2020 Seminars

                                                                         


Boffetta headshotApplication of Epidemiology Results to Individuals

January 8, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Kresge 502

Paolo Boffetta, MD
Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Professor, Environmental Medicine & Public Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

 


Valeri headshotMediation Analysis when Outcome and Mediator are Semi-Competing Events with Application in Health Disparities Research

January 15, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Kresge G2

Linda Valeri, PhD
Assistant Professor in Biostatistics
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

 


Jones headshotThe Six Cities Study: The Significance of its Origins for its Unexpected Findings

January 29, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Kresge 502

David S. Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Harvard University

 


Buckee headshot Controlling Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century

February 5, 2020

1:00 – 1:50 P.M.

Kresge 502

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


Zins headshotConstances, a General-Purpose Population-Based Cohort of 210,000 Participants in France for Health Research

February 12, 2020

1:00 – 1:50 P.M.

Kresge 502

Marie Zins, MD, PhD
Professor of Public Health, Paris Descartes University; Director of the INSERM Population-based Epidemiological Cohorts Unit; PI of the Constances Cohort

 

Goldberg headshot

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Marcel Goldberg, MD, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Paris Descartes University; co-PI of the Constances Cohort

 

 

 


Hernan headshot If Not Us, Who? When Researchers Become Activists, or Vice Versa

February 26, 2020

1:00 – 1:50 P.M.

Kresge 502

Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPh
Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


Kaddurah-Daouk headshotMetabolomics Meets Epidemiology – Enabling Tools for Precision Medicine

March 4, 2020

1:00 – 1:50 P.M.

Kresge 502

Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, PhD
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

 


David Jones HeadshotWaves, Forest Fires, and Herd Immunity: The Language of a Pandemic

September 9, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

David S. Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine,
Harvard University

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Michael Osterholm headshotHow COVID-19 has Changed the World
and What the Future Holds

September 16, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research Policy (CIDRAP), Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, University of Minnesota

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                                                      Works-in-Progress Seminar

RasouliSeptember 30, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Combining High-Quality Data with Rigorous Methods: Emulating a Target Trial Using Electronic Medical Records and a Case-Control Design for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Bahareh Rasouli
 Postdoctoral Fellow
 Harvard Chan School and Karolinska Institutet

                                                                                                                                         &
Mollie Wood
Migraine and Risk of Hypertensive Outcomes in Pregnancy

Mollie Wood
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental and Public Health
University of Cincinnati

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Manfred Kayser“Here’s Looking at You, Kid”: Genetic Basis and DNA Prediction of Human Appearance

October 7, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Manfred Kayser, PhD
Professor of Forensic Molecular Biology, Head,
Department of Genetic Identification,
Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam

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Shelley Tworoger

Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer Risk: A Story of Controversy

October 14, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Shelley Tworoger, PhD
Associate Center Director of Population Science,
                                    Moffitt Cancer Center                                                                                                                


Eric Tchetgen TchetgenMR GENIUS: A Principled Approach to Robust Mendelian Randomization Inference

October 21, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD
Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor
Professor of Statistics
Wharton University of Pennsylvania

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Joshua GagneBias, Damned Bias, and Pharmacoepidemiology

October 28, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Joshua Gagne, PharmD, ScD
Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


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George Davey-SmithThe Fundamental Assumptions of Mendelian Randomization

November 18, 2020

Seminar  1:00-1:50 P.M.
&
Post-Seminar Moderated Q&A for Students and Postdocs
2:00-2:30 P.M. (use same Zoom link as seminar)

George Davey Smith, FRS, FMedSci, MD, DSc
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
University of Bristol

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Rory CollinsEvolve or Die:
The Urgent Need to Streamline RCTs

December 2, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Professor Sir Rory Collins, FRS, FMedSci
Head of Nuffield Department of Population Health and
BHF Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Oxford,
and Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of UK Biobank

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Barbra DickermanWorks-in-Progress Seminar

Counterfactual Prediction

December 9, 2020

1:00-1:50 P.M.

Barbra Dickerman
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard Chan School