Epidemiology Monthly Seminar Series
2024
November 13, 2024
Translating Causal Inference into Applied Health and Social Science Research
Peter W.G. Tennant, BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Associate Professor of Health Data Science, University of Leeds

October 2, 2024
Comparison of Methods to Measure Health-related Social Needs
Joshua Vest, PhD, MPH, FACMI,
Professor & Vice-Chair, Health Policy & Management & Interim Associate Dean for Research, Indiana University
Scientist, Regenstrief Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics

September 4, 2024
Parts Unknown: At the Intersection of Biology and Behavior in SGM People with and without HIV
Adam W. Carrico, PhD, Professor and Chair, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University

May 2, 2024
Modeling of Commuting, Distance, and Encounter Network
Yujie Hu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida

MArch 21, 2024
Ph.D. Student Presentations
Mark Britton, Jackie Pollack, Wenjie Zeng, MD, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

February 14, 2024
Community-based Participatory Research with Deaf Communities
Steven Barnett, MD, and the NCDHR Research Team, Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Earl Allen, Human Subject Research Coordinator, Kelly Matthews, Senior Health Project Coordinator/Outreach Coordinator, Lori DeWindt, Senior Health Project Coordinator

January 11, 2024
Why You Should Avoid Statistical Significance Testing
Kenneth J. Rothman, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University, Distinguished Fellow Emeritus,
Research Triangle Institute

2023
November 29, 2023
From Multiple-Behavior Self-Monitoring to Nurse-in-the-Loop Digital Twin Artificial Intelligence: A Research Journey Developing A Digital Precision Health Model of Smart and Connected Care
Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor, Florida State University College of Nursing

November 7, 2023
Role of causality in prediction
Matthew Sperrin, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Health Data Science, University of Manchester

October 12, 2023
How Social Networks Drive Infectious Disease Transmission, and How They Can Be Used to Improve Prevention
Samuel M. Jenness, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

September 14, 2023
Can We End HIV in America by 2030?
Leisha McKinley-Beach, MS, Founder and CEO, Black Public Health Academy

JUNE 6, 2023
Ph.D. Student Presentations
Rebecca Austin-Datta, Rebecca Fisk-Hoffman, and Erta Cenko, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

May 4, 2023
The Social Life of Numbers: Advancing a Relational Approach to Measurement for Change in Healthcare
Julia E. Szymczak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine

April 13, 2023
Publishing in a high impact journal: Insights from 18 years as a JAMA editor
Robert M. Golub, MD, Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg, and Former Executive Deputy Editor, JAMA

March 2, 2023
From the Biology of Aging to the Geriatric Syndromes: A Translation Journey
Luigi Ferrucci, MD, Ph.D., Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging

February 23, 2023
Early provisional estimates of drug overdose, suicide, and transportation-related deaths: Nowcasting methods to account for reporting lags
Lauren M. Rossen, Ph.D., MS, Senior Scientific Advisor, and Health Statistician, Division of Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

January 12, 2023
The Changing Epidemiology of Cannabis Use and Cannabis Use Disorders
Deborah S. Hasin, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University

2022
December 1, 2022
Optimizing Mobile Digital Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young Adults: A 10 Year Journey
Brian Suffoletto, M.D. M.S., Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University

September 1, 2022
This talk will save trillions of lives. But the speaker is a sell-out quack. Misinformation and harassment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jason Salemi, Ph.D., MPH, FACE, Associate Professor & Concentration lead for the Ph.D. program in Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida

August 4, 2022
Enhancing Antibiotic Decision-Making in Nursing Homes
Christopher Crnich, MD, Ph.D., Chief of Medicine & Hospital Epidemiologist, William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital and Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UW School of Medicine and Public Health

June 3, 2022
Algorithm-Based Medicine: Old Statistics Wine in New Machine Learning Bottles?
Maarten van Smeden, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University Medical Center Utrecht

MAY 12, 2022
Moving The Needle on HIV Care for Women: The Role of Women Centered HIV Care
Mary Jo Trepka, MD, MSPH, Professor and Chair, Florida International University, and Diana Sheehan Delgado, MPH, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Florida International University

April 7, 2022
Your Data Are Not What You Think They Are: The Impact of Surveillance Bias on Disease Control
Rebecca Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
University of Illinois

MARCH 3, 2022
Causal inference for complex data: Asking questions that matter, getting answers that help
Eleanor J Murray, ScD, MS, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University

FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Why Are We Not There Yet?
James P. Guevara, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Division of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

January 27, 2022
Cardiometabolic Omics: Form and Function
Svati Shah, MD, MHS, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Genomics and Director, Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory

2021
DECEMBER 2, 2021
“Limited interaction” approaches to HIV prevention: A focus on alcohol and substance using HIV-vulnerable population
Drew A. Westmoreland, MSPH, Ph.D., City University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy

November 18, 2021
Mobile Phone Based Antiretroviral Adherence Interventions: “Call Me, Maybe?”
Robert Gross, MD, MSCE, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

October 21, 2021
The Intersection of Epidemiology and Biomedical Informatics; Is It Really Just Data Science?
Dr. John H. Holmes, Ph.D., FACE, FACMI, FIAHSI, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Career Paths For An Epidemiology PhD: An Alumni Panel
Dr. Kai Wang, Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University, Dr. Agana-Norman, Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Dr. Chukwuemeka Okafor, Assistant Professor, Public Health Department of Epidemiology, Baylor University, and Jake Ball, New field Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) Liaison, Boehringer Ingelheim

AUGUST 5, 2021
My Journey to Discover Why Health Disparities Exist
Thomas LaVeist, Ph.D., Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulsane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulsane University

JULY 2, 2021
Doctoral Students in Epidemiology
Sara Nutley, Inyoung Jun, and Akemi Wijayabahu, Ph.D. students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

JUNE 3, 2021
Lessons Learned on Inclusion In Biomedical Research
Joyce Balls-Berry, Ph.D., MPE, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Washington University

MAY 6, 2021
HealthStreet: An Epidemiology Research Lab with and for the Community
Linda Cottler, Ph.D., MPH, FACE Dean’s Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Catherine L Striley, Ph.D., MSW, MPE Associate Professor, Ting-Yuan Cheng, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Deepthi Varma, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida

APRIL 1, 2021
While things are changing: Mental health research in a world transformed by COVID-19
Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH,
Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University; New York State Psychiatric Institute

MARCH 4, 2021
Applying the tools of chronic disease epidemiology to an infectious disease pandemic: why we need our entire toolbox to manage a crisis
Charles C. Miller, III, PhD, Professor, Associate Dean, Associate VP
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

February 18, 2021
Studying Efficacy During An Epidemic: The Case of Convalescent Plasma
Nigel Paneth, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Pediatrics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University

January 21, 2021
Impact and Cost of SARS-CoV-2 Contact Tracing in Utah and Montana
Cuc H. Tran Ph.D., MPH, Epidemiologist, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2020
December 3, 2020
Estimating the influence of police harassment and incarceration on mental health, addictions, and STI/HIV transmission risk
Maria Khan, MPH, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population Health; Director, Comparative Effectiveness and Implementation Training Program, New York University Grossman School of Medicine

November 5, 2020
Impacts of the Innovation Paradox on Minority Populations in Academia
Alyssa Falise and Upuli Dissanayake, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Turning Chutes into Ladders for Women Faculty: A Roadmap for Equity in Academia
Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., MS, RD, FTOS, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics; Director, Obesity Research Alliance; Associate Director, Center for Integrative Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, University of Florida College of Medicine

January 9, 2020
How do we learn what works? A two-step algorithm for causal inference from real world data
Miguel A. Hernan, MD, DrPH, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

2019
November 7, 2019
Using a System Science Approach to Understand How Dynamic Social Complexities Influence Adolescent and Young Adult Marijuana Use
Pamela Matson, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Director of Research, Adolescents Medicine Fellowship Program, John Hopkins University School of Medicine

October 3, 2019
From Public Health Genomics to Precision Public Health: A 20-Year Journey
Muin Khoury, MD, Ph.D., Director, Office of Public Health Genomics Center for Disease Control and Prevention

August 15, 2019
Addressing Causation Through Study Design in Perinatal Epidemiology: New Magic with Old Tricks
Eduardo Villamor, MD, DrPH, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health

July 18, 2019
Ignorance is Not Bliss: The MotherToBaby Program Approach to Evaluating the Safety of Exposures in Pregnancy and Lactation
Christina Chambers, Ph.D., MPH, Co-Director, Center for Better Beginnings; Professor, Division of Dysmorphology and Teratology, Department of Pediatrics; Divisions of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego

June 6, 2019
Data Privacy in Large Biomedical Research Repositories
Bradley Malin, Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Informatics, Co-Director, Health Data Science Center, Vanderbilt University

May 2, 2019
What’s in a Name? List of Names Reveal Differences in Academic Systems
Stefano Allesina, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution and Computation, University of Chicago

April 18, 2019
Genetic Code verses ZIP Code: The Complementarity of Precision Medicine and Precision Public Health
Thomas Pearson, MD, MPH, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Florida
Hui Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

March 21, 2019
Efforts to Reduce the Black Excess Stroke Risk… With a Trip Upstream to Racial Differences in Blood Pressure
George Howard, DrPH Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

January 31, 2019
Liver Cancer Risk in a Vulnerable South Texas Population
Bradley Pollock, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Arline Miller Rolkin Chair in Public Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Dean of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis

January 17, 2019
Drugs and the Human Envirome
James Anthony, MSc, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Director, NIDA Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University

2018
December 6, 2018
Genetic Modulation of Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes: Translational Opportunities
Alessandro Doria
Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

November 1, 2018
Translating Community Outreach and Engagement for Optimizing Research with Under-Represented Populations
Deborah Erwin, Ph.D.
Distinguished Member Director, Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research, Roswell Park Institute

September 20, 2018
Exploring Gene-Environment Correlations and Interactions in Adolescent Substance Use
Cristina Bares, MS, MSW, MBA, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Social Work; University of Michigan

August 2, 2018
Health Consequences of Firearm Violence in the US
Bindu Kalesan, Ph.D., MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Center for Clinical Translational Epidemiology and Comparative Effectiveness, Boston University School of Medicine

May 23, 2018
Precision Prevention of Colorectal Cancer – from the Discovery of Genetic Risk Factors to Risk Stratified Screening
Riki (Ulrike) Peters, Ph.D. Candidate for the Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Member of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Research Professor, University of Washington

May 23, 2018
PhD in Epidemiology Student Presentations
Denny Fe Garcia Agana, Verlin Joseph, Michael Swain, and Ayodeji Otufowora Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

March 14, 2018
Co-localizing Alcoholism and Breast Cancer Genes in African Diaspora
Huaizhen Qin, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate; Assistant Professor Department of Global Biostatics and Data Science, Tulane University

March 1, 2018
Estimating Breast Cancer Risk After a Benign Biopsy: Opportunities and Obstacles
Mark Sherman, MD Senior Associate Consultant II, Career Scientist, Professor of Epidemiology and Pathology

February 22, 2018
Interpreting Epidemiologic Evidence: The Art of Using Research Wisely
David Savitz, Ph.D. Professor, Epidemiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brown University

2017
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Suicide prevention is a winnable battle…if…
Derek A. T. Cummings, Ph.D. Preeminence Professor, Department of Biology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida

Februaey 2, 2017
PhD in Epidemiology Student Presentations
Vicki Osborne, Sadaf Milani, Jacob Ball, and Bin Yu Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

January 12, 2017
Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes – Lessons from Diverse Populations
Barbara Howard, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, MedStar Health Research Institute

2016
December 1, 2016
Health Equity Research and Policy: Building the Evidence Base for Solutions to Health and Health Care Gaps
Philip M. Alberti, Ph.D. Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy, Scientific Affairs, AAMC

November 3, 2016
Space, place, and location: Spatial correlates of HIV risk among young men who have sex with men
José A. Bauermeister, MPH, Ph.D. Penn Presidential Associate Professor of Nursing, Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania

September 8, 2016
Epidemiologic analyses of poorly-characterized and -studied conditions: the example of urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes
Siobhan Sutcliffe, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

August 4, 2016
Precision Public Health: Panacea or Contradiction in Terms?
Thomas Pearson, MD, MPH, Ph.D. Executive Vice President for Research and Education, University of Florida Health Sciences Center

July 14, 2016
All-Cause Mortality Associated with Early Drunkenness and Nonmedical Use of Opioid Pain Relievers: A 27-Year Follow-Up from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study
Hui Hu, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate; College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida

July 7, 2016
Obesity in Rural America: Addressing the Challenges of Treatment, Dissemination and Implementation
Michael G. Perri, Ph.D. Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida

March 10, 2016
The ecology of MERS-CoV and Ebolavirus: from host reservoir to disease
Vincent Munster, Ph.D. Chief, Virus Ecology Unit Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories

February 4, 2016
Multilevel analysis of egocentric network data
Hongjie Liu, MS, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Maryland

January 7, 2016
Threading the Needle: How HIV Care Inconsistency and Vaccine Hesitancy Informs Strategies to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment among Vulnerable Populations
Paula Frew, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine

2015
November 12, 2015
Seeking the causes of the racial (and geographic) differences in stroke mortality
George Howard, Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

October 1, 2015
The Role of Social Marketing in Cancer Behavioral Research
Gwendolyn Quinn, Ph.D., Professor of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida

September 3, 2015
Suicide prevention is a winnable battle…if…
Eric Caine, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry

Epidemiology Student Presentations
March 21, 2024
Ph.D. Student Presentations
Mark Britton, Jackie Pollack, Wenjie Zeng, MD, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

June 6, 2023
Ph.D. Student Presentations
Rebecca Austin-Datta, Rebecca Fisk-Hoffman, and Erta Cenko, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

October 6, 2022
Epidemiology Ph.D. Student Presentations
Alyssa Falise and Ruba Sajdeya, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

JULY 2, 2021
Doctoral Students in Epidemiology
Sara Nutley, Inyoung Jun, and Akemi Wijayabahu, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Impacts of the Innovation Paradox on Minority Populations in Academia
Alyssa Falise and Upuli Dissanayake, Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

MAY 23, 2018
PhD in Epidemiology Student Presentations
Denny Fe Garcia Agana, Verlin Joseph, Michael Swain, and Ayodeji Otufowora Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida

FEBRUAEY 2, 2017
PhD in Epidemiology Student Presentations
Vicki Osborne, Sadaf Milani, Jacob Ball, and Bin Yu Ph.D. Students, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida
