Disease Dynamics Seminars (2014-18)

The Disease Dynamics Seminars are dis-continued. Starting from January 2019, all my guest speakers will be speaking under the banner of the new BEES departmental seminar series. I no longer help organize college-wide seminars.

Purpose. The Disease Dynamics Seminars series was created to promote the study of the dynamics of both infectious and non-infectious diseases. We take an inter-disciplinary approach. We invite faculty and students from the biological and health sciences (e.g. public health, nursing and biology) to social sciences (e.g. geography and sociology) to the quantitative sciences (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics and statistics) to attend these seminars.

2018-19 Academic Year

In Fall 2018, I organized two college-wide seminars:

October 8, 2018. Prof. Jessica Fairley of Emory University School of Medicine and School of Public Health.

October 22, 2018. Dr. Yuen Wai Hung of Wilfrid Laurier University, at Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

2017-18 Academic Year

Fall 2017

2016-17 Academic Year

Fall 2016

2015-16 Academic Year

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

2014-15 Academic Year

Spring 2015

Fall 2014

* The seminar of Dr. Tu and Dr. Zhou will take place in the class of EPID 7135 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.

2013-14 Academic Year

Spring 2014

* I want to thank Prof. Juan Vargas of the College of Engineering and Information Technology for his kind support of providing a venue at CEIT to host Dr. Washington's presentation.

Prior to the formal inauguration of the Disease Dynamics Seminar, we have also invited the following external guest speakers to speak at Georgia Southern University in Fall 2013:

• September 19, 6.30pm - 8pm.

  • Karen K. Wong, MD, MPH, CDC/NCEZID/Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, "Transmissibility of Variant Influenza From Swine to Humans: A Modeling Approach". See our college's News Article: Dr. Wong from CDC at JPHCOPH (October 11, 2013)

• November 21, 6.30pm - 9.15pm.

  • Gabriel Rainisch, MPH, CDC/NCEZID/Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, “Anthrax: Current Status in the US, Bioterrorism Agent and Public Health Response Modeling”

  • Manjunath Shankar, MBBS, MHA, PhD, CDC/NCEZID/Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, “Dengue in Puerto Rico: Estimating the degree of under-reporting”

  • News Article: CDC at JPHCOPH (Dec 13, 2013)

• December 5, 6.30pm - 8.45pm.

  • Emine Yaylali, PhD, and Yu Teng, PhD, CDC, "Modeling and Cost-effectiveness Analysis in HIV Prevention"

Disease Dynamics Seminars

Organizer: Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

Co-Organizer: Alex Stokolos, PhD, Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Mathematics

Student organizer (Spring 2014 - present): Varadan Sevilimedu, MBBS, MPH, Department of Biostatistics, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health