Victor De Gruttola’s storied career celebrated at biostatistics symposium
Members of the Department of Biostatistics recently gathered for a symposium celebrating the 50-year career of Victor De Gruttola, former chair and professor of biostatistics emeritus.
Harvard Chan researchers present new findings at AIDS conference
The 22nd International AIDS Conference drew HIV/AIDS experts from around the world, including researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who presented new findings on topics including the risks of a new AIDS drug, “test-and-treat” campaigns…
What does a biostatistician do?
June 17, 2014 — Victor De Gruttola, chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), recently answered three questions about the role of biostatistics in public…
HIV/AIDS studies in Africa
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] The School’s fieldwork in HIV/AIDS, which has received support from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the National Institutes of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NIH, and other private philanthropists,…
Measuring the effectiveness of public health interventions
February 11, 2013 -- If you’re examining the impact of air pollution control efforts in Denver, how do you statistically account for the fact that air pollution travels east—and that pollution reduction in the western United States could…
Franziska Michor honored at second annual Alice Hamilton lecture
May 11, 2012 Franziska Michor, associate professor of computational biology, received Harvard School of Public Health’s second annual Alice Hamilton Award on April 11, 2012 in recognition of her pathbreaking work applying evolutionary theory to cancer. The award,…
Harvard School of Public Health awarded $20 million CDC grant to study HIV prevention in Botswana
For immediate release: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Boston, MA — A new four-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enable Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers to evaluate the…