Epidemiology Grand Rounds

The Department of Epidemiology hosts Grand Rounds once a month during the academic year in Room 1000 of the Claudia Nance Rollins Building.

 Exterior of the Rollins School of Public Health

2019-2020 Lectures

September 13, 2019 - CNR 1000 
Jennifer Peel, MPH, PhD - Colorado State University School of Public Health

October 11, 2019 - Harland Austin Memorial Lecture in CNR Auditorium
John Jackson, ScD - John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

November 8, 2019 - CNR 1000
Donna Arnett, MSPH, PhD - University of Kentucky College of Public Health

January 10, 2020 - CNR 1000
James Pirkle, MD, PhD, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC

March 13, 2020 - CNR 1000
Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

April 10, 2020 - CNR 1000
Jennifer Hutcheon, PhD, University of British Columbia 

May 8, 2020 - CNR 1000
Sarah Cobey, PhD, University of Chicago

1/11/2019
Véronique Roger, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Heart Failure in the Community

3/8/2019
Justin Lessler, Johns Hopkins University
Enemy or Friend: Does spatial clustering of disease incidence and risk help us or hurt us when combatting infectious disease?

4/12/2019
Sandro Galea, Boston University

5/10/2019 
Robert Platt, McGill University

1/26/2018
Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Health Equity Certificate Program, Departments of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health
Neighborhood Revitalization and Cardiometabolic Health in Disadvantaged Communities

2/23/2018
George Howard, DrPH, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UAB School of Public Health
Adventures in trying to understand the contributors to the black-white disparity in stroke … including an excursion upstream

3/9/2018
Chima Ohuabunwo,  MD, MPH, FWACP, MACE, Adjunct Associate Professor and Medical Epidemiologist, Morehouse School of Medicine and HDGH Emory University
Building Field Epidemiology Capacity and Enhancing Response to Disease Outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa through AFENET

4/13/2018
Shakira Suglia ScD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Sex Differences in the Association between Childhood Adversity and Cardiometabolic Health

4/27/2018
Alka Kanaya, MD, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Cardiometabolic Disease in South Asians: What have we learned in the U.S.?

5/11/2018
Ben Lopman, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Norovirus: controlling a leading global cause of gastroenteritis with vaccination?

10/26/2018
Maria Glymour, University of California, San Francisco
Lifecourse perspectives on dementia epidemiology: Have we been studying Alzheimer's disease or child development?

11/9/2018
Abdul El-Sayed, Former Detroit Health Commisioner and Michigan gubernatorial candidate

1/13/2017
Scott McNabb, MS, PhD, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Transforming Public Health Surveillance to Achieve the Global Health Security Agenda

1/27/2017
Timothy Lash, DSc, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Significance Testing is the Reason that Scientific Results have Poor Reproducibility

2/24/2017
Kyle Steenland, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Bayesian Analysis of Silica Exposure and Lung Cancer Using Human and Animal Studies

3/24/2017
K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA, Ruth and O.C. Hubert Chair of Global Health, Director, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Mysteries of Type 2 Diabetes in Developing Countries

4/14/2017
Eli Rosenberg, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Establishing the Epidemiology of Zika Infection in Puerto Rico

4/28/2017
Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director, Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Recent trends in Prescription Opioid, Heroin Use, and Opioid Use Disorders

5/12/2017
Michael Goodman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
A cohort study of transgender people: lessons learned and early findings

5/26/2017
Cecile Janssens, PhD, MSc, MA, Research Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
A Novel Citation-Based Search Method for Scientific Literature and the validity of NIH's new performance metric, the Relative Citation Ratio

 

8/11/2017
 Martica Hall, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Sleep and Chronobiology Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
 Mechanisms and Moderators of Sleep Health: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease

9/8/2017
Michele Marcus, MPH, PhD, Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Pediatrics, Emory University Schools of Public Health and Medicine
Trans-generational Health Effects: A Personal Journey

10/13/2017
Carlos del Rio, MD, Hubert Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Emory University School of Medicine 
The Opioid Epidemic

10/27/2017 - Harland Austin Memorial Lecture
Tyler VanderWeele, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Adding the E-Value to the P-Value

2/26/2016
Karen Matthews, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Epidemiology, Psychology & Clinical and Translational Science; Director, Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Research Training Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Psychological And Cardiovascular Risk Factor Changes During The Menopause Transition: Do They Matter For Coronary Heart Disease?

4/8/2016
William McClellan, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health and Vicki Hertzberg, PhD, FASA, P.Stat., Associate Professor of Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Physician social networks and Healthy People 2020 Goals: It's (not) a small world after all…

5/13/2016
Patrick Sullivan, PhD, DVM, Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
How Can Mobile Technologies Bring HIV Prevention to Scale?

5/27/2016
Anne Spaulding, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Exploring the Enhancement of Ethical HIV Research Involving Persons under the Supervision of the Criminal Justice System

9/9/2016
Roberd (Robin) M. Bostick, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Colon Cancer as an Evolutionary Discordance Disease:  Should I Go Paleo?

9/23/2016
Jay S. Kaufman, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Meaningful Counterfactuals for Studies of Racial Disparities

10/14/2016
Herman Taylor, MD, MPH, Director and Endowed Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), Morehouse School of Medicine
Race, Risk, Resilience: the 3 Rs of Health Disparities

10/28/2016 - Harland Austin Memorial Lecture
Stanley Lemeshow, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Assessing the Calibration of the Logistic Regression Models: Beyond the Hosmer-Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit Test

11/11/2016
Alvaro Alonso,MD,PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Atrial Fibrillation and Dementia: Two Intersecting Epidemics

12/9/2016
Gene Brody, PhD, Research Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Resilience to Adversity and the Early Origins of Disease

1/23/2015
Kyle Steenland, Conny Karnes, Lyndsey Darrow, Vaughn Barry
Attenuation of exposure-response rate ratios at higher exposures: a simulation study focusing on frailty and measurement error

2/27/2015
Yan Sun, PhD Department of Epidemiology Emory University
Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities in Epigenetic Epidemiologic Research

3/27/2015
Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Patzer PhD, MPH Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation
Disparities In Access To Kidney Transplantation: Moving Beyond Documentation To Pragmatic Intervention

4/24/2015
Dr. Carolyn Drews-Botsch MPH, PhD Professor, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
"Patient Centered Outcomes In The Infant Aphakia Treatment Study"

5/22/2015
Dr.Amit Shah MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Emory University, Staff Physician, Division of Cardiology, Atlanta VA Medical Center
"Investigations On The Emotional Underpinnings Of Sudden Cardiac Death"

9/25/2015
Yuling Hong, MD, MSc, PhD, FAHA, Associate Director for Science, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Cardiovascular disease surveillance in the US: current status and future directions?”

10/9/2015
Paula E. Stephan
Professor of Economics and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economics; Former Associate Dean, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
“How Economics Shapes Science”

10/23/2015
Harland Austin Memorial Lecture
Kenneth J. Rothman, DrPH, Distinguished Fellow, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC
"Sparse Data Bias from Stratification"

11/13/2015
Dr. Jennita Reefhuis, PhD, Epidemiologist, ;National Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Specific SSRIs and birth defects: Bayesian analysis to interpret new data in the context of previous reports"

12/11/2015
William R. Sexson, MD, MAB (Bioethics), Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Grady Hospital
The Urban Heal