Lecture Series
The HMS lecture series is held on the first and third Fridays of each month from 10:35 to 11:30am PDT (initially via Zoom) and features themed talks by HMS faculty, faculty invited from other departments at UW and/or from other institutions around the world. Themes rotate every two months. We strongly encourage all HMS faculty, postdocs, and students to regularly attend this series and to invite collaborators and colleagues to join. Recordings from this series can be viewed on HMS YouTube channel, here.
Contact healthms@uw.edu to receive Zoom information for the series.
Upcoming Lectures:
Theme: What to do when information about causes of death is limited or nonexistent? Development and applications of verbal autopsy methods
Verbal autopsy has been recognized as an alternative to get estimates of causes of death in settings with limited or nonexistent vital registration systems. IHME has worked in this area for over 10 years, generating automated methods and tools to collect and analyze verbal autopsies that have been used in different settings. In this cycle of seminars, we will review the rational, development and next steps of methods to ascertain causes of death using verbal autopsies. We will also have presentations describing the progress and challenges in the application of these methods in the time of COVID and in global settings such as Brazil, the Philippines, and Ethiopia.
January 21, 2022
Verbal Autopsy in Ethiopia
Awoke Misganaw Temesgen, Clinical Assistant Professor
Past Lectures
April 16, 2021
COVID-19 in 2021 and Beyond
Bobby Reiner, Associate Professor
May 7, 2021
COVID-19 data: How do data systems affect modelling?
David Pigott, Assistant Professor
May 21, 2021
Modeling COVID-19: Approaches and Applications in Washington State
Marita Zimmermann, Senior Research Economist, Institute for Disease Modeling
June 4, 2021
Estimating Global Total COVID-19 Mortality
Christopher J.L. Murray, Professor, and Haidong Wang, Associate Professor
July 2, 2021
What can COVID tell us about pandemic preparedness?
Joseph Dieleman, Associate Professor
July 16, 2021
State of the States: Tracking State Differences by Race and Income
David C. Radley, Senior Scientist, Tracking Health System Performance, The Commonwealth Fund
August 6, 2021
How effective is health-care spending in the United States? Cause-specific spending per disability-adjusted life-year averted from 1996 to 2016
Marcia Weaver, Research Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences
August 20, 2021
Health systems research before and after COVID-19: A litmus test for everyone
Rafael Lozano, Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences
September 3, 2021
Climate futures: Estimating the present and future burden of disease attributable to temperature
Katrin Burkart, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences
September 17, 2021
Wildfire smoke and health: From Local actions to global impacts
Michael Brauer, Affiliate Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences
October 1, 2021
Climate and health: Connecting the dots
Kai Chen, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health), Yale School of Public Health
October 15, 2021
Blood lead and mortality risk: revisiting an analysis of NHANES data
Jeff Stanaway, Assistant Professor
October 22, 2021
Influence of Environmental Factors on Respiratory Virus Transmission: From Influenza to SARS-CoV-2
Sen Pei and Wan Yang, Assistant Professors, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
November 5, 2021
Antimicrobial National Consumption and Point Prevalence Survey in Tanzania
Andy Stergachis, PhD, BPharm, Professor of Pharmacy & Global Health, Adjunct Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy
November 19, 2021
Foundations and developments in the analysis of causes of death using verbal autopsies
Abraham Flaxman, Associate Professor and Bernardo Hernández Prado, Professor, both of the Department of Health Metrics Sciences
December 3, 2021
Verbal autopsy and mortality surveillance: A strategy to improve quality of information on causes of death in Brazil
Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Professor, University of Minas Gerais and Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies
January 7, 2022
Validating the addition of COVID-19 to Verbal Autopsy using a Prospective Meta-Analysis Methodology
CDR Erin Nichols is an epidemiologist at CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), where she has supported global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) efforts since 2011. CDR Nichols leads the Global CRVS Improvement Team, through which she directs the Team’s engagement in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative. CDR Nichols is a member of the WHO Verbal Autopsy Reference Group and serves as a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service. Prior to moving to NCHS, CDR Nichols served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer with CDC’s International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control Team. Originally from Indiana, she received her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.