COVID-19 Consortium Colloquium Speaker Series (CCC)
Wednesdays from 9:30 – 10:00 AM (CST)
The UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium is delighted to present a weekly seminar series focusing on current thinking related to the pandemic response. Each Wednesday we host a leading researching in the field to give an informal presentation of their current projects, interests, and questions related to the response. Below are the distinguished presenters the Consortium has hosted thus far. Videos will be posted as they become available, though not all videos are shared because of proprietary information. If you have any questions or would like to be added to the Colloquium mailing list, please contact Becky Kester.
March 2022
Characterizing spatial heterogeneity in drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission across scales
March 9, 2022
Dr. Shweta Bansal
Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor
Georgetown University
Department of Biology
COVID-19 modeling and study design
March 2, 2022
Dr. Rebecca Kahn
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
February 2022
Mainstreaming spillover science and preventing the next pandemic: Lessons learned from COVID-19
February 23, 2022
Dr. Emily Gurley
Professor of the Practice in Epidemiology and International Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
January 2022
Assessing the risk of vaccine-driven virulence evolution in SARS-CoV-2
January 26, 2022
Dr. Jessica Metcalf
Associate Professor
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs
Princeton University
Multiple models for outbreak decision support: Insights from the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling
January 19, 2022
Dr. Katriona Shea
Professor
Department of Biology
Penn State
Chimeric forecasting: combining probabilistic predictions from computational models and human judgment
January 12, 2022
Dr. Thomas McAndrew
Assistant Professor
College of Health
Lehigh University
November 2021
When Models are Wrong and Harmful: Unpacking forecast failures of the COVID-19 pandemic
November 17, 2021
Dr. Alyssa Bilinski
Peterson Family Foundation Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Brown University
September 2021
What's next for COVID? Lessons from 15 years of outbreak response
September 22, 2021
Dr. Matthew Ferrari
Professor, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Health
Department of Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
Quantifying population contact patterns in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic
September 15, 2021
Dr. Ayesha Mahmud
Assistant Professor
Department of Demography
University of California, Berkeley
Skilled Nursing Facilities challenge with COVID-19
September 8, 2021
Dr. Michael Krol
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin
Assessing COVID prevention strategies to permit the safe opening of colleges in fall 2021
September 1, 2021
Dr. David Paltiel
Professor of Public Health, Management, and Social and Policy Studies
Co-Director of Public Health Modeling Concentration
School of Public Health
Yale University
May 2021
Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19
May 26, 2021
Dr. Virginia Pitzer
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health and Institute for Global Health
Yale University
Predicting zoonotic capacity of SARS-CoV-2 in mammals
May 19, 2021
Dr. Barbara Han
Disease Ecologist
Cary Institute
Transmission intervals and coronavirus control
May 12, 2021
Dr. Jonathan Dushoff
Professor
Department of Biology
McMaster University
April 2021
Titrating the relative impacts of spatial spread and local transmission to COVID-19 epidemiology
April 28, 2021
Pejman Rohani, Ph.D.
Regents’ & Georgia Athletics Association Professor
Odum School of Ecology & Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Virginia
Towards a pan-protective corona-virus vaccine: biochemical and structural considerations
April 21, 2021
Jennifer Maynard, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Comparing the direct and indirect impacts of COVID19 in the US and South Africa
April 14, 2021
Cécile Viboud, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies
Fogarty International Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Prioritizing allocation of COVID-19 vaccines based on social contacts
April 7, 2021
Stephen Eubank, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health Sciences
Deputy Director of Network Systems Science & Advanced Computing
School of Medicine
University of Virginia
March 2021
SARS-CoV-2 transmission bottlenecks and their implications
March 31, 2021
Katia Koelle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Emory University
Modeling Vaccine Distribution on COVID-19 Health Outcomes
March 24, 2021
Dr. Sara Del Valle
Deputy Group Leader
Defense Systems and Analysis Division, A-1
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Where Models Meet Morality: How can we meaningfully address COVID-19 disparities using public health data?
March 10, 2021
Dr. Jon Zelner
Assistant Professor in Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Unviersity of Michigan
Serology to monitor COVID-19 and inform the pandemic response
March 3, 2021
Dr. Ben Lopman
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health Emory University
February 2021
Non-specific vaccines for COVID-19 and concerns about the specific vaccines
February 24, 2021
Dr. Bruce Levin
Samuel C. Dobbs Professor
Department of Biology
Emory University
The Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium
February 10, 2021
Dr. Kathryn Gabowski
Assistant Professor
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and the spread of lineage B.1.1.7 in the United Kingdom
February 3, 2021
Dr. Samuel Scarpino
Assistant Professor
College of Science
Northeastern University
January 2021
The evolution of COVID-19 forecasting: What went right, what went wrong, and how do we do better next time
January 27, 2021
Dr. Lauren Castro
Principal Investigator
Department of Mathematics and Data Science Institute
Bar-Ilan University
Alternating quarantine for sustainable epidemic mitigation
January 20, 2021
Dr. Baruch Barzel
Principal Investigator
Department of Mathematics and Data Science Institute
Bar-Ilan University
Understanding Variation in Government Response to COVID-19
January 13, 2021
Dr. Thomas Hale
Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Policy)
Blavatnik School of Government
University of Oxford
COVID-19 in Illinois
January 6, 2021
Dr. Jaline Gerardin
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Feinberg School of Medcine
Northwestern Medicine
December 2020
The usefulness of SARS-CoV-2 test positive proportion as a surveillance tool
December 9, 2020
Dr. Matthew Hitchings
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Biology
University of Florida
November 2020
COVID-19 Forecasts for the US by State
November 18, 2020
Dr. John Drake
Distinguished Research Professor, Director
Odum School of Ecology, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases
University of Georgia
October 2020
Estimating and interpreting the effective reproductive number, R(t)
October 28, 2020
Dr. Katelyn Gostic
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Ecology & Evolution
University of Chicago
Epidemiology of COVID-19 in two Indian states
October 21, 2020
Dr. Joseph Lewnard
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Identifiability and indirect transmission: Positive lessons from a (probably) negative result
October 14, 2020
Dr. Brandon Ogbunu
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
Modeling intersectionality to achieve equity and fairness in COVID-19 vaccine allocation
October 7, 2020
Dr. Jewel Mullen
Associate Dean for Health Equity and Associate Professor
Department of Population Health
Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin
September 2020
How do we know what and how it is safe/unsafe to reopen?
September 30, 2020
Dr. Marc Lipsitch
Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University
Modeling the impacts of test sensitivity, frequency, and turnaround time for COVID-19 surveillance
September 23, 2020
Dr. Daniel Larremore
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Projecting hospital utilization and assessing implications of silent transmission during the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States
September 16, 2020
Drs. Alison Galvani and Abhishek Pandey
Director and Associate Director of Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA)
School of Public Health
Yale University
City of Austin COVID-19 Update
September 9, 2020
Dr. Mark Escott
EMS System Medical Director and Interim Medical Director and Health Authority
Travis County and Austin Public Health, Austin, TX
Europe on the brink of a second wave
September 2, 2020
Dr. Vittoria Colizza
Research Director
EPIcx Lab
Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, INSERM
August 2020
Impacts of K-12 school reopening on the COVID-19 epidemic in Indiana
August 26, 2020
Drs. Alex Perkins and Guido Espana
Associate Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Population Biology
University of Notre Dame
Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
August 19, 2020
Dr. Benjamin Cowling
Professor and Head, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
Herd immunity thresholds for SARS-CoV-2 estimated from unfolding epidemics in Europe
August 12, 2020
Dr. Gabriela Gomes
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
July 2020
Social distancing inequity in COVID-19
July 29, 2020
Dr. Micaela Martinez
Assistant Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Columbia University
Recommended policy priorities for regaining control of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
July 22, 2020
Dr. Caitlin Rivers
Assistant Professor
Environmental Health and Engineering
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Estimating COVID-19 infected/recovered populations: Uncertainties and prospects for reducing future transmission
July 15, 2020
Dr. Joshua Weitz
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
COVID-19: Symptom Screening, Viral Stability, and Aerosol Transmission
July 8, 2020
Dr. Jamie Lloyd-Smith
Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Los Angeles
COVID-19 Forecast Hub’s work to collaborate across modelers
July 1, 2020
Dr. Nicolas Reich
Associate Professor
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
June 2020
US COVID-19 forecasting approach
June 24, 2020
Dr. Alessandro Vespignani
Director and Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor
Bouve College of Science
Northeastern University
COVID-19 Epidemic and Response in South Africa
June 17, 2020
Dr. Juliet Pulliam
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology and Emerging Pathogens Institute
University of Florida
Research in NYC around respiratory viruses and transmission and its application to COVID-19
June 10, 2020
Dr. Jeffrey Shaman
Professor and Director
Environmental Health Sciences, Climate and Health Program
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Covid and Children: Transmission of Infection
June 3, 2020
Dr. Rosalind Eggo
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
May 2020
COVID-19 Prevention Strategies in Japan
May 27, 2020
Dr. Natalie Dean
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
College of Public Health and Health Professions
College of Medicine
University of Florida
Genomic Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Evolution and Spread
May 20, 2020
Dr. Trevor Bedford
Associate Member at the Fred Hutch Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and Computational Biology Program
Affiliate Associate Professor in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Epidemiology
The University of Washington
The Effect of Crowding and Environmental Transmission on Shape of COVID-19 Epidemic Curves
May 13, 2020
Dr. Samuel Scarpino
Assistant Professor
College of Science
Northeastern University