PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Leonelo Bautista, MD, MPH, DrPH

WARF Room 726
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Dengue Dynamics in the Dominican Republic: Addressing Surveillance Failures Abstract: Cases of dengue fever have soared in Latin America in the last decade. The increase is mostly attributed to climate change; however, other factors have also …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Nikhil Khankari, PhD, MPH

@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Title: “Causal inference using Mendelian randomization: potential issues and novel applications” Key takeaways: · Causal interpretation of Mendelian randomization (MR) studies requires a critical appraisal of the MR assumptions and an understanding of the causal …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Aroon Hingorani, PhD, FRCP, FESC, FMedSci

Via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Title: Performance of polygenic risk scores in screening, prediction and population risk stratification Abstract:  A polygenic risk score represents the weighted sum of independent DNA sequence variants present in an individual’s genome that are associated …

PHS Monday Seminar Featuring Joshua Petrie, PhD, MPH

WARF Room 726
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Title: Comparative Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccines – Challenges and Opportunities Bio: Joshua Petrie is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health at the Marshfield Clinic Research …

PHS Monday Seminar – Screening of the film, “IN DUE SEASON”

WARF Room 726
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Screening of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) short film “In Due Season.” Following the short film, Emily Hall, Senior Grassroots Manager, will lead a discussion about the racial inequities that exist …