I’ve been spending the week at the Infectious Disease Modeling Summer School here at UW. It’s very interesting, and good for me to learn more about how people in my new field think (especially people in my new field, outside of my little institute…)
I’ve discovered a pet peeve during this week of presentations, though. [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
ID Modeling Summer School
June 24, 2009
US Health Care Costs, cont.
I wrote two months ago about the mysterious differences in health care costs that I found so intriguing in a talk by Jonathan Skinner. (That was two months ago? Really?) Since then, the surgeon/author Atul Gawande has brought the mystery to the national stage. In a long story for the New [...]
June 18, 2009
Population Health in Iran
The political situation in Iran has been in the news and on the nets a lot this week. I hope that the friends and families of all my Iranian colleagues are safe. I’m thinking of you.
