Why are Epidemiologists so Bad at Epidemics?
September 6, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Albert Hofman, MD, PhD
Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Location: Kresge 502 (in-person) & livestream
Health Anxieties, Politics, and the History of the Climate Crisis
September 13, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
David S. Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Elevating Global Health: The Momentum of the UN High-Level Meetings 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
3:00-3:50PM
Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach
Federal Minister of Germany for Health
Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Location: Kresge G1 (in-person) and livestream
Generating Robust Evidence with Multi-institutional EHR Data
September 27, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Tianxi Cai, ScD
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Learning about a target population by combining information from multiple sources
October 4, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Issa Dahabreh, MD, ScD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mental Health in Humanitarian Contexts: Evidence from Selected African Countries
October 11, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Manasi Sharma, ScD
MHPSS Technical Expert, UNICEF Office of Evaluation
Department Associate, Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Quantifying Regression Dilution and Residual Confounding in Epidemiology
October 18, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Sir Richard Peto, FRS
Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
The Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford
Postdocs “Works-in-Progress” Seminar
October 25, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Approaches to Account for Multiple Births in Epidemiological Studies of Pregnancy
Jeremy Brown, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, CAUSALab
Department of Epidemiology
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Fine-Mapping Causal Tissues and Genes at Disease-Associated Loci
Benjamin Strober, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Does Psychiatric Hospitalization of Suicidal Emergency Department Patients Reduce Risk of Subsequent Suicidal Behaviors?
November 1, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Ronald C. Kessler, PhD
McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Using Surveillance Data to Promote Cancer Prevention and Control: Examples from the American Cancer Society
November 15, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD
Senior Vice President
Surveillance & Health Equity Science
American Cancer Society
The Paradoxes, Perplexities, and Power of Factor Analysis
December 6, 2023
1:00-1:50PM
Tyler J. VanderWeele, PhD
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Location: Kresge 502 (in-person) and livestream
Genome, Evolution and Infectious Disease Epidemiology
January 18, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Bill Hanage, PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Works-in-Progress Seminar
January 25, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Improving the Effectiveness of Colonoscopy Surveillance for Prevention of Colorectal Cancer
Markus Knudsen, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
&
Associations Between Germline Polygenic Risk Scores and Immune Cell Infiltration in Breast Cancer
Yuxi Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Screening for Colorectal Cancer after the NordICC trial- Need to Re-consider?
February 1, 2023
1:00-1:50 PM
Michael Bretthauer, MD PhD
Professor of Medicine
Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Kresge 502 and livestream
The Origins of Health Disparities Research: W.E.B. DuBois’s Health and Physique of the Negro American (1906)
February 8, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Evelynn Hammonds, PhD
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science
Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
When the Whole Country is a Cohort
February 15, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Camilla Stoltenberg, MD, PhD
Director General
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Professor, Department of Global Public Health
and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway
Integration of molecular and radiologic features to understand breast cancer risk: Implications for risk assessment and prevention
March 1, 2023
1:00-1:50 PM
Rulla Tamimi, ScD
Professor of Population Health Sciences, Division Chief of Epidemiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences
Neonatal Medicine and Machine Learning: Big Opportunities for Small Patients
March 8, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Andrew L. Beam, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Biological and Social Drivers of Cancer Inequities
March 22, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Timothy R. Rebbeck, PhD
Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention
Director, Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention
Director, Center for Cancer Equity and Engagement
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Prioritization and Design of Clinical Trials Using Value of Information Analysis
March 29, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Myriam Hunink, MD, PhD
Professor and Principal Investigator of Assessment of Radiological Technology (ART)
Erasmus Medical Center
Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“AI” for Causal Inference in Health Research
What Can We Learn from Data and How Much Learning Can We Automate?
April 5, 2023
1:00-1:50 PM
Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPH
Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Director, CAUSALab
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Using Evolution as a Roadmap to Identify Determinants of TB Treatment and Infection Outcomes
April 12, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Sarah Fortune, MD
John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
There’s Not Much Science in Science
Addressing the Psychosocial Gap in Methodology
April 19, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Sander Greenland, DrPH
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Design and Analysis of N-of-1 Trials that Incorporate Sequential Monitoring
April 26, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Rebecca Betensky, PhD
Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
Professor of Biostatistics
School of Global Public Health
New York University
Protoeomics Discovery in Epidemiologic Cohorts: Dementia, Obesity, Heart and Kidney Disease
May 3, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
George W. Comstock Professor
Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
