Looking Forward @ Johns Hopkins: Nilanjan Chatterjee

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Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of biostatistics and genetic epidemiology, will give a talk entitled "Individual- and Population-Level Risks of COVID-19 Mortality Due to Predisposing Factors in the United States and the Implications for Vaccine Allocation" as part of the Looking Forward @ Johns Hopkins remote lecture series.

Chatterjee is a highly multi-disciplinary scientist with expertise in statistics, genetics, and epidemiology who has developed an integrated program of methodological research to investigate the genetic and environmental causes of cancers and other chronic diseases. He produces new ways to effectively analyze big data in order to gain a better understanding of these genetic and environmental causes, as well as to determine how genetic markers can be used for risk predictions, informing individualized strategies for prevention and epidemiologic study designs.

Looking Forward @ Johns Hopkins features distinguished Johns Hopkins faculty from a range of research disciplines who have been recognized for their scholarship, research, teaching, and service. Research presentations are followed by question and answer sessions, and seek to bridge the gaps that have emerged as a result of physical social distancing and the mandatory cancellations of campus-based lectures.