Honoring Climate Change Agreements Will Save Millions of Lives

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”

Giving a Voice to Future Leaders at Women’s Weekend

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”

Career Development Series – 11/1

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”

‘Smoke Waves’: Assessing the Public Health Threat from Wildfires

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”

Cory Zigler: Study on Air Pollution & Health

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”

Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics

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”

HSPH Secures BD2K Training Grant

From contributor Sheila Gaynor:  We are very pleased to announce that our department was recently awarded an NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) T32 Training Grant that will support six … Continue reading “HSPH Secures BD2K Training Grant”

Mumbai Workshop Kicking Off May 30

On May 30-June 3 the Statistical Methods and Analysis of Environmental Health Data Workshop will be held in Mumbai, India. Co-sponsored by HSPH, SAMSI, ISI-Kolkata, and PFHI and organized in part by … Continue reading “Mumbai Workshop Kicking Off May 30”