Meet the 2022 Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship Awardees

The Department of Population Medicine is pleased to introduce this year’s Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship awardees. Each fellow will study under the mentorship of a Department of Population Medicine faculty member who aligns with their area of expertise, with the overall goal of contributing to the development of health care policy at any of several levels - public, organizational, or clinical.

Bahareh Rasouli

Bahareh Rasouli is a Research Scientist in the Therapeutics and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group at the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School. She primarily works on the FDA-sponsored Sentinel Initiative, where she contributes to projects evaluating the safety and performance of medical products.

Research Recap: September 12 - September 23

A biweekly overview of recent studies published by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:

The FDA Sentinel System; pediatric housing instability and homelessness; prehospital antibiotics for septic patients; cost-effectiveness of public health approaches to prevent eating disorders; associations between psychosocial stressors and menopause; cancer diagnoses and suicide; studying bacteria using whole-genome sequencing; the potential for machine learning to increase PrEP uptake; and osteoarthritis

Han Yu

Han Yu, PhD is a Research Fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. She is conducting her research in the Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (TIDE) group under the mentorship of Dr. Jason Block, where she is exploring the cumulative risk for patients given treatments of interest using longitudinal analysis algorithms and the COVID-19 surveillance research.

Anjum Khurshid

Chief Data Scientist, Sentinel Operations Center

Dr. Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD is a Member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He is the Chief Data Scientist for the Sentinel Operations Center. Dr. Khurshid was previously the Co-Chief, Health Informatics, Data Science and Epidemiology Division, Department of Population Health and the inaugural Director of Data Integration at Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin.

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