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13th Annual Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop

The Inn at Longwood Medical 342 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, United States

The Mathematical Modeling and Public Health Workshop is an annual event for undergraduates or students in a post baccalaureate program from underrepresented groups who have an interest in public health and/or mathematical modeling, and are studying quantitative disciplines and/or public health at their home institutions. Organizers

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

How to Make People Immortal and Why it is Not a Good Idea: Improving the Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract: The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time...

What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: How Developmental Environments Shape Lifelong Health and Wellbeing

On Wednesday, March 5th, from 1-1:50 PM in FXB G12 or online, please join us for the fourth installment of our Environments for Health and Happiness Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Lindsey Burghardt of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child. Event Description: This talk will discuss how, beginning well before birth, children's development and lifelong...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

Brown Bag Seminar with Amruta Nori-Sarma

Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On March 6, Amruta Nori-Sarma, PhD,will present (TBD). Dr. Nori-Sarma is Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Science in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This seminar will be held in Building...