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Other Department of Epidemiology Events
PGSG Spring Seminar Series Schedule
ID Epi Spring Seminar Series and Events
2020-2021 Department Seminars
All seminars are open to the public
Works-in-Progress Seminar
January 13, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Harnessing Multilevel Datasets to Address Cancer Disparities
Hari Iyer, ScD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School
&
Psychosocial Problems Mediate the Relationship Between Minority Stress and HIV Sexual Risk Among Nigerian Sexual Minority Men
Adedotun Ogunbajo, PhD
Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Harvard T.H. Chan School
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance
January 27, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Julia W. Wu, ScD
Principal Investigator, Human Immunomics Initiative
Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: Learning More with Instrumental Variables-Inspired Approaches
February 3, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Maria Glymour, ScD, MS
Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
From Testing to Mortality: COVID-19 and the Inverse Care Law in Switzerland
February 10, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Matthias Egger, Prof. Dr.med., MSc FFPH DTM&H
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
University of Bern, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
The Rise and Fall of Disease
February 24, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Johan Mackenbach, MD, PhD
Department of Public Health
Erasmus Medical College
Moving Epidemiology to the Hospital Bedside: Learning from COVID-19
March 3, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Katrina Armstrong, MD
Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jackson Professor, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Watch Recording
When Will We Get Out of This? Modeling COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines
March 10, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Neil Ferguson
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health
Vice-Dean (Academic Development)
Imperial College London
Changing Climate and Vector-borne Infections: Some Challenges of Scale
March 24, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Mercedes Pascual, PhD
Louis Block Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Department of Ecology & Evolution
University of Chicago
Investigating Complex Disease Epidemiology Through Multi-omics
March 31, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Liming Liang, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistical Genetics
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard Chan School
Hiding in Plain Sight: Cardiovascular Resilience in African Americans
April 7, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Herman A. Taylor, Jr., MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Professor, Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine
Toward Clearer Questions in Mendelian Randomization Studies
April 28, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Sonja Swanson, ScD
Associate Professor (UHD) and Principal Investigator
of Causal Inference, Department of Epidemiology
Erasmus Medical College
Incorporating Equity Value Judgements into the Measurement and Study of Racial Disparities
May 5, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
John W. Jackson, ScD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: TBA
May 12, 2021
1:00-1:50 P.M.
Whitney R. Robinson, PhD, MSPH
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
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
