Tag Archives: health records
Guest post from “the field”
One cool program here at IHME is the field placements for our Post-Bachelors Fellows. This is a roughly 6 week stint during the summer of their second year here where they travel from Seattle to some distant place, to see … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Random Graphs in NetworkX: My Spatial-Temporal Preferred Attachment Diversion
To take my mind off my meetings, I spent a little time modifying the Spatial Preferred Attachment model from Aiello, Bonato, Cooper, Janssen, and Prałat’s paper A Spatial Web Graph Model with Local Influence Regions so that it changes over … Continue reading
Filed under combinatorics, probability
Big opportunity for differential privacy
I wrote a few months ago about how research in differential privacy seems very applicable to global public health. There is a new report from the Institute of Medicine which calls for a new approach to protecting privacy in health … Continue reading
Filed under cryptography, science policy
Google Flu
Have yinz already seen Google Flu? It’s a project by google.org, in collaboration with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s been getting healthy press coverage for the last two weeks or so. And, if you want to … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Applied Privacy
A multitude of events in the last week or so have made me want to blog about (and learn more about) the cryptographic theory of privacy. Journalist James Bamford’s new book about the NSA came out, the third in his … Continue reading
Filed under cryptography, global health
