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INFORMATION FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES
If you are attending and/or presenting virtually, please note the following three links that will be used throughout the week. 
  1. Microsoft Teams link: used for all research presentations on Thursday and Friday. This is found at the top of the Wednesday, May 18, page.
  2. Livestream link: used for the Wednesday keynote address by Tyler VanderWeele at 7 p.m. This is found in the 7:15–8 p.m. time slot, under the presentation title (the line is highlighted in green). 
  3. Livestream link: used for the Saturday, May 21, worship services and discussions. This is found on the Saturday, May 21, page at the bottom of the red header at the top of the page.
Unfamiliar with Microsoft Teams? Here is a brief tutorial. If you have any trouble logging into the Teams link, we have LIVE remote tech support in the form of the great and gracious Carlisle Sutton (carlisle@andrews.edu). Please immediately hop into the Zoom links below if you can’t access Microsoft Teams and he will assist you: 

Thursday, May 19, Zoom tech support:  https://andrews.zoom.us/j/99698570081
 Friday, May 20, Zoom tech support:       https://andrews.zoom.us/j/93914040948

Keynote Speakers

Tyler J. VanderWeele, PhD, is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and director of the Human Flourishing Program and co-director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance and biostatistics. His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). He has published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals; is author of the books Explanation in Causal Inference (2015), Modern Epidemiology (2021), and Measuring Well-Being (2021); and also writes a monthly blog posting on topics related to human flourishing for Psychology Today.
David R. Williams, PhD, is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. Previously, he served six years on the faculty of Yale University and 14 at the University of Michigan. He holds an MPH from Loma Linda University and a PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan.
Williams is an internationally recognized social scientist focused on social influences on health. He has been invited to keynote scientific conferences in Europe, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, South America and across the United States. His research has enhanced our understanding of the complex ways in which socioeconomic status, race, stress, racism, health behavior and religious involvement can affect health. He is the author of more than 475 scientific papers, and he has served on the editorial board of 12 scientific journals and as a reviewer for over 75 others. The Everyday Discrimination Scale that he developed is the most widely used measure of discrimination in health studies.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/david-williams/
Daniel Ganu, DrPh, is professor of Public Health, Adventist University of Africa. Ganu is the principal investigator for Adventist Health Study in Africa, chair of AHSRA-Africa and editor-in-chief of the Pan African Journal for Health & Environmental Science.