Seminar Series

MassCPR hosts three monthly seminar series spanning our core focus areas: Variants & Vaccines, Diagnostics, Surveillance & Epidemiology, and Post-Infectious Clinical Syndromes. Each series features experts discussing timely topics and emerging developments in infectious disease research, clinical care, and public health.

Below is the 2026-2027 academic year schedule. Tentative talk titles or general talk topics are listed and will be updated as the meetings approach.

Upcoming Seminars

  • September 2, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    George Lauer, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Massachusetts General Hospital
    Novel Immunological Understanding of Hepatitis B

    Hosted by the Variants & Vaccines (VV) Working Group

  • September 18, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH
    Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security
    Georgetown University Medical Center and the School of Foreign Service
    World Cup Global Health Security Recap

    Hosted by the Diagnostics, Surveillance, and Epidemiolgy (DSE) Working Group

  • September 28, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Joseph Breen, PhD
    Immunoregulation Section Chief
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAIDS)
    Insights into Long COVID drivers/pathogenesis

    Hosted by the Post-Infectious Clinical Syndromes (PICS) Working Group

  • October 7, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Rajesh (Raj) Panjabi, MD
    Co-Founder/CEO of Last Mile Health
    Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

    Louise Ivers, MD
    Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
    Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    Director, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University

    This will be a special session where Louise Ivers sits down with Raj Panjabi to discuss Raj’s soon-to-be released book Safer: Turning Fear into Action and Crisis into Community – A Guide to Preparedness for all Kinds of Disasters and Emergencies where Raj offers a behind-the-scenes look at pandemic preparedness, including insights from the White House and federal response to influenza, mpox, and COVID-19, as well as perspectives from the HMS/MGH response. He also shares lessons from the 2023 MassCPR Symposium.

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • October 16, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Michael Wilson, MD
    Professor of Neurology
    University of California, San Francisco
    Personalized Diagnostics using Metagenomics Sequencing

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • October 19, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Robert Groysman, MD
    COVID Institute

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • November 4, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Max Scott, PhD
    Professor, North Carolina State University
    New World screwworm

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • November 16, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • November 20, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • December 2, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Teresa Lambe, PhD
    Calleva Head of Vaccine Immunology and a Professor of Vaccinology & Immunology and PSI Investigator at the University of Oxford
    Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • December 18, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • December 21, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

    Brian Balin, PhD
    Professor of Neuroscience and Neuropathology
    Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

    Nikki Shultek
    Director, Pathobiome Research Center
    Assistant Research Professor, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

    Alzheimers Pathobiome

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • January 6, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • January 15, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • January 25, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • February 3, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • February 19, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • February 22, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • March 3, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • March 19, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • March 22, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • April 7, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • April 16, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • April 26, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • May 5, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • May 17, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • May 21, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

  • June 2, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the VV Working Group

  • June 21, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the PICS Working Group

  • June 25, 2027 · 3:00 PM ET

    Hosted by the DSE Working Group

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