While the occurrence, severity, and geographic extent of droughts are anticipated to increase under climate change, the health consequences of drought conditions are unknown. Professor Francesca Dominici recently took part … Continue reading “Drought and the Risk of Hospital Admissions”
Meetings available – Please contact Susan Luvisi to schedule 10:30-11:00am 11:00-11:30am 11:30-12:00pm 12:30-1:30 – Student/Postdoc Lunch            Building 1, Room 1002 … Continue reading “Colloquium with Enrique Schisterman – 4/5”
WEDNESDAY, March 22, 2017  |  12:30-1:30 PM Armenise Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School 210 Longwood Ave. a pizza lunch will be provided Peter Robinson Professor of Computational Biology The Jackson Laboratory Phenotype … Continue reading “Peter Robinson B3D Seminar: Wednesday, 3/22”
THURSDAY, March 23, 2017 Â | Â 12:30-1:30 PM Kresge G1, a pizza lunch will be provided Sarah Teichmann Head of Cellular Genetics Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Understanding Cellular Heterogeneity From techniques … Continue reading “Sarah Teichmann PQG Seminar: Thursday, 3/23”
The Royal Statistical Society has awarded Harvard Statistics Department Chair Neil Shephard the 2017 Guy Medal in Silver for his seminal paper “Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-based models and some of their uses in financial economics” written jointly … Continue reading “Neil Shephard Receives Guy Medal in Silver”
As members of a team composed of investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Fellow Danielle Braun and DFCI Biostatistics Chair & Professor Giovanni Parmigiani … Continue reading “Braun & Parmigiani Receive Footbridge Grant”
Sometimes it requires using a novel approach to tease out health impacts related to climate change. A recent study did just that, coordinating electronic medical records across hospitals to identify trends … Continue reading “Cardiovascular disease-related hospital admissions jump on second day after major snowfall”
Jeff Miller, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, and Pierre Etienne Jacob, Assistant Professor of Statistics at FAS, were recently awarded funding by the Radcliffe Institute for a proposed Exploratory Seminar – … Continue reading “Statistics When the Model is Wrong”
The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core (HBC) is welcoming their H3Africa interns this week! H3ABioNet, a Pan African Bioinformatics Network, supports Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)Â research projects through the … Continue reading “H3ABioNet-Harvard Bioinformatics Internship Program”
JANUARY 26 3:30-5:00pm |Â Room G1 | Kresge Building The Pharmacogenetics of the Placebo Response Kathryn T. Hall, Harvard Medical School & BWH FEBRUARY 8 3:30-5:00pm |Â Room G2 | Kresge Building … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Biostats Semiar Series: The Placebo Effect in Clinical Studies”
