At climate summit, students from around the world focus on action
Students from the U.S. and beyond took a deep dive into issues of climate change, equity, and public health at an annual weeklong summit at Harvard Chan School.
Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, John Quackenbush elected to National Academy of Medicine
Harvard Chan School faculty members Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, and John Quackenbush were elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Artificial Intelligence’s Promise and Peril
As algorithms analyze mammograms and smartphones capture lived experiences, researchers are debating the use of ai in public health.
To address remote learning challenges, hybrid program brings international students back to campus
A new hybrid program is helping first-year international students, who were facing challenges with taking remote classes from thousands of miles away. The program brought a group of students to Boston, where they take both online and once-a-week…
A call for greater transparency, reproducibility in use of artificial intelligence in medicine
For immediate release: October 14, 2020 Boston, MA – Scientists working at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cancer care need to be more transparent about their methods and publish research that is reproducible, according to a…
Study sheds light on sex-based differences in gene regulation
New research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has uncovered sex-based differences in networks that regulate gene expression in a large number of human tissues. The finding is important because it…
How so-called 'junk DNA' affects cancer risk
John Quackenbush, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics, is trying to understand how our genes influence cancer risk. In a recent research paper, he and his colleagues explored…
Fong Wang Clow receives 2019 Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award
Biostatistician Fong Wang Clow, who helped bring numerous lifesaving drugs to market, is the recipient of the 2019 Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.
Q&A: Why Sex Matters (in Disease Susceptibility)
John Quackenbush and colleagues have been turning over a boulder of faulty assumptions about how sex differences affect disease risk and progression.
New studies reveal differences between tumors from men and women
There appear to be important differences between male- and female-derived tumors, according to two new studies. The findings revealed differences both in genes that drive cancer and in the regulation of key pathways that may predict responses to…