David Canning of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hopes to get insights into cognition by looking at chess performance hrvd.me/Chess9407t

We estimate the global burden of post-TB lung disease, now published at The Lancet Global Health. With Florian Marx Anna Coussens Debora Pedrazzoli Matthew Quaife Rein Houben Anthony Byrne Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social Jamilah Ted Cohen and others sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Five quick tweets on the new variant B.1.1.529 Caveat first: data here is *very* preliminary, so everything could change. Nonetheless, better safe than sorry. 1) Based on the data we have, this variant is out-competing others *far* faster than Beta and even Delta did 🚩🚩

"Healthy? Maybe. But are you flourishing?" Read Harvard Gazette's Harvard University interview with Tyler J. VanderWeele and Matthew T. Lee on the Program's initiatives for the years to come. Harvard Center for Health and Happiness Harvard Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Baylor ISR Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science #FlourishingWellbeingHFH #GFStudy

SAS Software Free code for #Causalinference. The #WhatIfBook now includes code in #RStats SAS (SAS Software) Stata Python (@thePSF) and #Julia We're indebted to Roger Logan, @epiellie, Joy Shi, Sean McGrath, and James Fiedler. Available through the book's page👇 hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/…

Harvard Chan School's Marcia Castro has been named an @AAAS Fellow, recognized for her research on the geography & demographic distribution of tropical diseases and the intersections of socioeconomic status, individual behavior, geography, and health. bit.ly/3qZ1a2y

The purpose of education isn't only to impart knowledge and skills. It's to instill a love of learning.   Intellectual curiosity is seeing as much beauty in ideas and data as you do in art and music. A mark of a great teacher is a room filled with intrinsic motivation.

EAGxBoston will happen on 1-3 April! All three conferences for which applications are open now have official dates: • EA Global: London 2022 (15-17 April) • EAGxOxford 2022 (26-27 March) • EAGxBoston 2022 (1-3 April) ➡️ Apply and see more: eaglobal.org/apply/

How much population immunity did the US build (and retain) by the time omicron arrived? 🧵 We looked at acquisition and waning of protection via infection and vaccination in US states and counties. Work led by Fayette Klaassen, preprint here: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

When South Korea, a model country for the pandemic, has >400,000 new cases in a day, leading the world per capita, you take notice. Tests 4X the US with <1/6th the population. BA.2 is 26% as of this week's report. Very high 2-shot vaxx 87%, 3-shot 63%. The pandemic isn't over.

I will just say that preparing slides for this talk was... cathartic. Today (Thu) at 4pm. Livestream link below.

Excited to be part of this program!

Our 1st April piece is up—“Research Note: COVID-19 Is Not an Independent Cause of Death.” Marcia Castro Susie Gurzenda Cássio Maldonado Turra Sun Kim T. Andrasfay & N. Goldman examine COVID estimates in Brazil and USA. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Cedeplar UFMG DRCLAS @ Harvard ow.ly/j40C50MUjKq

#COVID19 is not independent of other causes of death The assumption of independence can lead to either an overestimate (Brazil) or an underestimate (US) of the decline in e0, depending on how the number of other reported causes of death changed in 2020

Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our MIT Economics PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online MIT OpenCourseWare. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes. ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-771…

NextGen 3.0 was the epitome of my transformational summer. Many thanks to Victor Cha CSIS Korea Chair and my fellow cohort for the opportunity and inspiration. Now is the time to get my dissertation done!

In June, Sun Kim(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; left) & Diego Pineda(Berkeley Public Health; right) presented a poster at the Global Health Security Conference in Sydney.📃Their work is part of the World Bank DCP4 series, led by BCEPS Director Ole Frithjof Norheim as Series Editor: lnkd.in/dPXiTJPR

A year ago, I embarked on a review of pandemic financing with Sun Kim, Diego Pineda, and Stefano M Bertozzi for the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting led #DiseaseControlPriorities Project 4th edition #DCP4. 🎉Today I am delighted to share Center for Global Development DCP4 working paper is released in preprint version.

Newest Center for Global Development blog, relevant for #mpox financing: The Curious Case of No Take-up for Pandemic Preparedness Funding from the @IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Facility Victoria Fan Sun Kim Sanjeev Gupta Mark Plant World Health Organization (WHO) World Bank G20 Brasil cgdev.org/blog/curious-c…

Pandemic Financing Demystified: Essential Takeaways from Our New Paper now available at Center for Global Development ! With Victoria Fan Stefano M Bertozzi cgdev.org/blog/pandemic-…