Robert H. Ebert Career Development Award

Named for the founder of Harvard Community Health Plan and former Dean of Harvard Medical School, these internal awards support the work of mid-career Institute researchers pursuing scientific and professional activities that, while consistent with the department’s mission, may not typically be supported by external funding.

Past examples of awards include:

  • Developing an Outcomes Toolkit for Genomic Screening, a database of tools and strategies to guide the unbiased evaluation of genomic screening.
  • Investigating the feasibility of a national network of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).
  • Acquisition of Massachusetts all-payers claims database (APCD) data to build the Institute’s capacity to use APCD for externally-funded projects.
  • Developing novel statistical methods to account for heterogeneity due to sex in genetic association studies, methods that can be applied to a wide range of phenotypes in multiple studies both within and outside of the Institute.
  • Developing and testing methods for longitudinal signal detection, to demonstrate the value of signal identification in outcomes and disease surveillance settings, e.g., outcome-indexing and COVID.
  • Support work towards improved statistical methods for policy-relevant causal inference in real-world data under transparent assumptions.