Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
Prof. Biostat@ Emory University. Environmental Health, Space-Time Epidemiology, Population Health.๐๐๐ฎ๐
Environmental science
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Geography
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Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
ยท Apr 10
Oh no!!! ๐ What do you need? Others may have archived some data locally.
Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
ยท Feb 11
Bill in Georgia Senate would restrict transgender public employeesโ access to gender-affirming care
A bill introduced in the Georgia Senate that would prohibit the state insurance plan from paying for gender-affirming care moved forward Tuesday.
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Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
ยท Feb 11
Yes, yes and yes. Needed this a lot today. Thanks.
Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
ยท Feb 10
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta... : Epidemiology
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We conducted a time-series analysis to estimate short-term associations between community-level seasonal influenza activity and daily counts of preterm births in Atlanta, Unit...
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In the current issue of Epidemiology, combing our work in influenza, preterm birth and environmental epi. The first project our biostatistician Xiaping Zheng led!
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Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
ยท Feb 10
Estimating Heterogeneous Exposure Effects in the Case-Crossover Design using BART
Epidemiological approaches for examining human health responses to environmental exposures in observational studies often control for confounding by implementing clever matching schemes and using s...
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Sharing awesome work by PhD student Jacob Englert using tree-based methods to identify subpopulations at higher risks of heat exposures.
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Howard Chang
@howardhchang.bsky.social
ยท Feb 10
BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Of course GA is not one of the plaintiff states. AG Chris Carr and his office 404-458-3600 which doesn't even take calls anymore.
Josh Gerstein
@joshgerstein.bsky.social
ยท Feb 10
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BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...