Seminar Series
Current Issues in Epidemiologic Research
June 9 - June 26, 2025
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Bloomberg School of Public Health
All presentations will be held via Zoom
2025 SEMINAR SERIES
Monday, June 9
Biomarkers for Environmental Epidemiologic Studies
Aisha DIckerson, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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Aisha S. Dickerson is an environmental neuroepidemiologist with primary research interests in environmental risk factors for neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
Tuesday, June 10
Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep: Insights and Validation from Accelerometer-Based Assessment
Pablo Martinez Amezcua, MD, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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Dr. Martinez's research focuses on understanding the association between hearing loss and physical function and activity. Broadly, he is interested in how mid-life cardiovascular risk factors contribute to health at older ages, including, physical function, cognitive health, and sensory loss.
Wednesday, June 11
Black Men’s Health: The Building of a Research Program
Roland Thorpe, PhD, MS
Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society
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Dr. Thorpe is a gerontologist and social epidemiologist with nationally-recognized expertise in minority aging, men’s health, and place-based disparities.
Thursday, June 12
Contagium animatum:
A series of vignettes on the history of infectious diseases, and thus the history of epidemiology, pausing to consider why it took nearly 300 years for widespread acceptance of germ theory
William Moss, MD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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The specific focus of Dr. Moss's current research is in understanding the impact of the HIV epidemic on measles control and eradication, the epidemiology and control of malaria in southern Africa, the use of serosurveillance to guide immunization programs, and the care and treatment of HIV-infected children in rural Zambia.
Friday, June 13
From Eco-Anxiety to Housing Insecurity: How Extreme Weather Events Impact Sleep, the Third Pillar of Health
Chandra Jackson, PhD, MS
Earl Stadtman Senior Investigator
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH
Dr. Jackson investigates physical and social environmental factors that impact disparities in sleep health and subsequent risk of cardiometabolic dysfunction.
Monday, June 16
Is Good Sleep the Key to Healthy Aging?
Adam Spira, PhD, MA
Professor, Department of Mental Health
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Dr. Spira studies how healthy sleep can protect against poor outcomes in later life, including cognitive and functional decline, and Alzheimer's disease pathology.
Tuesday, June 17
Epidemiology at a Crossroads: History, State-Fostered Misinformation,
and the Defense of Public Health
Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH
Editor in Chief, American Journal of Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Queens College, City University of New York
Dr. Morabia's expertise as a historian ranges from the history of scientific methods and concepts utilized to study population to urban health. He is the principal investigator of the World Trade Center-Heart cohort study, which delves into the long-term heart health of first responders from the 9/11, 2001 attack.
Wednesday, June 18
At an inflection point for population health:
learning lessons, identifying opportunities
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health,
Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health,
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Dr. Galea has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature about the social causes of health, mental health, and trauma. He has documented the consequences of mass trauma and conflict worldwide, including as a result of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, and the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friday, June 20
A β&²Ô²ú²õ±è;C D E get an F for CVD
Edgar Miller, PhD, MD
Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
An authority on nutrition, hypertension and kidney disease, Dr. Miller's research interests include clinical trials on the effects of dietary interventions on blood pressure and kidney disease and the effects of dietary interventions on hyperuricemia and gout
Monday, June 23
Epidemiology of Hearing and Aging: Implications for Policy and Future Research
Nicholas Reed, PHD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
and Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dr. Reed's research focuses on direct-to-consumer hearing care, understanding hearing aid use in the United States, the relationship between hearing loss and health care outcomes/interactions (e.g., satisfaction with care, inpatient safety, quality of care, delirium, etc.), and whether interventions targeting hearing loss can mitigate these associations.
Tuesday, June 24
Combating Hepatitis C virus among People Who Inject Drugs in India:
The Essential Role of Global Partnership
Shruti Mehta, PhD, MPH
Dr. Charles Armstrong Chair in Epidemiology
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
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Dr. Mehta's work as an infectious disease epidemiologist focuses on ensuring equitable access to prevention and treatment services for vulnerable and disenfranchised populations, particularly people who inject drugs who are at risk for, or living with, HIV or hepatitis C.
Wednesday, June 25
Augmented synthetic control and related methods for policy evaluation: Applications to opioid and abortion policy
Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, AM
Chair in the Department of Biostatistics
Professor
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Dr. Stuart uses statistical methods to help learn about the effects of public health programs and policies, often with a focus on mental health and substance use. Trained as a statistician, her primary research interests are in the development and use of methodology to better design and analyze the causal effects of public health and educational interventions.
THURSDAY, JUNE 26
Architectural Epidemiology: Architecture as a Mechanism for Designing a Healthier, More Sustainable, and Resilient World
Carlos Castillo-Salgado, MD, DrPH, MPH, JD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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Dr. Castillo-Salgado is the Director of the Global Public Health Observatory of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Certificate Training Program in Epidemiology for Public Health Managers