Biostatistics
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Pregnancy in Puerto Rico: Protecting the Health of Women and Children by Reducing Metal Exposures
Pahriya Ashrap
During gestation, the human body grows at tremendous speeds, and even slight changes to a child’s biology during this sensitive time can dramatically alter health outcomes. Recent studies in Puerto Rico and elsewhere provide further support for the need to address even low levels of lead exposure for all pregnant women. Read more
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50 Years Later, the Future Awaits
Dean F. DuBois Bowman and Dean Jonathan Overpeck
Fifty years after a Michigan “teach-in” provided a blueprint and momentum for thousands of other events around the country, we must continue looking forward to new iterations of environmental consciousness and care as we seek to be part of the solutions to global climate change. Read more
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One Family, Three Disciplines: An Intergenerational Conversation on Public Health
Michael Boehnke, Betsy Foxman, and Kevin Foxman Boehnke
We asked a family of public health researchers about big-picture changes in the field, how they decide which questions to pursue, and what they make of specialization in the sciences. Their conversation both lifts up and itself embodies the interdisciplinary nature of public health. Read more
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How Does Public Health Use Big Data?
Part 4 in Our 'What Is Public Health?' Video Series
We live in a world full of data, but how do we use it effectively? In this new installment in our 'What Is Public Health?" video series, see how public health professionals build the tools that help communities, physicians, individuals, and others harness data to improve health everywhere. Read more
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What's a Biobank, and How Can My Health Record Support Research?
Max Salvatore and Lauren Beesley
Advances in genetic science provide us more and more information about our health. Biobanks are increasing the organization of that data so we can ask and answer crucial health questions more rapidly, from diseases we might have to how we might respond to certain drug treatments. Read more
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Working in Everyone's Backyard: Statistics in the Community
Stephen Salerno
Statistics in the Community is a community outreach organization offering the expertise of statistics graduate students—free of charge—to nonprofit organizations. They design studies, develop better data collection instruments, and analyze data for public good. Read more
