2016 – 2020

Friday, December 11, 2020
4:00-5:00PM ET

171st Cutter Lecture on Preventive MedicineElisabete Weiderpass Headshot

Identification of Carcinogenic Hazards to Humans: the IARC Approach

Elisabete Weiderpass, MD, PhD
Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC);
World Health Organization

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170th Cutter Lecture on Preventive MedicineJamie Robins

The ‘Causal Revolution’ in Epidemiology and Medicine:
History, Controversies and Future

December 6, 2019 4:00 – 5:00pm Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1)

James Robins, MD

Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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The 4th Cutter Symposium on Epidemiology, Etiology and Big Data

Friday, December 6, 2019

1:30-3:30PM

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1)

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Welcome by Dean Michelle Williams

Alkes Price

1:30PM: Polygenic Functional Architectures of Common Disease

Alkes Price, PhD
Professor of Statistical Genetics
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

 

2:00PM: Machine Learning in Healthcare: The Promise & the PerilAndrew Beam

Andrew Beam, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

 

Tianxi Cai

2:30PM: Towards a Self-Learning Healthcare System

Tianxi Cai, ScD
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

 

Caroline Buckee

3:00PM: Controlling Epidemics: a Small- and Medium-sized Data Problem

Caroline Buckee, D.Phil
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

 


169th Cutter Lecture on Preventative Medicine

Social Justice, Health Equity, and the Social Determinants of HealthMichael Marmot

May 10, 2019 4:00 – 5:00 Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1)

Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FBA; Director of the Institute of Health Equality (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)

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Harvard Oxford Program in Epidemiology (HOPE) Symposium

Aging and the Brain

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

1:30-3:20PM – Kresge Building, Room 502

1:30PM: Introduction to the HOPE Symposium 

David Hunter, MBBS, MPH, ScD, FRACPHM
Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, Emeritus Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:35PM: Alcohol and Parkinson’s Disease in the Million Women Study

Iris Kim, ScD
Visiting Epidemiologist, Big Data Institute Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

1:50PM: Blood pressure variation and the risk of dementia

Yuan Ma, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

2:05PM: Trends in Alzheimer incidence over 30 years in Europe and the US

Lori Chibnik, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2:30PM: Keynote: Aging and Peto’s Paradox

Sir Richard Peto, FRS
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
Co-Director, Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford

3:20PM: Closure


168th Cutter Lecture on Preventative Medicine David Hunter

December 12, 2018 4:00 – 5:00 Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1)
Adventures in the Environment and Genes 

David Hunter, MBBS, MPH, ScD, FRACPHM
Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, Emeritus; Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

 


167th Cutter LectureMargaret Hamburg on Preventive Medicine
May 2, 2018 4:00-5:00 Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1)
Public Health, Science and Society: Are we at a Crossroads?

Margaret A. Hamburg, MD
President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine

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3rd Cutter Symposium on Clinical Epidemiology, includingJeffrey Drazen Headshot
166th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine
Friday, December 8, 2017
“Data Sharing in the Context of Clinical Trials”

Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen

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The 165th Cutter Lecture on Preventive MedicineDavid Cox
May 3, 2017
Statistical Science: A Grammar For Research

David Cox
Honorary Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK

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164th Cutter Lecture of Preventive Medicinewillett
December 9, 2016

Creating a Path to Understanding Diet and Health

Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH
Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Department of Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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163rd Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine:May 6 Cutter Lecture
May 6, 2016
What Does Precision Medicine Have to Say about Prevention

Duncan C. Thomas, Ph.D.
Professory and Director, Biostatistics Division
University of Southern California

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