Tag Archives: malaria
World Malaria Report and MCMC
OMG I have got busy. I went to NIPS and the weekend disappeared and now it’s post-doc interview season again, already! So much to say, but I plan to pace myself. For this short post, an exciting announcement that my … Continue reading
Filed under global health, MCMC
Applied Approximate Counting: Malaria
My first first-authored global health paper came out today (I consider it my first “first-authored” paper ever, since the mathematicians I’ve worked with deviantly list authorship in alphabetical order regardless of seniority and contribution). It’s a bit of a mouthful … Continue reading
Filed under global health, MCMC
California foreclosures, mosquitoes, and skate punks
Do you remember last summer’s health scare around the housing market collapse? There was a theory that all the swimming pools in all the foreclosed houses in California would become major mosquito breeding grounds, leading to major crops of mosquitoes, … Continue reading
Filed under global health, videos
Numbers from World TB Day + Maps of Malaria
Twice as many people were diagnosed with both HIV and tuberculosis in 2007 than were in 2006. (Science Mag, BMJ) Quote about global health data in the article that is quite consistent with what I’ve seen comes from Richard Chaisson: … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Combinatorics of Malaria Eradication
I’ve got at least 3 interesting blog posts worth of material on TCS applications for fighting malaria, but I haven’t had time to pen even one of them. Here is an abbreviated version: Malaria is a major disease, something like … Continue reading
Filed under combinatorial optimization, global health, TCS
