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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Coordinator II (Senior Program Coordinator)

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...

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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

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Members of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

Members of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Comparing Strategies to Introduce Two New Antibiotics for Gonorrhea: A Modeling Study Immediately introducing 2 new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea alongside 1 currently used therapy is more effective at minimizing drug resistance than holdin

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

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Individual and population-level risk factors for new HIV infections among adults in Eastern and Southern Africa - Nature Communications The majority of incident HIV infections in Eastern and Southern Africa occur in the general population. Here, the authors harmonise data from eight open population-based cohort studies from six countr...

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

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Leveraging Limited Testing Data for Early Detection of Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks Early during emerging infectious disease outbreaks, case-based surveillance is constrained by limited test availability, diagnostic delays, and low clinical suspicion. Novel pathogens that mimic sympt...

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

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Learning how infectious diseases spread—and how to stop them
Learning how infectious diseases spread—and how to stop them YouTube video by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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.

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Taking injectable PrEP to scale: Optimising the value of lenacapavir for South Africa’s HIV response Background Six-monthly injectable lenacapavir (LEN) for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has superior efficacy to oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC), and similar efficacy to...

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

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The Paradox of Neglecting Changes in Behavior: How Standard Epidemic Models Misestimate Both Transmissibility and Final Epidemic Size During epidemic outbreaks, populations adapt their behavior in response to disease burden, fundamentally altering transmission dynamics. Despite this, most compartmental models assume constant contact...

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

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SARS-CoV-2 Intra-host Variation Shows Evidence of Transmission and Convergent Evolution in a University Surveillance Cohort Monitoring and understanding the transmission and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 remains a significant pub-lic health priority. Within-host genetic variation provides insight into viral evolution during infe...

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

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Why are gonorrhea case rates declining in the US? A research agenda - PubMed After nearly a decade of rising gonorrhea rates, the United States CDC reported a decline in infection rates for two years in a row in 2022 and 2023, especially among young adults. While this warrants cautious optimism that control measures have been successful, the reasons for the decline are unkno …

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

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