Research Recap: April 11-22

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

Addressing non-communicable diseases through precision public health; associations of early childhood milk intake with adolescent adiposity and cardiometabolic risk; understanding the spectrum of diseases associated with hereditary cancer syndromes; and the genetics and pathogenesis of actinic keratosis.

Daniel Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro is a Research Fellow in the Center for Healthcare Research in Pediatrics (CHeRP) as part of the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program. He is also a clinical fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. Prior to joining CHERP, Dan completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. His research focuses on a variety of topics related to low-value care for acute illnesses in children

Monica Wojcik

Dr. Wojcik is Fellow within the CHeRP division in the Department of Population Medicine. She is a neonatologist and clinical geneticist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School whose research focuses on the application of genomic medicine in the perinatal setting, particularly related to genetic diagnosis in the neonatal intensive care unit - where she practices clinically - and related to understanding genetic causes of infant mortality via genomic autopsy. ​

Research Recap: February 14 - February 25

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

Lifestyle interventions for the prevention of gestational diabetes mellitus; safety assessment of the recombinant herpes zoster vaccine; sociodemographic patterns in aircraft noise exposure; menstrual cycle length and adverse pregnancy outcomes; electronic health records for comparative effectiveness research; unmeasured confounding on the MR Steiger approach; and distributed Cox proportional hazards regression.

Research Recap: January 31 - February 11

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

Asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap; maternal glycemic dysregulation; childhood growth and early pubertal onset; cancer risk from exposures to medical imaging; epidemiologic confounding factors; traumatic brain injury and suicide risk; maternal gestational diabetes and effects of breastfeeding on cardiometabolic risk; DNA methylation; and gestational age estimation.

Essentials of the Profession II

Essentials of the Profession II

All pathways students are required to also take the month-long Essentials of the Profession II course in either March or October of their third or fourth year of medical school. Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health (CEPH) is one of five core topic areas within the “Essentials II” course, which also incorporates content on ethics, social medicine, health policy, and healthcare delivery and leadership.