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SPH Selects Winners of Dean’s Innovation Challenge

BU School of Public Health Blog

Monitoring Public Health Emergencies Huimin Cheng , assistant professor of biostatistics, and Vedika Srivastava , a research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, intend to use their award to develop a new digital platform that integrates multiple public data sources to enhance early detection and response to emerging health threats.

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SPH Launches New Center for Health Data Science

BU School of Public Health Blog

Biostatistics SPH Launches New Center for Health Data Science Debbie Cheng, professor of biostatistics, will lead the new center, which will combine and expand the work of the Population Health Data Science Program and the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center.

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The Pivot with Dr. Hongtu Zhu

UNC Epidemiology Blog

I play a pivotal role in public health as a professor and researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, where I hold appointments across several departments, including biostatistics, genetics, radiology, computer science and statistics. Dr. Zhu speaks at the Department of Biostatistics’ 75th anniversary celebration.

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Epi Scholars Program, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

The Cofounder

Since 2007, the EpiScholarsProgram has provided rigorous training in appliedepidemiology to stellar graduate and professional epidemiology and biostatistics students at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH).

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Revolutionizing missing data management in EHRs with machine learning

News Medical Health Sciences

Researchers from the National Institute of Health Data Science at Peking University and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Peking University People's Hospital have conducted a comprehensive systematic review evaluating strategies for addressing missing data in electronic health records (EHRs).

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AI tools show potential to improve aging interventions and recommendations

News Medical Health Sciences

A collaborative study between researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and aging Research, Rostock University Medical Center, Germany, investigated how advanced AI tools, like Large Language Models (LLMs), can make it easier (..)

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CDC Biostatistics, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics for Respiratory Virus Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/ORISE

The Cofounder

CDC’s Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division (CORVD) in the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) is dedicated to development and advancement of biomedical research to “improve the health of people by preventing illness, disability, and death from respiratory viruses induced diseases through public health science (..)