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Unless otherwise noted, sessions are held once per month on Wednesdays at 4 PM via Live Zoom (link to be provided in advance).
Academic Year 2022 - 2023
September 21, 2022
"An Adaptive Approach to Active Surveillance for HIV (and SARSCoV2)"
Presented by
Gregg Gonsalves, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership
Co-Director, Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency
Yale School of Public Health
Academic Year 2021 - 2022
September 22, 2021
"Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Era: Where Do We Go From Here?"
Presented by
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine
Harvard Medical School
October 20, 2021
"Estimating the Causal Effect of Policy Interventions in the Presence of Spillovers"
Presented by
Nandita Mitra, PhD
Co-director of the Center for Causal Inference
Chair of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Vice Chair of Faculty Professional Development in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
November 3, 2021
"Overdose Deaths and Innovative Prevention Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Presented by
Chinazo Cunningham, MD, MS
Executive Deputy Commissioner of Mental Health
New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygience
December 15, 2021
"Addressing Structural and Social Determinants in Cancer Health Disparities Research"
Presented by
Scarlett Lin Gomez, MPH, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
January 19, 2022
"Turning Digital Fumes into a Breath of Fresh Air"
Presented by
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research
Professor of Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
February 16, 2022
"Advancing Implementation Science in Dynamic Systems: An NIH Perspective"
Presented by
David Chambers, DPhil
Deputy Director for Implementation Science in the Office of the Director in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
March 16, 2022
"D&I Session: Women in Science"
Presented by
Czarina Navos Behrends, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine
Academic Year 2020 - 2021
September 24, 2020 *PLEASE NOTE SESSION TIME CHANGE TO 4:30 PM*
“What’s in a (Department) Name? The Emergence of Population Health Sciences in Academic Medicine”
Presented by Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH - Moderator
Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Research
Chair, Population Health Sciences Department
Nanette Laitman Distinguished Professor of Population Health Science
Bruce Schackman, PhD, MBA
Executive Vice Chair, Population Health Sciences Department
Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences
Dhruv Khullar, MD,MPP
Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA
Chief Strategy Officer, Weill Cornell Medicine Physicians Organization
Associate Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology
Mark Weiner, MD
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Health Research Analytics
Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
Professor of Clinical Medicine
October 22, 2020 *PLEASE NOTE SESSION TIME CHANGE TO 4:30 PM*
“Title to be determined”
Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, MACP
Chief Executive Officer
Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)
November 19, 2020
“Regulatory science, clinical research and public health: What can we learn from the medical device ecosystem?"
Danica Marinac-Dabic, MD, PhD, MMSc, FISPE
Associate Director, Office of Clinical Evidence and Analysis
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
FDA Food and Drug Administration
December 17, 2020
“The evolution, durability of immunity to reinfection, and seasonality of SARS-CoV-2"
Jeffrey Townsend, PhD
Elihu Professor of Biostatistics
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale School of Medicine
January 21, 2021
“Does Diversity Matter for Health? Investigating Demand for Preventive Health Care Among African-American Men”
Marcella Alsan, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
February 18, 2021
“My Reflections on 30 Years of Community-Based Research with People who Inject Drugs"
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD
Associate Dean for Social Justice
Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Institute for Prevention Research
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
March 18, 2021
“Building a Laboratory to Examine State Medicaid Policies to Address the Opioid Crisis”
Julie Donohue, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Health Policy and Management
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
April 28, 2021
“Community-Engaged Interventions to Achieve Health Equity for Black Men: The Power of the Barbershop”
Joseph Ravenell, MD, MS
Associate Dean of Diversity Affairs and Inclusion
Professor of Medicine and Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
May 20, 2021
“Designing and Testing Home-Based Cervical Cancer Screening: Results From a Collaborative Academic-Embedded Delivery System Pragmatic Randomized Trial”
Diana Buist, PhD, MPH
Senior Investigator and Director of Research and Strategic Partnerships
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
June 17, 2021
“Getting Into the Weeds: Opportunities and Cautions in International Health Systems Comparisons”
Peter Cram, MD, MBA
Senior Scientist, TGHRI
Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and University Health Network
Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
Academic Year 2019 - 2020
September 18, 2019
“Towards AI-driven Precision Medicine”
Presented by Olivier Elemento, PhD, MS
Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine
Walter B. Wriston Research Scholar
Weill Cornell Medicine
October 16, 2019
“Extracting Information from Clinical Text for Secondary Use Applications”
Presented by Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical & Health Informatics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Washington
December 18, 2019
“Turning an Academic Medical Center into a Learning Health System: Challenges and Opportunities”
Presented by Leora Horwitz, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science
NYU Langone Health
January 22, 2020
"Sharing Information, Sharing in Decisions: Challenges to Patient Involvement in Their Medical Decisions"
Presented by Angela Fagerlin, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Utah Health
February 19, 2020
“Oops! I Placed an Order on the Wrong Patient”
Presented by Jason S. Adelman, MD, MS
Chief Patient Safety Officer and Associate Chief Quality Office
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian
March 18, 2020
"Wearable and Implantable Technology (WIT) with Biopharmaceutical Applications"
Presented by Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
April 22, 2020
"Medicaid Expansion, Disparities, and Health Outcomes"
Presented by Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Economics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health