Brown Bag Seminar
We invite you to visit the Slone Epidemiology Center and listen to one of our upcoming Brown Bag Seminars. All seminars are held from 12:00 to 1:00 PM at 72 East Concord Street, L-7, in Conference Room L-735.
Note: All Brown Bag Seminars will be held hybrid or on Zoom following a case-by-case basis. Visitors are welcome to attend in-person at the above location or via Zoom; please email slone@bu.edu for info.
Leveraging national cancer surveillance data to study racial disparities in cancer mortality
Fatema Shafie Khorassani, PhD, MS, MPH
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, April 25, 2024
12:00 – 1:00PM
Event will be hybrid
Past Seminars (2024)
What’s the Point of a Safety Net if it Doesn’t Catch Anyone? How Black Pregnant Women are Slipping Through the Cracks
Kathryn Thompson, PhD
Assistant Professor
BU SPH, Health Law, Policy & Management
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Past Seminars (2023)
Evaluating Rural Mortality Disparities in Cancer
Kelly Kenzik, PhD, MS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Chair of Research
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Neonatal Multimorbidity and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children Born Preterm
Jonathan S Litt, MD, MPH, ScD
Neonatologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Director, NICU GraDs Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, May 18, 2023
New England Centenarian Study: Investigating Cognitive Resilience and Race-Related Risk for Longevity
Thomas Perls, MD, MPH, FACP
Professor, Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Stacy Andersen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Investigating the likely effect of reparations policies on Black-White disparities in perinatal outcomes
Collette Ncube, DrPH MPH MS
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Past Seminars (2022)
Geospatial Science Analytics in Environmental Epidemiology
Trang VoPham PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Leonardo Martinez, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Integrated Molecular Epidemiology of Metabolic Liver Cancer
Samuel O. Antwi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mayo Clinic
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Exposure to Greenspace and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Theory and Applications of Health Equity in Epidemiology
Mya Roberson, MSPH, PhD
Assistant Professor | Department of Health Policy
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Human Reproduction
Audrey Gaskins, ScD
Assistant Professor | Department of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health | Emory University
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Advancing Equity in Youth Physical Activity Programming
Rebecca Hasson, PhD, FACSM
Associate Professor
School of Kinesiology
University of Michigan
Friday, February 18, 2022
Past Seminars (2021)
Risky Business: The Politics and Ethics of Autism Epidemiology
Eric Rubenstein, PhD, ScM
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Optimal nutrition for preterm infants: balancing risks and benefits to improve outcomes across the life course
Mandy Brown Belfort, MD, MPH
Neonatologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, November 18, 2021
“Someone Like Me:” The Use of Peer Mentoring to Address Lupus Healthcare Disparities
Edith M. Williams, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Core Investigator, MUSC Center for Health Disparities Research
Medical University of South Carolina
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Structural Racism as a Root Cause of Health Disparities: Methodologies and Systems for Health Equity
Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH
Epidemiologist | Research Assistant Professor
Division of Medical Oncology | Department of Medicine
University of Miami | Miller School of Medicine
Friday, September 24, 2021
The ‘Stress’ of It All: Associations of Allostatic Load with Breast Cancer among Black Women in the Women’s Circle of Health Study (WCHS)
Adana A.M. Llanos, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
Rutgers School of Public Health
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Cardiovascular Disease Events and Mortality After Myocardial Infarction Among Black and White Adults: the REGARDS Study
Emily B. Levitan, ScD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Common Childhood Viruses and Pubertal Timing
Jasmine A. McDonald, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Past Seminars (2020)
BU’s Prison Education Program: A Legacy of Social Justice
Mary Ellen Mastrorilli, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the Practice
Chair, Department of Applied Social Sciences
Faculty Director, Boston University Prison Education Program
Boston University Metropolitan College
Danielle Rousseau, PhD LMHC
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Boston University Metropolitan College
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Intersectionality Matters for Public Health: Sexual Orientation, Race/Ethnicity, and Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among U.S. Women
Gerald R. Gill Assistant Professor of Race, Culture, and Society
Department of Community Health, Tufts University
Adjunct Faculty
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Integrative Omics Study of Atrial Fibrillation: The Framingham Heart Study
Associate Professor
Section of Computational Biomedicine
Department of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology through a Racial Equity Lens: Zooming In, Zooming Out
Clinical Associate Professor
Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Racial and Sex Disparities in Stroke
Assistant Professor
Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Diet and Cancer: Focus on Liver and Colorectal Cancers
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Epidemiologist
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thursday, February 13, 2020
The Changing Anatomy of Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks
Medical Director
Special Pathogens Unit
Boston Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Section of Infectious Diseases
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Past Seminars (2019)
Using Digital Data and Technology to Improve Health
Elaine O. Nsoesie, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Global Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Exposure assessment and epidemiological challenges in assessing how air pollution mixtures affect cardiometabolic outcomes
Laura Corlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Tufts University
Public Health and Community Medicine
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Breast Cancer in African American Women: Genetic and Environmental Factors
Gary Zirpoli, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The Path to Zero in One: Accelerating Innovation and Discovery through the Precision Brain Health Initiative
Professor
Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine
Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Crisis on campus? What we know and don’t know about college student mental health from a population-level perspective
Sarah Ketchen Lipson, PhD, EdM
Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management
Boston University School of Public Health
Associate Director
The Healthy Minds Network
Thursday, June 20, 2019
BMC Serving Up a Culinary Prescription for Health
Culinary Nutrition Manager
Boston Medical Center
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Combating Childhood Obesity with Novel Initiatives, using Music and Technology
Laurent Adamowicz, M.B.A.
Jesie Fu, B.A.
EChO — Eradicate Childhood Obesity Foundation
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Creating and Sustaining Diverse Study Enrollment: Towards a Quantifiable Science of Recruitment
Instructor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Director
Community, Access, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Health Consequences after Exposure to Firearm Violence
Assistant Professor
Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Director
Center for Clinical Translational Epidemiology and Comparative Effectiveness Research
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Project DASH (Divas Against the Spread of HIV/AIDS): Results of a Pilot Study on HIV Risk and Mother-Daughter Communication among African American Daughters with HIV+ Mothers
Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.H.E.S.
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Past Seminars (2018)
How I Treat Breast Cancer at BU/BMC
Naomi Y. Ko, M.D., M.P.H., A.M.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Medicine and Hematology & Medical Oncology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Indoor Environmental Quality: Examining Conditions and Exposures
Sharon Lee, M.P.H.
Environmental Analyst
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Bureau of Environmental Health / Indoor Air Quality Program
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Malleable Beauty: Creating and Transforming Inequalities
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Boston University School of Medicine
Founder and Director, Center for Ethnic Skin
Director, Cosmetic and Laser Center
Thursday, October 18, 2018
25 Years of Infant Care Practice Research: Observation, Intervention & Beyond
Senior Epidemiologist
Slone Epidemiology Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Community-Based Strategies to Reduce Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption among Youth
Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Constructing modifiable drivers of exposure and health disparities in the Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing Across the Life Course (CRESSH) using GIS, remote sensing, and public data
Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping: Public Health Friend or Foe?
Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, April 19, 2018
The Social and Environmental Determinants of Sleep: Implications for Cardiometabolic Health
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist
Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders,
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thursday, March 15, 2018
General anesthesia and the developing brain
Professor
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Obstetrics
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Post-approval drug safety signal detection: where are we in 2018?
Joshua J. Gagne, Pharm.D., Sc.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Past Seminars (2017)
Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH): A case-control study of the etiology of severe and very severe pneumonia among under 5 year old children from 7 low and middle income countries in Africa and Asia
Professor
Department of Global Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Health in the Mississippi Delta: Re-Tracing Robert Kennedy’s Steps
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Law, Policy & Management
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, November 9, 20
Statins and lethal prostate cancer: emerging evidence for precision prevention
Jennifer Renee Rider, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Airbrains: A Journey into an Investigation on Air Pollution and Brain Aging
Jennifer Weuve, M.P.H., Sc.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Public Health Efforts to Translate Genomic Discoveries
Catharine Wang, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Breast Cancer in Young Women
Ann H. Partridge, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Hematologist/Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Founder and Director, Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer
Director, Adult Survivorship Program
Friday, May 19, 2017
The politics of Black women’s health in the UK – intersections of ‘race’, class and gender in policy, practice and research
Jenny Douglas, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Health Promotion
Faculty of Health & Social Care, Open University
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Global Mindset, Local Relevance: Learning from Liberia, Ethiopia, and Greater Boston
Christina P.C. Borba, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Director of Research
Department of Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Exposures Across Childhood and Their Relationship with Weight and Metabolic Status
Courtney Walls, M.P.H.
Ph.D. Student
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Past Seminars (2016)
Weight History, All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Three Prospective Cohort Studies
Andrew C. Stokes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Global Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Databases available for pediatric post-marketing pharmacoepidemiology: which databases for which questions?
Ann W. McMahon, M.D., M.S.
Supervisory Medical Officer
Deputy Director of Science and Director of KidNet
Office of Pediatric Therapeutics in the Office of the Commissioner
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Monday, October 17, 2016
Air Pollution and the Incidence of Diabetes and Hypertension in the Black Women’s Health Study
Patricia F. Coogan, D.Sc.
Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Research Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Keeping Students Well: Prevention and Outreach at BU
Katharine Mooney, MPH, CHES
Director
Wellness & Prevention Services
Boston University
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Update on Mesoamerican Nephropathy: Progress and Challenges
Daniel R. Brooks, D.Sc.
Associate Professor
Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
David J. Friedman, M.D.
Instructor in Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Demand Treatment: The Way Out of the Current Mess
David L. Rosenbloom, Ph.D.
Professor
Health Law, Policy & Management
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Recent HICRC Research on Firearms
David Hemenway, Ph.D.
Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Professor of Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Longitudinal Sequelae of Stress Disorders: Data from the Danish Population
Jamie L. Gradus, D.Sc., M.P.H.
Epidemiologist
Women’s Health Sciences Division
National Center for PTSD
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Contextual Factors and Health: The Impact of Natural Environments on Health and Future Directions in Mobile Health Technology
Peter James, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Past Seminars (2015)
Legal Drinking Age of 21 Works
William DeJong, Ph.D.
Professor
Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Use of Electronic Health Records for Addressing Overweight and Obesity in Primary Care
Heather J. Baer, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, November 19, 2015
The Future of Health Care in Haiti: The Next Generation
Michelle Morse, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Haiti, Partners in Health
Co-founder, EqualHealth (formerly known as Physicians for Haiti)
Monday, October 26, 2015
Communicating numbers to patients…without confusion!
Karen R. Sepucha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Health Decision Sciences Center, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Boston City Hospital’s Response to the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Joseph Blansfield, M.S., N.P.
Trauma Program Manager
Acute Care & Trauma Surgery/Surgical Critical Care
Boston Medical Center Health
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Interplay of genes and environment in colorectal cancer development
Margaret Du, Sc.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Toward a Healthier Boston Ecosystem
Nathan Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor
Earth & Environment
Boston University
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Patterns of breast cancer screening in women who utilized clinical services at Trinidad & Tobago Cancer Society during 2009-2011
Marlon D. Joseph, M.P.H.
Ph.D. Student
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Past Seminars (2014)
Research, Advocacy, and Policy in Addiction: From Tobacco to Alcohol
Michael B. Siegel, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Extent of off-label use of psychotropic drugs in Danish children and adolescents: a research-year project
Eva Skovslund Nielsen
Research Year Student / Medical Student
Aarhus University, Denmark
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Innovative Techniques to Promote Adherence to Infant Care Practice Recommendations
Jane Sheehan, R.N., M.S.
Nicole Geller, M.P.H.
Project Coordinators
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
American Health Care Paradox
Lauren A. Taylor, M.P.H.
Presidential Scholar
Harvard Divinity School
Friday, September 19, 2014
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sociology, African American Studies
Boston University
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Synthesizing Genetic Knowledge and Translating it to Public Health Practice
Laura Senier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sociology and Anthropology, Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Thursday, May 15, 2014
The Effect of Low Dose Alcohol on Occupational and Neurocognitive Performance
Jonathan Howland, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.P.H.
Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Director, Public Health and Injury Prevention Research
Boston Medical Center
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Gastroschisis
Mahsa M. Yazdy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Public Sectors and Social Justice: Partnerships for Health Systems Strengthening
Dan Schwarz, M.D., M.P.H.
Division of Global Health Equity
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Nyaya Health
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Past Seminars (2013)
Socioeconomic Status and Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Relation to Risk of Head and Neck Cancer
Traci N. Bethea, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, December 19, 2013
The Importance of Biodiversity to Human Health
Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health
Physician in Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Internet-based Studies of Time-to-Pregnancy
Lauren A. Wise, Sc.D.
Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in South Africa: Public Health Challenges
Dr. Leslie London
Professor
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Teen Dating Violence 101: What You Should Know to Support the Teens in Your Life
Nicole Daley, M.P.H.
Director, Start Strong Initiative
Division of Violence Prevention
Boston Public Health Commission
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Do bacteria play a role in pancreatic carcinogenesis?
Dominique S. Michaud, Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Graduate Program Director
Department of Epidemiology
Brown Public Health
Brown University
Thursday, May 16, 2013
A pragmatic clinical trial of viscous xylitol solution to prevent acute otitis media in otitis-prone children
Louis Vernacchio, M.D., M.Sc.
Director of Research and Analysis, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s
Assistant Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The Weight of the Nation: Children in Crisis (Special Film Screening)
HBO Documentary Films
Childhood obesity is much more than a cosmetic concern. The health consequences of childhood obesity include greater risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and other serious illnesses. The combination of these health effects and the dramatic increase in childhood obesity rates over the past three decades causes some experts to fear this may be the first generation of American children who will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Parity in relation to breast cancer incidence: does the association differ by breast cancer subtype?
Julie R. Palmer, Sc.D.
Senior Epidemiologist
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Acetaminophen Behavioral Surveillance Program
David W. Kaufman, Sc.D.
Associate Director
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Past Seminars (2012)
Dietary patterns and colorectal cancer
Teresa T. Fung, Sc.D., R.D.
Professor of Nutrition
Simmons College
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Extending i2b2 to support population health outcome monitoring and evaluation
William Adams, M.D.
Function Leader of Clinical Informatics
Medical Informatics Division
Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The development and implementation of the Massachusetts Outcomes Study of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (MOSART): the technical and political challenges in linking population and clinical databases to examine key questions
Dr. Eugene Declercq
Assistant Dean, Doctoral Education
Professor, Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Costa Rican nonagenarians: a genomic evolutionary approach
Dr. Jorge Azofeifa-Navas
School of Biology
University of Costa Rica
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Examining selection factors that may influence the caregiving-mortality association
Lisa Fredman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Consequences of controlling viral diseases during pregnancy: antiherpetic medication and influenza vaccination
Katherine Ahrens, M.P.H.
Doctoral Student, Boston University Department of Epidemiology
Trainee, Boston University Training Program in Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology (BURPPE)
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Health literacy
Domenic Screnci, Jr., Ed.D.
Executive Director
Educational Media and Technology, Information Services and Technology
Boston University
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sarcoidosis in the Black Women’s Health Study
Yvette Cozier, D.Sc.
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Epidemiologist, Black Women’s Health Study, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, March 22, 2012
A new meningitis vaccine
Christopher J. Gill, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University Center for Global Health
Director, Boston University School of Public Health Pharmaceuticals Program
Member, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Pharmaceutical Policy (WHOCCPP)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
January potpourri
Kathy Kelley
Identification of phthalates in medications and dietary supplement formulations in the US and Canada
Rachel Burns
A personal look at the health issues surrounding sex workers in Bangkok
Meghan O’Connor
Data management in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Past Seminars (2011)
Beyond nutrients — phytochemicals and health: almonds, chocolate, and tea
Jeffrey Blumberg, Ph.D., F.A.C.N., F.A.S.N., C.N.S.
Director, Antioxidants Research Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Beyond their day jobs: getting to know our Slone data analysts and research assistants
Katharine Mooney
Designing a web-based intervention to reduce high-risk drinking at Boston University
Stephen Kerr
Patterns of sugar sweetened beverage and fast food consumption, 2007 Rhode Island Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Samantha Parker
First-year survival of infants with birth defects in Massachusetts
Meredith Black
Mild traumatic brain injuries: taking a closer look at concussions in a pediatric population
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Venous thromboembolism in pregnant and puerperal women in Denmark
Dr. Rie Adser Virkus
OB/GYN, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hillerød Hospital, Denmark
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Scholar, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Qualitative research
Mary K. Malone, M.B.A.
Founder and President
Appleseed Consumer Insight
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Biomarkers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure among asphalt paving workers
Michael D. McClean, Sc.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Doctoral Training
Department of Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Medication exposure in pregnancy risk management program
Sengwee Darren Toh, Sc.D.
Instructor
Department of Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, April 28, 2011
What’s causing the epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Nicaragua?
Daniel Brooks, M.P.H., D.Sc.
Associate Professor
Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Periodontal disease and cardiovascular outcomes
Brenda Heaton, M.P.H.
Clinical Instructor
Health Policy and Health Services Research
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Diet and risk of breast cancer and weight gain in black women
Deborah A. Boggs, Sc.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Past Seminars (2010)
Defining and measuring childhood participation to support population-based research in rehabilitation
Mary A. Khetani, Sc.D., O.T.R.
Postdoctoral Associate
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Epidemiologic investigation of endometriosis: clarity and complexity
Stacey A. Missmer, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Practical issues in international research studies
Rebecca Troisi, Sc.D.
Staff Scientist, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Dartmouth Medical School
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Adverse health outcomes associated with psychotropic medication use in older nursing home patients
Krista F. Huybrechts, M.S., Ph.D.
Instructor in Medicine
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Monitoring the safety of medications in pregnancy: a new approach, starting with flu vaccines, flu antivirals, and asthma medications
Allen A. Mitchell, M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Director, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Could Epstein-Barr virus play a role in the development of gastroschis?
Martha M. Werler, Sc.D.
Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, May 20, 2010
An online case-crossover study of gout
Yuqing Zhang, Sc.D.
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Clinical Epidemiology and Research Training Unit
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, April 22, 2010
In utero antiretroviral exposure and mitochondrial dysfunction in HIV-uninfected children
Susan Brogly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Content, accuracy, and impact of direct-to-consumer advertising in oncology
Gregory A. Abel, M.D., M.P.H.
Instructor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Staff Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Conflicts of interest in epidemiologic research: a stroll through the maelstrom
Walter Straus, M.D., M.P.H.
Global Director for Scientific Affairs/Vaccines
Merck & Co., Inc.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Past Seminars (2009)
Posttraumatic stress disorder and completed suicide in the adult population in Denmark
Jaimie Gradus, M.P.H., D.Sc.
Epidemiologist, Boston VA Healthcare System
Instructor, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Comparative effectiveness research from the perspective of a pharmacoepidemiologist
Sebastian Schneeweiss, M.D., Sc.D
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School
Vice Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers via diet and the home environment
Michael D. McClean, Sc.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The epidemiology of kidney stones: diet, lifestyle, and genetic factors
Gary Curhan, M.D., Sc.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
Thursday, September 17, 2009
New developments in drug safety at the FDA
Gerald J. Dal Pan, M.D., M.H.S.
Director
Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
Friday, June 5, 2009
When public health succeeds, what can epi contribute? The case of folic acid and neural tube defects
Martha M. Werler, Sc.D.
Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Vitamin D for health: a D-lightful story
Michael Holick, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Dermatology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Reproductive effects of phthalates: are boys and men at risk?
Russ Hauser, M.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Genetic and nutritional risk factors for myocardial infarction in Costa Rica
Edward A. Ruiz-Narváez, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Past Seminars (2008)
Academic detailing: all you ever wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask
Frank May, M.App.Sci. (Pharm)
Visiting Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Risk management: you bring a sandwich; we’ll supply the alphabet soup!
Carla van Bennekom, M.P.H.
Epidemiologist
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Explaining the relationship between SES and obesity
Deborah J. Bowen, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Public Health
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Rotating shift work and cancer risk
Eva S. Schernhammer, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The beasts and the children: can we extrapolate from animals to children?
Anthony Scialli, M.D.
Toxicology Center
Sciences International, Inc.
Monday, April 14, 2008