Healthy Data

Harvard FAS

Students in this seminar will learn about research in the health sciences through a quantitative lens. With an emphasis on how we evaluate who is at risk for disease, what are the underlying causes, and what treatments are most effective, we will take a deep dive into thinking about how data are generated and what we can (and cannot) discern from it. Concepts will be introduced in the context of case studies focused on infectious, neuro-degenerative, and cardio-metabolic diseases as well as…