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What should be testing compliance, and face-mask-use/ 6ft distancing compliance for COVID-19 control in universities?

Effective COVID-19 control at universities are dependent on contact rate, asymptomatic testing compliance, and face-mask-use/ 6ft distancing compliance. Preliminary results from applying our previous simple SEIR model(https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.21.20158303v1.full.pdf). But more specific to a university plan of mass-testing twice per week. Online app of model: https://covid-university.herokuapp.com

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Analyses on COVID-19 control in a university setting – pre-print is online

Pre-print to “Threshold analyses on rates of testing, transmission, and contact for COVID-19 control in a university setting” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.21.20158303v1.full.pdf Analyses by Xinmeng Zhao and Hanisha Tatapudi

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First lab-reunion in COVID era

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Excellent team work by the lab on and off the field!

Excellent presentations of their work by graduate students at the INFORMS Healthcare conference, 2019……….. Left to right- Shifali Bansal, Xinmeng Zhao, Hanisha Tatapudi, Sonza Singh, and Nazanin   … and Escape Room success!!  

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Congratulations to Buyan Munkhbat for selection to Insight fellowship

Congratulations Buyan for being selected to the Insight Data Engineering Fellowship Program !!

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Congratulations to Shifali Bansal for internship at Super Brush!!

Shifali will work as a Quality Assurance inter. Her job responsibilities include process validation and software validation that support the maintenance and compliance to Super Brush’s ISO 13485:2016 quality system.  

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Congratulations to Vijeta Deshpande for a full time job at Massachusetts General Hospital!

Vijeta is joining MGH after finishing his MS in Industrial Engineering with an excellent thesis on control optimization modeling for identifying optimal screening schedules for cancers in low infrastructure settings.

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Should we concentrate on structural interventions that target social determinants for HIV prevention? Impressive project from students in my 200-level class

Project from my 200-level GenEd class, 16 students from 8 different majors – engineering, public health, computer science, economics, physics, biology, management, journalism. They did a literature review for identifying quantified correlations between social determinants and behavior, and behavior and HIV. And developed a differential equations simulation model for predicting impact of addressing social determinants. [ Read More ]

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Congratulations to Buyan Munkhbat for successful MS thesis defense!

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Congratulations to Vijeta Deshpande on successful MS thesis defense!