Seminar Series
Current Issues in Epidemiologic Research
June 12 - June 28, 2023
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Bloomberg School of Public Health
All presentations will be held via Zoom
2023 SEMINAR SERIES
Monday, June 12
Normal Aging Is Not Optimal: Fight “Normal” Aging One Disease at a Time
Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
G.W. Comstock Professor of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Coresh studies risk factors for vascular disease across different organs including the heart, kidney and brain with the goal of improving health and training leaders in research.
Tuesday, June 13
Considerations of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in understanding genetic risk
Genevieve Wojcik, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
A statistical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist, Dr. Wojcik's research focuses on improving statistical methods for complex trait mapping and polygenic risk scores to address existing health inequities and ensure downstream translation for all.
Wednesday, June 14
Social Epidemiology: The Epidemic of Social Isolation and Perspectives for Health Equity
Kassandra Alcaraz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Alcaraz’s research examines socio-environmental determinants of health disparities across the cancer control continuum, with the goal of implementing contextually-appropriate and sustainable interventions in clinical and community settings.
Thursday, June 15
Vascular calcification in the 75-and-older population: Inevitable phenomena or informative trace?”
Kunihiro Matsushita, MD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Matsushita's research seeks to establish a bridge between medicine and epidemiological research, contributing to better application of epidemiologic methods to clinical questions to form an evidence-base that can improve treatment and prevention of cardiovascular and kidney diseases.
Friday, June 16
A Brief History of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins – 1919-2023
David Celentano, ScD
Charles Armstrong Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
David Celentano, is an infectious disease epidemiologist who researches behavioral risk factors for HIV/AIDS, STIs, and other infections. His research integrates behavioral science theory and research with epidemiology methods in the study of behavioral and social epidemiology.
Monday, June 19
Population Mobility: How Do We Measure It and When Does It Matter?
Amy Wesolowski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Wesolowski's research uses a range of mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the role of human behavior on infectious disease dynamics.
Tuesday, June 20
The HIV Care Continuum: A Case-Study of Biases in Descriptive Epidemiology
Katherine Lesko, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Lesko's applied research interests are primarily related to describing and improving clinical outcomes for persons with HIV living in the United States.
Wednesday, June 21
Contagium animatum: A series of vignettes on the history of infectious diseases,
and thus the history of epidemiology, pausing to consider why it took nearly 300
years for widespread acceptance of germ theory
William Moss, MD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A pediatrician with subspecialty training in infectious diseases, the focus of Dr. Moss' current research is in understanding the impact of the HIV epidemic on measles control and eradication, the epidemiology and control of malaria in southern Africa, the use of serosurveillance to guide immunization programs, and the care and treatment of HIV-infected children in rural Zambia.
Thursday, June 22
Hearing and Public Health in Three Acts: Translation From Research to Policy & Back Again
Jennifer Deal, PhD
Associate Professor
Nicholas Reed, AuD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Trained in the epidemiology of aging, Dr. Deal studies the effects of hearing loss on an aging brain and how hearing loss influences cognitive function to inform strategies for the primary prevention of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults.
Dr. Reed's research focuses on direct-to-consumer hearing care, understanding hearing aid use in the United States, the relationship between hearing loss and health care outcomes/interactions, and whether interventions targeting hearing loss can mitigate these associations.
Friday, June 23
Mental health epidemiology in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lessons learned?
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Dr. Galea has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature about the social causes of health, mental health, and trauma. He has documented the consequences of mass trauma and conflict worldwide, including as a result of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, and the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Monday, June 26
Linking Science with Pragmatism in Epidemiology: The Example of Tuberculosis Case-Finding and Prevention in Uganda
David Dowdy, PhD, MD
Vice Dean for Education, Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Dowdy is an infectious disease epidemiologist and general internist focused primarily on the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB). His interdisciplinary research lies at the nexus of experimental and observational epidemiology, infectious disease modeling, health economics, and implementation science.
Tuesday, June 27
Applied Predictive Epidemiology: Lessons from the Chronic Kidney Disease
in Children (CKiD) Cohort
Derek Ng, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Ng's research interests include epidemiologic methods for the design and analysis of observational cohort studies, particularly in pediatrics.
Wednesday, June 28
Emerging Themes in the HIV Pandemic and Response
Stefan Baral, MD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Baral's work is in HIV epidemiology, prevention, and implementation research, focused on the epidemiology, human rights contexts, and effective interventions for gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender women, and female sex workers across Western and Central, and Southern Africa and parts of Asia