{"id":796,"date":"2024-06-28T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/?page_id=796"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:57:11","slug":"newsletter-vol1iss2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/newsletter-vol1iss2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Members of the PHDS Community,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Summer! In this issue of the PHDS Newsletter, we provide a recap of our spring semester events, spotlight a PHDS faculty affiliate, and highlight several publications from our PHDS community. We hope you&#8217;re enjoying the summer, and we look forward to seeing you in the fall!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Debbie Cheng<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Professor of Biostatistics<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Director, Population Health Data Science Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/spring-2024-highlights\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><u>Spring 2024 Highlights<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/spring-2024-highlights\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/PHDS-Spring-Collage-636x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/PHDS-Spring-Collage-636x509.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/PHDS-Spring-Collage-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/PHDS-Spring-Collage-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/PHDS-Spring-Collage-1536x1229.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/PHDS-Spring-Collage.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this edition of the Population Health Data Science Newsletter, we take a look back at the Spring 2024 semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/spring-2024-highlights\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/01\/Read-More-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"52\" class=\"size-full wp-image-585 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/faculty-spotlight-marcia-pescador-jimenez-phd-ms-ms\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><u>Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Pescador Jimenez, PhD, MS, MS<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/faculty-spotlight-marcia-pescador-jimenez-phd-ms-ms\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" class=\" wp-image-804 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/06\/Marcia-Pescador-Jimenez-1024x1024-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this issue, we spotlight Dr. Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/faculty-spotlight-marcia-pescador-jimenez-phd-ms-ms\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/01\/Read-More-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"52\" class=\"size-full wp-image-585 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Featured Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yu K, Sun L, Chen J, Reynolds M, Chaudhary T, <strong>Batmanghelich K<\/strong>.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38086236\/\">DrasCLR: a self-supervised framework of learning disease-related and anatomy-specific representation for 3D lung CT images<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Med Image Anal<\/em>. 2024 Feb;92:103062. PMCID: PMC10872608.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Przytycki PF<\/strong>.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38177750\/\">Uncovering the genetic circuits that drive diseases<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Nat Comput Sci<\/em>. 2023 Jul;3(7):584-585. PMID: 38177750.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Toraif N, <strong>Gondal N<\/strong>, Paudel P, Frisellaa A.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37535657\/\">From colorblind to systemic racism: emergence of a rhetorical shift in higher education discourse in response to the murder of George Floyd<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>PLoS One<\/em>. 2023 Aug 3;18(8):e0289545. PMCID: PMC10399877.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Huggins JH<\/strong>, Miller JW.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36643374\/\">Reproducible model selection using bagged posteriors<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Bayesian Anal<\/em>. 2023 Mar;18(1):79-104. PMCID: PMC9838736.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Khan MM, Frustino J, Villa A, Nguyen BC, Woo SB, Johnson WE, Varelas X, Kukuruzinska M, <strong>Monti S<\/strong>.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37542347\/\">Total RNA sequencing reveals gene expression and microbial alterations shared by oral pre-malignant lesions and cancer<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Hum Genomics<\/em>. 2023 Aug 4;17(1):72. PMCID: PMC10403884.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lopez VK, Cramer EY, Pagano R, Drake JM, O&#8217;Dea EB, Adee M, Ayer T, Chhatwal J, Dalgic OO, Ladd MA, <strong>Linas BP<\/strong>, Mueller PP, Xiao J, Bracher J, Castro Rivadeneira AJ, Gerding A, Gneiting T, Huang Y, Jayawardena D, Kanji AH, Le K, M\u00fchlemann A, Niemi J, Ray EL, Stark A, Wang Y, Wattanachit N, Zorn MW, Pei S, Shaman J, Yamana TK, Tarasewicz SR, Wilson DJ, Baccam S, Gurung H, Stage S, Suchoski B, Gao L, Gu Z, Kim M, Li X, Wang G, Wang L, Wang Y, Yu S, Gardner L, Jindal S, Marshall M, Nixon K, Dent J, Hill AL, Kaminsky J, Lee EC, Lemaitre JC, Lessler J, Smith CP, Truelove S, Kinsey M, Mullany LC, Rainwater-Lovett K, Shin L, Tallaksen K, Wilson S, Karlen D, Castro L, Fairchild G, Michaud I, Osthus D, Bian J, Cao W, Gao Z, Lavista Ferres J, Li C, Liu TY, Xie X, Zhang S, Zheng S, Chinazzi M, Davis JT, Mu K, Pastore Y Piontti A, Vespignani A, Xiong X, Walraven R, Chen J, Gu Q, Wang L, Xu P, Zhang W, Zou D, Gibson GC, Sheldon D, Srivastava A, Adiga A, Hurt B, Kaur G, Lewis B, Marathe M, Peddireddy AS, Porebski P, Venkatramanan S, Wang L, Prasad PV, Walker JW, Webber AE, Slayton RB, Biggerstaff M, Reich NG, Johansson MA.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38709852\/\">Challenges of COVID-19 case forecasting in the US, 2020-2021<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>PLoS Comput Biol<\/em>. 2024 May 6;20(5):e1011200. PMCID: PMC11098513.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zheng Y, Conrad RD, Green EJ, Burks EJ, Betke M, <strong>Beane JE<\/strong>, Kolachalama VB.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38587959\/\">Graph attention-based fusion of pathology images and gene expression for prediction of cancer survival<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>IEEE Trans Med Imaging<\/em>. 2024 Apr 8;PP. PMID: 38587959.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christine PJ, Lodi S, <strong>Hsu HE<\/strong>, Bovell-Ammon B, Yan S, Bernson D, Novo P, Lee JD, Rotrosen J, Liebschutz J, Walley AY, Larochelle MR.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38519819\/\">Target trial emulation for comparative effectiveness research with observational data: promise and challenges for studying medications for opioid use disorder<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Addiction<\/em>. 2024 Jul;119(7):1313-1321. PMCID: PMC11156545.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yamkovoy K, <strong>Patil P<\/strong>, Dunn D, Erdman E, Bernson D, Swathi PA, Nall SK, Zhang Y, Wang J, Brinkley-Rubinstein L, LeMasters KH, White LF, Barocas JA.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38710239\/\">Using decision tree models and comprehensive statewide data to predict opioid overdoses following prison release<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Ann Epidemiol<\/em>. 2024 Jun;94:81-90. PMCID: PMC11117432.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mohammed S<\/strong>, Kurtek S, Bharath K, Rao A, Baladandayuthapani V.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37797481\/\">Tumor radiogenomics in gliomas with Bayesian layered variable selection<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Med Image Anal<\/em>. 2023 Dec;90:102964. PMCID: PMC10653647.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He Y, Martinez L, Ge Y, Feng Y, Chen Y, Tan J, Westbrook A, Li C, Cheng W, Ling F, <strong>Cheng H<\/strong>, Wu S, Zhong W, Handel A, Huang H, Sun J, Shen Y.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC10540215\/\">Social mixing and network characteristics of COVID-19 patients before and after widespread interventions: a population-based study<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Epidemiol Infect<\/em>. 2023 Aug 14;151:1-38. PMCID: PMC10540215.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Poulson M, <strong>Jay J<\/strong>, Kenzik K, Torres C, Sanchez SE, Saillant N, Holena D, Galea S, Scantling D.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37994476\/\">Death by the minute: inequities in trauma care for victims of firearm violence<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>J Trauma Acute Care Surg<\/em>. 2024 Apr 1;96(4):589-595. PMCID: PMC10978261.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Babbs G, Weber SE, Abdalla SM, Cesare N, <strong>Nsoesie EO<\/strong>.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37490461\/\">Use of machine learning methods to understand discussions of female genital mutilation\/cutting on social media<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>PLOS Glob Public Health<\/em>. 2023 Jul 25;3(7):e0000878. PMCID: PMC10368253.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Shioda K<\/strong>, Brouwer AF, Lamar F, Mucache HN, Levy K, Freeman MC.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37910131\/\">Opportunities to interrupt transmission of enteropathogens of poultry origin in Maputo, Mozambique: a transmission model analysis<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>Environ Health Perspect<\/em>. 2023 Nov;131(11):117004. PMCID: PMC10619637.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mandal S, Rajiva A, Kloog I, Menon JS, Lane KJ, Amini H, Walia GK, Dixit S, <strong>Nori-Sarma A<\/strong>, Dutta A, Sharma P, Jaganathan S, Madhipatla KK, Wellenius GA, de Bont J, Venkataraman C, Prabhakaran D, Prabhakaran P, Ljungman P, Schwartz J.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38456174\/\">Nationwide estimation of daily ambient PM2.5 from 2008 to 2020 at 1 km2 in India using an ensemble approach<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. <em>PNAS Nexus<\/em>. 2024 Feb 27;3(3):pgae088. PMCID: PMC10919890.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><u><b>Upcoming Events<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/2023\/08\/04\/sept-5-health-data-science-poster-session\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/2024-Poster-Session-Flyer-1-636x358.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-858 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/2024-Poster-Session-Flyer-1-636x358.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/2024-Poster-Session-Flyer-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/2024-Poster-Session-Flyer-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/2024-Poster-Session-Flyer-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/07\/2024-Poster-Session-Flyer-1-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2024\/01\/PHDS-logo-black-text-transparent-background.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"73\" class=\"size-full wp-image-582 aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members of the PHDS Community, Happy Summer! In this issue of the PHDS Newsletter, we provide a recap of our spring semester events, spotlight a PHDS faculty affiliate, and highlight several publications from our PHDS community. We hope you&#8217;re enjoying the summer, and we look forward to seeing you in the fall! 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