George Seage

George R. Seage III, was an epidemiologist and a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the school's Program in the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. Seage specialized in HIV/AIDS research with a focus on “the behavioural and biological aspects of adult and pediatric HIV transmission, natural history and treatment.”[1] At the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), Seage was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology, Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and Director of the Pediatric AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) data and analysis center.[2]

He earned a ScD and MPH from Boston University School of Public Health[1] and BS from Stony Brook University.[2] Seage is married to Ann Aschengrau.

Research

Seage “has been the Principal Investigator of a number of studies that have elucidated the biological and behavioral factors associated with HIV transmission, acquisition, and prevention–including the Boston Partners Study (BPS), the Boston Young Men's Study (BYMS), and the HIV Network of Prevention Trials Vaccine Preparedness Study (HIVNET VPS). He was subsequently the Principal Investigator for the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS), Data and Operations Center, a multidisciplinary initiative co-funded by eight NIH Institutes, PI of an NIH RO1 “Modeling the effect of the Botswana Combination HIV Prevention Project” - and was the Program Director of one of the few NIH training grants in infectious disease epidemiology and biodefense.”[2]

Selected publications

Murray, Eleanor J.; Robins, James M.; Seage, George R.; Freedberg, Kenneth A.; Hernán, Miguel A. (2017-06-30). "A Comparison of Agent-Based Models and the Parametric G-Formula for Causal Inference". American Journal of Epidemiology. 186 (2): 131–142. doi:10.1093/aje/kwx091. ISSN 0002-9262. PMC 5860229. PMID 28838064.

References
  1. "George Seage". Faculty and Research Directory. Harvard School of Public Health. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. "George R. Seage, DSc". School of Public Health. Boston University. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. "Ann Aschengrau". BUSPH. BU. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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