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Ilya Shpitser receives NSF CAREER Award

The five-year CAREER award will support his project, “Robust Causal and Statistical Inference in High Dimensional Structured Systems with Hidden Variables.”

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Course urges caution about causation

Malone Center graduate students teach Intersession course "Should Susan Smoke? An Introduction to Causal Inference," where each week students pore over case studies to sharpen their reasoning skills.

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The future of machine learning in healthcare

Suchi Saria and fellow researchers provide a roadmap to accelerate safe, ethically responsible applications of machine learning in healthcare in recent paper published in Nature Medicine.

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Safety First: Building a Resilient Future

Of all the remarkable things engineers do for humanity, none may be more important than the ways in which they improve...

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JHSPH’s Scott Zeger installed as a John C. Malone Professor

Scott Zeger, professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member in the Malone...

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Missed opportunities in overdose coverage

Demi Lovato’s drug overdose and Anthony Bourdain’s suicide resulted in unequal news coverage of national help hotlines, finds a new study...