Prof Stanley J Weiss – Prof of Medicine, Dept of Medicine and Prof of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Prof Weiss graduated from Yale (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry) and Harvard (Medicine, Infectious Diseases). He has worked at the National Cancer Institute in Medical Oncology and Epidemiology, and has been honoured by the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association as having made “a significant contribution to addressing a public health issue of major importance by applying epidemiological methods”. He is past chair of the International Joint Policy Committee of the Societies of Epidemiology (now the International Network for Epidemiology in Policy, INEP).
Prof Weiss will talk about how, in the context of the pandemic, research evidence is being published and cited, utilised for policy decision making, etc, and about some of the flaws that might be relevant to those decisions.
ou can watch a recording of the event here.