Archived Department Seminar Series
The Epidemiology Seminar Series brings together current leaders in the field to share the most exciting developments in Epidemiologic science with the University of Michigan academic community.
| Date/Time | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title | Video |
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| April 10, 2025 | Ali Abazeed, MPH, MPP | Wayne State University |
The Defiant Rebirth of Public Health |
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| February 6, 2025 | Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Public Health, War and Cross-Border Challenges: The Recent cVDPV2 Polio Outbreak in Gaza |
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| January 9, 2025 | Josh Ehrlich, MD, MPH | University of Michigan |
Envisioning Optimal Aging: Vision, Eye Health, & Late-Life Wellbeing |
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| December 5, 2024 | Yara Asi, PhD | University of Central Florida |
Recognizing War and Militarism as Threats to Global Population Health |
SPH I: 3755 |
| November 7, 2024 | Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH | Harvard University |
Embodied Racism. Embodied Resistance: Advancing Antiracism Scholarship and Activism in this Moment and Beyond |
SPH I: 3755 |
| April 4, 2024 | Spruha Joshi | University of Michigan |
Association of county level cannabis outlets and overdose related mortality across the United States |
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| February 8, 2024 | Félice Lê-Scherban | Drexel University |
Bringing mixed methods into epidemiology and epidemiology into mixed methods research |
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| February 1, 2024 | Jennifer Head | University of Michigan |
Thinking causally with case-only surveillance data: Examples examining associations between oil well drilling and Valley fever incidence and school eligibility and pediatric COVID-19 incidence |
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| January 25, 2024 | Abram Wagner | University of Michigan |
Impact of vaccine tolerability on shingles vaccine decision-making |
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| November 16, 2023 | Holland Romero | U.S. Navy SEAL, Retired |
Communication In Research Team Collaboration |
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| November 9, 2023 | Christopher Morrison | Columbia University |
Ridesharing and Traffic Crashes: Designing an Intervention in the Presence of Mixed Evidence |
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| November 2, 2023 | Ashly Westrick | University of Michigan |
Social epidemiology of cancer and aging |
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| October 26, 2023 | Andrew Brouwer | University of Michigan |
Mechanistic inference of the biological rates underlying 13C breath test curves for the detection of environmental enteric dysfunction |
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| October 19, 2023 | Ifeolu David | University of Michigan |
A low-resource context to COVID-19 vaccinations |
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| October 5, 2023 | Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos | University of Michigan |
Heat Related Illness, Cardiovascular Disease and Precarious Employment in Farmworkers: The Michigan Farmworker Project |
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| September 21, 2023 | Doug Wiebe | University of Michigan |
Research and Training in Injury Epidemiology, Geography and Health, and an eventual Focus on Concussion |
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| September 7, 2023 | Alden Gross | Johns Hopkins |
Measurement and Structure of Cognition Across the World: Lessons from HCAPs |
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| August 31, 2023 | Alize Asberry Payne | Washtenaw County |
Racial Equity in Washtenaw county and the Role of Reparations |
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| April 13, 2023 | Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, PhD | University of Utah |
Familial and Genetic Determinants of Pregnancy Loss |
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| April 6, 2023 | Mercedes Carnethon, PhD | Northwestern University |
The Biggest Public Health Problem: Measuring and Addressing the Impact of Obesity on Cardiovascular Disease |
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| March 23, 2023 | Tiffany Green, PhD | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Racial segregation and early life health: evidence from railroad configurations in the United States |
No recording |
| March 16, 2023 | Andrew Admon, MD, MPH | University of Michigan |
In the dark: Informing Care and Public Health in Early COVID-19 |
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| November 17, 2022 | Wenche Borgnakke | University of Michigan |
You cannot be healthy without oral health |
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| November 3, 2022 | Alexis Handal | University of Michigan |
Michigan Farmworker Project |
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| October 27, 2022 | Marc Ryser | Duke University |
Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis: How Much, and Why? |
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| October 20, 2022 | Tyler James | University of Michigan |
Health communication access among deaf and hard-of-hearing people: A social-ecological lens |
No recording |
| September 29, 2022 | Madina Agénor | Brown University |
(Re)Structuring Intersectionality: Opportunities and Challenges of Conceptualizing,
Measuring, and Addressing the |
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| September 8, 2022 | Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, MBE, FmedSci | University of Nottingham, UK |
Thomas Francis Jr. Memorial Lecture: Parables of the Pandemic, from the UK |
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| March 7, 2022 | Dr. Sebastian Zollner; Dr. Jennifer Smith; Anisa Driscoll |
University of Michigan | Precision Health Workshop | No Recording |
| January 27, 2022 | Dr. Christina Denslinger | Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (GLITEC) | Opioid Response in Tribal Communities: The Saving Lives Project | No Recording |
| December 9, 2021 | Dr. Colin Carlson | Georgetown University | Predicting and preventing the next pandemic new ideas for a familiar problem | Colin Carlson Video |
| December 2, 2021 | Dr. Daniel M. Parker | University of California, Irvine | Mapping mosquito spit: a novel way to assess the space-time risk of mosquito-borne diseases | Daniel Parker Video |
| November 4, 2021 | Dr. Laura Matrajt | Fred Hutch Research Center, Seattle | Optimizing COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation | Laura Matrajt Video |
| September 30, 2021 | Dr. Samuel Cohn | Texas A&M University | All Societies Die: The Causes of Long-Term Societal Dysfunction | No Recording |
| September 2, 2021 | Dr. Belinda Needham | University of Michigan | Maternal exposure to vicarious structural racism and newborn health disparities in Michigan: The Flint Water Crisis | Belinda Needham Video |
| April 29, 2021 | Dr. Xin Wang | University of Michigan | Metals and Aging-Related Diseases: A Persistent Public Health Problem | Xin Wang Zoom Webinar |
| April 15, 2021 | Dr. Elle O'Brien | University of Michigan | The Michigan Lighthouse COVID-19 Data Project | Elle O'Brien Zoom Webinar |
| April 1, 2021 | Dr. Alison Mondul | University of Michigan | Statin use and Head and Neck Cancer | Alison Mondul Zoom Webinar |
| March 25, 2021 | Dr. Nancy Fleischer | University of Michigan | Building an equity-focused surveillance system in a pandemic: The Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study | No Recording |
| March 11, 2021 | Dr. Jon Zelner | University of Michigan | Where models meet morality: What role should epidemiological models play in addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in the COVID-19 crisis? | Jon Zelner Zoom Webinar |
| March 4, 2021 | Dr. Michael Hayashi | University of Michigan | Computation in Epidemological Practice and Research | Michael Hayashi Zoom Webinar |
| December 3, 2020 | Dr. Darien Weatherspoon | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | Oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer trends and disparities in the United States | Darien Weatherspoon Zoom Webinar |
| November 19, 2020 | Dr. Arnold Monto | University of Michigan | Update on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines | Arnold Monto Zoom Webinar |
| November 12, 2020 | Dr. Yasamin Kusunoki | University of Michigan | The Dynamics of Intimate Relationships and Contraceptive Use During Early Emerging Adulthood | No Recording |
| November 5, 2020 | Dr. Abram Wagner | University of Michigan | International surveys of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic | Abram Wagner Zoom Webinar |
| October 22, 2020 | Dr. Jonathan Metzl | Vanderbilt University | Why do People Vote Against Their Own Self-Interests?: The 2020 Election and the Politics of Racial Resentment | No Recording |
| October 1, 2020 | Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha | Michigan State University | What the eyes don't see. | Mona Hanna-Attisha Zoom Webinar |
| December 5, 2019 | Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PhD | University of Southern California, School of Medicine | A Population-based Study of Eye Disease and Vision-Specific Quality of Life; findings from the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study and the African American Eye Study. | N/A |
| November 14, 2019 | Eben Kenah, PhD | Ohio State University, College of Public Health | Pairwise survival analysis, regression models, and epidemiologic methods for infectious disease transmission. | N/A |
| October 17, 2019 | Marc Lipsitch, D.Phil. | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Measuring the effects of vaccines in randomized and observational contexts: challenges and ways forward. | N/A |
| September 5, 2019 | Joseph Eisenberg, PhD | University of Michigan, School of Public Health | Extending One-Health principles using a systems epidemiologic approach: The spread of antibiotic resistance in rural Ecuador. | N/A |
| April 23, 2019 | Jana Hirschtick, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | Examining health inequities at the individual, community, and national level | N/A |
| April 18, 2019 | Jane E. Clougherty, M.Sc., Sc.D. | Drexel University | Social Susceptibility to Air Pollution in Respiratory and Cardiovascular Health | N/A |
| February 21, 2019 | Lisa Mirel, MS | National Center for Health Statistics | National Center for Health Statistics' Data Linkage Program: Leveraging Administrative Data for Surveys | N/A |
| February 7, 2019 | Aubree Gordon, PhD | University of Michigan | Studies of the Epidemiologic Features and Transmission of Influenza | N/A |
| January 17, 2019 | Eduardo Villamor, M.D., MPH, Dr.P.H. | University of Michigan | Addressing causation through study design in perinatal epidemiology: New magic with old tricks | N/A |
| December 6, 2018 | Mary L. Marazita, PhD | University of Pittsburgh | Genetic Epidemiology of Orofacial Cleft Birth Defects | N/A |
| December 5, 2019 | Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PhD | University of Southern California, School of Medicine | A Population-based Study of Eye Disease and Vision-Specific Quality of Life; findings from the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study and the African American Eye Study. | N/A |
| November 15, 2018 | Wei Zhao, PhD | University of Michigan | Multi-omics approaches to the genetics of complex disease | Wei Zhao Video |
| November 1, 2018 | Jessie Marshall, M.D., MPH | Washtenaw County Health Department | Pursuit of Health Equity in Washtenaw County | Jesse Marshall Video |
| October 4, 2018 | C. Leigh Pearce, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | An attempt to clarify the muddled world of ovarian cancer epidemiology | Leigh Pearce Video |
| September 20, 2018 | Abram Wagner, PhD | University of Michigan | The epidemiology and control of vaccine-preventable diseases globally | Abram Wagner 2018 Recording |
| September 6, 2018 | Liming Dong, PhD | University of Michigan | Post-Stroke Depression: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Methodological Challenges | Liming Dong Video |
| March 15, 2018 | Ana Baylin, M.D., Dr.P.H. | University of Michigan | Light Innovations in the Workplace to Promote Physical and Mental Health | Ana Baylin Video |
| February 22, 2018 | Lewis B. Morgenstern, M.D. | University of Michigan | Cognitive Impairment in Hispanic Americans | Lewis Morgenstern Video |
| February 8, 2018 | Marisa C. Eisenberg, PhD MS | University of Michigan | Identifiability and uncertainty in modeling disease dynamics | Marisa Eisenberg Video |
| January 25, 2018 | Erica Warner, Sc.D., MPH | Harvard Medical School | Controversies in Breast Cancer Screening: Balancing Risks and Benefits and Implications of New Guidelines | N/A |
| January 11, 2018 | Emily Martin, PhD MPH | University of Michigan | Molecular Epidemiology of Rhinoviruses and Respiratory Enteroviruses | Emily Martin Video |
| November 30, 2017 | Alexis Handal, PhD | UNM Health Sciences Center | Impact of large‐scale agricultural production on maternal and child health: a case study from Ecuador | Alexis Handal 2017 Video |
| November 9, 2017 | Demetrius Albanes, M.D. | National Cancer Institute | Prostate Cancer, Micronutrients, and Metabolomics | Demetrius Albanes Video |
| October 12, 2017 | Gillian Hanley, PhD | The University of British Columbia | An assessment of ovarian cancer prevention recommendations | Gillian Hanley Video |
| September 28, 2017 | Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, PhD, MPH | Virginia Commonwealth University | Neighborhood Context and Preterm Delivery in Black Women | Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson Video |
| September 14, 2017 | Marie S. O'Neill, PhD | University of Michigan | Health vulnerability to extreme heat: Developing knowledge for action | Marie O'Neill Video |
| March 30, 2017 | Sioban D. Harlow, PhD | University of Michigan | Women's Midlife Health: New insights from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation | N/A |
| February 23, 2017 | Lars Fritsche, PhD | NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway | Exploring the Potential of Genome x Phenome-wide Association Studies | N/A |
| February 9, 2017 | Mahasin S. Mujahid, PhD | University of California Berkeley | Is There a Future for Neighborhoods and Health Research in the Era of Big Data and Precision Medicine?" | N/A |
| January 12, 2017 | Rafael Meza, PhD | University of Michigan | The exciting world of tobacco simulation modeling. Emerging challenges and opportunities | N/A |
| December 1, 2016 | Mark Katz, M.D. | Ben Gurion University of the Negev | New Vaccine Introduction in Kenya: Influenza as a Case Study | N/A |
| November 3, 2016 | Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | New Directions to Address Old Problems/A systems approach to diarrheal disease epidemiology | Joseph Eisenberg Video |
| October 6, 2016 | Mahasin S. Mujahid, PhD, MS | University of California Berkeley | Neighborhoods and Cardio-Metabolic Health | N/A |
| September 22, 2016 | Edward Peters, D.M.D., S.M., Sc.D. | Louisiana State University | The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Health in Louisiana Women | N/A |
| September 8, 2016 | Andrew Brouwer, PhD, MS, M.A. | University of Michigan | From Prevalence to Incidence: Modeling the Connection Between HPV and Oral Cancer | N/A |
| April 16, 2015 | Alexander H. Rickard, PhD, M.Sc., B.Sc. | University of Michigan | From Field to Lab Bench and Back Again: Developing Novel Approaches to Control Oral Biofilms. | N/A |
| April 10, 2015 | Alvaro Munoz, PhD | John Hopkins Bloomberg | The Perilousness of Proportional Hazards Models in the Competing Risks Setting | Alvaro Munoz Video |
| April 2, 2015 | Marisa C. Eisenberg, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | Identifiability and Interacting Scales in Modeling Disease Dynamics | N/A |
| February 5, 2015 | Adam A. Szpiro, PhD | University of Washington | Revisiting the analytic framework: Spatial measurement error in air pollution epidemiology | N/A |
| January 22, 2015 | David Rehkopf, MPH, Sc.D. | Stanford University | In Defense of Descriptive Epidemiology: New Applications and Approaches | David Rehkopf Video |
| January 8, 2015 | Nigel Paneth, M.D., MPH | Michigan State University | Why John Snow Still Matters to Modern Epidemiology | N/A |
| December 4, 2014 | Caroline Fox, M.D., MPH | NIH | Metabolic Research at the Population Level: Past, Present, Future | N/A |
| November 20, 2014 | Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | Environmental determinants of Infectious Diseases: Roads and diarrheal disease. | Joseph Eisenberg 2014 Video |
| September 18, 2014 | Stephen T. McGarvey, PhD, MPH | Brown University | Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Nutrition Transition: Obesity and Health in Modernizing Samoans | Stephen McGarvey Video |
| September 4, 2014 | Lynda D. Lisabeth, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | A Decade of Stroke Disparities Research - What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going? | Lynda Lisabeth Video |
| March 27, 2014 | JoLynn P. Montgomery, PhD, MPH | University of Michigan | Epidemiology and Control of Measles in Tianjin, China | JoLynn Montgomery Video |
| March 13, 2014 | Murray Mittleman, M.D.C.M., MPH, Dr.P.H. | Harvard | Physical, Psychological and Chemical Triggers of Cardiovascular Events | Murray Mittleman Video |
| February 27, 2014 | Rafael Meza, PhD | University of Michigan | Extrapolating from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) to determine optimal lung cancer screening regimens - Using comparative modeling to inform cancer-screening guidelines |
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| February 13, 2014 | Veronica Berrocal, PhD | University of Michigan | Directional Spatial Smoothing: Application to Environmental and Epidemiological Data | N/A |
| January 30, 2014 | Betsy Foxman, PhD | University of Michigan | Streptoccocus Pneumoniae and Acute Respiratory Infection | Betsy Foxman Video |
| January 16, 2014 | Gregory Wellenius, Sc.D. | Brown University | Air Pollution and Brain Health: a vascular perspective | Gregory Wellnius Video |
| December 19, 2013 | William H. Herman, M.D., MPH | University of Michigan | Should Hemoglobin A1 be Used to Diagnose Diabetes? | William Herman Video |
| December 5, 2013 | Michael S. Kramer, M.D. | McGill | What is Preterm Birth | Michael Kramer Video |
| November 21, 2013 | Ana Baylin, M.D., Dr.P.H. | University of Michigan | A Novel Fatty Acid Profile Index - the Lipophilic Index - and Risk of Myocardial Infarction | N/A |
| November 14, 2013 | Emily Martin, PhD | Wayne State University | Not Just the Common Cold: the Epidemiology of Respiratory Virus Coninfections in Children | N/A |
| November 7, 2013 | Joel Gagnier, PhD, N.D., M.Sc., B.A. | University of Michigan | Investigating "Clinical" Sources of Heterogeneity in Systematic Reviews | N/A |
| September 26, 2013 | Alfredo Morabia, M.D., PhD, MPH | Columbia University | Applications of Novel Methods in Epidemiology: a Historical Perspective | N/A |
| September 12, 2013 | Sioban Harlow, PhD | University of Michigan | The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN): Staging Ovarian Aging and Integrating Women's Health | N/A |
| April 18, 2013 | Tod J. Merkel | Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA | Pertussis Transmission and Disease | N/A |
| April 11, 2013 | Allison Aiello and Erik Volz | University of Michigan | A Social Network Intervention for Reducing Respiratory Infectious Illness Transmission: The Ex-Flu Cluster Randomized Trial, Methods and Preliminary Findings. |
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| March 28, 2013 | Yong Yang | University of Michigan | Agent-based modeling for active travels: adults' utilitarian walking and children's travel to school | N/A |
| March 14, 2013 | Eden Wells | University of Michigan | Epidemiology in the Public Health Disaster Management Cycle | Eden Wells Video |
| February 28, 2013 | Pejman Rohani | University of Michigan | Dissecting pertussis epidemiology: The role of contact networks, duration of immunity and vaccination | Pejman Rohani Video |
| February 14, 2013 | Maria Glymour | Harvard, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health | Identifying lifecourse determinants of cognitive decline in old age: the example of education | Maria Glymour Video |
| January 31, 2013 | Miguel Hernan | Harvard, School of Public Health | Epidemiologic methods are useless. They can only give you answers. | N/A |
| January 17, 2013 | Edward Ionides | University of Michigan | Epidemiological inferences using stochastic dynamic models | Edward Ionides Video |
| January 10, 2013 | Joel Gittelsohn | Johns Hopkins University | Development of multi-level interventions for chronic disease prevention | N/A |
| December 13, 2012 | Sara Adar | University of Michigan | Air Pollution and Health: Studying and Creating Change in the World | Sara Adar Video |
| November 29, 2012 | Eric Tchetgen | Harvard, School of Public Health | A unified approach for estimation of a treatment effect when the outcome is truncated by death | Eric Tchetgen Video |
| November 15, 2012 | Sung Kyun Park | University of Michigan | Lead and Health: A Never-Ending Story | Sung Kyun Park Video |
| November 1, 2012 | Enrique F. Schisterman | National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | Biomarkers Revolution | Enrique Schisterman Video |
| October 24, 2012 | Noel S. Weiss, M.D., Dr.P.H. | University of Washington | When will the results obtained in randomized trials not accurately characterize the impact of an intervention measure among persons in the community who receive it. |
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| October 18, 2012 | Sven Cnattingius | Karolinska Institutet | Low birth weight and risk of chronic adult disease: lessons from twins | Sven Cnattingius Video |
| October, 4, 2012 | James S. Koopman | University of Michigan | Treatment as Prevention for HIV: One Paradigm for Dynamic System Analysis in Epid | N/A |
| September 20, 2012 | David A. Savitz | Brown University | The Public's Love/Hate Relationship with Epidemiology: The Burden of Being Relevant | David Savitz Video |
| September 6, 2012 | Ana Diez Roux | University of Michigan | Understanding the multilevel determinants of health: challenges and opportunities for epidemiology | N/A |
Historical Thomas Francis, Jr. Memorial Lectures
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title | Video |
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October 24, 2024 |
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH | Drexel Urban Health Collaborative | Twenty-five years of research on the social and environmental determinants of health | |
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September 8, 2022 |
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, MBE, FmedSci | University of Nottingham, UK | Thomas Francis Jr. Memorial Lecture: Parables of the Pandemic, from the UK | |
| April 15, 2014 | Nubia Munoz, M.D., MPH | Former Unit Chief, International Agency for Research on Cancer Emeritus Scientist National Cancer Institute of Colombia; Member of the Society of Scholars of Johns Hopkins University | Human papillomavirus in the etiology and prevention of genital cancers | N/A |
| February 26, 2013 | Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H | Harvard University | Diet and Health: A Progress Report | Walter Willett Video |
MaryFran Sowers Lecture
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Presentation Title |
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| October 10, 2013 | Elsa S. Strotmeyer, PhD, MPH | University of Pittsburgh | Peripheral nerves and musculoskeletal function: Impact on mobility outcomes in older adults |