UChicago Public Health Sciences

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. bit.ly/4aQXP9B

Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS biostatistics student @YihaoLu for defending his dissertation entitled "Methods for Multi-omics multi-context integrative analysis". Outstanding work Yihao!

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!

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!

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. apply.interfolio.com/120773 EOE/Vet/Disability

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.

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/news/features/…

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/news/features/…

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 apply.interfolio.com/112067. EOE/Vet/Disability.

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!🥳🎉🎓🥂

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

The work of @UChicagoPHS faculty member Prachi Sanghavi was recently featured on the Freakonomics MD podcast. Have a listen 👇🏽

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.

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.

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"

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.

@UChicagoPHS doctoral student Dayana Delgado (@daysparade4) has successfully defended her dissertation “Characterizing gene-environment relationships in diverse populations”. Huge congratulations to Dayana! 🎉👏

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!

@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➡️ apply.interfolio.com/84350

Congratulations to @UChicagoPHS and @uchicagomstp MD/PhD student @Meytal_C on being awarded a @NIEHS F30 fellowship to study genetics of susceptibility to arsenic!👏👏👏