UChicago Public Health Sciences
@UChicagoPHS
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We are the home for the core quantitative research fields in public health at UChicago: biostatistics, epidemiology and health services research.
Chicago, IL
Joined July 2020
In their new Forefront article, @betsyqcliff + @DusetzinaS from @UChicago + @VanderbiltU discuss how employers can redesign their health insurance benefits to improve equity and alleviate the burdens on low- to middle-income workers.
healthaffairs.org
Under several specific proposals, employers can redesign their health insurance benefits to improve equity and alleviate the burdens on low- to middle-income workers.
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS biostatistics student @YihaoLu for defending his dissertation entitled "Methods for Multi-omics multi-context integrative analysis". Outstanding work Yihao!
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It was wonderful hearing updates from our doctoral students and new faculty at the annual @UChicagoPHS retreat last week. Looking forward to a great year!
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Congratulations🎉to @UChicagoPHS student @LizethITamayo for successfully defending her dissertation entitled "Genetic and environmental susceptibility to cancer in understudied populations and novel interventions to reduce risk". And congrats on your new position at @TumpusLabs!
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Our Department @UChicagoPHS is searching for an instructional professor to play a key role in our new MPH program. This is a career-track appointment, and all areas of public health are of interest. https://t.co/GIkA4hXHNX EOE/Vet/Disability
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS doctoral student @LizethITamayo for being awarded the @UChicagoBSD Diversity, Equity and Inclusion award! Well-deserved recognition of her leadership and committemnt to enhancing DEI in academia.
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Congrats to @UChicagoPHS faculty member Aresha Martinez-Cardoso! She received an Early Career Award from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty to study effects of local policies on immigrant communities.
biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu
The research will look at how policies to limit collaboration between the criminal justice system and immigration enforcement impact the health and wellbeing of immigrant communities.
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS Professor Donald Hedeker, receipient of the 2022 Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP).
biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu
The Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research is the highest honor bestowed by the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP).
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The Department of Public Health Sciences (@UChicagoPHS) at the University of Chicago is searching for tenure-track faculty in environmental health whose research is relevant to climate change. Visit https://t.co/QleDFBTG3z. EOE/Vet/Disability.
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Yesterday, @UChicagoPHS student Daniel Schwartz successfully defended of his dissertation “Maximizing and Borrowing Information in Randomized Trials”. Daniel will move on to a postdoctoral position in biostatistics at Harvard. Congratulations Daniel!🥳🎉🎓🥂
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Great to see our @UChicagoPHS graduates and alumni at the hooding ceremony last week. Congrats everyone! @shiyinjiao @Meytal_C @_Xuan_Hui @daysparade4 David Press & Meizi Liu
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The work of @UChicagoPHS faculty member Prachi Sanghavi was recently featured on the Freakonomics MD podcast. Have a listen 👇🏽
“I heard a trauma surgeon complain about advanced life support ambulances,” says @UChicagoPHS prof Prachi Sanghavi. “I thought, surely they must save lives. So I started digging and I realized pretty quickly that he was right.” Find out why:
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A big congratulations to @UChicagoPHS student @shiyinjiao on the successful defense of her dissertation: "Effects of coverage under Medicaid and Medicare on continuity, access, quality, and cost of care". Shiyin as accepted a research at Anthem, Inc.
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Congratulations 🎉 to @UChicagoPHS student Meizi Liu on the successful defense of her dissertation “Practical and Advanced Dose-Finding Designs”, work conducted with advisor Yuan Ji (@koaeraser). Meizi has accepted a Senior Statistician position at Takeda Pharmaceutical.
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS and @uchicagomstp student @Meytal_C who successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Genes in Context: Understanding how tissue type, ancestry, and environment influence the effects of genetic variation on human traits"
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS student @WF_Parker on the defense of his dissertation entitled “Transplant center practices and the survival benefit of organ transplantation”. Outstanding work! Dr. Parker will continue his work at @UChicagoMed as an Assistant Professor.
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@UChicagoPHS doctoral student Dayana Delgado (@daysparade4) has successfully defended her dissertation “Characterizing gene-environment relationships in diverse populations”. Huge congratulations to Dayana! 🎉👏
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS doctoral student Qianheng Ma on defending her dissertation “Extensions to Statistical Methods for Analyzing Intensive Multilevel Longitudinal Data Collected by Mobile and Wearable Devices”. Outstanding work!
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@UChicagoPHS is seeking a full-time appointee to play a key role in our University’s new Master of Public Health (MPH) program, launching fall 2021. Responsibilities include developing a core sequence of courses. Details here➡️
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Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS and @uchicagomstp MD/PhD student @Meytal_C on being awarded a @NIEHS F30 fellowship to study genetics of susceptibility to arsenic!👏👏👏
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