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Harvard Gazette Interviews ID-Epi Prof. Marc Lipsitch
Click here to read the article, entitled "Lipsitch catches the flu in action: HSPH professor serves as federal H1N1 adviser". Reading about the role Lipsitch and others have played in this looming public health issue drives home the way in which the rigorous academic endeavors at HSPH translate into valuable information and data--which in turn feeds into real solutions in the government and policy arenas.
Global Health Research Innovation Challenge: Win $5000 in Seed Funding.
This fall, the team of Harvard students with the best plan for solving one of three global health data collection problems will receive funding to develop and test the idea.
- Tracking health workers
- Mapping health infrastructure
- Connecting test results with patients
Notice of intent: Nov. 16, 2009
Full entries: Nov. 30, 2009
Funding Opportunity: RFP FALL 2009
Proposals will be accepted for Feasibility Projects and Scholar Awards in clinical and basic science HIV/AIDS research.
The last date to submit applications is Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4 p.m. EST.
Click here to DOWNLOADthe RFP.
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Former ID-Epi Student and Current Assistant Professor Wins NIH Award
Along with 53 other distinguished awardees, Ted Cohen, MD, DPH, was recently awarded the NIH New Innovator award. Cohen is a 2006 graduate of the HSPH doctoral program in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
What is the New Innovator Award??
The NIH Director's New Innovator Award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators. Designed specifically to support unusually creative new investigators with highly innovative ideas at an early stage of their career (when they may lack the preliminary data required for an R01 grant), the award is part of NIH's commitment to increasing opportunities for new scientists. It looks for new investigators who propose projects with a potential for unusually high impact on an important biomedical or behavioral research problem.
The NIH Director's New Innovator Award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators. Designed specifically to support unusually creative new investigators with highly innovative ideas at an early stage of their career (when they may lack the preliminary data required for an R01 grant), the award is part of NIH's commitment to increasing opportunities for new scientists. It looks for new investigators who propose projects with a potential for unusually high impact on an important biomedical or behavioral research problem.
Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at HSPH and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he is a research faculty member in the Department of Global Health Equity. Dr. Cohen is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. While his primary focus is on the emergence and control of drug resistant tuberculosis, his work also extends to other pathogens of public health importance including HIV, influenza, S. pneumoniae, and SARS. He uses a combination of mathematical modeling techniques and traditional methods for epidemiological analysis in his studies, and is currently working on projects in South America and sub-Saharan Africa.
To read an abstract of the work for which Cohen was selected, as well as find out about his co-recipients, visit:
Murray Group moved:
Looking for Megan Murray or someone from her group? You will no longer find them on Kresge 8th floor. As of August 31, their new location is 641 Huntington Avenue, 4th floor. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses have not changed.
Congratulations....
...to the four new appointees to the Infectious Disease and Biodefense training grant (George Seage, PI). They are:
Meghan Baker. Epidemiology
Jeffrey Anderson, Epidemiology
Elizabeth Mostofsky, Epidemiology
John Quattrochi, Global Health and Population
...to the four new appointees to the Infectious Disease and Biodefense training grant (George Seage, PI). They are:
Meghan Baker. Epidemiology
Jeffrey Anderson, Epidemiology
Elizabeth Mostofsky, Epidemiology
John Quattrochi, Global Health and Population