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Jenny Lee receives Burke Climate and Health Fellowship!Congratulations to alumna and postdoc Jenny Lee, PhD ’22, who has been granted a Burke Climate and Health Fellowship, for her project to ‘Develop a causal inference method to assess… 
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Octavious Smiley Dissertation Defense – 8/14*Please note – this defense is in person only. Related Topics Last Updated Get the latest public health news 
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2023 CELEHS/HMS Data Science Summer Program FeaturedThe 2023 CELEHS/HMS Data Science Summer Program, which completed its fifth year, was recently featured in an HSPH news story. While the program focuses on the introduction of programming and… 
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Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award – Nominations due 8/11The award will be open to all who have an earned degree through the department, regardless of length of time since graduation or type of degree. The award recipient will… 
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2023 CELEHS/HMS Data Science Program PresentationsThe 2023 CELEHS/HMS Data Science Summer Program concluded last week with the presentation of 7 newly built self-driving cars from 3 teams in San Jose, CA and 4 teams in…   
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StatStart Summer Program Presentations – 7/28Please join us for the 8th Annual StatStart Presentations!Friday, June 28th | 10am-2pm | Biostats Conference Roomyou can also join virtually using the Zoom link: Join Zoom meetinghttps://harvard.zoom.us/j/98053243411?pwd=a0RyTzZ6bVk1OFM4WWxnMzFaWTBJQT09 Password: 167063… 
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New Resource: Nature MasterclassesNature Masterclasses offers online professional development courses for scientific researchers at all career stages but may be particularly valuable to Harvard Chan students, postdocs, and research staff.Topics include grant writing,… 
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RNA-seq Analysis with Bioconductor Workshop – 7/31-8/1Register here: https://bit.ly/bioc2023-rnaseq Related Topics Last Updated Get the latest public health news 
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Pipelines into Public Health SymposiumThe 2023 Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology concluded last week, after the annual “Pipelines into Public Health Symposium” was held on Thursday, July 13th. Research project presentations were…   
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Pipelines into Public Health Symposium – 7/13!Pipelines into Public Health Symposium | Thursday, July 13, 2023 | Kresge G3This is the last week of the undergrad Summer Program in Biostatistics, and it will conclude with a… 