PhD Student Georgia Papadogeorgou has been selected as one of the winners of the 2016 JSM Student Paper Competition for her paper Towards Adjustment for Completely Unobserved Confounding. As part of … Continue reading “JSM Student Paper Competition Winner”
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Cory Zigler, who’s R01 was recently funded! The title of the grant is Causal Inference with Interference for Evaluating Air Quality Policies. Cory’s co-investigators include Francesca Dominici, … Continue reading “Cory Zigler’s R01 Funded”
Join Linda Valeri (PhD ’13) for her talk on Wednesday!
Jennifer Bobb and Francesca Dominici‘s paper, Causes of hospitalization during heat waves, was recently named one of the top papers funded by the NIEHS in 2015. The paper reported that, … Continue reading “Heat Waves – An NIEHS Paper of the Year”
Jeremiah Zhe Liu (SM ’15, PhD ’20) was recently interviewed for the school’s Why Public Health? feature in the Harvard Public Health Magazine. After coming to America and seeing a … Continue reading “Why Public Health? Featuring Jeremiah Zhe Liu”
In the fall of 2015, Shirley Liu succeeded Rafa Irizarry as the Chair of the NIH Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology (GCAT) Study Section. Her chair term will be for two years. Proposals reviewed … Continue reading “Shirley Liu: New Chair of GCAT Study Section”
Statistical Issues in the Study & Design of Cardiovascular Disease February 10, 2016 11:00am-5pm, Yawkey Conference Center, DFCI RSVP to mplante@hsph.harvard.edu This half-day symposium, sponsored by the Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Program, … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Symposium”
As part of our Department Colloquium Series, Neil Shephard from the Department of Statistics at Harvard University will be our speaker on Janaury 28, 2016. Dr. Shephard will speak on ³Moment … Continue reading “Colloquium Speaker: Neil Shephard”
Three new courses are being introduced this year, plus Professor Rafa Irizarry continued to roll out new modules in his HarvardX course, PHX525, Data Analysis for Genomics, over the spring … Continue reading “New Courses”
The King Abdulaziz University MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology saw its first cohort graduate this year. Several of our students submitted their theses for publication, with the guidance of our … Continue reading “A Boston – Jeddah Collaboration”
