, “The Balance-Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference”
September 25, 2015 – Chanmin Kim, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, ” Bayesian Methods for Multiple Mediators: Principal Stratification and Causal Mediation Analysis of Power Plant Emission Controls ”
2014-2015
May 15, 2015 Joshua Warren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, “Modeling of Daily Windows of Susceptibility for Maternal PM2.5 Exposure and Congenital Heart Defects”
May 4, 2015 Sally Thurston, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Professor of Oncology, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, “Bayesian Models for Multiple Outcomes in Domains with Application to the Seychelles Child Development Study”
May 1, 2015 Michelle L. Bell, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, “The Health Impacts of Atmospheric Conditions: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health”
April 3, 2015 Tristan Hayeck, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, “2-Step Bayesian Model Averaging for Improved Causal Effect Estimation”
May 1, 2015 – Michelle L. Bell, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, “The Health Impacts of Atmospheric Conditions: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health”
March 6, 2015 Shelley Liu, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, “Statistical Methods for Estimating Health Effects of Time-Varying Exposures to Complex Metal Mixtures”
February 27, 2015 Joseph Antonelli, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University “Two-Dimensional Wavelet Decomposition on Irregular Grids With Application to Satellite PM2.5 Data ”
February 6, 2015, Jonathan Levy, SD, Professor of Public Health, Boston University School
“Simulation Approaches to Determine Geographically and Demographically Resolved Exposures to Multiple Stressors”
November 14, 2014, Mariel Finucane, Ph.D., Biostatistician, Mathematica Policy Research, “Bayesian Estimation of Trends in Population-Level Health Metrics Using Disparate Data Sources”
November 7, 2014, Elizabeth Smoot, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University “Hospital Admission Causes Related to Acute Fine Particulate Air Pollution Exposure in Older Adults”
2013-2014
May 2, 2014 Evan Peet, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, “Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Exposures to Pollutants in the Philippines”
April 18, 2014 Michelle L. Bell, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health, Yale University,
“Airborne Particles and Pregnancy Outcomes: Current Evidence and Remaining Challenges”
April 4, 2014 Christine Choirat, Ph.D., Research Associate, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University, Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Spain
“Accountability of the Health Benefits of Air Pollution Regulatory Policies: An Exploratory Analysis of the Acid Rain Program Data”
February 7, 2014 Guojun He, Ph.D., Research Fellow, China Initiative and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, “The Effect of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Mortality: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games”
December 6, 2013 Forrest Crawford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, “Markov Models for Dependent Binary Responses in Epidemiology”
November 22, 2013 Michael Greenstone, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the Hamilton Project, “Evidence on the Impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy”
November 1, 2013 Laura F. White, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, “Assessing the Relationship Between Ambient Air Pollution and Diabetes and Hypertension in the Black Women’s Health Study” November 1, 2013
October 11, 2013 Matthew Cefalu, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health “A Bayesian Analysis of Marginal Structural Models Estimating the Health Effects of Regulations under the Clean Air Act”
September 27, 2013 Mark Meyer, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, “Function-on-Function Mixed Models via Bayesian Wavelet Regression”
September 20, 2013 Jack Cackler, Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, “Spatiotemporal Methods for Disaster Risk Prediction and Management”
2012-2013
April 26, 2013 Jennifer Bobb, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, “Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Estimating the Health Effects of Environmental Mixtures”
April 12, 2013 Luke Bornn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, “Nonstationary Modeling Through Dimension Expansion”
April 5, 2013 Gregory Wellenius, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, “Measured Versus Estimated Exposures in Environmental Epidemiology: Are Biomarkers of Exposure Always Better?”
March 8, 2013 Christopher Barr, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, “Sizes of Voronoi Regions in a Spatial Network Designed by an Inhomogeneous Poisson Process”
March 1, 2013 Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, “Exposure Measurement Error in PM2.5 Health Effects Studies: A Pooled Analysis of Eight Personal Exposure Validation Studies”
January 18, 2013 Elissa Wilker, Ph.D., Associate, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, “Modeling Chronic Exposure to Air Pollution and Repeated Assessment of Cognitive Impairment”
December 7, 2012 Aaron Bernstein, M.D., Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Faculty, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health
“Climate Change and Statistical Troubles: The Challenges of Quantifying the Health Effects of Climate Change”
November 16, 2012 Kyu Ha Lee, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, “Bayesian Semiparametric Analysis of Semi-competing Risks Data: Estimating Readmission Rates among Pancreatic Cancer Patients”
October 26, 2012 Corwin Zigler, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, “Bayesian Variable Selection and Model Averaging for Propensity Score Estimation”
September 28, 2012 Tamar Sofer, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, “Multivariate Analysis of High Throughput Methylation Screening Identifies Pesticides Associated with Methylation Signature”
