Fall 2016 Department Seminars
Steven Gazal, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, December 14 12:30pm Kresge 502B
Linkage disequilibrium dependent architecture of human complex traits reveals action of negative selection
Jan P. Vandenbroucke, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology,
Department of Clinical Epidemiology
Leiden University, Netherlands & Aarhus University
Wednesday, December 7 12:30pm Kresge 502
Clinical Epidemiology:
A Versatility Approach
Martha M. Werler, Dsc
Chair and Professor, Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Wednesday, November 30 12:30pm Kresge 502
Counting Stressors in Pregnancy
J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator, Million Veteran Program and
Scientific Director of the Massachusetts Veterans
Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC),
VA Boston Heathcare System Chief, Division of Aging,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, HMS
Wednesday, November 16 12:30pm Kresge 502
Epidemiology in the 21st Century:
Mega Cohorts Using Health System Data
Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot MBBS, MPH, PhD,
FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA
Director of the Institute of Health Equity
(UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)
Wednesday, November 2 12:30pm Kresge 502
The Health Gap:
The Challenge of an Unequal World
Alkes Price, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Statistical Genetics
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, October 26 12:30pm Kresge 502
The Polygenetic Architecture of Common Diseases and Complex Traits
George Seage, ScD
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, October 19 12:30pm Kresge 502
Zika Comes to PHACS
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Dept of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health,
Columbia University &
The Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment,
Queens College, City University of New York
Wednesday, October 5 12:30pm Kresge 502
Do we still need a Department of Epidemiology?
Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Distinguished Parker B. Francis
Professor of Medicine, HMS
Professor in the Department of Environmental Health,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, September 28 12:30pm Kresge 502
Smoking and Medical Journals
Susan T. Gershman, PhD, MPH,
CTR Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Wednesday, September 21 12:30PM Kresge 502
Cancer Surveillance / Massachusetts Cancer Registry Overview
Evan Busch, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Channing Division of Network Medicine Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, September 14 12:30pm Kresge 502
Concepts and Methods for General Epidemiologic Biomarker Analysis:
Lessons from Cancer Subtyping
Wonil Chung, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, September 14 12:30 Kresge 502
Polygenic Risk Prediction using Individual-level Data and Summary Statistics for Secondary Phenotypes
David S. Jones, M.D., Ph.D.
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
and the Faculty of Medicine
Harvard University
Wednesday, September 7 12:30pm Kresge 502
Historical Perspectives on the Rise and Fall of Diseases
Spring 2016 Department Seminars:
Carolyn C. Cannuscio, ScD
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community
Health at the Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, May 10 12:30pm FXB G02
Should I stay or should I go?
Weighing public health careers inside/outside academia
Postdoc Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
12:30pm, Kresge 502
Ashley Buchanan, DrPH,MS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Assessing Individual and Disseminated Effects in Network-Randomized Designs
John Jackson, ScD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;
Department of Psychiatry,
Boston University School of Medicine
Mediation Meta-Analysis for Hypothesis Generation
Elizabeth A. Platz, ScD MPH
Professor and Martin D. Abeloff, MD Scholar in Cancer Prevention
Deputy Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Wednesday, April 27 12:30 Kresge 502
Successes in working together to identify modifiable risk factors and tissue-based markers:Prostate cancer risk and recurrence
Jesse Fann, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 20 12:30 Kresge 502
Depression and Traumatic Brain Injury:
Epidemiology, Assessment, Treatment and Health Services Needs
Atalay Alem, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Tuesday, April 19 12:30 FXB G12
North south collaboration and local capacity development for mental health services in LMICs: The Ethiopian Experience
Nancy Krieger, PhD
Professor of Social Epidemiology
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday April 13 12:30 Kresge 502
Counting For Accountability: Police Violence, Segregation, Jim Crow & the People’s Health- Racism & Embodied History
Jennifer L. Howse, PhD
President, March of Dimes Foundation
Wednesday April 6 12:30pm Kresge 502
The Campaign to Prevent Preterm Birth:
“The Fierce Urgency of Now”
Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology
Chief, Division of Women’s Health,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, March 30 12:30pm Kresge 502
Factors Influencing Difference in Women’s Health Outcomes: Bias in Medical Care Delivery
Andrea Roberts, PhD, MPH
Research Associate
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, March 23 12:30pm Kresge 502
Maternal Exposure to Childhood Abuse and Offspring Health:
Diverse Outcomes and Mechanisms
Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, MS
Chief, Division of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital(BWH)
Professor of Pathology, BWH
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, March 2 12:30pm Kresge 502
Integrating Immunology + Molecular Pathology (e.g., Exome) + Epidemiology = “Immuno-MPE”
David Cantonwine, PhD
Instructor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:30pm Kresge 502
Bias and Misconceptions in Reproductive Environmental Epidemiology
Jerry Avorn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and
Pharmacoeconomics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:30pm Kresge 502
Pharmacoepidemiology on the Front Line:
Addressing Current Issues in Drug Effectiveness, Safety, and Affordability
Sarah Kerns, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Rochester
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 12:30pm Kresge 502
Radiogenomics:
Identifying Genetic Risk Factors for Late Toxicity Following Radiotherapy
Postdoc Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
12:30pm, Kresge 502
Nadia Abuelezam, ScD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology &
Centers for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heath
Can the heterosexual HIV epidemic be eliminated in South Africa?
A modeling analysis
Sara Lodi, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The role of observational data in determining the optimal time to start antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients
Linda Valeri, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Biostatistician, Psychiatric Biostatistics Laboratory
McLean Hospital
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:30pm Kresge 502
Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Survival –
A Counterfactual Approach for Conceptual and Missing Data Issues
Maria Elena Medina Mora, PhD
General Director, The National Institute of Psychiatry
Ramon Ramon dela Fuente , Mexico
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:30pm Kresge 907
Early Life Exposure to Violence and Mental Health Outcomes
Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH
Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 12:30pm Kresge 502
Will Reducing Inflammation Reduce Cardiovascular Event Rates?
