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We are saddened to share with you the news that Marshall Joffe, MD, MPH, PhD, passed away on October 5. Dr. Joffe's inflential work and kind nature are remembered by many in our community, nationally and internationally. Read more.
Yong Chen, PhD, has won the 2021 Titan Award for Methodological Research from Observational Health Data Sciences & Informatics. OHDSI is an international, interdisciplinary collaborative whose network spans more than 600 million patients and more than 2700 researchers. Read more about the 2021 Titan awards.
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Biostatistics Alum Arman Oganisian: To Show Healthcare Costs, Make Few Assumptions
Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, PhD, Associate Professor of Informatics
In the News
October 2021
Jeffrey Morris, PhD, discusses how he dismantles false claims about vaccines — and he critiques some aspects of the Covid-19 public health response: “We don’t want to feed the anti-vaccine trolls, so we actively suppress clear scientific data.”
October 2021
It’s frustrating when vaccine opponents use the government’s VAERS database to stoke false concerns about safety, says Susan Ellenberg, PhD, “especially when they interfere in such major ways with critical public health issues like the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. But overall," she adds, " I still think transparency is better.”
October 2021
A data table shared on social media seems to show vaccinated Israelis are much more likely to catch the virus than unvaccinated people. The image ignores all case counts for people under 20, and fails to note that the rate of severe cases is 10 to 20 times higher among the unvaccinated, according to Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
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