Department of Epidemiology
Announcements
Commencement!
Commencement Day for graduates and faculty! When: May 24, 2012 @ 4:30 PM Where: Epi Library (Kresge 907) Strawberries and champagne will be provided!
Pharm'd Scholarship Fund
Anonymous gift made in Alec Walker’s name, establishing the Pharmacoepidemiology Scholarship Fund.
Congrats to Stacey Missmer
Congrats to Stacey Missmer: •Stacey Missmer, with collaborators from Children's & BWH, received funding to establish The Boston Center for Endometriosis • Center Goals: qDiscover causes,...
Rose Rellowship Winners
Congrats to the Rose Fellowship Winners •Deanna Alexis Carere, SD Neuro-Psych, rural outreach clinical genetics services to families in Newfoundland, Canada suspected of having hereditary blindness....
BRAIN HEALTH COLLOQUIUM: Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD, Wed May 2 at 4:30PM
Wednesday, May 2nd HSPH BRAIN HEALTH COLLOQUIUM Please join us for our last event of the year: Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD "Boundary violations: From DSM to DNA" Wednesday, May 2, 4:00-5:00...
EPI KARAOKE MIXER
When: Wednesday, April 18 Time: 4PM-6PM Where: Kresge Cafeteria There will be food, drinks, and karaoke, plus a whole lot of mingling with Epi students, post-docs faculty and staff! Come hungry and...
Telecoms Operation
Telecom Contacts, This is the second in a series of emails outlining the upcoming conversion of the Harvard University voicemail system. Please be advised that the implementation is scheduled for...
Sarah Cobey and Marc Lipsitch publish model for epidemiology of pneumococcal serotypes.
Vaccines against Streptococcus pneumoniae, like many other vaccines currently in development, target a limited subset of a genetically variable pathogen population. Understanding how genetic and antigenic...
Dr. Yonatan Grad, Dr. Bill Hanage, and Dr. Marc Lipsitch's research on E. Coli outbreak
CCDD researchers Dr. Yonatan Grad, Dr. Bill Hanage, and Dr. Marc Lipsitch contributed to the team that used whole-genome sequencing to trace the path of the E. coli outbreak that sickened thousands...
Dr. Bill Hanage's lecture in Dublin
Dr. Bill Hanage is giving the Fleming Prize Lecture in Dublin March 28, 2012. The title of his talk is Plagues and populations – patterns of pathogen evolution. http://www.sgm.ac.uk/meetings/MTGPAGES/DU19.cfm
The CCDD First Annual Outreach Conference
The CCDD First Annual Outreach Conference is happening on May 11th. To learn more, click here. To register, click here. Please feel free to forward this opportunity widely to your networks and your former...
Yen-Tsung Huang received 2012 American Statistical Association (ASA) Biometrics Section Travel Award
Yen-Tsung Huang received 2012 American Statistical Association (ASA) Biometrics Section Travel Award. The winning paper 'Joint Analysis of SNP and Gene Expression Data in Genome-Wide Association...
Summer Program in Epidemiology: Apps due April 1
Summer Program in Epidemiology The Summer Program in Epidemiology will be held June 3, 2012 – June 30, 2012. The program integrates mathematics and quantitative methods to provide students with...
EPI CALENDAR LIVE!
The Department of Epidemiology has started using the Master Calendar application. We are working on providing an embedded calendar on the website, but until then, please follow this link to the department...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pharmacoepidemiology!
ASISA Harvard Fellowship for Excellence in clinical Research The objective of the Asisa Fellowship is to enhance the international clinical research capacity by fostering the training of investigators...
Eric Rimm and Juliana Cohen receive grant from the Arbella Foundation and Project Bread
Dr. Eric Rimm and post-doc Dr. Juliana Cohen received a grant from the Arbella Foundation and Project Bread to help design and then formally evaluate an upgraded school lunch program in the Lawrence,...
Bill Hanage was awarded the 2012 Fleming Prize Lecture
Dr. Bill Hanage was awarded the 2012 Fleming Prize Lecture by the Society for General Microbiology. Previous winners include: Gordan Dougan, Brian Spratt, and Sir Paul Nurse, 2001 Nobel Laureate and...
Lorelei Mucci receives DoD Grant
Dr. Lorelei Mucci was awarded the 2011 Prostate Cancer Research Program Impact Award from the Department of Defense to investigate whether the combination of telomere length variability in prostate cancer...
Dariush Mozaffarian receives two awards
Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian received two awards: 1. NIH R21 HL109924 (PI-Mozaffarian), NIH/NHLBI, Endogenous Anti-Inflammatory Lipid Mediators, Fish Oil and Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation. 2. Bunge...
The Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention 2012-2013
The Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention 2012-2013 The Harvard School of Public Health’s Departments of Epidemiology; Society, Human Development and Health; Nutrition; and the...
