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”
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”
The Harvard University Data Science Initiative is seeking applications for its inaugural Harvard Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program for the 2017-2018 academic year. The normal duration of the Fellowship … Continue reading “Harvard Data Science Postdoc Program”
Though much attention is focused on the long-term benefits of climate change mitigation, David Hunter and Francesca Dominici’s recent article published in the online news source STAT and featured on … Continue reading “Honoring Climate Change Agreements Will Save Millions of Lives”
When asked to address the powerful group of women who attended Harvard’s inaugural university-wide Women’s Weekend (11/4-11/6), Dr. Francesca Dominici chose to take a different approach, placing the microphone in the … Continue reading “Giving a Voice to Future Leaders at Women’s Weekend”
Students and postdocs are encouraged to attend the latest meeting of the Career Development Series, organized by Aaron Fisher, and focusing on job and career advice from a faculty panel of Francesca Dominici, … Continue reading “Career Development Series – 11/1”
As wildfires increase in frequency and severity due to climate change, more communities are threatened by prolonged exposure to harmful levels of smoke. To identify the areas at highest risk, … Continue reading “‘Smoke Waves’: Assessing the Public Health Threat from Wildfires”
In honor of her achievements and career-long commitment to promoting diversity in academia, Francesca Dominici was recently selected to receive the Janet L. Norwood Award, which recognizes woman statisticians for … Continue reading “Francesca Dominici Selected for Norwood Award”
The Health Effects Institute (HEI) recently published a final report of the Accountability Research Program entitled Causal Inference Methods for Estimating Long-Term Health Effects of Air Quality Regulations by Zigler … Continue reading “Cory Zigler: Study on Air Pollution & Health”
On July 20-22 we had an enormously successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, culmination, reunions, evaluation and celebration related to our activities to increase the diversity of our students … Continue reading “Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics”
