Speakers and seminars

Population Health Seminar

August 13, 2015

Gwendolyn P. Quinn, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research
Livia Wan MD Endowed Chair
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor, Dept. of Public Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Presentation: Adolescent and Young Adult Health: Insights Gained and Gaps Remaining in Cancer and Beyond  

Population Health Grand Rounds

September 22, 2025

Elena N. Naumova, PhD
Professor, Nutritional Epidemiology and Data Science Division
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University

Presentation: AI in Public Health: Taxonomy, Competencies, and Applications

August 25, 2025

Rebekah J. Walker, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Division Chief
Division of Population Health
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
University of Buffalo

Presentation:Structural Determinants of Food Insecurity: Mechanisms, Pathways, and Policy Interventions

July 28, 2025

Yongkang Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Health Policy and EconomicsWeill Medical College
Cornell University

Presentation:What do we know about long COVID? Evidence from NIH RECOVER Initiative

June 23, 2025

Suzanne McDermott, PhD
Professor
City University of New York
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Presentation:Metals in Meconium in Butte, Montana Compared to New York City: Which Place has Higher Values

Biostatistics and Data Science Seminar Series

September 18, 2025

Sandeep Rustagi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Science
Data Analytics Officer
University of Mississippi Medical Center

Presentation: The Future is Here: Artificial Intelligence Roadmap at UMMC

September 4, 2025

Tanya P. Garcia, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Presentation: SPARCC: Semi-Parametric Robust Estimation in a Right-Censored Covariate Model

July 24, 2025

Debolina Chatterjee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science
Indiana University School of Medicine

Presentation: Data-Driven Insights into Disease Prognosis Through Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics

June 23, 2025

Sandipan Praminik, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Presentation: Bayesian Modeling of Misclassification Matrices for Improved Verbal Autopsy Algorithm-Based Mortality Estimates in LMIC