Department of Biostatistics

Category: New Research

Upcoming Dissertation Defenses

**Contact Jelena Follweiler for Zoom info 5/4/2020 at 12:30 pm Lee Kennedy-Shaffer Statistical Methods for the Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies Advisor: Michael Hughes Dissertation Committee Members: Marc Lipsitch (EPI), Victor … Continue reading “Upcoming Dissertation Defenses”

Upcoming CBQG Thesis Defenses

**Contact Geryel Osorio Godoy for Zoom info 5/6/2020 at 3:00 pm Anna Booman Development of a Methodology to Assess Communication Skills in Angelman Syndrome Using Home-Based Video Recordings Thesis advisor: Dr. Wen-Hann … Continue reading “Upcoming CBQG Thesis Defenses”

Francesca Dominici Receives Karl E. Peace Award

Congratulations to Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science and Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, who was selected as the 2020 recipient of the … Continue reading “Francesca Dominici Receives Karl E. Peace Award”

Rachel Nethery Receives HDSI Funding

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Rachel Nethery who has received funding from the Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund. Each year the HDSI fund provides targeted seed and bridge funding to … Continue reading “Rachel Nethery Receives HDSI Funding”

Frontiers in Biostatistics with Noah Simon – 4/28

April 28, 2020 1:00 PM See website for Zoom info Noah Simon, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics University of Washington “Reframing proportional-hazards modeling for large time-to-event datasets with applications to deep … Continue reading “Frontiers in Biostatistics with Noah Simon – 4/28”

Learning From Public Health Interventions in Wuhan

In a recent Twitter thread, Harvard Biostatistics and Statistics professor Xihong Lin announced the publication of a study in JAMA carried out in collaboration with colleagues at Tongji School of Public Health of Huazhong Science … Continue reading “Learning From Public Health Interventions in Wuhan”

Download the “How We Feel” App Today and Help Fight COVID-19

How do you feel?  Now is a great time to share with the release of How We Feel, a new app that uses the community’s help to track and fight COVID-19. The … Continue reading “Download the “How We Feel” App Today and Help Fight COVID-19″

Alumnus Yu Guo Creates COVID-19 Tracking Resource

Department alumna Yu Guo, PhD ’06, has led the effort to create a comprehensive, real-time COVID-19 tracking resource for the US and Canada. The site has had over 100 millions visitors … Continue reading “Alumnus Yu Guo Creates COVID-19 Tracking Resource”