UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics Education and Training Programs

Today (Oct 23) at 11AM (PDT)!

We have a busy events calendar this semester -- check out what we have coming up! https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/events

Ask the experts! Friday, October 23. Registration information below.

The New Plague: What have we learned? An online conversation with Dr. Jaime Sepulveda, Executive Director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences. Recorded Tuesday, October 6 at noon (GMT-7), here is link to the video https://youtu.be/g0Vc6CWm8UA.

Today we launched a $5 million project, funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute - PCORI, to analyze policies, beliefs, testing, and symptoms usin...g the #COVID19 Citizen Science mobile-app and PCORnetwork data - but we need your help! Learn more about our collaboration with UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics Education and Training Programs and the Citizens Science mobile-app at http://ow.ly/ODsC50BGZbt. See more

For this IGHS COVID-19 Series session Doctors Gabe Chamie and Carina Marquez shared findings of SARS-CoV-2 community transmission during shelter-in-place in San... Francisco and the Unidos en Salud test-to-care model. Moderated by our executive director, Dr. Jaime Sepulveda with Q&A following presentations. Watch video: https://youtu.be/d_pS2UxUBmA

"If this were Ebola, for instance, I could see how that might be sized at 50%," said George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and director of the Prevention and Public Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco. "But [the coronavirus] is so widespread, you might want a little bit more."

Volunteers needed to staff Sanando Juntos: Fruitvale COVID-19 testing event! In-person volunteers are needed on testing days, Saturday September 26 and Sunday September 27 at the La Clínica de la Raza parking lot, 35th Ave and E. 12th St. in Oakland. Also need volunteers in the days leading up to the event. A volunteer training will be held on Wednesday, September 23rd 5-6:30pm on zoom. This training will also be recorded and available at the United in Health Oakland websit...e. Appropriate PPE, food, training, and community for all who can join. Volunteers on testing days will also be able to receive free COVID-19 tests if supplies allow (PCR and antibody). If you signed up to volunteer on the 12th/13th before the event was postponed and would like to volunteer on the 26th or 27th, you must SIGN UP AGAIN (link below)! If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up on website: http://bit.ly/FruitvaleVolunteer.

In Search of a Vaccine for COVID-19: Science and Politics The Institute for Global Health Sciences in partnership with the Department of Medicine presented gra...nd rounds on #COVID-19 #vaccines #development #distribution and #hesitancy with Peter Hotez, Jaime Sepulveda, and Heidi Larson, moderated by Dr. Bob Wachter of @UCSF. Video of the session is here: https://youtu.be/jdJ680Y4o2Q See more