Webinar featuring a dynamic plenary between two leading epidemiologists and live oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts. Participants are encouraged to participate individually or organize a viewing party at their institution.

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November 10, 2021
12PM – 2PM EDT

“Infodemic Inoculation – Lessons Learned and Future Directions”

As online news and social media sites flood us with content, epidemiologists must become effective scientific communicators. The current “infodemic”, brought on by the increasing availability of misleading information related to COVID-19, reflects the public health importance of vetting news for accuracy. Many health experts have already made use of online platforms to combat the viral spread of misinformation. Panelists will present their success stories in countering current and future infodemics.

Recording

Thu T. Nguyen, ScD, MSPH (she/hers/her)
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Maryland School of Public Health

BIO

Thu Nguyen, ScD, MSPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on the impact of modifiable social factors on minority health and health disparities. A primarily line of focus of her research is investigating the influence of racism and discrimination in creating and perpetuating health equities. Dr. Nguyen uses a variety of different data sources (including Big Data) and approaches (including quantitative and qualitative research methods) to advance our understanding of social determinants of health. Dr. Nguyen received her BA in Human Biology from Stanford University, her MSPH in Epidemiology from UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and her ScD in Social Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Sandra Albrecht, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

BIO

Dr. Albrecht is formally trained as a social epidemiologist, with additional training in the social sciences, nutrition, and in both chronic and infectious diseases. Her research focuses on the social determinants of nutrition-related diseases in immigrants and other marginalized populations with an emphasis on improving access to quality care, and to affordable, healthy food. Dr. Albrecht has also been engaged in scientific communication efforts to help individuals, communities and policy-makers make evidence-based decisions around health. To this end, she has been serving as Chief Epidemiologist for Dear Pandemic, a social media-based, multi-disciplinary COVID-19 science communication project aimed at tackling the “infodemic” of misinformation that has helped to cripple the response to the pandemic. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the parallel Spanish language effort, Querida Pandemia.
@S_AlbrechtPerez

Live Student Presentations

Erin Campbell
“Associations among historical neighborhood disinvestment, hazardous air pollution, and current adult asthma prevalence”

BIO

Erin J. Campbell is a Research Analyst at Resources for the Future, and she is a recent graduate of the University of Rochester. She graduated in May 2021 with a BA in Economics and a BS in Environmental Health. Her work combines theory and methods from economics with public health. Erin’s research interests lie at the intersection of health and environmental justice, with a key focus on how policies, even historical, can create lasting impacts on population health.

Navdep Kaur
“Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adult Mental Health Treatment: Results from the 2005-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health”

BIO

Navdep Kaur, MPH, is a second-year Ph.D. student in Epidemiology at Columbia University. She is currently receiving training in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training (PET) Program under the guidance of Dr. Katherine M. Keyes and Dr. Sharon Schwartz. Her research focuses on social epidemiology with particular attention to racial/ethnic disparities of psychiatric disorders and mental healthcare. More broadly, she is interested in the development of epidemiologic theory to study drivers of social determinants of mental health.

Katharine McCarthy
“Assessing the potential for differential disease misclassification in survival analysis: Applying probabilistic bias analysis”

BIO

Katharine McCarthy, PhD, MPH. Dr. McCarthy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Blavatnik Women’s Health Research Institute and the Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. McCarthy is a perinatal epidemiologist with expertise in the construction and analysis of complex longitudinal datasets. Her research interests include the intersection of social and structural risks in adolescence as predictors of future reproductive health and the measurement of quality maternal and newborn care. Dr. McCarthy received her PhD in Epidemiology from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

Poster Presentations

Chigozie Ogwara

Sina Kianersi

Valerie Madera Garcia

Catherine Gimbrone

Rebecca Christensen

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