CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series

This is a virtual presentation, but there will still be an in-person gathering for group attendance at Kresge G2.

Talk title:  What We Do, and Don’t, Learn from the Black/White Mortality Disparity

Presenter: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Professor at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. A sociologist and demographer, she studies racial inequity in mortality in the historical and contemporary United States, specializing in finding comparisons and metrics that illuminate the human meaning of mortality disparities. She has extensively researched the Covid-19 pandemic in Minnesota, where she also co-founded an award-winning community vaccination organization (the Seward Vaccine Equity Project). She is also a methodologist, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on population processes.

About the series: Each spring, CCDD hosts an annual seminar series featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. The ID Epi Seminar Series aims to bring in speakers from various disciplines within infectious disease epidemiology, broadly defined to include the population biology of pathogens and other allied topics. Seminars will be held on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted, at 1pm ET between February 2nd and May 9th with the exception of March 14th (spring break).

Register for the seminar here. hsph.me/idepi24