A reminder that this talk by Kai Kupferschmidt will be happening TODAY at 1-2 PM ET. Join us on Zoom at hsph.me/idepi24 or in person at FXB G13. #IDEpi24

TOMORROW April 24, 1-2 PM ET, Ben Cowling, Prof. and Chair of Epi. at HKU Public Health, will be presenting "Influenza vaccination strategies in older adults". Regular #IDEpi24 attendees, note this is a WEDNESDAY seminar. Register here: hsph.me/idepi24

Congrats to Dr. Nicole Kogan Nicole Kogan for receiving the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Teaching Fellow Award and completing her PhD in Population Health Sciences in #IDEpi advised by Prof. Mauricio Santillana Mauricio Santillana. hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/…

Congratulations to CCDD alum, Lee Kennedy-Shaffer, PhD, on his appointment to Asst. Prof, Biostatistics Yale School of Public Health Global Health @ Yale! medicine.yale.edu/yigh/news-arti…

The super amazing Caroline Buckee from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health speaking to @harvard #ClimateActionScale about her work on heat and health in Asia! Thanks to Harvard UniversitySalata for putting Caroline and Public Health at the Center 🤩

A warm welcome to our new postdoc, Juan Gago, MD Juan Gago joining the CCDD under Lipsitch Lab Marc Lipsitch 👏👏

We're excited to have Landen Thompson from Morehouse College join the CCDD for the summer! Landen is a visiting scholar from the Du Bois Scholar program 🙌

As technologies available to public health researchers continues to expand, no one person can be well-versed in all. Instead, Dr. Caroline Buckee of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, speaks on the need for teams made up of varied areas of expertise. Full event recording at spr.ly/60155UoBJ

How to Protect the World from an Accidental Pandemic with ⁦Tom Inglesby, MD⁩ with and Anita Cicero via ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ nytimes.com/2024/07/23/opi…

Delighted this piece is out with numerous coauthors from a symposium chaired by Yonatan Grad Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health frontiersin.org/journals/publi…

Does virus prospecting in wildlife accelerate medical countermeasures like vaccines? Aishani Aatresh and I examine the evidence and conclude: not appreciably. Via medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy that this piece is finally out! Very grateful for all the input and support by Matt Samore, Marc Lipsitch, Yonatan Grad, Yue Zhang, McKenna Nevers, Haojia Li, and Karim Khader. Free access to the paper until Oct 5 here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jbJ8_XVyhTs…

The epiDAMIK workshop at #KDD2024 is happening next Monday (08/26)! We have keynotes by Mauricio Santillana Mauricio Santillana and Yen-Chia Hsu Yen-Chia Hsu & multiple contributed talks. Program: epidamik.github.io/program.html #datascience #epidemiology #publichealth #AI #machinelearning

Epidemiologists long predicted Covid would become endemic. Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social tells The New York Times the term "certainly has a sort of social definition — a virus that’s around us all the time — and if you want to take that one, then we’re definitely there.” bit.ly/3XnZnUU

Very excited this paper with @xuetingq and colleagues from Center for Indigenous Health and CDC is out. Prediction of post-PCV13 pneumococcal evolution using invasive disease data enhanced by inverse-invasiveness weighting | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…. #NFDS negative frequency-dep selection...

Check out the latest paper "Modelling molecular and culture-based surveillance of tetracycline resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae" by Grad Lab researchers Kirstin Roster, Rachel Mittelstaedt, Jordan Reyes, & Yonatan Grad. Available at bit.ly/4cQms73