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Join us TOMORROW, July 2, from 1–2 PM ET in Kresge 502 for a seminar by Dr. Joseph Wu, Sir Robert Kotewall Professor in Public Health at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). We encourage all to attend in person. If you would like to attend remotely via Zoom, please register here: hsph.me/CCDD-JoeWu

Join us on July 2, from 1:00–2:00 PM ET in Kresge 502 for a seminar by Dr. Joseph Wu, Sir Robert Kotewall Professor in Public Health at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). We encourage all to attend in person. If you would like to attend remotely via Zoom, please register here: hsph.me/CCDD-JoeWu

Join us Thursday, June 18, from 1:00 PM ET in FXB G11, with Ruth McCabe, Infectious disease epidemiologist and WHO Liaison Fellow at Imperial College London. We encourage all to attend in person. However, if you would like to participate remotely via Zoom, please register here: hsph.me/CCDD-McCabe

Join us on TODAY 5/7 at 1PM ET with Nick Reich, Professor of Biostatistics, Director, COVID-19 Forecast Hub Director, Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health & Health Sciences. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on THURS 5/7 at 1PM ET with Nick Reich, Professor of Biostatistics, Director, COVID-19 Forecast Hub Director, Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health & Health Sciences. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on TODAY 4/30 at 1PM ET with Dan Neafsey, Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Director of the Broad Institute's Genomic Center for Infectious Disease. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on THURS 4/30 at 1PM ET with Dan Neafsey, Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Director of the Broad Institute's Genomic Center for Infectious Disease. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on TODAY 4/23 at 1PM ET with Gregg Gonsalves, Associate Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Disease and the Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health; Yale Law School. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26. * *Note that we have shifted this seminar to be held via Zoom only*

Join us on THURS 4/23 at 1PM ET with Gregg Gonsalves, Associate Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Disease and the Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health; Yale Law School. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on THURS 4/16 at 1PM ET with Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Today! ID Epi Seminar Series at 1PM ET with Virginia Pitzer, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Save the Date for the ID Epi Seminar Series on THURS 4/9 at 1PM ET with Virginia Pitzer, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on Tues, May 5 for the 21st Freeman-Seage Symposium featuring presentations highlighting #IDEpi topics. This event honors two renowned faculty members, Drs. Freeman (left) and Seage (right) for their leadership and contributions to the field.

Join us on THURS 4/2 at 1PM ET with Katherine Siddle, Donna McGraw Weiss and Jason Weiss Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Dr. Nicolas Menzies! Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us on Tues, May 5 for the 21st Freeman-Seage Symposium featuring presentations highlighting #IDEpi topics. This event honors two renowned faculty members, Drs. Freeman (left) and Seage (right) for their leadership and contributions to the field.

Join us THURS 3/26 at 1PM ET with Nicolas Menzies, Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Center for Health Decision Science and the Harvard CCDD for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Dr. Mauricio Santillana! Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Please join us on Tues, May 5 for our 21st Freeman-Seage Symposium featuring presentations highlighting #IDEpi topics. This event honors two renowned faculty members, Drs. Freeman (left) and Seage (right) for their leadership and contributions to the field.

Join us THURS 3/12 at 1PM ET with Mauricio Santillana, Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Dr. Kenneth Mayer. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26

Join us March 5 at 1PM ET for our #IDEPI Seminar presented by Kenneth Mayer, Professor of Medicine, HMS; Professor of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Co-Director, The Fenway Institute and Medical Research Director, Fenway Health; Attending Physicians, BIDMC. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us TODAY! 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us THURS 2/26 at 1PM ET with Molly Franke, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join our team! We are #hiring for a #hybrid Senior Program Coordinator role! This position blends high-level operational management with research program coordination. Click on the link below to learn more and apply today! 👉 careers.harvard.edu/job/coordina...

Join us TODAY at 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Rachel Baker, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Environment and Society at Brown University. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26

We are #hiring! Are you a doctoral graduate passionate about using data and models to drive global health impact? Join us and @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in HIV Epidemiology and Modeling! 👉 Learn more and apply today below! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15825

Join us THURS 2/12 at 1PM ET with Rachel Baker, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Environment and Society at Brown University for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

Join us TODAY at 1PM ET for our #IDEpi Seminar presented by Robbie Goldstein, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health . Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26

Join us THURS 2/5 at 1PM ET with Robbie Goldstein, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for our #IDEpi Seminar Series. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI26.

New publication! Comparing Strategies to Introduce Two New Antibiotics for Gonorrhea: A Modeling Study featuring authors: @mckline98.bsky.social, @kroster.bsky.social, @dhelekal.bsky.social, @rumpl-er.bsky.social, and @yhgrad.bsky.social. Read it here at bit.ly/3Z1Zplh

New publication: Individual and population-level risk factors for new HIV infections among adults in Eastern and Southern Africa. Read from authors including @jeff-imai-eaton.bsky.social at bit.ly/3Ngxzz6

New preprint by PhD student Alex Zapf and @mlipsitch.bsky.social: Leveraging Limited Testing Data for Early Detection of Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Read it at bit.ly/3LmM83F

The mission of Harvard Chan School’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (@ccdd-hsph.bsky.social) is to understand how infectious diseases emerge and spread, to train the next generation of scientists and public health officials, and to guide policy with rigorous science.

New preprint: Taking injectable PrEP to scale: Optimising the value of lenacapavir for South Africa’s HIV response. Read more from authors including CCDD's @jeff-imai-eaton.bsky.social at bit.ly/4s6byD1

New preprint by @pantbinod.bsky.social and Mauricio Santillana: The Paradox of Neglecting Changes in Behavior: How Standard Epidemic Models Misestimate Both Transmissibility and Final Epidemic Size. Read more at bit.ly/48NuLlq

New preprint featuring CCDD authors Léa Cavalli, @bradfordptaylor.bsky.social, Beau Schaeffer, and @billhanage.bsky.social: SARS-CoV-2 Intra-host Variation Shows Evidence of Transmission and Convergent Evolution in a University Surveillance Cohort. Read it at bit.ly/4pLO4BO

U.S. gonorrhea rates fell in 2022 and 2023 after nearly a decade of increases—new paper by @kroster.bsky.social and @yhgrad.bsky.social maps out possible drivers, current evidence, and the data needed to understand what is causing the decline. Read more at bit.ly/4aWmc9i

🧪 #gonorrhoea #mustread today's news about 2 new drugs to treat #gonorrhoea Thanks @kakape.bsky.social for opportunity to say, "The availability of two new drugs will lead to an important and likely controversial debate about how best to use them" And to @yhgrad.bsky.social @gardp.bsky.social

New article by Natalie Baker and colleagues: "Evaluating the impact of a longitudinal, integrated climate change, health, and environment curriculum in undergraduate medical training at Harvard Medical School" journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @gaurabbasu.bsky.social @mckline98.bsky.social

New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com Kudos to @tylim.bsky.social and @jameshay.bsky.social for a huge effort and thanks to all the collaborators for their hard work. See the final version here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experimental mRNA flu vaccine is more effective than conventional flu shot, but causes more side effects. @billhanage.bsky.social weighs in at @cidrap.bsky.social. Read it here at bit.ly/4o8qIo0

New study shows that shifts in SARS‑CoV‑2 Ct value distributions can help nowcast epidemic trends, revealing both strong potential and key real‑world limitations for Ct‑based surveillance. From CCDD alumni TY Lim & @jameshay.bsky.social and faculty @yhgrad.bsky.social at bit.ly/4o37EaN

A modeling study led by @pantbinod.bsky.social, a CCDD-affiliated postdoc in MIGHTE LAB, Northeastern University, shows fungal biocontrol could reduce malaria-carrying mosquitoes by up to 90%—full story at Northeastern Global News bit.ly/3LDJma1

New method for approximate Bayesian inference in extended latent Gaussian models uses adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature—improves accuracy & speed, demonstrated on small-area model for district-level epidemic estimates in Malawi. From authors incl CCDD’s @jeff-imai-eaton.bsky.social @ bit.ly/4oLH7QA