Tingting Yu
Tingting Yu is an Instructor at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D. degree in Statistics with a specialization in Biostatistics from the University of British Columbia. Her research area includes longitudinal data analysis, survival data analysis, joint modeling of correlated data, as well as addressing issues of data complications such as censoring and outliers.
Investigator Spotlight: Getting to Know Kurt Christensen
Kurt Christensen, Beyond the CV
Annual Report 2019
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to present to you our Annual Report on the activities and achievements of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute for 2019.
Self-help Groups and Medication Use in Opioid Addiction Treatment
Institute Faculty member Hefei Wen, PhD, leverages rigorous quantitative methods to inform health and social policies surrounding the behavioral health issues in the U.S. Her belief in the power of connection and the possibility of redemption is the driving force behind her research commitment. Her latest study, published in Health Affairs, is the first
Emilie Zoltick
Emilie Zoltick is a Research Scientist in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Dr. Zoltick received her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health and her ScD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in epidemiology with a focus on cancer prevention and control. She completed her postdoctoral training at Boston University and the Genomes2People research program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Investigator Spotlight: Getting to know Izzuddin Aris
Izzuddin Aris, Beyond the CV
Gordon Moore awarded the Harvard Medical School William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
To Professor Gordon Moore, MD, MPH, mentoring is a two-way street.
Addressing barriers to vaccine hesitancy: a tailored approach
Assistant Professor Catherine Panozzo, PhD, uses large databases to study the comparative uptake, effectiveness, and safety of drugs and vaccines. She is also interested in public health surveillance and interventions. Her latest study, recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, included a large web-based randomized controlled trial of mothers with concerns about the vaccine. Study results show a promising avenue for addressing vaccine hesitancy around the HPV vaccine. We spoke with Dr.