Seminar Series on Infectious Disease Modeling

The Seminar Series on Infectious Disease Modeling is co-hosted by the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology, and ICAP at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. This school-wide seminar series features experts presenting the latest research in infectious disease modeling and epidemiology from various disciplines.

The seminars will be held once a month from September 2024 to May 2025, running from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. We offer a hybrid format, with both in-person and Zoom options. Attending over Zoom requires registration with the Zoom link listed for each seminar. Affiliates outside of Columbia are welcome to attend via Zoom. For registration and talk abstract, please click the title of the presentation.

Please check the information below about future events.

Seminars

Toward Cognitive Epidemiology: An Agent_Zero Approach

September 24, 2024 1:00 pm-2:00 pm 

Joshua Epstein
Professor of Epidemiology
NYU School of Global Public Health


Unraveling the Evolutionary Dynamics of Emerging Viruses

November 26, 2024 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Nídia Sequeira Trovão
Research Scientist
Fogarty International Center, NIH


Eco-evolutionary signatures of disease emergence and spread 

December 3, 2024 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Ana Bento
Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Ecology

Department of Public & Ecosystem Health at Cornell University


How important is antibiotic use to antibiotic resistance?

December 10, 2024 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Gwen Knight
Associate Professor and co-Director of the AMR Centre

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine


January 21, 2025 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Marc Lipsitch
Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


February 11, 2025 1:00 pm-2:00 pm 

Joshua Warren,
Associate Professor

Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health


March 20, 2025 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Samuel Jenness
Associate Professor

Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University 


April 1, 2025 1:00 pm-2:00 pm 

Pejman Rohani
Regents' Professor, UGA Athletic Association Professor in Ecology and Infectious Diseases, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Deputy and Director of Center for Influenza Disease & Emergence Research

Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia


May 6, 2025 1:00 pm-2:00 pm

Jeff Imai-Eaton
Associate Professor in Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


For further inquiries, please contact Dr. Sen Pei at sp3449@cumc.columbia.edu.