Tyler VanderWeele was awarded the 2017 President’s Award by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). This Presidential Award is highly distinguished and is given to a “young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics”. In addition, he was also the recipient of the John Snow Award from the Epidemiology Section of American Public Health Association. One of the oldest awards in the field is given “in recognition of enduring contributions to public health through epidemiologic methods and practice”.
Sonia Hernandez-Diaz received the Poulsson Award from the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Alkes Price received the 2017 Harvard T.H. Chan Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor Award.
Elise Robinson, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, received an honorable mention for the 2017 Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
2017 Graduation Awards
During the 2017 Commencement Award Ceremony Dr. Heather Baer was awarded the Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award and Dr. Sonia Hernández-Díaz was awarded a mentoring award.
Teaching Assistant Awards
Certificate of Distinction
- Amanda Markovitz- Doctor of Science Candidate
- Kevin Kensler- Doctor of Science Candidate
- Lauren Tanz- Doctor of Science Candidate
- Carla Bezold, SD ’17
- Matthew Hitchings- Doctor of Science Candidate
- Dale Barnhart- Doctor of Science Candidate
Excellence in Teaching Award
- Barbra Dickerman- PhD in Population Health Sciences
- Claire Pernar- Doctor of Science Candidate
ACE Award
Alan Berkeley, Senior Grants Manager for the Department of Epidemiology was recognized with the ACE award which acknowledges commitment and excellence at the Harvard Chan School. Mr. Berkeley was noted as being “a natural teacher and a gifted leader”, “ continuously goes above and beyond the call of duty for his investigators”. and “is dedicated to the mission of the School”. This award is granted twice per academic year and has been award to an Department of Epidemiology staff member twice in 2017.
MLSC Award | Biobank for Microbiome Research in Massachusetts (BIOM-Mass)
Recently, Drs. Shelley Tworoger, Eric Rimm, Wendy Garrett, and Curtis Huttenhower with other faculty from the Harvard Chan School, received a Capital Program award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to build the Biobank for Microbiome Research in Massachusetts (BIOM-Mass). BIOM-Mass will: (a) create the world’s largest prospective collection of microbiome specimens from 25,000 individuals in the Nurses’ Health Study II; (b) leverage cutting edge laboratory automation to collect and store biospecimens for this and many future studies; and c) deploy a novel analysis and bioinformatics data portal to support microbiome research and development. The primary goal is to build an integrated microbiome research platform allowing collection, use, and analysis of microbiome-targeted biospeciments accessible to all investigators at the Harvard Chan School that complements existing microbiome resources at the School. Please contact Dr. Rimm (erimm@hsph.harvard.edu) if you are interested in learning more about the resource.
Weike Wang and Claire Pernar were the Recipients of the 2016 Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship. They presented on March 24, 2017. Claire Pernar’s talk was “Investigating the Role of Physical Activity in the Development of Prostate Cancer” and Weike Wang’s talk was “Hyperinsulinemia indices and cancer risk.”
Dr. Shuji Ogino has been selected as the recipienct of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Outstanding Investigator Award, and will lecture at the 2018 Experimental Biology Meeting which will include several scientific societies.
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria | PBS
Dr. Bill Hanage, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and faculty member in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics addressed global concerns regarding antibiotic resistant bacteria on the Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) with host Tavis Smiley.
Check out the interview on PBS here: https://goo.gl/RnPWG4
Carlos A. Camargo, M.D., Dr.P.H., Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was awarded by the American College of Emergency Physicians(ACEP) the Outstanding Contribution in Research Award for his leading research in the areas of respiratory/allergy diseases and of health policy issues in emergency care.
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard Chan, Professor of Medicine and the Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was one of the recipients of the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR’s) Team Science Award at the AACR Annual Meeting in New Orleans in April 2016. Dr. Manson is one of the lead investigators of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) and a member of the WHI research team that received the award for innovative research that has helped to advance our understanding of ways to prevent breast cancer, other cancers, and other chronic diseases in women.
Dr. Deborah Blacker was named Deputy Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Blacker is a internationally renowned geriatric psychiatrist and epidemiologist. She is primarily based at MassGeneral Hospital where she directs the Gerontology Research Unit and serves as Associate Chief for Research in the Department of Psychiatry. As Deputy Chair, Dr. Blacker will work closely with education-related topics. She chairs the new Epidemiology Education Committee in the Department.
Dr. Jamie Robins was the 2016 recipient of the Bernard Greenberg Award. This award recognizes an epidemiologist who is renowned as a methodologist and who has made an outstanding contribution to the peer reviewed epidemiology literature. This award is especially appropriate for individuals whose accomplishments reflect significant methodological advancement in the field.
Dr. Eric Rimm and Dr. Qi Sun received a 4 year $3.1 M R01 to study diet, the microbiome and coronary heart disease in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and in the Nurs-es’ Health Study II.
Doctoral Candidate Corey Peak, was the 2016 recipient of the Uwe Brinkmann Memorial Travel Fellowship. Mr. Peak will use this fellowship to work with the Internation-al Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh. The project, which is titled “Evaluating the Role of Human Mobility in Mass Oral Cholera Vaccine Campaigns”, will bring together recent cholera vaccine field trial data, mobile phone data, and mathematical models of cholera transmission in order to address questions surrounding the duration of herd protection following mass vac-cination campaigns.
Dr. Marc Lipsitch will give the Robert Austrian Lecture at the 10th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Disease in Glasgow.
Dr. John Jackson and Dr. Sonja Swanson are the 2016 winners of the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize. This award of $5000 is funded from a private endowment and is given annually for the best paper published in the journal in the preceding year. The winning paper, titled “Toward a Clearer Portrayal of Confounding Bias in Instrumental Varia-ble Applications”, appeared in the July 2015 issue of Epide-miology