29th Annual Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar Series

Bring your lunch and join us!  Everyone Welcome to Attend

Seminars 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Monday, June 13
EATING, DRINKING AND STAYING HEALTHY:
PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CHRONIC DISEASES
THROUGH DIET AND LIFESTYLE
Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH
Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Channing Laboratory
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Room W1214

Tuesday, June 14
THE INCOMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DIABETES AND DEPRESSION
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD
Professor and Chief, Epidemiology Division
 Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Room W1214

Wednesday, June 15
HIV-1 PREVENTION: WHAT HAVE WE
LEARNED IN THE PAST 30 YEARS?
David Celentano, ScD, MHS
Charles Armstrong Chair and Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Room W2008

Thursday, June 16
THE ROLE OF INFLAMMATION IN AGING AND THE
CHRONIC DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH AGING
Russell P. Tracy, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Room W1020

Friday, June 17
THE EVOLVING STUDY OF DEMENTIA.
HOPE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY?
Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH
University Professor of Public Health
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Room W1020

Monday, June 20
DISSECTING GENETICS
OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN LARGE
POPULATION-BASED EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES
W. H. Linda Kao, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Room W1020

Tuesday, June 21
The Effect of FDA Risk Communications
on Patient and Provider Behavior
G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Division of General Medicine
University of Chicago

Wednesday, June 22
THE ROLE OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OBSERVATORY
 IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE
Carlos Castillo-Salgado, MD, JD, DrPH
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Special Advisor, Forum for Public Health in the Americas, PAHO
Room W1020

Thursday, June 23
 Building Partnerships to Combat Chronic
Non-Communicable Diseases- A Global Health Priority 
  Tazeen Jafar, MD, MPH
Professor, Medicine and Community Health Sciences
The Aga Khan University
W1020

 Monday, June 27
THE COMPLEX EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HEPATITIS E VIRUS;
 A GLOBAL  EMERGING PATHOGEN
Kenrad Nelson, MD
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Room W1020

Tuesday, June 28
SMALLPOX: DEATH OF A DISEASE –
 HOW REALLY DID IT HAPPEN
Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH
Professor of Public Health and Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh
Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Professor
and Dean Emeritus
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Room W1020

Wednesday, June 29
TBA
Craig Newschaffer, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Drexel University School of Public Health
Room W1020