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Public Health Minute: The Genetics of Exceptional Longevity
While environment and family history are factors in healthy aging, genetic variants play a critical and complex role in conferring exceptional longevity, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public [...]Health and Medicine and the Boston Medical Center.
In a study released July 1 online by the journal Science, the research team identified a group of genetic variants that can predict exceptional longevity in humans with 77 percent accuracy -- a breakthrough in understanding the role of genes in determining human lifespan.
Listen to Paola Sebastiani, professor of biostatistics at BU School of Public Health, and Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine at the BU School of Medicine and a geriatrician at Boston Medical Center, talk about their research.
To learn more about this study, visit http://sph.bu.edu/longevity.
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2010 BUSPH Spring Practicum Finale: Student Poster Presentations
As part of the master's and doctoral program in public health at Boston University School of Public Health, students have an opportunity to gain real-world public health experience by participating in a practicum. The required field work program [...]gives students a chance to choose a project that ties in with their career goals and puts their public-health skills to work.
Upon concluding their practicum experiences, students present their work at a poster session. Listen to students talk about their work in public health practice at the 2010 BUSPH Spring Practicum Finale.
For more information about the practicum, visit http://sph.bu.edu/requiredpracticum.
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Power and P-values: Biostatisticians' Priority P's
Michael LaValley, PHD, of the Boston University School of Public Health presents the application of the concepts of power and p-values in statistical analysis, using examples in rheumatological research. This presentation was part of the 2014 ENACT [...]State of the Science Meeting.
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MPH Epi-Biostats Course Planning Session 3/19/20
SPH Epidemiology & Biostatistics MPH Certificate Co-Directors discuss course planning for the upcoming Fall 2020 semester.
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