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Department of Epidemiology

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Seminar Series

The Department of Epidemiology hosts an annual seminar series that brings speakers from across the country to lecture on the pressing epidemiological issues of our time.

2024-2025 Seminar Series

Measuring the Mortality Impacts of Climate-related Disasters

Dr. Brooke Anderson, PhD
Monday, April 14, 3:00-4:00 pm
Room 245

Public Health Policy At Scale: Impact of a Government-sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark

Dr. Onur Altındağ, PhD
Monday, October 21, 3:00-4:00 pm
Room 375

Past Seminars

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Data, Dynamics, and Justice: How the Pandemic Shaped US Prisons

Dr. Brennan Klein, PhD
Monday, September 25, 12:00-1:00 pm  
Room 375

 

Data for action: Using advanced analytics for outbreak response

Dr. Dylan George, PhD
Friday, November 10, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 375

 

The Black Angels: Stigma, Sickness, & Sea View TB Sanatorium

Maria Smilios
Tuesday, February 6, 1:00-2:00 pm
Room 331

 

Where Is My Data and What Have You Done With It?

Linda Goler Blount, MPH
Monday, April 8, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 375

 

Building the Bridge to Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Inform an Effective Response to Overdose and Firearm Violence

Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH
Monday, May 12, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 245

 

An Overview of Environmental Health Assessment in the Federal Government

Dr. Rachel Shaffer, PhD
Monday, October 17, 2022, 1:00-2:00 pm
Room 241

 

The Inside Story: Addressing Indoor Environmental Exposures in Low-Income Communities

Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, PhD
Monday, November 14, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 241

 

Building Equitable Climate Resilience in Jackson, MS

Dr. Dominika Parry, PhD
Monday, December 5, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 241

 

Science, Activism, and Regulation in the PFAS Contamination Crisis

Dr. Phil Brown, PhD
Monday, February 13, 2023, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 375

 

Right to Know, Right to Act – Communicating About Endocrine Disruptors, Cancer, and Emerging Science

Dr. Julia Brody, PhD
Monday, February 27, 2023, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 375

 

Embodied Racism. Embodied Resistance: Advancing Antiracism Scholarship and Solutions Beyond the Pandemic

Dr. Sharrelle Barber, PhD
Monday, April 3, 2023, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 375
 

Emotional Responses to Racially Traumatic Stimuli

Dr. Byron Orey, PhD
Monday, April 10, 2023, 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 375

Target Trial Emulation to Study Interventions During Pregnancy: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination

Dr. Sonia Hernandez-Diaz

Thursday, May 16, 2022, 1:00-2:00 pm.
Room 375

 

Leveraging Personal Technology to Improve the Mental Health of Police Officers After Traumatic Calls for Service

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, PhD MPH

Monday, April 25, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm

Room 375

 

Alcohol use in the United States: Current Trends, Causes, and Implications for the Public's Health

Dr. Katherine M. Keyes, PhD

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Room 375

 

The (Responsible) Use of Race in Social Epidemiology

Lorraine T. Dean, ScD

Monday, October 25, 2021, 12:00 - 1:00pm

 

"Epidemiology of Gastric Cancer: The Global Gastric Cancer Consortium:
“Stop” if this is of interest to you"
Carlo La Vecchia, M.D.
Friday, October 9, 2020 · 1:00-2:00 pm
Via Zoom

“Obesity, Diabetes, Diet, and Cancer Risk”
Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
Friday, November 13, 2020 · 1:00 –2:00 PM EST
Via Zoom

 

2019-2020 Epidemiology Seminar Series Sponsored by: The C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureships Fund

Kara Rudolph, PhD.
University of California, Davis.
November 12, 2019
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Cosponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research and Excellence (COBRE) On Opioids and Overdose

Marc Weisskopf, PhD., ScD.  
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
December 5, 2019
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Cosponsored by the Center for Environmental Health and Technology ​

Laura Balzer, PhD.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
February 4, 2020
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245

Deshayne Fell, PhD.
University of Ottawa
February 25, 2020
4:00 – 5:00 pm Room 375

Peter James, ScD.
Harvard Medical School
March 3, 2020
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Cosponsored by the Center for Environmental Health and Technology ​

Department of Epidemiology Special Seminars:

Linda G. Kahn, MPH, PhD
NYU School of Medicine
Thursday, March 12, 2020
12:00 to 1:00 pm
121 S. Main St., Room 375

Jessie P. Buckley, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health​
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
1:00 to 2:00 pm
121 S. Main St., Room 375

Tun (Max) Aung, PhD
University of Michigan
Monday, March 30, 2020
12:00 to 1:00 pm
121 S. Main St., Room 375

Steven M. Goodreau, PhD.
University of Washington
May 13, 2019

Claude Mellins, PhD
Columbia University
April 16, 2019

Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
March 18, 2019

Nina R. Joyce, PhD
Brown University
March 14, 2019

Brenda Eskenazi, MA, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
March 12, 2019

Grace A. Noppert​, PhD, MPH, MAT
University of North Carolina
March 7, 2019

David Pelletier, PhD
Cornell University
March 5, 2019

Xiaojuan Li, PhD
Harvard Medical School and
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
February 26, 2019

Tiara Willie, PhD
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
February 12, 2019

Kate Weinberger, PhD
Brown University
December 13, 2018

Joan A. Casey, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
December 3, 2018

Matthew Gribble, PhD
Emory University
November 12, 2018

Dr. Randall M. Packard
John Hopkins University
October 16, 2018

Dr. Darryl B. Hood
Associate Professor
Ohio State University
"Molecular Neurotoxicology Studies Inform Application of the Public Health Exposome Framework in Vulnerable Populations"
10/24/2017 12:00-1:00 room 375

Dr. Emily Oken
"Recent Developments in Early Life Derterminants of Obesity"
11/14/2017 4:00-5:00 room 245

Iuliana Ene, Ph.D
MMI Fall Series, December 1

Dr. Jia Chen
"Placental Epi/Genomics as Sensors of the In Utero Environment and Predictors of Fetal Development"
12/5/2017 4:00-5:00 room 245

Dr. Joseph Braun
"Early Life Environmental Chemical Exposures and Children's Health"
2/13/2018 4:00-5:00 room 245

Marcia Pescador Jimenez
"Longitudinal Associations of Life-course Neighborhood Deprivation with Blood Pressure and Obesity"
4/2/2018 12:00-1:00 room 247

Dr. Carmen Marsit
"Molecular Mechanisms Linking the Environment to Children's Health"
4/10/2018 4:00-5:00 room 245

Carl G. Streed, Jr., MD
"The Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities: Acceptance/Rejection as Exposure"
4/18/2018 4:00-5:00 room 375

 

5-2-2017
Olivia Okereke, MD Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Depression and Cognitive Decline Among the Elderly” 

3-21-2017
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH Dean, Boston University School of Public Health Professor, Family Medicine Boston University School of Medicine
“New Directions in Population Health: From Risks to Consequences” 

3-7-2017
Edmond Shenassa, ScD Associate Professor, Family Science University of Maryland 
“In- utero Exposure to Nicotine and Lifetime Risk of Depression: Methodologic Challenges and Solutions” 

11-15-2016
Laura Stroud, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Science (Research) Brown University
“Smoking During Pregnancy: Biological Pathways and Transmission of Risk to the Next Generation” 

11-8-2016
 Julia Simard, ScD Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research & Policy, Division of Epidemiology, and (by courtesy), Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Affiliate, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Stanford School of Medicine
“Perinatal Outcomes in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases: from Population-Based Registers to Clinical Studies” 

10-11-2016 
Christopher Wildeman, PhD Associate Professor, Policy Analysis and Management Cornel University
Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations
of Students 

9-27-2016
Laura Kubzansky, PhD, MPH Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Distress-Proneness and the Habit of Discontent: Childhood Origins of Cardiovascular Disease 

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