DPM Faculty elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation

Congratulations to Department of Population Medicine faculty members Emily Oken and Maryam Asgari on their election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).  The ASCI comprises more than 3,000 physician-scientists from all medical specialties elected to the Society for their outstanding records of scholarly achievement. The ASCI considers the nominations of several hundred physician-scientists submitted from among its members each year and elects up to 80 new membe

Sharon Lutz

Dr. Sharon Lutz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Lutz received her MA in Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MA and PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Genomic Mathematics at the University of Bonn, Germany and the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

Douglas Krakower

Dr. Douglas Krakower is Faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, and Associate Professor in Medicine and Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on ways to optimize HIV prevention in healthcare settings with a focus on implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). At the Department of Population Medicine, Dr. Krakower and colleagues are using predictive analytics to identify candidates for PrEP using electronic health records data.

Consulting Service

The Division of Biostatistics offers open office hours for brief biostatistical consultations for DPM-affiliated investigators. These online consultations are limited to the course of one hour and may include high-level advice on choice of statistical methods, interpretation of results, and/or revision of methods sections in publication drafts. The schedule of the virtual open office hours is listed below:

4th U.S.-China Health Summit

Innovative Healthcare in the Era of Non-Communicable Diseases and Aging Society

October 17th-18th, 2014, Nanjing, China

The 4th Summit China, featured discussion on issues of health care reform, food and drug security, and the challenges of aging societies, amongst other topics. Highlighted speakers included: