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 Minji Jung, PhD |
“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”
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2/11 | Thomas Leitman, MD |
“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"
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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 |