Events – Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Applied Studies (IDEAS) Initiative

2025

Flyer for 2025 January seminar — Reaching People Who Inject Drugs to Prevent HIV
David Goodman, MD, PhD

Flyer of February 2025 seminar — Vaccine Development and Global Health
Keith Chirgwin, MD

Flyer for March 2025 seminar — Emerging Priorities in Minority Health and Health Equity Research
Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD

2024

Flyer of 2024 January seminar — SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Excess Mortality in Canada, China, India and Sierra Leone 2020-2023
Prabhat Jha, MD, DPhil

Flyer of 2024 February seminar — Highly Effective Infectious Disease Prevention Strategy: Changing the Community Narrative
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH
Shiela Teresa Murphy, PhD

Flyer of March 2024 seminar — Urban Arboviral Emergence: Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue and Yellow Fever
Scott Weaver, PhD

Flyer of April 2024 seminar — What to Know About Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) Viruses (H5N1)
Noah Kojima, MD

Flyer of May 2024 seminar — Syphilis in Babies: Highest Rates in 50 Years. What Can be Done?
Irene Stafford, MD, MS

Flyer of September 2024 seminar — Infectious Insights: Navigating the World of Communicable Disease Surveillance
Phoebe Danza, MPH

Flyer of October 2024 seminar — From Bog to Bedside: A Personal Perspective on Phage Therapy for Treating Superbug Infections
Steffanie Strathdee, PhD

Flyer of November 2024 seminar — Did We Learn Anything from COVID-19? The Role of Public Health in the Media
Ilan Shapiro, MD

Flyer of November 2024 seminar — Viral Evolution: Lessons from SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Alex Zelikovsky, PhD

Flyer of November 2024 seminar — Ending the HIV Epidemic in India: Barriers and Facilitators for PrEP Implementation for HIV Prevention in India
Anne Fehrenbacher, PhD, MPH

2023

Flyer of January 2023 seminar — A Pill to Prevent HIV Around the World
Kelika Konda, PhD, MHS

Flyer of February 2023 seminar — The End of Antibiotics
Paul Adamson, MD, MPH

Flyer of March 2023 seminar — Malaria: Old and New Approaches Toward Control and Elimination
Philip Rosenthal, MD

Flyer of April 2023 seminar — Public Health Approach to Elimination of Hepatitis C
Prabhu Gounder, MD
Rachael L. Fleurence, PhD, MSc

Flyer of May 2023 seminar — Groundbreaking Findings from STIs and HPV Cancer Screening During Pregnancy in Bangladesh
Roksana Karim, PhD, MBBS
AKM Fazlur Rahman, PhD, MBBS, MPhil

Flyer of September 2023 seminar — Cervical Cancer Control and Prevention
Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD

Flyer of October 2023 seminar — What can Public Health Learn from Games and TV Shows like “The Last of Us”?
Tom Chiller, MD, MPH
Marientina Gotsis, MFA

Flyer of November 2023 seminar — Pediatric Vaccine Hesitancy in the US and Around the World
James Conway, MD, FAAP
Andrea Kim, PhD, MPH

Flyer of December 2023 seminar — Refugee Health and Infectious Disease
Ghina Mumtaz, PhD
Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH

2022

Flyer of November 2022 seminar — Improving Access to HIV Prevention and TB Treatment Services in South Africa
Andrew Medina-Marino, PhD

These programs are open to all eligible individuals. The Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Applied Studies (IDEAS) Initiative operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.