Francesca Dominici to Speak at COVID-19 Town Hall – 7/15

Dr. Francesca Dominici, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, will speak at the upcoming COVID-19 Town Hall Series presented by … Continue reading “Francesca Dominici to Speak at COVID-19 Town Hall – 7/15”

COVID-19 Strain in Beijing Outbreak May Have Come from Southeast Asia

Research Associate Georg Hahn and Professor Christoph Lange are part of a team of researchers performing genomic analysis of COVID-19, with their latest work being published on the preprint website medRxiv.org. Via Reuters 7.2.20 A strain of COVID-19 … Continue reading “COVID-19 Strain in Beijing Outbreak May Have Come from Southeast Asia”

Nature Article Explores R as the Pandemic’s Misunderstood Metric

Professor Xihong Lin‘s new website was recently featured in an article published in Nature last week; “A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric“, which sought to explore what the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about … Continue reading “Nature Article Explores R as the Pandemic’s Misunderstood Metric”

Francesca Dominici & Team Receive Star-Friedman Funding

Congratulations to Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science and Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative, who was recently selected as the recipient of the 2020 Star-Friedman … Continue reading “Francesca Dominici & Team Receive Star-Friedman Funding”

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier & Isabel Fulcher Receive Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant

Congratulations to alumnae Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS, and Biostatistics at HCSPH, and Isabel Fulcher, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Harvard Data Science Initiative, for receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research … Continue reading “Bethany Hedt-Gauthier & Isabel Fulcher Receive Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant”

Pandemic Response Conference – 6/23-6/24

The Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science is delighted to invite you to a virtual conference entitled Pandemic Response: Resilience and Recovery in the Era of COVID-19, to be held on June 23-24, … Continue reading “Pandemic Response Conference – 6/23-6/24”

New Interactive Site for Visualizing COVID-19’s Rt

Professor Xihong Lin and her team of students and postdocs have recently launched a new website where interactive maps help to visualize COVID-19’s Effective Reproduction Number (Rt) in real time throughout the world, at various resolutions from country level … Continue reading “New Interactive Site for Visualizing COVID-19’s Rt”

DFCI Zoominars for Data Science Lineup

The Department of Data Sciences at DFCI will host a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather than a traditional seminar format, Rafael Irizarry will moderate a Q&A with invited speakers on … Continue reading “DFCI Zoominars for Data Science Lineup”

DFCI Zoominars for Data Science Lineup

The Department of Data Sciences at DFCI will host a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather than a traditional seminar format, Rafael Irizarry will moderate a Q&A with invited speakers on … Continue reading “DFCI Zoominars for Data Science Lineup”

COVID-19 Analysis with alumna Christl Donnelly – 6/3

Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture – June 3, 2020 with Dr. Christl Donnelly “Real-time analysis of COVID-19: epidemiology, statistics and modelling in action” Join Dr. Christl Donnelly, Deputy Head of Department for the Department … Continue reading “COVID-19 Analysis with alumna Christl Donnelly – 6/3”