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• (Nov 30-Dec 3, 2025) Lea, Chiara, and Sukhyun presented their presentation at the Epidemics 10, San Diego, US
• (Dec 1, 2025) Sukhyun started to serve as Board of Director at the Korean Society of Infectious Diseases
• (September-October, 2025) Chiara and Sukhyun lectured in the infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance and its application at the Dr. Lee Jong-Wook Fellowship program in Seoul, Korea
• (September 3-4, 2025) Sukhyun lectured in the Writing course for the 2025 Infectious Disease Surveillance Analysis Report
• (September 2, 2025) Seonghui honored with the Excellent Student Research Award at The Catholic University of Korea
• (September 1, 2025) Leah has been awarded funding through the Korean National Research Foundation’s Master’s Program Support Project.
• (June 5, 2025) Seonghui, Lea, Chiara, and Sukhyun conducted a 1-day outreach program of infectious disease epi course at the National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
• (May 19-22, 2025) Seonghui, Lea, and Sukhyun conducted a 2-day outreach program of infectious disease epi course at the National Center for Communicable Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• (May 16, 2025) Seonghui, and Taegu received the Grand Prize oral presentation award from Korea Public Health Association Annual Conference 2025
• (May 15, 2025) Sukhyun and his colleagues in Korean Society of Epidemiology published Textbook for Field Epidemiologist
• (May 13, 2025) Prof. Creuza Rachel VINCENTE , from Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil, visited our lab
• (Jan 1, 2025) Sukhyun started to serve as member of the Information and Public Relations Committee of the Korean Society of Epidemiology
• (Nov 25, 2024) Seonghui, Yukyung, Chiara, and Sukhyun conducted an 1-day outreach program of infectious disease epi course at Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
• (Nov 6-8, 2024) Seonghui, Chiara, and Sukhyun conducted a 2-day outreach program of infectious disease epi course at the National Center for Communicable Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• (Oct 29, 2024) Taegu and Seunghyun received the outstanding poster presentation award from Korea Society of Preventive Medicine
• (Oct 29, 2024) Junseo received the outstanding student presentation award from Korea Society of Preventive Medicine
• (Sept 1, 2024) Sukhyun started to serve as the review member of Institutional Review Board at Seoul St'Mary Hospital by Catholic Medical Center, Korea
• (July 18, 2024) Prof. Lorrenzo Pellis , from Manchester University, UK, visited our lab
• (April 9, 2024) Prof. Benjamin J. Cowling , from The University of Hong Kong, China, visited our lab
• (April 9, 2024) Prof. Helen Y. Chu , from The University of Washington, US, visited our lab
• (March 4, 2024) Our lab is now settled at the Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine
• (August 24, 2023) Dayeong and Sukhyun contributed to the Korean case-report on COVID-19 and nonpharmaceutical intervention in the the Royal Society Report
• (June 29, 2023) Sukhyun was invited to present "Impact of Public Health and Social Measures on SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea" at the 8th CIJK Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Jeju, South Korea
• (Mar 22, 2023) Our study on mpox transsibility is now published at Journal of Travel Medicine (IF=39.1) in collaboration with a colleague at Korea University and National Medical Center in Korea
• (Mar 22, 2023) Sukhyun was invited to present "SARS-CoV-2 transmission in South Korea" at Australia-Korea Tech Bridge Workshop
• (Mar 1, 2023) Sukhyun started to serve as the Associate Editor for Public Health Weekly Report by Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
• (Dec 22, 2022) Chiara received the outstanding student award from National Institute for International Education
• (Dec 6, 2022) Sukhyun received an award for contribution to infectious disease education from the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare
• (Nov 26, 2022) Chiara was awarded the best presentation award (Immunodynamics after SARS-CoV-2 infection) at the Korean Association of School of Public Health
• (Sept 21, 2022) Sukhyun started to serve as the Topic Editor for Frontiers in Public Health in collaboration with colleagues in Brazil and China
• (Aug 12, 2022) Our study on relaxation of public health and social measure and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea is now published at JAMA Network Open (IF=13.3) in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Hong Kong and Kyung Hee University.
• (Jul 28, 2022) Our study on North Korea and COVID-19 is now published at Journal of Travel Medicine in collaboration with a colleague at Mahidol University in Thailand.
• (May 1, 2022) Sukhyun started to serve as the Associate Editor for Journal of Rural Medicine and Community Health
• (Mar 1, 2022) Sukhyun started to serve as the Guest Editor for Viruses
• (Jan 1, 2022) Sukhyun continues to serve as the Associate Editor for Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health by Korean Society for Preventive Medicine and BMC Infectious Diseases by Springer Nature (since 2020)