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.
Program boosts undergrads’ interest in biostatistics
August 6, 2019 – A summer crash course at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health helped a dozen undergraduates from across the U.S. learn how to use quantitative skills to improve health on a wide scale. During…
Harvard and MIT team up to launch peer-reviewed data science journal
The Harvard Data Science Initiative and MIT Press have launched the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR), an open-access peer-reviewed journal that serves as a centralized and authoritative outlet for the burgeoning field of data science. The journal will…
New technologies hold promise, challenges for global health
The sixth annual State of Global Health Symposium highlighted recent technologies in global health, and what it will take to turn them into scalable solutions.
A "Transformational Gift" for Data Science at Harvard
A new gift from Bob and Luisa Fernholz, in support of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, promises to spark new interdisciplinary collaborations across the University and boost methodological and computing expertise in the field.
For disease risk, is it genes or the environment? Probably both.
December 14, 2018 – It’s a question that has long intrigued epidemiologists: How much of a role do genes play in the onset of diseases and how much of a role does an individual’s environment play? “It’s really…
Help wanted: Data scientists
Demand for data scientists is rising across most industries but not enough people are trained to fill the roles, according to Rafael Irizarry, professor of biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Data science is a…
Researchers wrap their arms around the messy world of big data
November 9, 2018—The promises of big data in health care are seemingly endless. And so are the challenges—poor data quality, byzantine medical codes, and the complexity of human genetics, to name just a few. A recent event, hosted…
Your phone knows how you feel
Harvard Chan School researchers are mining smartphone data to improve health.
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…