Around the School, April 25, 2008

Save the Date 

Tuberculosis: Past Challenges and Promise

This symposium will serve as a forum to discuss and explore novel research approaches to the amelioration of tuberculosis in the developing world. It will also serve to commemorate the career of HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom.
Monday, May 5, 2008, Kresge G-1, 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a LIVE WEBCAST on the day of the event.

HSPH Community Forum: Dealing Effectively with Work/Academic Problems at HSPH: The Ombud's Perspective

Speaker: Linda Wilcox, Ombudsperson
Thursday, May 8, 2008, Kresge G-2, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
RSVP to deansoff@hsph.harvard.edu.
Lunch will be provided. This event is open to the HSPH community only.

HSPH Researchers Are Award Winners  

Xihong Lin

HSPH Professor of Biostatistics Xihong Lin is the senior author of a paper that has been selected as the best paper published in the journal Biometrics for 2007. The paper appeared in the December issue of the journal, pages 1079-1088. The work will be presented at a session organized by the journal's co-editors at the International Biometric Conference to be held this July in Dublin, Ireland. The paper was entitled "Semiparametric regression for multi-dimensional genomic pathway data: Least square kernel machines and linear mixed models." The co-authors were Dawei Liu from Brown University and Debashis Ghosh from Penn State.

Catherine Barber

Catherine Barber, research manager at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, received an award from the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention on Monday, February 4, at the Massachusetts State House. She led the effort to design and pilot what is now the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System and co-founded the National Center for Suicide Prevention Training. She conducts a variety of research dissemination activities on suicide prevention.

Take Survey from Operations

HSPH members are invited to complete a survey developed by the School's Operations Office to assess satisfaction with the support provided by the office. The results will be used to evaluate services and to help set priorities in the year ahead. Operations requests that participants complete the form by May 2.