Radcliffe Institute Symposium – Harvard University – October 27, 2017
Opportunity Type: Public Health Opportunities, Workforce Development OpportunitiesLocation: Boston, MA
Salary: N/A
Opening Date: October 20, 2017
Closing Date: October 27, 2017
Website: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE SYMPOSIUM
Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics
Friday, October 27 | 9 AM–5 PM
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Epidemic disease spreads quickly in our interconnected, globalized world. This symposium looks at new ways of tracking epidemics using big data and social networks to predict and stem the rise of emergent diseases.
From Ebola and SARS to the more recently recognized social epidemics of the opioid crisis and gun violence, this event assembles epidemiologists, journalists, physicians, public officials, scientists, and sociologists to discuss cutting-edge research, prediction mechanisms, and possible solutions to the range of epidemics that face our world today.
To register, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2017-contagion-symposium.
Speakers:
- Ami Bhatt, assistant professor of medicine (hematology) and of genetics, Stanford School of Medicine
- Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Marcia Castro, associate professor of demography, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Kevin M. Esvelt, leader of the Sculpting Evolution Group, assistant professor of media arts and sciences and the NEC Career Development professor of computer and communications in the MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist specializing in global public health; foreign policy writer
- Christian T. Happi, professor of molecular biology and genomics, director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, and director of the Directorate of Research Innovations and Partnerships, Redeemer’s University (Nigeria)
- Andrew Kolodny, senior scientist and codirector of opioid policy research, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University; executive director, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing
- Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, physician and researcher, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center, Fundação Oswaldo Crus (Brazil)
- C. Jessica Metcalf, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Andrew Papachristos, professor of sociology, Yale University
- Anne W. Rimoin, associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health
- Daphne C. Watkins, associate professor of social work and director of the Joint PhD Program in Social Work and Social Science, School of Social Work, University of Michigan; assistant professor of psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School
- Michelle A. Williams, dean of the faculty and professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- James M. Wilson, associate research professor, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno; director, Nevada Medical Intelligence Center; director, Ascel Bio National Infectious Disease Forecast Center
The event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested in attending this event.
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