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Other Department of Epidemiology Events
PGSG Spring Seminar Series Schedule
ID Epi Spring Seminar Series and Events
2021 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.
Mischievous Immunity: The History, Misunderstandings, and Policies of Herd Immunity
September 8, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
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
Recording TDA
Building a Global Cohort of Advanced Prostate Cancer Survivors
September 15, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Lorelei Mucci, ScD
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Recording TBA
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What We Don’t Know about TB (and a few things we do)
September 22, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Eric Rubin, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, The New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM
Adjunct Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Evolution of Epidemiology: Methods Must Match Mission
September 29, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
K. Srinath Reddy, MD
President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Epidemiology and Public Health Reflections on Population Studies of Dementia in Older Populations
October 6, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Carol Brayne, CBE, FMedSci
Professor, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge
A Common Framework for the Maternal and Newborn Mortality Transition and Its Application to 7 Exemplar Countries
October 13, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Ties Boerma, MD, PhD
Director of the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization
Professor, Department of Community Health Services
University of Manitoba
Zoom TBD
A joint seminar with the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Center of Excellence
Type 2 Diabetes in Asian Indians – Many Mysteries
October 20, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA
Ruth and O.C. Hubert Chair Global Chair in Global Health
Jointly Appointed, Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Zoom TBD
October 27, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Works-in-Progress Seminar
Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Genetics in Research (GINGER) Fellows
Speakers:
Lerato Majara, University of Cape Town
Symon Kariuki, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Institute in Kilifi, Kenya
Zoom TBD
Target Trial Emulation to Study the Effects of COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy
November 3, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH
Professor Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom TBD
Talk Title TDA
November 10, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology
Director, Institute of Public Health
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Zoom TBD
Talk Title TDA
November 17, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH
Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit
Director of Cancer Epidemiology, Mass General Cancer Center
Zoom TBD
December 1, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Paul Elliott, MBBS, PhD, FMedSci
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health
Chair in Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine
Imperial College London
Zoom TBD
December 8, 2021
1:00-2:00 PM
Olivia I. Okereke, MD, MS
Associate Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Zoom TBD
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
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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
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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
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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
Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Dangers of “Holding All Else Equal”
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
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