Our 2nd year PhD students will be presenting their summer projects on Monday, 8/24 starting at 4pm, with a second group of presentations on Tuesday, 8/25, starting at 2:30pm. Please email Jelena Follweiler for Zoom … Continue reading “Summer Project Presentations – 8/24 & 8/25”
Upon an invitation by Nature Microbiology, former Biostat postdoctoral fellow Chaolong Wang and Professor Xihong Lin published a Behind the Paper blog entitled “Learning from the Wuhan COVID19 Data on the Fly” about their recent Nature paper on “Reconstruction of the full … Continue reading “Learning from the Wuhan COVID-19 Data on the Fly”
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics Xihong Lin along with a team of scientists from Huazhong Science and Technology University in Wuhan, including the co-corresponding author Chaolong Wang, a former Biostats postdoctoral fellow, recently published … Continue reading “Undetected Cases Speed COVID-19 Spread and a Potential Second Wave”
With assistance from Professor of Biostatistics Xihong Lin, a group of undergraduates from various universities recently developed a survey to assess the effects of COVID-19 on undergraduate communities. The data they hope to capture … Continue reading “Help Distributing Undergrad COVID-19 Survey”
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”
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”
On April 17, professor Xihong Lin testified at the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, before 8-9 UK parliament members and chair Dr. Greg Clark, about lessons learned so far in … Continue reading “Xihong Lin: COVID-19 Lessons Learned So Far”
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”
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″
An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers from leading academic institutions including Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute and MIT, Xihong Lin of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Faculty of … Continue reading “HowWeFeel: An App Designed to Tackle Coronavirus Together”
