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Congressional Briefing on the Opioid Epidemic: Findings from Public Health Research Experts (28 June 2017)
Published 28 June 2017
On Monday, June 19, Pitt Public Health's Dean Donald S. Burke and fellow ASPPH leaders converged on the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., to discuss the complex and dynamic processes at work in the opioid crisis. Deans representing public health schools in five contiguous states in the Appalachian region shared their findings and unique approaches to confronting the course of the epidemic.
FRED Measles Model Demonstrates Need for Vaccinations (28 June 2017)
Published 28 June 2017
"There was something about showing a movie of your hometown that people relate to," said Don Burke, dean of Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health. It was his idea to break the data modeling down by county. "The FRED platform allowed researchers to build a simulation of human interaction dynamics," said Mark Roberts, director of the Public Health Dynamics Lab and HPM chair, "wherein virtual people in 116 million households across the country live, work and socialize according to data synthesized from the U.S. Census."
PHDL Faculty Member Wins Funding for Innovative Teaching Proposal (26 May 2017)
Published 26 May 2017
City of Pittsburgh Prepares for a Severe Air Quality Incident Using Predictive Analytics Technology (26 May 2017)
Published 26 May 2017
The City of Pittsburgh was joined Monday by representatives from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Intermedix to host an emergency preparedness resilience workshop as a part of the ONEPGH initiative, which is a partnership with 100 Resilient Cities- Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation.
PHDL Hosts Second Modeling Workshop for Indian Researchers (05 May 2017)
Published 05 May 2017
PHDL Hosts Modeling Workshop for Indian Health Researchers (17 February 2017)
Published 17 February 2017
In December 2016, the PHDL hosted a one-week workshop titled "Empowering Indian Health Researchers with Computational Modeling Tools". The goal of this Fogarty Institute, NIH funded initiative is to enhance evidence-based, data-driven decision-making in India through innovations in information and communication technology.
Meet the Newest Members of the PHDL Team (17 February 2017)
Published 17 February 2017
Opioid Epidemic Forecasting (16 November 2016)
Published 16 November 2016
New Post-doctoral Associate Joins the PHDL (13 September 2016)
Published 13 September 2016
NIH BD2K Career Grant Opportunities (02 September 2016)
Published 02 September 2016
On September 12th, Michelle Dunn, PhD, will visit the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Dunn is senior advisor for Data Science Training, Diversity and Outreach in the Office of the Associate Director for Data Science at the NIH. She will host an afternoon Q & A session on Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) career grant opportunities at the NIH. This session is open to all interested doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty.
Passing of a Public Health Giant (29 July 2016)
Published 29 August 2016
Pitt Launches Program for New Approaches to Opioid Epidemic (20 July 2016)
Published 20 July 2016
NIH View of Data Science and BD2K (15 July 2016)
Published 15 July 2015
APHA 2015: Special Session on social determinants of inequalities in infectious disease outbreaks (08 October 2015)
Published 08 October 2015
PublicSource visualizes health data as a public service to raise awareness of consequences of health choices (04 September 2015)
Published 04 September 2015
PublicSource presents data from the PA Department of Health to illustrate vaccination rates in Pennsylvania. Readers are also referred to FRED Measles to see herd immunity in action. Quoted in the article is Dr. Wilbert van Panhuis, MIDAS researcher. Read the full article at publicsource.org.