Epidemiology Research Seminar (EPI 236)

Winter Quarter 2025
Course Directors: Drs. Andres Cardenas and Marvin Langston
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 2:50 PM

Alway M114

Contact for additional info: Graduate Programs Manager, Rachel Pham,
rcpham@stanford.edu, 650-723-5456

Date

Speaker

Topic

1/7

Dennis Khodasevich, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology
Stanford

Minji Jung, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
Stanford

“Recent Findings in Environmental Epigenetics from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey”

 

“Cardio-Oncology in Kidney Cancer: Risk Factors and Survival Outcomes”

1/14

Rebecca Graff, ScD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
UCSF

"Approaches for Evaluating Pan Cancer Pleiotropy"

1/21

Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics
Stanford
“Understanding and preventing adolescent and young adult drug usage”

1/28

Roland Thorpe, PhD 
Professor, Health Behavior and Society
Johns Hopkins

"Black Men's Health: The Buiding of Research Career"

2/4

Jacqueline Torres, PhD, MA, MPH 
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
UCSF

“Increasing the Representation of those Historically Excluded from Research Expands the Universe of Questions We Can Ask and Answer: Examples from the CHAMACOS Maternal Cognition Study”

 

2/11

Thomas Leitman, MD 
Professor, Opthamology
UCSF

“Mass azithromycin distributions and childhood mortality: the AVENIR trial”

2/18

Mandy Fretts, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
University of Washington
“Better Understanding Diet, Physical Activity, & Cardio-Metabolic Health in American Indians”

2/25

Laura Balzer, PhD, MPhil 
Associate Professor in Residence, Biostatistics
University of California, Berkeley

 

'Improving community health in East Africa with cluster randomized trials, causal inference,  and machine learning"

 

3/4

Erin Van Blarigan, ScD 
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Urology
UCSF

“Optimization of nutrition and physical activity interventions for cancer survivors” 

3/11

Catharine Bowman

Nick Panyanouvong

TBD

“The Association of the Steatosis-Associated Fibrosis Estimator (SAFE) Score with Severe Liver Outcomes: Findings from the All of Us Research Program”

Contact for additional info: Graduate Programs Manager, Rachel Pham, rcpham@stanford.edu, 650-723-5456