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Addressing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities—Faculty Members Support New Surgeon General’s Report

November 19, 2024

Following a rigorous review of the scientific evidence, what does the U.S. Surgeon General’s report recommend?

Health Policy

Tobacco

Data

Noncommunicable Diseases

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A Bleak Winter? Modeling the Next Six Months of COVID, Flu, and RSV

December 12, 2022

Research teams considered booster rates and potential new variants in their latest COVID-19 projections—which cover months when RSV and the flu could also send many people to the hospital.

COVID-19

Data

Infectious Diseases

Bloomberg School

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How Covid Slowed Basic Science

July 15, 2022

COVID-19

Data

Technology and Innovation

Global Health NOW

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What VAERS Is (And Isn’t)

May 03, 2022

Anyone can report a post-vaccination health issue to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System—which anti-vaccination activists often misuse to sow misinformation and distrust.

COVID-19

Data

Vaccines

Bloomberg School

Mapping Study Yields Novel Insights into DNA-Protein Connection, Paving Way for Researchers to Target New Treatments

May 02, 2022

DNA-to-protein mapping could help researchers understand some health disparities.

Data

Epidemiology

Health Equity

Bloomberg School

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How Biased Data and Algorithms Can Harm Health

April 15, 2022

Public health researchers are working to uncover and correct unfairness in AI.

Data

Health Equity

Hearing Loss

Public Health Magazine

Data Faculty Experts

Add subtext below TOPIC Faculty: Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of data? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Karen Bandeen-Roche

Professor

Biostatistics

Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, MS, creates statistical reasoning needed to learn how we can lengthen healthy life and increase independence for older adults.

Brian S. Caffo

Professor

Biostatistics

Brian Caffo, PhD, MS, is a biostatistician who studies big, complex data in the neurosciences.

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Professor

Biostatistics

Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD, MS, models disease risk associated with genetic, lifestyle, biomarkers. and other factors, with the goal of improving disease prevention.

Data

Data Headlines

Addressing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities—Faculty Members Support New Surgeon General’s Report

A Bleak Winter? Modeling the Next Six Months of COVID, Flu, and RSV

How Covid Slowed Basic Science

What VAERS Is (And Isn’t)

Mapping Study Yields Novel Insights into DNA-Protein Connection, Paving Way for Researchers to Target New Treatments

How Biased Data and Algorithms Can Harm Health

Data Faculty Experts

Karen Bandeen-Roche

Brian S. Caffo

Nilanjan Chatterjee

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