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Other Department of Epidemiology Events
PGSG Spring Seminar Series Schedule
ID Epi Spring Seminar Series and Events
2020 Department Seminars
All seminars are open to the public
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
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
Registration is closed for the seminar – A recording will be posted later
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
