Winter – Spring 2019 Department Seminars
From Headache to Heartache:
Methological Challenges of Chronic-Intermittent Exposures
January 23, 2019
1 :00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology
Director, Institute of Public Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Paternal Environmental Exposures and Children’s Health:
A Father’s Legacy
January 30, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Russ Hauser, ScD, MD
Chair, Department of Environmental Health
Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
Phenotype First is a Productive Strategy for Precision Medicine
February 6, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Studying Autism with Genetics
March 6, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Elise Robinson, ScD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Explaining Disparities: Bringing Together Approaches From Epidemiology and Economics Under a Causal Framework
March 13, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
John W. Jackson, ScD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Unraveling Mechanisms Linking Socioeconomic Disadvantage to Clinical Outcomes
March 27, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Katrina A. Armstrong, MD
Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, MGH Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
Vascular Disease Across the Lifespan: Beware of Normal Aging
April 3, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Josef Coresh, MD
George W. Comstock Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Effects of Folic Acid and Zinc Supplementation in Men on Semen Quality and Live Birth: Findings from the FAZST
(Folic Acid and Zinc Supplementation Trial)
April 10, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Enrique Schisterman, PhD, MA
Senior Investigator, Epidemiology Branch
NICHD/DIPHR
April 24, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
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
Works-in-Progress Postdoc Seminar Session
May 1, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Investigating the relationship between treatment and cognitive function in men with advanced prostate cancer
Claire Pernar, MPH, ScD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School
Associations Between Air Pollution and Objective Measures of Sleep Among Patients with Episodic Migraine
Wenyuan Li
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard Chan School
Epidemiologists Going into Public Health Practice: What You Will Wish You Had Learned During Your Epidemiology Training
May 8, 2019
1:00-1:50PM
Kresge 502
Barbara Mahon, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Bacterial Diseases and CDC Lead
Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine Against Ebola (STRIVE)
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Fall 2019 Department Seminars
Why Measles is the Master Childhood Infection
September 4, 2019
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Michael Mina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Epidemiology, Population Health Science, and a Public Health of Consequence
September 11, 2019
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
The Framingham Heart Study:
Lessons Learned and Future Directions
September 18, 2019
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Daniel Levy, MD
Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Chief of the Population Sciences Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Director of the Framingham Heart Study
Medical Radiation Exposure: Panacea or Medical Nemesis?
September 25, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Amy Berrington de González, D.Phil.
Branch Chief and Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation
Epidemiology Branch
Disaster Resilience in an Aging Society: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
October 2, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Ichiro Kawachi, MB.ChB., PhD
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social
Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Real World Data Analyses for Regulatory Decision Making:
Calibration Against RCTs
October 9, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD
Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics,
Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, HMS, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
&
Jessica Franklin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
Biostatistician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Methodological Issues in a Prospective Study on Organic Pollutants and Pancreatic Cancer Risk
October 16, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Miquel Porta, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor, Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) & School of Medicine, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Sleep Health In African Americans: Lessons from the Jackson Heart Study
October 23, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Susan Redline, MD, MPH
Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine, HMS
Senior Physician, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Physician, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Works-in-Progress
October 30, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Egg Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Findings from the Harvard Cohorts and an Updated Meta-Analysis
Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier, RD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
&
Insulinemic and Inflammatory Dietary Patterns and Risk of Prostate Cancer
Benjamin Fu, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cancer Epidemiology Program
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Precision Medicine in Respiratory Disease
November 6, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Lies Lahousse, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department Bioanalysis, Ghent University
Visiting Researcher, Erasmus MC Rotterdam
Using Networks to Link Genotype to Phenotype
November 13, 2019
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
John Quackenbush, PhD
Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Chair, Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Works-in-Progress
November 20, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Prediction of Post-Vaccine Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage frequencies based on potential accessory genes under selection
Pamela Martinez, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
&
Sources and Sinks: Investigating HIV transmission patterns and sources of transmission in a large-scale community randomized prevention trial
Lerato Magosi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH
Tamoxifen Pharmacogenetics: Bayesian Pathway Analysis to Inform a New Direction
December 4, 2019
1:00 – 1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH
Rollins Professor and Chair
Department of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
From Cardiovascular Disease Prevention to Healthy Ageing:
A (My) Scientific Journey
December 11, 2019
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Kresge 502
Oscar H. Franco, MD, PhD, FESC, FFPH
Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health
Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
University of Bern, Switzerland
