Celebrate with the Stars on
February 16 The annual HSPH Celebration with the Stars event honors employees who have reached a service milestone--from 5 to 45 years.
Registration and seating of honorees starts at 2:30 PM
Event: 3:00-4:30 PM
Kresge Cafeteria
Read a list of this year's honorees
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Searching for answers to causes of childhood depression  | |
Erin Dunn
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Over the past decade, scientists have produced a flurry of studies exploring the role of genetic (nature) and environmental factors (nurture) in youth depression, but there has been little consensus on how depression is jointly influenced by specific genes and external factors, such as poverty, abuse, and negative family relationships. The lack of a clear understanding of how genes and environments both contribute to childhood depression led Erin Dunn, postdoctoral research fellow and recent HSPH graduate and her colleagues to do a comprehensive review of studies that tested for gene-environment interaction in youth depression. It was published in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Read more
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Whole-genome sequencing of E. coli outbreaks in Europe provides new insight into origins, spread  Using whole-genome sequencing, a team led by researchers from HSPH and the Broad Institute has traced the path of the E. coli outbreak that sickened thousands and killed over 50 people in Germany in summer 2011 and also caused a smaller outbreak in France. It is one of the first uses of genome sequencing to study the dynamics of a food-borne outbreak and provides further evidence that genomic tools can be used to investigate future outbreaks and provide greater insight into the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. Read more
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Why do cancers strike men more than women?
 It is well known that most cancers strike men more often than women. In many cases these differences can be explained by known risk factors such as smoking, drinking, or occupational hazards. But more than one-third of the cancers that disproportionately strike one sex or the other--men, in particular--cannot be explained by known risk factors and seem to be associated with gender alone, according to research led by Gustaf Edgren, a research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH. Read more
photo: Rupak de Chowdhuri/REUTERS
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MASCO seeks MBTA commuters for survey
MASCO is interested in Longwood Medical Area commuters' thoughts on the impact of proposed cuts to MBTA services used to commute to the LMA and commuters' thoughts on alternative solutions to the MBTA's budget deficit. |
