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.
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, Network Science Institute
Northeastern University