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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.
Renewal of NIEHS grant paves way for new research on how complex environmental exposures affect health
August 8, 2019 – With the renewal of a major federal grant, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s NIEHS Center for Environmental Health will focus on a broad new objective—the exploration of how a wide variety of…
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…
Searching for strong signals in big data’s noise
Zack McCaw, PhD ’19, is developing statistical tools to advance research into the genetic basis of complex diseases.
Researchers explore the link between the microbiome and public health
May 24, 2019 – The microbiome—the collection of trillions of microorganisms throughout the body that plays an important role in numerous diseases—represents a promising frontier in the world of public health. Although it’s a relatively new field of…
Biostatistician Colin Begg receives Marvin Zelen Leadership Award
May 7, 2019 – At one point during his May 2, 2019 talk about the challenges facing leaders of biostatistics departments, Colin Begg showed an image of the comedian Rodney Dangerfield with Dangerfield’s famous line: “I don’t get…
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.
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…
