Latest News in Biostatistics
The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is creating a robust data science and data equity (DSDE) program that aims to transform public health research through data science discoveries and equitable implementation, and to provide data analysts with a new, collaborative career path in academic public health. The DSDE educational programming will enable the next generation of public health leaders to master core data science concepts.
- October 09, 2024
Two distinguished Yale professors, Dr. Hongyu Zhao, PhD, and Dr. Mark Gerstein, PhD, have been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to advance the Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) project. This landmark initiative aims to unravel the complexities of gene expression patterns across developmental stages, providing critical insights into genetic influences on health and disease.
- October 02, 2024
NIH Awards $1.5 Million Grant to Improve Factual Correctness in Large Language Models in Health Care
Funded by the National Library of Medicine, the project aims to improve the reliability of AI-generated responses in medical applications, ensuring more accurate and trustworthy information to support better health care decisions.
- September 30, 2024
Aging is a natural process that unfolds as our bodies move through different stages of life. Research focused on aging is an interdisciplinary field, transcending geriatrics and spanning throughout internal medicine, public health, and many other disciplines. In recent years, the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center has focused on building partnerships and increasing resources on campus for faculty and trainees interested in pursuing aging research.
- September 24, 2024
Pollutants from fires can travel great distances and have the potential to affect human health thousands of kilometers away. In a new study, researchers from the Yale School of Public Health investigated whether long-term exposure to fine particles in wildfire smoke was associated with increases in causes of death.
- September 19, 2024
This Alumni Spotlight focuses on Huangdi (Denise) Yi, PhD ’20 (Biostatistics).
- September 17, 2024
A YSPH-led research team is investigating innovative new ways to identify and mitigate outbreaks of HIV among people who use drugs.
- September 04, 2024
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently granted Rohan Khera, MD, MS, a $3.8 million R01 award for his project, “Translating Personalized Inference from Randomized Clinical Trials to Real-World Cardiovascular Care.” This is the first systematic study to examine potential approaches to extract individualized information from randomized clinical trials.
- September 04, 2024Source: YaleNews
Mukherjee is a leader in the field of public health statistics and data science who recently joined the Yale faculty.
- September 03, 2024
Dr. Ariel Chao became the first PhD graduate of the Department of Biostatistics' new Implementation and Prevention Science Methods Pathway in May. She also earned her MPH in biostatistics from YSPH in 2020.