UPenn Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CCEB)

Registration is now open for #2021ResearchDay, March 24! Keynote by former US Preventive Services Task Force Chair Sue Curry. Leading faculty research by Hongzhe Li and Pamela Shaw (biostatistics), Sean Hennessy (epidemiology) and Blanca Himes (informatics). Trainee flash talk competition! JOIN US: http://dbei.med.upenn.edu/2021ResearchDay

Big congrats to Qi Long, new Fellow of the AAAS - The American Association for the Advancement of Science! Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center

Congrats to Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez of the Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, who will join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Scientific Counselors!

Congrats to Rebecca Hubbard, newly appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS). https://www.nationalacademies.org//committee-on-applied-an

Some of COVID-19's scientific challenges resemble those we faced in the pastwith HIV, SARS, H1N1 and Ebolawhile others are new. Susan Ellenberg unpacks what we need to know about clinical trials during the current pandemic. https://www.dbei.med.upenn.edu//clinical-trials-current-pa

For those of you on Twitter, here's an event #NotToBeMissed! As part of #sharethemicnowpublichealth today, follow our own Alisa Stephens-Shields, tweeting from @nataliexdean. And follow her leading voice every day: @DrSteShi

Recording of John Holmes National Institutes of Health (NIH) talk now posted! Artificial intelligence methods can enrich epidemiological models, allowing us to better model population and disease dynamics central to developing policies for #COVID19 prevention, detection and treatment. https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=37909

In the most recent edition of the NBC News’ Global Hangout series, Amaka Eneanya discussed her experiences on the COVID-19 front lines and explained what is needed as countries around the world prepare for a second wave of cases.

Today at 1pm, the Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia health care community knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence on Franklin Field. W...e knelt in remembrance of George Floyd and the countless others who have been victims of racism. We knelt in commitment to our patients, colleagues, and community of color to improve their health and safety. We knelt in promise for a future devoid of inequality and injustices. #whitecoatsforblacklives #blacklivesmatter #PennTogether #PowerofPenn See more

Saluting our rising experts: See Nandita Mitra present the 2020 class of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (GGEB) at minute 26:30 of the recent Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS) ceremony. https://www.med.upenn.edu//bgs-virtual-graduation-2020.html #BGSGraduation2020

*HOPE* I feel like we're constantly being exposed to the bad. The suffering. The dying. The horrible statistics. The masks. The isolation. Here's this - my frie...nd Kim, whose sister Lisa Bader is a nurse at the University of Pennsylvania, shared this video with me. For every CoVID 19 patient they DISCHARGE, they put out a flower. Look how FULL this beautiful garden is. THIS is what HOPE looks like. Pass it on. See more

Registration is now open for the virtual Summer Short Course on Causal Inference, June 11-12! The Center for Causal Inference offers this accessible course PhD in biostatistics or epidemiology not required over just two half days. https://www.cceb.med.upenn.edu//summer-short-course-causal Rutgers School of Public Health

DBEI’s Susan Ellenberg commented today on ABC’s Good Morning America about good clinical trial practice: As we race toward a #COVID19 #vaccine, she feels we should not cut corners. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com//unprecedented-rush-fin Penn Medicine

From webinars to news interviews to published research, the CCEB and DBEI (Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics) community continues to rise to the challenge of #COVID19. See the roundup here: https://www.dbei.med.upenn.edu/our-response-covid-19-0

Congrats to our own Pamela Shaw and Yong Chen, new fellows of The American Statistical Association, the field’s largest and most prestigious professional organization in the United States! #biostatistics

The path to vaccines and treatments during epidemics: The DBEI’s Susan Ellenberg + World Health Organization (WHO) coauthors call for a new clinical trials core protocol, which would allow a single trial to extend across multiple infectious disease outbreaks. https://www.pennmedicine.org//why-clinical-trials-during-d Penn Medicine