Research Recap: December
An overview of December's studies published by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:
An overview of December's studies published by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:
This overview covers studies published over the course of a month by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:
Colleen (she/they) is a PhD candidate in Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Their research focuses on reproductive health disparities faced by sexual and gender minorities. Colleen is particularly interested in the advancing the application of quantitative epidemiological methods in health disparities research. She received her BA in Public Health from American University and her SM in Epidemiology from Harvard.
Yi Ying Ong, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Izzuddin Aris in the division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL). Her research vision is to maximize human potential through a lifecourse epidemiology approach, focusing on the interaction between multiple early life exposures. She received her PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she investigated the early life determinants of child cardiometabolic risk in the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort.
Amy R. Nichols, PhD, MS, RD (she/her) joined CoRAL as a Research Fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Building on her extensive experience as a Registered Dietitian in maternal and child nutrition, her interdisciplinary and translational research focuses on the nutritional, biological, and social aspects of the preconception period through the first 1000 days with an emphasis on modifiable determinants of health that affect the lifecourse.
Aimee K. Huang, MD, MPH is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, with joint appointments at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As an NCI T32 Cancer Prevention Fellow, she will be working with Dr. Brittany Charlton on projects that aim to elucidate and quantify sexual orientation-related cancer disparities and differences in healthcare access in individuals of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
In 2022, Institute faculty published 100’s of papers, many of them first- or senior-author publications, in a variety of medical journals, ranging from New England Journal of Medicine to JAMA to highly specialized journals like The Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, and Vaccine.
Hadley Stevens Smith and colleagues article “Access to clinically indicated genetic tests for pediatric patients with Medicaid: Evidence from outpatient genetics clinics in Texas” was published in Genetics in Medicine.
A biweekly overview of recent studies published by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:
The Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine announces a call for submissions for a $1000 prize for the best paper on a topic in Population Medicine written by a Harvard Medical School or Harvard School of Dental Medicine student.