EPI Seminar Series
2020-2021 Seminar Series: The Latest Advances and Future Challenges in Cancer Prevention and Control
Carlo La Vecchia, M.D.
"Epidemiology of Gastric Cancer: The Global Gastric Cancer Consortium:
“StoP” if this is of interest to you"
Friday, October 9, 2020 · 1:00-2:00 pm
Via Zoom:
https://brown.zoom.us/j/97121235289
Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
“Obesity, Diabetes, Diet, and Cancer Risk”
Friday, November 13, 2020 · 1:00 –2:00 PM EST
Via Zoom:
https://brown.zoom.us/j/91024720370
2019-2020 Epidemiology Seminar Series Sponsored by: The C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureships Fund
Kara Rudolph, PhD.
University of California, Davis.
November 12, 2019
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Cosponsored by the Center of Biomedical Research and Excellence (COBRE) On Opioids and Overdose
Marc Weisskopf, PhD., ScD.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
December 5, 2019
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Cosponsored by the Center for Environmental Health and Technology
Laura Balzer, PhD.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
February 4, 2020
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Deshayne Fell, PhD.
University of Ottawa
February 25, 2020
4:00 – 5:00 pm Room 375
Peter James, ScD.
Harvard Medical School
March 3, 2020
12:00 – 1:00 pm Room 245
Cosponsored by the Center for Environmental Health and Technology
Department of Epidemiology Special Seminars:
Linda G. Kahn, MPH, PhD
NYU School of Medicine
Thursday, March 12, 2020
12:00 to 1:00 pm
121 S. Main St., Room 375
Jessie P. Buckley, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
1:00 to 2:00 pm
121 S. Main St., Room 375
Tun (Max) Aung, PhD
University of Michigan
Monday, March 30, 2020
12:00 to 1:00 pm
121 S. Main St., Room 375
Steven M. Goodreau, PhD.
University of Washington
May 13, 2019
Claude Mellins, PhD
Columbia University
April 16, 2019
Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
March 18, 2019
Nina R. Joyce, PhD
Brown University
March 14, 2019
Brenda Eskenazi, MA, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
March 12, 2019
Grace A. Noppert, PhD, MPH, MAT
University of North Carolina
March 7, 2019
David Pelletier, PhD
Cornell University
March 5, 2019
Xiaojuan Li, PhD
Harvard Medical School and
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
February 26, 2019
Tiara Willie, PhD
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
February 12, 2019
Kate Weinberger, PhD
Brown University
December 13, 2018
Joan A. Casey, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
December 3, 2018
Matthew Gribble, PhD
Emory University
November 12, 2018
Dr. Randall M. Packard
John Hopkins University
October 16, 2018
10/24/2017 12:00-1:00 room 375
Dr. Darryl B. Hood, Associate Professor
Ohio State University
"Molecular Neurotoxicology Studies Inform Application of the Public Health Exposome Framework in Vulnerable Populations"
https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0d702e32-9...
11/14/2017 4:00-5:00 room 245
Dr. Emily Oken
"Recent Developments in Early Life Derterminants of Obesity"
https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2544b3e5-a...
MMI Fall Series, December 1st Iuliana Ene, Ph. D as the guest speaker.
12/5/2017 4:00-5:00 room 245
Dr. Jia Chen
"Placental Epi/Genomics as Sensors of the In Utero Environment and Predictors of Fetal Development"
2/13/2018 4:00-5:00 room 245
Dr. Joseph Braun
"Early Life Environmental Chemical Exposures and Children's Health"
https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7fcefa66-3...
4/2/2018 12:00-1:00 room 247
Marcia Pescador Jimenez
"Longitudinal Associations of Life-course Neighborhood Deprivation with Blood Presssure and Obsesity"
4/10/2018 4:00-5:00 room 245
Dr. Carmen Marsit
"Molecular Mechanisms Linking the Environment to Children's Health"
4/18/2018 4:00-5:00 room 375
Carl G. Streed, Jr., MD
"The Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities: Acceptance/Rejection as Exposure"
5-2-2017
Olivia Okereke, MD Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“Depression and Cognitive Decline Among the Elderly”
3-21-2017
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH Dean, Boston University School of Public Health Professor, Family Medicine Boston University School of Medicine
“New Directions in Population Health: From Risks to Consequences”
3-7-2017
Edmond Shenassa, ScD Associate Professor, Family Science University of Maryland
“In- utero Exposure to Nicotine and Lifetime Risk of Depression: Methodologic Challenges and Solutions”
11-15-2016
Laura Stroud, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Science (Research) Brown University
“Smoking During Pregnancy: Biological Pathways and Transmission of Risk to the Next Generation”
11-8-2016
Julia Simard, ScD Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research & Policy, Division of Epidemiology, and (by courtesy), Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Affiliate, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Stanford School of Medicine
“Perinatal Outcomes in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases: from Population-Based Registers to Clinical Studies”
10-11-2016
Christopher Wildeman, PhD Associate Professor, Policy Analysis and Management Cornel University
Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations
of Students
9-27-2016
Laura Kubzansky, PhD, MPH Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Distress-Proneness and the Habit of Discontent: Childhood Origins of Cardiovascular Disease