Application 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
Mediation 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
The 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
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
Constances, 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
&
Marcel Goldberg, MD, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Paris Descartes University; co-PI of the Constances Cohort
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
Metabolomics 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
Waves, 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
How 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
Watch Recording
Works-in-Progress Seminar
September 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
&
Migraine and Risk of Hypertensive Outcomes in Pregnancy
Mollie Wood
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental and Public Health
University of Cincinnati
“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
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
MR 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
Bias, 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
The 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
Evolve 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
Works-in-Progress Seminar
Counterfactual Prediction
December 9, 2020
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Barbra Dickerman
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard Chan School
