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Your phone knows how you feel
[Spring 2015] [August 2015: Watch a TV interview with JP Onnela] Scientists are using cellphone data to track everything from depression and mood disorders to crowd behavior. On a difficult day, the patient’s data stream includes very few pings.…
Prof. Marvin Zelen remembered as ‘magnificent human being’
May 27, 2015 – Several hundred colleagues, family, and friends from as far away as Israel and Japan gathered together on a beautiful spring day (May 22, 2015) at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston’s Longwood…
Identifying individuals by their microbial ‘companions’
Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke on the public radio program Science Friday on May 15, 2015, about new findings that the microbial communities we carry…
Franziska Michor wins 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise
Franziska Michor, associate professor of computational biology, has won a 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. Michor was chosen for her research that fuses evolutionary biology, mathematics, and clinical research toward a better understanding of…
In memoriam: Prof. Marvin Zelen, a 'tremendous force' in biostatistics
November 18, 2014 The Harvard School of Public Health community was saddened to learn that Professor Marvin Zelen—a driving force behind both the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Department of Biostatistics…
Donna Spiegelman wins award to develop effective public health interventions
October 6, 2014 — Donna Spiegelman, professor of epidemiologic methods at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has received a Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). One of 10 researchers honored, Spiegelman is believed…
Digging for research gold in electronic medical records
September 25, 2014 — For scientists who study rare diseases, hospitals’ vast data banks hold tantalizing potential. Access to anonymized electronic medical records allows researchers to track the progress of a larger group of patients than would be…
Big data's big visionary
[ Fall 2014 ] As cholera swept through London in the mid-19th century, a physician named John Snow painstakingly drew a paper map indicating clusters of homes where the deadly waterborne infection had struck. In an iconic feat…
Zip code better predictor of health than genetic code
August 4, 2014 — In St. Louis, Missouri, Delmar Boulevard marks a sharp dividing line between the poor, predominately African American neighborhood to the north and a more affluent, largely white neighborhood to the south. Education and health…
Do women talk more than men?
Research could lead to better picture of patients facing mood disorders July 23, 2014 — It’s a common stereotype that women talk more than men. But a new study suggests that context is the key to whether or…
