Great Challenges. While sleeping too few hours each night can have serious health consequences, we now know that better sleep is a tool that can be applied to many other Great Challenges of health and medicine.
More and better quality sleep can fight obesity, help reduce medical errors, improve outcomes for the chronically ill, help special needs children cope better in society, fight stress, etc. Sleep fights an uphill battle as American society seems to conspire against it. Children set off for school at dawn. Tough financial times push cash-strapped workers to take multiple jobs. Shift work conflicts with the body’s natural clock. What is the full range of causes (social, medical, technological, economic, etc.) that engender and promote this widespread problem? Join In. Speaker: Max Little. Talk Details. In 1996, Rebecca Onie co-founded Health Leads (formerly Project HEALTH), as a sophomore at Harvard College, with Dr.
Barry Zuckerman at Boston Medical Center. From 1997-2000, Rebecca served as executive director of Health Leads. At Harvard Law School, she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and research assistant for Professors Laurence Tribe and Lani Guinier. Rebecca clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. About the Event. During three days at TEDMED you’ll pack in more ideas, fun, energy and excitement than most of us experience during the year’s remaining 362 days put together.
You’ll arrive at the Kennedy Center early each morning to share a healthy gourmet breakfast with over 1,000 fascinating fellow Delegates, making connections and sharing perspectives. You’ll rocket through a jam-packed, fast-paced day of amazing TEDMED talks and sessions, stimulating social breaks and inspiring artistic performances. After lunch onsite, you’ll visit social spaces where dozens of entrepreneurs and start-ups share their unique innovations, original thinking and powerful new technologies.During three days at TEDMED you’ll pack in more ideas, fun, energy and excitement than most of us experience during the year’s remaining 362 days put together.
You’ll rocket through a jam-packed, fast-paced day of amazing TEDMED talks and sessions, stimulating social breaks and inspiring artistic performances. Speaker: Francis S. Collins. IN A NUTSHELL:NIH Director Francis Collins returns to the TEDMED stage to talk about the next big leaps in biomedicine.
BIO:Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In that role he oversees the work of the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world, spanning the spectrum from basic to clinical research. Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book.
Courses. Statistical Reasoning I. Statistical Reasoning in Public Health provides a broad overview of biostatistical methods and concepts used in the public health sciences, emphasizing interpretation and concepts rather than calculations or mathematical details.
It develops ability to read the scientific literature to critically evaluate study designs and methods of data analysis, and it introduces basic concepts of statistical inference, including hypothesis testing, p-values, and confidence intervals. Topics include comparisons of means and proportions; the normal distribution; regression and correlation; confounding; concepts of study design, including randomization, sample size, and power considerations; logistic regression; and an overview of some methods in survival analysis.
The course draws examples of the use and abuse of statistical methods from the current biomedical literature.