Epidemiology Grand Rounds and Special Seminars

The Columbia University Epidemiology Grand Rounds (CUEGR) and Special Seminar series hosts global leaders in epidemiology who share their ground-breaking work with the Department’s faculty, students, and the Columbia community at-large. These lectures present a broad range of topics, fostering academic exchange around key issues in epidemiology. The series has forged important links between the Department and leading figures and programs in public health and epidemiology throughout the world. Lectures are followed by discussion and interaction between speakers and audience in order to forge new dialogue and ideas for science and policy. Speakers are invited to spend the day at Columbia with ample time to engage faculty and students prior to the lecture.

2024

Dec 2: Silvia Martins (Columbia Mailman) – Moderator; Charles Branas (Columbia Mailman); Theoklis Zaoutis (Columbia Global Center in Athens); Elena Deligianni (Columbia Global Center in Athens); and Daniel Freedberg (Columbia, Medicine): Evaluation of Novel Psychoactive Substances’ Patterns of Use, Trends & Risks: A Growing Challenge for Public Health Experts & Policy
Nov 20: Pietro Ferrari, PhD: CUEGR: Geoffrey Howe Lecture: Talk Title TBD
Nov 18: Hooman Azad (Columbia OB GYN), Dana Goin (Columbia Mailman); Danielle Laraque-Arena (Columbia Mailman): Setting a Course Forward for the Reduction of Firearms as a leading cause of death for pregnant people in the United States: 2017- 2022
Oct 30: Jonathan Epstein, PhD: Talk Title TBD
Oct 22: Patrick S. Sullivan, DVM, PhD: Challenges and Opportunities and Oral PrEP in the US
Oct 18: Lan Ðoàn, PhD, MPH: Asian American Health: Racialized Stereotypes and Data Quality
Oct 9: Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH FIDSA: CUEGR: Advancing Health Equity: From Data to Collective Action
Oct 7: Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH: Characteristics Associated with Support for Political Violence in the USA
Sept 25: Linda Hill, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor: Perspectives on Cannabis Use and Driving across 9 States of Varying Legal Status
Sept 23: Nandi L. Taylor, MPH: Applying an Equity Lens to Road Safety Research: Exploring the Link Between Historical and Contemporary Indicators of Structural Racism and Pedestrian Safety
June 12: Jialin Mao, MD, PhD: Segregated and Differential Treatment – Structural Inequity in Interventional Cancer Care
May 29: Sarah McKetta, ScM, MD, PhD; When Life Gives You Lemons, Quantify Their Impact: Revealing Health Disparities to Inform Policy and Intervention
May 10: Yuequin Huang, MD, MPH, PhD; Disability of Dementia in Chinese Older Adults: Findings from China Mental Health Survey
April 29: Dara Blachman-Demner, PhD; NIH Research Initiatives to Reduce Health Disparities, Morbidity and Mortality: Firearm Injury and Maternal Health
April 26: Peter Kanetsky, PhD, MPH; Improving Skin Cancer Prevention through Precision Prevention
April 16: Poornima Prabhakran; Environmental Health Issues in India - An Overview of Evidence Generation to Policy-Making
April 10: Ruth Ottman, PhD; Psychosocial Impacts of Genetic Research and Practice in Neurologic Disorders
April 9: Dr. Nil Gavish; Revisiting the Exclusion Principle in Epidemiology at its Ultimate Limit
April 2: Magdalena Cerdá, DrPh, MPH; Building the Bridge to Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Inform an Effective Response to Overdose and Gun Violence
March 26: Paul Reeping, PhD; Pioneering Preventive Solutions in Gun Violence Epidemiology
March 26: Dr. Neil Johnson; Winning a Losing Battle against Infectious Disease Mis/Disinformation
March 25: Victor Puac-Polanco, MD, DrPH, MSCE; Effects of Drink Special Laws to Address Disparities in Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Traffic Outcomes Among Systemically Marginalized Groups
March 20-21: Epidemiology TB Symposium: Emerging Resistance to Novel TB Drugs
March 15: Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH; Climate Change’s Impact on Chronic Disease Outcomes and Drug-Environment Interactions
March 12: Celia Quinn, MD, MPH; Perspective of a Local Public Health Leader: The Use of Infectious Disease Modeling to Support Evidence-Informed Responses to Public Health Emergencies
February 28: Meghan Azad, PhD; CUEGR: The Invisible Extinction
February 28: James M. Noble, MD, MS, CPH, FAAN; Poor Oral Health as a Chronic, Potentially Modifiable Dementia Risk Factor
February 6: Dr. Eili Klein; From the Bedside to the Home: How Modeling Can Aid in Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance and Improving Patient Outcomes
February 5: New York City's Strategies for Stopping Gun Violence: Leaders and Experts Weigh In
January 25, Katrina Kezios, PhD; Understanding Life Course Determinants of Health and Aging: A Methodologic and Pedagogic Perspective
January 22, Catherine Stayton; Examining the Contributions of Injuries to Mortality During COVID-19 year 2020: Data into Action in New York City
January 16, Kayoko Shioda; Advanced Epidemiological Methods to Inform Infectious Disease Policies

2023

Dec 19 ; Gordon Watt, PhD; Identifying Cancer Survivors at Risk of Late Effects Using Imaging and Genetics
Dec 4: Jeffrey A. Fagan; Adolescents' Decisions on Guns Across Three Homicide Epidemics: Getting Them, Carrying Them, Using Them (or Not)
Dec 1: Tian Gu, PhD; Targeting Underrepresented Populations in Precision Medicine: Multi-Source Data Integration via Transfer Learning
Nov 29: Julie Herbstman, MSc, PhD and Sarah Tom, PhD; Opportunities for Understanding the Roles of the Physical, Chemical, and Social Environments in Child Health & Development: The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Nov 20: Christopher Morrison; PhD; Sobriety Checkpoints and Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Nov 8: Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr.; CUEGR: Racism, Not Race: Frequently Asked Questions in Biomedical Research
Oct 25: Helena Jernström, PhD; Interplay between Genes and Lifestyle in Breast Cancer
Oct 16: Mackenzie J (Kushner) Oliver, PhD; Rethinking the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Scale: A Development Approach to a Wider Array of Advertises and their Consequences during Childhood and Adolescence
Oct 11: Allison Aiello, PhD and Jennifer Manly, PhD; Integrating Molecular Data into the Social Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Progress and Challenges
Oct 3: Rebecca Kehn, PhD, MPH, Elucidating the Role of Physical Activity in Breast Cancer Using a Lifecourse Approach
Sept 18: Kathleen F. Carlson, MS, PhD; Validating National Violent Death Reporting System Variables through Data Linkage: A Case Study among Oregon Veterans
July 18: Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH, Childhood Adversity and Mental Health: Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Risk and Promote Resilience Across the Life Course
May 15: Rubeshan Perumal, PhD, The Long Walk to TB Control in Sub-Saharan Africa
May 4: CUEGR: Trish Starks, PhD, Cigarettes and Soviets: Communism, Capitalism, and the Tobacco Uptake
May 2: Justin Knox, PhD, Understanding and Addressing HIV and Substance Use
April 28: Kim Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH, Health Equity Requires Action
April 24: Michael J. Bauer, MS, Law Enforcement-Involved Injuries and Fatal Encounters (LEIFE)
April 21: Salvatore Vacarella, PhD, Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer Between and Within Countries
April 19: Hari Sagiraju, MD, MPH, PhD, Two-Way Translational Cancer Research to Combat Cancer
April 18: Sarah Cobey, PhD, Effective Vaccination Against Influenza
April 12: Nicole Schupf, PhD, Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome: A Model High Risk Population
April 3: Dr. Lilith Whittles, Real Time Modeling of COVID-19 in the UK: Insights from a Pandemic at the Interface of Science and Policy
March 31: Michael Goran, PhD, Effects of Dietary Sugars on Metabolic, Gut and Brain Developmental Outcomes: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
March 28: Teresa Janevic, PhD, MPH, Social and Structural Determinants of Postpartum Cardiometabolic Health
March 27: Fabienne Laraque, MD, MPH, Public Health Approaches in Homeless Services: A Case Study in Overdose Prevention
March 7: Tongtan (Bert) Chantarat, PhD, MPH, Measuring Structural Racism to Advance Research and Policies
March 3: Henry Greenberg, MD, Global Clinical Disease, An Economic Threat
February 27: David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Health Data for New York City, A Potential Model for Injury Science and Prevention in NYC
February 16: Magdalena Janecka, PhD, Investigating the Environmental Etiology of ASD
February 8: Elaine Wirrell, MD; Nathalie Jette, MSc, MD, FRCPC, Neuroepidemiology in Action - How our Epidemiological Findings Change Clinical Practice
February 1: Asa E. Radix, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP, Transgender Health in the 21st Century: Epidemiologic Theory and Methods
January 27, Lisa Hark, PhD, MBA: Manhattan Vision Screening and Follow-up Study (NYC-SIGHT)
January 23, Ahmed Shelbaya, MD, MSc, MPH: Unintentional Injuries, Confronting the Burden (The Care of Road Traffic Injuries)
Jan 19, Suzue Saito, PhD: HIV Recent Infection Surveillance and Role in Epidemic Control

2022

Dec 14, Vivian Santiago, PhD, MPH, Ouch! Towards Understanding Mechanisms of Chronic Pain
Dec 5, Catherine Stayton, DrPH, MPH: Public Health Perspectives on Firearm-Related Injury Surveillance: Examples from New York City
Nov 14, Jeff Duncan-Andrade, PhD: Equity or Equality: Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education
Oct 27, CUEGR: Steven Thrasher, PhD: The Role of a Viral Underclass in Public Health: A Case Study
Oct 19, CUEGR: Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD: Building Public Health Equity
Oct 17, Becky Naumann, PhD, MSPH: Integrating Systems Thinking Tools into Road Safety Research and Practice
Oct 11, David Rasmussen, PhD: Learning What Shapes Pathogen Fitness from Phylogenies
Sept 27, Forrest Crawford, PhD: COVID-19 Transmission Models in the Real World: Models, Data, and Policy
Sept 23, Mary Beth Terry, PhD: COMMUNITY Center: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Addressing Health Disparities in Chronic Diseases
Sept 19, Lisa Geller, MPH: The Role of Domestic Violence in Fatal Mass Shootings
Sept 9, Liat Lerner-Geva: Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Epidemiological and Public Health Issues
May 26, Sara Mostafavi, PhD: Machine Learning for Understanding Gene Expression Basis of Alzhimer's Disease
May 20, Biana Roykh, DDS, MPH: Mobile Health Center Units: Integrated Approaches to Community Care
May 13, Dan Belsky, PhD: Quantification of Biological Aging: Opportunities in Neuroepidemiology
April 29, Monik Jimenez, SM, ScD: Using Data to Dismantle Injustice: Bridging the Gap between Epidemiology and Advocacy
April 25, Madelyn S. Gould, PhD, MPH: Building 988: An Opportunity to Build Inclusive Crisis Care Structures – Effectiveness of the Lifeline
April 22, CUEGR: Visionary Woman in Science: Remembering and Celebrating the Life of Zena A. Stein
April 8, Aline Thomas, PhD: Nutrition, Brain Health, and Structure with Aging
March 24, Alexis Elbaz, MD, PhD: Strengthening Causal Inference in Parkinson's Disease Research: Triangulation of Evidence
March 21, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD: The Contribution of Structural Violence to Injuries Among People Who Inject Drugs
March 18, Wan Yang, PhD: Modeling the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
March 11, Laura Xicota: Down Symdrome: A Key to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease Risk Variation
February 14, Dionne D. Williams, MPS: Introduction to WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
January 24, Megan S. Ryerson, PhD: Safe by Design: Estimating Proactive Urban Transportation Safety Methods based on Traveler Biometrics
January 11, Hoda S. Abdel Magid, MHS, PhD: Leveraging Spatial Data and Epidemiology to Reduce Health Disparities

2021

December 9, Kate Duchowny, PhD, MPH: Uncovering the Intersection between Social Determinants and Musculoskeletal Health to Promote Health Equity
December 8, Mitch Elkind, MD, MS: 25 Years of the Northern Manhattan Study: From Community to Clinic
December 8, Yian Gu, MD, MS, PhD: The Role of Diet in the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease
December 6, Jhumka Gupta, ScD, MPH: Intimate Partner Violence and Forcibly Displaced Populations: Drivers and Intervention Strategies
November 22, Cassandra Crifasi, PhD, MPH: The Impacts of Deregulating Civilian Gun Carrying on Violent Crime
November 15, Jacqueline Torres, PhD: The Spillover Effects of Adult-Socio-Economic Status on Older Parents' Cognitive Performance and Other Dementia Risk Factors: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
October 29, Lynn Petukhova: Implementing Precision Medicine to Improve the Clinical Management of Skin Disease
October 28, James E. Galvin, MD, MPH: Assessing Multicultural Communities for Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment
October 27, Dustin Duncan, ScD: Applications of Geospatial Methods to Study Neighborhoods and Health Disparities
October 25, Gonzalo Martinez-Ales, MD, MSc, PhD: Country-Level Social Environmental Determinants of U.S. Suicide Incidence
October 13, CUEGR: Gregg Gonsalves, PhD: CUEGR: A New Politics of Care
October 5, Jaime Slaughter-Acey, PhD, MPH: Racial Segregation, Colorism, and Discrimination among Expecting Black Mothers
September 27, Jermaine Jones, PhD: The Abuse Potential of Oxymorphone: Lessons Learned from Two Clinical Laboratory Studies
August 3, Paris "AJ" Adkins-Jackson, PhD, MPH: An Intersectional Approach to Examining Parkinson's Disease Disparities in Cognitive Functioning
June 25, Jonine Figueroa: Cancer Data Science Studies for Population Health and Precision Medicine: An International Perspective
June 23, Melissa DuPont-Reyes, PhD, MPH: Leveraging Intersectionality Towards Achieving Mental Health Equity: A Research Agenda
June 16, John R. Pamplin II, PhD, MPH: Exploring the Effects of Structural Racism on Health: A Tale of Paradoxical Findings and Ubiquitous Exposures
May 27, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, PhD: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in the Epidemiology of Cognitive Aging and Dementia
April 19, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD: Injury Risk and Prevention Among People Who Inject Drugs
March 25, Alexis Elbaz, MD, PhD: Strengthening Causal Inference in Parkinson's Disease Research: Triangulation of Evidence
March 15, Sandhya Kajeepeta, MS: The Police-Centric Response to Intimate Partner Violence: An Epidemiologic Critique of Carceral Feminism
March 10, Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD: CUEGR: Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
March 5, Simona Kwon, DrPh, MPH: Applying a Participatory Implementation Research Approach to Hypertension Prevention for Asian American Communities in Faith-based Settings
February 22, Edouard Coupet Jr, MD, MS: Substance Use Among Victims of Violence
February 19, Krithiga Shridhar MDS, MSc: Environmental, Host & Lifestyle Factors for Cancer Risk in India: An Overview of Epidemiological Studies at the Public Health Foundation of India
January 28, Jennifer Albrecht, PhD: Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of TBI: Incidence, Treatment, and Outcomes
January 26, Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, PhD: Elucidating the Mechanisms Underlaying Marijuana Use Patterns, Transitions and Trajectories
January 25, Mike Dolan Fliss, PhD, MPS, MSW: Critically Examining Three Intersections of Public Health Injury & Policing: Traffic Stops, Death by Law Enforcement, and Opioid Overdose Indicators
January 15, Colin Begg, PhD: In Defense of P-Values

2020

December 11, Sarah E. Tom, PhD, MPH: Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Cardiovascular Disease, Air Pollution and COVID-19 Burden Among Black and Hispanic Mothers
December 7, Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH: The Role of Structural Violence in a Public Health Approach to Violence and Injury Prevention
December 4, Adana Llanos, PhD, MPH: Adipokine and Adipokine Receptor Expression in the Breast Tumor Microenvironment: Associations with More Aggressive Clinicopathology
November 16, Shani Buggs, PhD, MPH: Understanding and Preventing Community Violence
November 11, Prabhat Jha, MD OC: CUEGR: Science (not only love) in a time of cholera: Reliable quantification of causes of death worldwide
October 29, Walter A. Rocca, MD, MPH: Sex, Gender, and the Brain
October 22, CUEGR: Susan Reverby, PhD; Donna Murch, PhD: CUEGR: Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture The Legacy of Columbia Epidemiologist Alan Berkman (1945-2009): from Political Revolutionary to Global Health Hero
October 19, Justin Michael Feldman, ScD: Public Health Monitoring and Accountability for Police Violence
September 21, Trina K. Kumodzi, PhD, RN, CCRN: Direct Violence in St. Kitts and Nevis as a Case Study of Structural Violence
May 28, Olajide Williams, MD, MS: Randomized Behavioral Interventions Across the Continuum of Stroke Disparities
May 6, Silvia Martins, PhD: Recreational Marijuana Legalization in the USA: Association with Marijuana Use, Frequent Marijuana Use and Cannabis Use Disorder by Age , Gender and Race/Ethnicity
May 4, Jonathan H. Epstein, DVM, MPH, PhD: Understanding the Ecology of Emerging Zoonoses
May 4, David Humphreys: Evaluating the Impact of "Stand Your Ground" Self Defense Laws
April 27, Christopher Morrison, PhD: Ridesharing and Motor Vehicle Crashes
March 26, Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH: Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease: Challenges, Controversies, and Opportunities
March 23, Dustin Duncan, ScD: Black, Gay and Bisexual Men and HIV Disparities: The N2 Cohort Study
March 6, Joanne Dorgan, PhD, MPH: Early Life Exposures and Breast Cancer Risk: Findings from the Dietary Intervention Study in Children
February 27, Nur Zeinomar, PhD, MPH: Integrating Absolute Risk Prediction into Studies of Modifiable Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Risk
February 26, Peter Daszak, PhD: Using Disease Ecology to Predict and Prevent Pandemics Like the New Wuhan Coronavirus
February 24, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, PD, PhD: Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria and the Gut Microbiome
February 24, Noa Krawczyk, PhD: Linking Criminal Justice and Healthcare Data to Address the Opioid Crisis
January 30, Jan Claasen, MD: Impairment and Recovery of Consciousness
January 27, Ashley Brooks-Russell, PhD, MPH: Cannabis Impaired Driving: The Importance of Tolerance and Challenges of Roadside Testing

2019

December 11, Dana Goin, PhD: Epidemiological throughline: Addressing methodological challenges in studying firearm violence, pregnancy complications, and birth outcomes
December 4, Josef Coresh MD, PHD: CUEGR: Optimal Health and Vascular Disease Prevention: Beware of "Normal" Aging
November 20, Andrew Rundle, DrPh: Searching for the Causes of Obesity: A Journey to DOHaD
November 6, Stephen J. Chanock, MD: CUEGR: Geoffrey Howe Memorial Lecture Radiogenomic Studies in follow-up of the Chernobyl Accident
October 30, Caroline A. Thompson, PhD, MPH: Disentangling Cancer Healthcare Disparities: Real World Data and Casual Inference Methodology
October 23, Pam Factor-Litvak, PhD: One Health and the Brain: Preliminary Work in the Slum Areas of Jaipur and Jakarta
October 7, Yueqin Huang, MD, PhD: Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders in China: Findings from the National Mental Health Survey
October 2, Nour Makarem, PhD, MS: The Role of Sleep and Meal Timing in Cardiovascular Risk: Is Body Clock Medicine the New Prevention Approach?
September 18, Jessica Justman, MD: Department Seminar: HIV Population Surveys: Bringing Precision to the Global Response
April 17, George Davey Smith: CUEGR: Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture: Post- "Modern Epidemiology": when methods meet matter
April 16, James Noble, MD, MS, CPH, FAAN: Sports-related concussions
April 15, Samuel Jenness, PhD: Network-Based Transmission Models to Identify Novel Strategies for HIV and STI Prevention
April 15, Surinder Jaswal, PhD: Climate Change and Migrant Workers in India: From Vulnerability to Adaptation
April 11, Jeremy Kane, PhD, MPH: Applications of psychiatric epidemiology for measuring and treating substance use problems in low- and middle-income countries
April 11, Michael B. Cook, PhD: Answering critical questions of esophageal adenocarcinoma and prostate cancer
March 28, Sander Markx, MD: CNTNAP2-Associated Autism: From Animal Model to hiPSC-Derived Neuronal Model to Clinical Trial
March 28, Jaime Slaughter-Acey, PhD, MPH: Beyond race: The salience of skin tone and black women's birth outcomes
March 26, Melissa Tracy, PhD, MPH: Application of complex systems approaches to injury
March 15, Shehnaz K. Hussain, PhD, ScM: Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Mechanisms of pathogenesis & opportunities for prevention
March 11, Lisa Saiman, MD, MPH: Impact and Control of Heathcare-associated Infections caused by Multidrug-resistant Organisms
March 4, Jessica Petrick, PHD, MPH: Obesity and cancer: Etiology, mechanisms, and future directions
February 28, T. Peter Kingham, MD, FACS; Improving outcomes for cancer patients in Nigeria: A global oncology program
February 27, Michael Harhay, PhD: Measuring and modeling treatment effects in trials for critically ill patients
February 25, Simon Anthony, D.Phil: Viral Discovery as a Tool in Pandemic Preparedness
February 20, Megan Murray, MD, MPH, DPH: CUEGR: Who gets TB infection and disease in Lima, Peru
February 19, Stanley Lemeshow, PhD, MSPH: Assessing the calibration of the logistic regression model with a binary outcome variable: Problems and potential solutions with big data
January 31, Martin Picard, PhD: Mitochondrial mechanisms for the biological embedding of psychosocial experiences
January 30, James Kirkbride, PhD: On being out of place: Towards an integrated understanding of the social epidemiology of psychotic disorders
January 29, Kathleen Bachynski, PhD, MPH: Time Out: NFL conflicts of interest with public health efforts to prevent traumatic brain injury
January 24, Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH: Toward a Biology of Resilience and Health, A Public Health Paradigm

2018

December 10, Denise Paone, PhD: Measuring the Opioid Epidemic: Surveillance to Inform and Evaluate a Public Health Approach
November 28, Miguel Hernán, MD, MPH, ScM, DrPH: CUEGR: Estimating per-protocol effects: Randomized trials analyzed like observational studies
November 19, Kitty H. Gelberg, PhD, MPH: Applied Public Health - Tackling Diseases of Despair
November 15, Heather Ochs-Balcom, PhD: Familial breast cancer studies in the post-GWAS era
November 7, Mark Schiffman, MD, MPH: CUEGR: Geoffrey Howe Memorial Lecture: Beyond the Pap test: Precise and simple cervical cancer screening and management guidelines
October 25, Cathryn Bock, PhD: Prostate Cancer Disparities: What we know and where to go
October 25, Edward Huey, MD: Neoropsychiatric symptoms in Frontotemporal dementia and related disorders
October 15, Catherine Stayton, DrPH, MPH, Deena Patel, PhD: NYC Traffic Crashes: Classifying Crash Severity using Crash Reports and Hospital Data
September 20, Kara Rudolph, PhD: Improving prediction of intervention effects across populations
September 17, Xuguang (Grant) Tao, MD, PhD: Opioid Utilization and its Association with Workers Compensation Cost and Return to Work
June 22, Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD: Social Determinants of Minority Health and Health Disparities from a Translational Perspective
May 31, Matthew Lebowitz, PhD: (Unintended) Consequences of Biomedical Explanations for Mental Disorders
April 27, Sharon Manne, PhD: Psychological Interventions for Cancer Patients
April 26, Lawrence Amsel, MD, MPH: Towards a Mathematical Psychiatry: Using Decision Theory and Game Theory to Model Complicated Grief
April 26, Justin Brown, PhD: The Role of Energy Balance Related Lifestyle Factors in Colorectal Cancer Prognosis
April 24, Tara Kelley-Baker, PhD: The Four Pillars of Traffic Safety
April 20, Hazel Nichols, PhD: Reproductive Health after Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer
April 19, Martha Hickey, MSc, MSChB, FRCOG, FRANZCOG, MD: WHAM: What happens after menopause? Preliminary findings from a prospective, multicentre, age-matched trial of RRBSO in premenopausal high-risk women
April 13, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, PhD: Cancer Genetic studies in Latino popluations
April 12, Andreas Neophytou, ScD: Counterfactuals in epidemiology: Using observational data to answer causal questions
April 11, Elizabeth Yeampierre: CUEGR: Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture: Climate Justice: From Brooklyn to Puerto Rico
April 10, Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, MPH: Improving Population Health Through Novel Epidemiologic Approaches
March 29, Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS: Twenty Years of the Northern Manhattan Study: What Have We Learned about Brain Health?
March 28, Jeanette Stingone, PhD, MPH: Unlocking the potential of big public health data: Incorporating data science into the epidemiologist's toolbox
March 27, Monica Wendel, DrPH, MA: Changing the Narrative on Youth Violence Prevention
March 15, Johnathon Ehsani, PhD, MPH: Practice driving and crash risk among newly licesensed teen drivers. Is there a link?
March 9, Diana Buist, PhD, Shine Chang, PhD, Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD: On the Moonshot and Beyond: Perspectives from 20 years in Cancer Prevention
March 6, Sandra Albrecht, PhD, MPH: Socioecological influences of obesity and diabetes risk among Hispanic/Latino populations
March 2, Lisa Bodnar, PhD, MPH: Challenges in defining optimal weight gain ranges for pregnant women
February 27, Joel Caplan, PhD: Risk terrain modeling: Geospatial risk assessment for public health and safety
February 27, Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH: Drug policis and opioid overdose in the United States: A spatio-temporal approach to policy evaluation
February 22, Nathalie Jette, MD, MSc, FRCPC: Depression in epilepsy - epidemiological lessons that can be applied to other chronic conditions
February 21, Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD: CUEGR: The role of precision nutrition in obesity and diabetes prevention and management
February 20, Rupak Shivakoti, PhD, MSPH: Nutrition, inflammation and gut microbiome in HIV
February 16, Julia Brody, PhD: Moving beyond 'don't ask, don't tell': Environmental research into endocrine disruptors in engaged communities
February 12, Matthew Mimiaga, ScD: From the ground up: Applying a syndemics model to enhance HIV prevention science among marginalized groups globally
February 7, Seth Prins, PhD, MPH: The criminalization of mental illness and the medicalization of crime as social determinants of health
January 29, Katherine Ornstein, PhD, MPH: Reframing healthcare beyond the individual: A focus on serious illness and end-of-life care
January 26, Roshni Rao, MD, FACS: Exercise during neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
January 25, Mark Olfson, MD, MPH: Using epidemiological research to inform suicide prevention
January 23, James Noble, MD, MS, CPH: Epidemiological challenges in concussion and CTE
January 17, Fred Tabung, PhD, MSPH: The inflammatory and insulinemic potential of diet and risk of cancer

2017

December 19, Vincent Duron, MD: Trauma survelliance in global health
December 15, Anita Koushik, PhD: The role of lifestyle factors on ovarian cancer risk
December 6, Mona Hanna-Atisha, MD, MPH, FAAP: CUEGR: The Flint water crisis: A journey for justice
December 1, Deborah Donnell, PhD: Implementation science and clinical trial design: Current perspectives from HIV prevention
November 30, Adam Brickman, PhD: Reconsidering harbingers of Alzheimer's disease: Risk factors, biomarkers, and white matter hyperintensities
November 17, Max O'Donnell, MD, MPH: A precision public health approach to epidemic viral respiratory infection in Uganda
November 14, Andrew Willis: Preventing adverse childhood experiences
October 27, Ted Cohen, MD, MPH, DPH: Using geographic and pathogen genetic data to understand tuberculosis transmission
October 27, Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH: Cancer health disparities in the African diaspora: Investigating contributions of biology and the environment
October 26, Murray Stein, MD, MPH: Military mental health epidemiology
October 24, Shankar Viswanathan, DrPH, MSc: Inflicted traumatic brain injury (iTBI) study: An examination of a hidden epidemic
September 29, Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD: Arsenic genetics, epigenetics, and health effects: Evidence from US populations
September 26, Hasanat Alamgir, PhD: Epidemiology and economic burden of occupational falls in health care
September 22, Celia Byrne, PhD: Is mammographic breast density an intermediate biomarker for breast cancer?
August 1, Suzanne Leal, PhD, MS: Methods to identify the genetic etiology of complex traits through the analysis of massively parallel sequence data
July 17, Lauren Houghton, PhD, MSc: An epidemiologic time warp: Study designs for diseases of long latency
July 10, Yuequin Huang, MD, PhD: Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in China: Findings from the national mental health survey
June 23, Daniel Freedberg, MD, MS: How the hospital environment shapes risk for Clostridium difficile infection
June 6, Haidong Wang, PhD: Estimating burden of disease due to HIV/AIDS: Current challenges and an integrated approach
May 25, Jay Gingrich, MD, PhD: Serotonin modulation of brain development: New implications for the use of antidepressants in pregnancy
May 18, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, PhD, MPH: Disparities in brain aging: Measurement challenges, selection bias, and lifecourse inequities
May 11, Wan Yang, PhD: Inference and forecast of infectious disease transmission dynamics
May 1, Christopher Morrison, PhD, MPH: Where do bike lanes work best? Using spatial epidemiologic methods to improve road safety in our cities
April 28, John Brooks, MD: The evolving epidemiology of HIV infection in persons who inject drugs: Lessons learned from Indiana 2015
April 27, Jonas Hagen: Environmental justice, traffic safety, and street design: Preliminary results from New York City's Neighborhood Slow Zones
April 27, George Bonanno, PhD: Loss, trauma, and resilience: From heterogeneity to flexibility
April 21, Michele Cote, PhD, MPH: Benign breast cancer disease and breast cancer risk: The Detroit cohort
April 19, Dean Alondra Nelson, MPhil, PhD: CUEGR: Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture: Not just fun and games: The sociopolitical and medical import of "recreational" genetics
March 30, Cruz María Nazario, PhD: Epidemiological transitions: From infectious to chronic diseases in Puerto Rico
March 30, Amelia Boehme, PhD: The relationship between infections and stroke
March 24, Neil Schluger, MD: Thinking about tuberculosis elimination at home and abroad
March 23, Melissa Tracy, PhD, MPH: The transmission of violence within social networks
March 22, Pia Mauro, PhD: Substance use disorder and treatment access across the life course
March 8, David Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN: Nursing home policies force unnecessary surgical feeding tubes: A multidisciplinary collaboration
February 24, Daniel Westreich, PhD: From patients to policies in HIV: Toward epidemiologic methods for implementation science
February 23, Madelyn Gould, PhD, MPH: Suicide contagion: Evidence and implications for postvention
February 21, Sara Fredericka Jacoby, PhD, MSN, MPH: Optimizing Injury Recovery in Underserved Urban Populations
February 8, Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD: CUEGR: Behavioral economics and health
February 2, Silvia Martins, MD, PhD Child maltreatment and consequential future outcomes
February 1, Esteban Calvo, PhD, MsPH, Ignacio Madero-Cabib, PhD: From snapshots to movies: Labor-force sequences and health trajectories in old age
January 27, Christine Kreuder Johnson, VMD, MPVM, PhD: Quest for the secrets of pandemics: Understanding viral spillover and spread
January 26, Yian Gu, PhD: Dietary factors and Alzheimer's disease
January 19, Julian Santaella-Tenorio, DVM, MSc: The influence of firearm legislation on violence: Evidence from US and international studies
January 12, Xuesong Wang, PhD: Traffic safety improvement activities in Shanghai

2013

December 4, Brian Schwartz, MD, MS: CUEGR: Navigating a career in environmental epidemiology: Has complexification been informative?
November 20, Malcolm Pike, PhD: CUEGR: Preventing breast cancer: Lessons from the prevention of ovarian cancer
October 23, Jan P Vandenbroucke, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPE: CUEGR: Can counterfactual theory provide a complete theory of causal inference as we practice it in epidemiology?
September 11, David Savitz, PhD: CUEGR: From power lines to cell phones: 25 years of research on nonionizing radiation and cancer
April 24, Susan Reverby, PhD: CUEGR: The medical/political/revolutionary life of Dr. Alan Berkman
March 27, Michelle Williams, ScD: CUEGR: Diet, physical activity, and sleep: The three pillars of perinatal health
February 27, Sander Greenland, DrPH: CUEGR: Is epidemiology too difficult for statisticians?
January 23, Steven Cole, PhD: CUEGR: Social regulation of gene expression

2012

December 5, Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH: CUEGR: "Dead science" in the era of molecular biology? The NIH attack on epidemiology
November 14, Nubia Muñoz, MD, MPH: CUEGR: From etiology to prevention: The case of cervical cancer (Geoffrey Howe Memorial Lecture)
October 24, Ronald Gray, MD: CUEGR: Male circumcision for HIV/STI prevention: Trials and tribulations of implementation
April 25, Salim Abdool Karim, MD, PhD: CUEGR: Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture: New hope for HIV prevention (Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture)
March 21, David Hemenway, PhD: CUEGR: Guns and public health
February 28, Lawrence Altman, MD: CUEGR: Who goes first? The story of self-experimentation in medicine
January 25, Deborah Winn, PhD: CUEGR: Cancer epidemiology cohorts: Trends, value, and future directions

2011

December 7, Paolo Vineis, MD, MPH, FFPH: Integrating -omics into epidemiological longitudinal studies
November 30, Leslie Bernstein, PhD: Tackling breast cancer risk and prognosis: Can we improve our game? (Geoffrey Howe Memorial Lecture)
October 26, Gary Giovino, PhD: Tobacco in the 21st Century: National and international challenges and opportunities
September 28, Tyler J. VanderWeele, PhD: Mediation analysis and applications to perinatal epidemiology
May 25, Graham Thornicroft, PhD: Lessons learned in developing community mental health care worldwide
April 27, Albert Hofman, MD, PhD: Epidemiology beyond genomics
March 2, George Davey-Smith, MD, DsC: Can we edge closer to causal understanding using observational data?
February 23, Daniel M. Fox, PhD: Where the money is: Sutton’s Law and comparative effectiveness research

2010

December 15, Jonathan Samet, MD, MS: Translating epidemiological evidence Into Policy: How epidemiological research helped to clear the air
November 17, Anthony Miller, MD, FRCP, FRCP (C), FFPH, FACE: Should we stop screening for invasive cancers? (Geoffrey Howe Memorial Lecture)
October 13, Conrad Keating, MSc, PGCE: Smoking and lung cancer: The anatomy of a scientific dispute between R. A. Fisher and Richard Doll
September 29, Daniel Fitzgerald, MD: Conducting HIV research in Haiti: The GHESKIO program
June 16, Karestan Koenen, PhD: A lifecourse perspective on gene-environment interplay in the production of mental disorders
May 19, Jay Kaufman, PhD: Heteroeroticism: Your subgroups or mine
April 14, Alain-Jacques Valleron, DSc: What can the 1889 Russian flu teach us about the surveillance of modern pandemics?
March 10, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, MD, DrPH: Birth weight and infant mortality: Cause, bias, or paradox?
February 10, Sally Blower, PhD: Evolution, complex networks, and drug resistance to HIV