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Other Department of Epidemiology Events
PGSG Spring Seminar Series Schedule
ID Epi Spring Seminar Series and Events
2024-2025 Department Seminars
This page is a work-in-progress, please check regularly for updates.
All seminars are open to the public and will be held on Zoom unless otherwise noted.
Persons with disabilities who would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access may contact cliebent@hsph.harvard.edu in advance of the program or visit.
The Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not implyl endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.
Practical Aspects of Predicting RCT Findings Using Healthcare Databases
What Can Epidemiologists Learn from Historic Heat Waves? The Case of Boston, July 1911 
When Gold Standards are Not So Golden: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence on the Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening from Randomized Trials and Observational Studies
September 18, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Prof. Dr. med. Hermann Brenner
Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research
Division Head, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Advancing LGBTQ Health Equity Through Epidemiology
September 25, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Brittany Charlton, ScD
Associate Professor of Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Director of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Evidence Triangulation in Dementia Research
October 2, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Maria Glymour, SD
Chair and Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Location:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Kresge building, Room 502
Registration TBA
Data Impacts of Changes in U.S. Census Bureau Procedures for Race and Ethnicity Data
October 16, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Elizabeth Arias, PhD
Statistical Analysis & Research Team, Mortality Statistics
Branch, National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Register for Zoom TBA
Works-in-Progress Seminar
October 30, 2024
Title: TBA
Speakers:
Nedghie Adrien and Kelly Fung
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Register for Zoom TBA
Title TBA
November 6, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
David Hunter, MBBS, ScD, FRACPHM
Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Oxford; Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Location:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Kresge building, Room 502
Registration TBA
Title TBA
November 13, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Sebastien Haneuse, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Register for Zoom TBA
Title TBA
November 20, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir, PhD
Dean of the School of Health Sciences
Professor of Epidemiology
University of Iceland
Register for Zoom TBA
Challenges and Opportunities of Large-Scale Multi-Omics in Population Research
January 24, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Adam Butterworth, PhD
Professor of Molecular Epidemiology
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
University of Cambridge
UK Biobank: A Unique Global Resource for Health-Related Research and Discovery Science
January 31, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Naomi Allen, DPhil, MSc
Professor in Epidemiology
The Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford
Platform Clinical Trials, the What, Why and How: Experiences from ALS
February 7, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Lori Chibnik, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Division of Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Location:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Kresge building, Room 502
Inferential Challenges in Climate Change and Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health: Traditional and Contemporary Issues
February 14, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Stefania Papatheodorou, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Epidemiology
Rutgers School of Public Health
Adjunct Associate Professor in Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Psychosis Genetics Research in Africa: Building Capacity by Investing in People
February 28, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Karestan Koenen, PhD
Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dickens Akena, MB, ChB, MMed
Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychiatry
Makerere University College of Health Sciences
Lori Chibnik, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Lerato Majara, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Novel Insights on Precision Nutrition from the VITAL and COSMOS Trials
March 6, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, MACP
Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Location:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge building, Room 502
Boston, MA 02115
Safety of GLP-1 Receptor Analogues in Pregnancy: Initial Real-World-Evidence
March 27, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH
Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Reconsidering Population Health Science in the Post-War Era
April 3, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Location:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave, Kresge building, Room 502
Boston, MA 02115
Postdocs “Works-in-Progress” Seminar
April 10, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Metabolomic Signature of Ultra-Processed Food Intake in Association with Colorectal Cancer Risk
Mengxi Du
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Establishing Multi-Omics Risk Scores for Inflammation Markers and Their Utility in Epidemiological Research
Anat Yaskolka Meir
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“My fellow Americans, ask not what US data can do for you, ask what you would be able to do with data from Sweden”
April 24, 2024
1:00-1:50PM
Jonas Ludvigsson, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Karolinska Institutet
