HPH NOW, Mar 2, 2007, Around the School

HSPH Community Forum

"How the Study of Proteins Is Helping Cancer Screening"

Thursday, March 22
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Kresge G-2

Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics

Lunch will be provided. RSVP to deansoff@hsph.harvard.edu.
This event is open to the HSPH community only.

Sponsored by the HSPH Workplace Engagement and Enrichment
Committee & the Office of the Dean

Faculty Promotions

Rebecca Betensky

Rebecca Betensky has been promoted to Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics. She is also an Associate Biostatistician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Betensky's work spans several areas of biostatistics. She has developed statistical methods that have been applied to AIDS clinical trials, family studies of disease, and brain tumor studies.

She received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard in 1987 and her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1992. She was first appointed to HSPH as an assistant professor in 1994.

Marc Lipsitch

Marc Lipsitch has been promoted to Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology. He is an investigator in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission.

In 2003, he worked with a team to calculate the potential for the spread of SARS. The insights came at a time when public health officials were coming to grips with the outbreak

Lipsitch also investigates pandemic flu, the epidemiology of pneumococcal infections, and the factors that influence the spread of antibiotic resistance in a range of infectious diseases.

He received his B.A. from Yale University in philosophy in 1991 and earned a D.Phil. in zoology in 1995 from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Webmail to Be Decommissioned

IT has requested that anyone who has not already signed up to be migrated to the Novell GroupWise email system, do so by going to MyHSPH and filling out the form in the "Schedule GroupWise Email Migration" box. The Webmail system will no longer be accessible after March 9 due to an incompatibility issue with daylight saving time.