Past Meetings

• 2024 - Toronto, Canada

  SER Mid-Year Meeting March 4-8, 2024

  SER 2024 Mid Year Meeting Events will be held March 4-8, 2024.

  On Friday, March 8, 2024,  SER held the full day live conference at the University of Toronto. Space is limited, register now to reserve your spot. 

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  Keynote Speakers

  

  Magdalena Cerda, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  • BIO

    Magdalena Cerdá is a Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her research focuses primarily on two great challenges to improving population health and health equity: substance use and violence.  Specifically, her work addresses: (1) the social and policy determinants of substance use from childhood to adulthood; and (2) the causes, consequences, and prevention of violence. In her most recent work, she has applied methods from epidemiology, statistics, econometrics, and computer science to answer important questions about the impact that interventions at the local, city, state, and national level can have on overdose and violence.

  

  Irene Y. Chen UC Berkeley and UCSF’s Computational Precision Health

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    I study machine learning for equitable healthcare. My research focuses on two main areas: 1) developing machine learning methods for equitable clinical care, and 2) auditing and addressing algorithmic bias.

    I’m an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley and UCSF’s Computational Precision Health program with a joint appointment in Berkeley EECS. I received my PhD from MIT EECS as a member of the Clinical Machine Learning group. Before MIT, I received a joint AB/SM degree from Harvard University. I have worked at Dropbox and Microsoft Research.

  Program Co-Chairs

  

  • Hailey Banack

    Hailey Banack is a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University at Buffalo working with the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). Her research is focused broadly on obesity and aging. She is also interested in using quantitative bias analysis techniques to investigate and account for sources of bias in aging research.

  

  • Laura Rosella

    Laura Rosella, PhD, MHSc, is the Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Population Health Analytics Lab. She is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Faculty Member in the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Site Director at ICES U of T. She also holds a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. Her research interests include population health, population-based prediction tools to support public health planning and public health policy. Dr. Rosella was recently awarded the Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiology Award by the Society for Epidemiologic Research and was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.

  

  • Jess Edwards

    Jess Edwards is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on developing and applying quantitative epidemiologic methods to improve decision making in public health settings with imperfect data. Her substantive work is centered around estimating the effects of interventions on the continuum of HIV medical care using observational data. Methodologically, she focuses on developing methods to account for measurement error in causal inference, as well as applying novel approaches for estimating the effects of interventions in complex longitudinal settings.

• 2023 - Berkeley, California

  #2023 SER Mid-Year Meeting Events

  Abstract Book  Posters

  Program:
  February 27 – March 3: Virtual Poster Session
  February 28: SPC Meet & Greet
  March 1: “Developing Competencies for Doctoral Student in Epidemiology”
  March 2: Mid-Year Meeting – California “Epidemiologic Tools for Social Impact” hosted by The University of California at Berkeley. Learn More
  March 3: SPC Conversation Cafe
  March 14: Mid-Year Meeting – Mexico “Mexico – US experiences and needs in epidemiology” hosted by Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Learn More
  March 14: Meet the Experts

   

• 2022 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  “Intersecting pandemics: COVID-19 + health disparities”

  Meeting Agenda Event Recording Registration

  Description:
  The past few years have been unprecedented for many epidemiologists and biostatisticians. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed longstanding deficiencies in the public health system, especially in the U.S., and exacerbated pre-existing health disparities. In the 2022 SER mid-year meeting, we will focus on the experiences of applied epidemiologists as well as notable research projects undertaken in the past year related to the pandemic, health disparities, or their intersection. Several talks will center on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a prototypical urban location to highlight the local response to both pandemics.

  Conference Co-Chairs:

  Neal Goldstein, Drexel University
  Neal D. Goldstein, PhD, MBI is Assistant Research Professor of Epidemiology at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. With a background in biomedical informatics, he focuses on computational approaches in complex data settings, especially electronic health records and disease surveillance, to understand infectious disease transmission among vulnerable populations. This has been demonstrated through his work in COVID-19, HIV, healthcare associated infections, and vaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases.

  Resa Jones, Temple University
  Resa M. Jones, MPH, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at Temple University, lead of Temple’s Behavioral and Cancer Epidemiology Research Program and a member of the Fox Chase Cancer Center. As a behavioral, cancer epidemiologist, Dr. Jones’ research portfolio focuses on the study of risk factors and determinants of health-related outcomes relating to cancer prevention and control. Her current research includes assessing the effectiveness and mechanisms of behavior change of two large multi-level interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening in general and underserved populations, exploring the impact of PFAS-contaminated water on health and well-being, and spatial research to determine the association between PFAS-contaminated drinking water and cancer incidence. Dr. Jones is a Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology and currently serves on the Science Board of the American Public Health Association.

  Conference Planning Committee:

  • Resa M. Jones: Temple University, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 

  • Recai Yucel: Temple University, Assistant Director of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 

  • Michael LeVasseur: Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics  

  • Neal Goldstein: Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 

  • Russ McIntire: Jefferson College of Population Health, Associate Professor 

  • Scott Keith: Thomas Jefferson University, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics 

  • Enrique Schisterman: University of Penn School of Medicine, Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics 

  • Sean Hennessy, University of Penn School of Medicine, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

  • Jay Kaufman: McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, SER Executive Committee Liaison

  

  

  

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• 2020 - Salt Lake City, Utah

  “Theory + methods + training: reflections on the future of epidemiology”

  Agenda