The Epi Seminar Series is a department-sponsored seminar series for students, staff, and faculty, as well as practicing professionals in the field. Speakers and topics are selected to highlight the diversity of research ongoing in the department.
Seminars are held Tuesdays from 3:30-4:50 PM in Health Sciences K-069, unless otherwise noted.
This seminar is open to other academic departments and partners. Sign up for Epi Seminar emails through the UW Preference Center.
WINTER 2020
January 7
Towards mental well-being among women and children in South India
Deepa Rao, PhD, MA
UW Department of Global Health and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
January 14
Mapping the spread of influenza through a city: Insights from the Seattle Flu Study
Helen Chu, MD, MPH
UW Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Global Health
January 21
Environmental surveillance for Poliovirus and S. Typhi
Scott Meschke, PhD
UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
January 28
The Dog Aging Project: How genes and environment shape healthy lifespan
Daniel Promislow, PhD
UW School of Medicine
February 4
Pharmacoepidemiology meets Rheumatology
Namrata Singh, MD, MSCI, FACP
UW Department of Medicine
February 11
What’s war got to do with public health?
Amy Hagopian, PhD
UW School of Public Health
February 18
Title TBD
Lynn Messer
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
February 25
The tipping point: A navigation of differential exposure and differential effects in the context of tipped-wage work
Sarah Andrea, PhD, MPH
UW Department of Epidemiology
March 3
Understanding nature's impact on health: How can we determine whether the outdoor environment impacts symptoms in Veterans with PTSD and what do we know so far?
Alyson Littman, PhD, MPH
UW Department of Epidemiology, Seattle Epidemiologic Research Information Center, Seattle-Denver COIN for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care
March 10
Developing & testing lifestyle interventions in cancer survivors
Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
