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Forecasting Healthy Futures (FHF) Global Summit 2023

… priorities worldwide. The Summit aims to advance the above goals by: reinforcing the need for new action for disease elimination in the face of increasing volatility caused by climate change, … describing what is needed to create “climate resilient health systems," present a range of new tools and technologies from the perspectives of both their architects and their user groups, …

Joint GPH & NYU Grossman Biostatistics Seminar with Samrachana Adhikari, PhD

… Department of Population Health  Division of Biostatistics   While social network data provide new opportunities to understand complex relational mechanisms, they also present modeling … and identically distributed, as commonly assumed in many statistical models, and hence require new tools to analyze the data, to make inference and address issues of model selection and … examples of what is a growing body of research, much of the research is focused on proposing new models or extending others. There has been very little work on unifying the models in a …

Diwali: Public Health Challenges of Holidays

… evil” depends in part on geography. For instance, families in Gujarat (where I come from) buy new clothes and shoes, clean their homes and make intricate circular patterns with colored … ( Navratri ) of dancing, and people pray to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, for a prosperous new year.   Pictured: Rangoli made by Niyati's daughters with lentils and beans.   However, in my …

Hurricanes, COVID-19 and the Power of Collective Action

… virus. In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the city of New Orleans was a ghost town: houses gutted, streets without power, debris stretching for miles. Seventy percent of the city was underwater. But in one neighborhood in New Orleans East, a Vietnamese-American stronghold, people were returning by the thousands, …

GPH Staff Spotlight: Andrea Muraca

… with Julie. We are really like a family. Working in student affairs continually offers new challenges and requires new strategies and ideas to deal with these challenges. In the corner of my office, I have two … years and the challenges that refugees have to face, often alone, scared and traumatized in a new country. Favorite movie of all time? I can't pick between these three: Jaws (1975), Jurassic …

Bioethics Spring 2023 Colloquium Series: The Value of Unity with Dr. Leif Wenar

… Center for Bioethics Join Dr. Leif Wenar for a conversation about his project which outlines a new approach to intrinsic value, an enhanced desire-satisfaction theory structured around logical relations that desires have to the world and to each other. This new theory overcomes several familiar challenges to the traditional theories, while bettering …

EP92 Nutrition in the Digital Age with Dr. Marie Bragg and Amaal Alruwaily

… junk foods. The study had media coverage across major news outlets, such as CNN and the New York Times, and was published in the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. …

EP03 Interning at the UN Medical Services Division with Sonakshee Shree

… the Medical Services Division. Her interests are in maternal and child health using policy and management to tackle issues that affect mothers and children. Sonakshee is currently working … handbook for UN employees around the world. So there's not really a set handbook for new mothers who are UN employees. Just to list kind of resources. And what are the benefits of …

Biostatistics Seminar Series with Sherri Rose, Ph.D.

… the American Statistical Association and her other honors include the ISPOR Bernie J. O’Brien New Investigator Award, an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and Mid-Career Awards from the American Statistical Association and …

Cross Continental Experience Blog: Finally Learning Spanish

… me (and others) an opportunity to practice listening to people from Buenos Aires and to learn new words about specific industries and themes (including public health terminology). Recently, … to follow at our Spanish level – it was super entertaining and helpful for learning slang and new words ( pictured below ). And we’ve all been sharing anything and everything that involves Spanish like new-to-us Argentinian musicians, Spanish-speaking shows on Netflix, and Spanish podcasts.   …