Intekhab will present the dissertation entitled “Biologically motivated artificial intelligence for explainable gene regulatory dynamics”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. John Quackenbush, and includes Dr. Rebekka Burkholz, Dr. Rong Ma, and Dr. Kimberly Glass.
Richard Siegrist will chair. Please be aware that only the student and committee members are permitted to attend the Oral Qualifying Exam.
Emma Crenshaw Doctoral Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics Modeling the 2022 Mpox outbreak with a mechanistic network model Abstract: The 2022 outbreak of MPox affected more than 80,000 individuals worldwide, most of whom were men who have sex with men (MSM) who likely contracted the disease through close contact...
Occupational Risks Among Animal Handlers of Non-human Primates Presenter: Kangwook Huh, MD, First-year resident in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Discussant: Eirini Iliaki, MD, MPH, Cambridge Health Alliance, Infectious Diseases Specialist-Occupational, Immigration, and Travel Health Clinician; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Learning Objectives: Participants...
The Department of Epidemiology presents Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine series The 8th Symposium Speakers: Open to the public
Please join the Mittal Institute for a fireside chat with Vikram Patel, Harvard Medical School, and Bharat Vatwani, co-founder of India’s Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation. This discussion is part of the Mittal Institute's Annual Cambridge Symposium "Science and Technology – The Future of South Asia". The symposium is free and open to the public.
Thesis Defense: Wanying Dou Time: Friday May 3, 2024, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Wanying will present the thesis titled “A Cloud-based Framework for Hyperparameter Optimization of Genomic Pipelines: Tuning the GATK VETS Model for Variant Filtration on Terra”. The thesis committee is chaired by Samuel Lee and includes Rong Ma and...
Please join the Mittal Institute for a lecture by Soumya Swaminathan, Former Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO), on "Lessons from the Pandemic for Science and Global Health", moderated by Megan Murray, Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health and Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School....
Thesis Defense: Stella Nam Time: Friday May 3, 2024, at 4:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Wanying will present the thesis titled “Understanding the Holistic Constraints of Clustering Analysis for CyTOF Data Through Characterization of the Immunologic Response to a Novel Candidate Influenza Vaccine”. The thesis committee is chaired by Patrick Reeves and includes...
Digital Transformation of Health Care Organizations using Artificial Intelligence Application/Registration deadline: 5/6/2024 The field of artificial intelligence has now begun to mature in many industries. Health care, however, still struggles to unlock the gains that these powerful technologies can provide. At the same time, health systems worldwide are struggling with aging populations, rising expectations, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrr8db97Tw It’s long been clear that societal forces affect health, from neighborhood demographics to school quality to the selection of products on sale in our corner stores. But what’s behind those forces? Daniel Dawes, a renowned scholar and attorney, will unpack the political determinants of health, exploring how relationships, resources, policies, and power structures exert...
Sean will present the dissertation entitled "Inferring Conditional Dependencies in Observational Studies: Nuisance Function Tuning and Transfer Learning". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee, and includes Dr. James Robins, Dr. Brent Coull, Dr. Samuel Kou, and Dr. Rui Duan.
