Before leaving the office of Governor due to term limits earlier this year, Roy Cooper expanded North Carolina’s Medicaid program, enrolling more than 650,000 residents, many in rural areas. He also worked with hospitals to create a medical debt relief program aimed at helping nearly 2 million residents get out from under the weight of...
Abstract: Since the mid 1960’s, 165 prevalence surveys of autism were conducted worldwide and their main findings will first be summarized. While the contribution of genetic factors to autism etiology is high, the increase in autism prevalence has raised concerns about additional contribution of environmental factors. Autism risk has been statistically associated with myriads of...
WGH and event co-sponsors are hosting a community screening of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" to honor the political and humanitarian power of grassroots women-led movements in the face of war and...
Join the Harvard Innovation Labs for our annual celebration of innovation, community, and entrepreneurship at Harvard. We’ll hear live pitches from 25 finalist ventures and reveal which will receive a...
ID Epi Seminar Series Erin Mordecai - More than warming: climate change is transforming the landscape of vector-borne diseases
*This seminar has been rescheduled from April 24 to May 8 and will be held on Zoom* Watch here Join the Department of Global Health and Population for our weekly Thursday Brown Bag Series! On May 8, Jalikatu Mustapha, MMed, MSc, BMBS, will present, “From Darkness to Light: Stories and Strategies to End Avoidable Blindness in...
The Cutter Lectures on Preventive Medicine The 9th Symposium Join us as three preeminent speakers address topics on the intersection of health, misinformation, and epidemiology adapting to a rapidly changing information landscape. Produced by the Department of Epidemiology with co-sponsors the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Health Communications.This hybrid event offers livestream and in-person...
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will...
Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Susan Chilton from Newcastle University. Chilton's presentation reports on the results of experimentally testing the external validity of the veil of ignorance established in "Citizen Preferences and BCA: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay behind a Veil of Ignorance," which established a theoretical model...
Generative AI has proven to reliably and rapidly develop code and data analysis. Advancements in technology have provided in-built containers for running of generated code within the AI environment, providing a streamlined experience for rapid exploratory data analysis. This workshop aims at providing instruction on Harvard generative AI resources, best practices, and understanding of the...
