ENIRONMENTAL STATISTICS AND BIOINFORMATICS CORE ABSTRACT The Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core (ESBC) of the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health provides biostatistical, statistical genetics and genomics, and bioinformatics support for investigators associated with the Center. Assistance is also available in several other specialized areas including environmental epidemiology, spatial statistics, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In addition to design and analysis support, Core faculty and staff advise investigators on data management issues, large-scale research computing infrastructure, and provide statistical training for graduate students and fellows working on Center-related projects. Core faculty and researchers engage in mission-related research motivated by questions and methodological challenges that arise from Center collaborations. Providing such services via a core facility allows us to build and maintain specialized resources (e.g. expertise in advanced statistical methods, statistical genomics and bioinformatics) and also allows us to draw on the broader resources available through the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard. Having a core facility also provides us with the necessary infrastructure to support educational activities such as seminars and workshops of relevance to Center investigators.

Public Health Relevance

ENIRONMENTAL STATISTICS AND BIOINFORMATICS CORE NARRATIVE The Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core (ESBC) of the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health provides biostatistical, statistical genetics and genomics, and bioinformatics support for investigators associated with the Center. Assistance is also available in several other specialized areas including environmental epidemiology, spatial statistics, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The Core provides this support uniformly to members in all three Center Research Cores as well as the Community Outreach and Engagement Core.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
2P30ES000002-51
Application #
8619189
Study Section
Environmental Health Sciences Review Committee (EHS)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2014-05-09
Budget End
2015-03-31
Support Year
51
Fiscal Year
2014
Total Cost
$188,708
Indirect Cost
$71,861
Name
Harvard University
Department
Type
DUNS #
149617367
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02115
Messerlian, Carmen; Williams, Paige L; Ford, Jennifer B et al. (2018) The Environment and Reproductive Health (EARTH) Study: A Prospective Preconception Cohort. Hum Reprod Open 2018:
Li, Wenyuan; Nyhan, Marguerite M; Wilker, Elissa H et al. (2018) Recent exposure to particle radioactivity and biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation: The Framingham Heart Study. Environ Int 121:1210-1216
Lepeule, Johanna; Litonjua, Augusto A; Gasparrini, Antonio et al. (2018) Lung function association with outdoor temperature and relative humidity and its interaction with air pollution in the elderly. Environ Res 165:110-117
Draz, Mohamed Shehata; Moazeni, Maryam; Venkataramani, Manasa et al. (2018) Hybrid Paper-Plastic Microchip for Flexible and High-Performance Point-of-Care Diagnostics. Adv Funct Mater 28:
Gaskins, Audrey J; Hart, Jaime E; Mínguez-Alarcón, Lidia et al. (2018) Residential proximity to major roadways and traffic in relation to outcomes of in vitro fertilization. Environ Int 115:239-246
Specht, Aaron J; Kponee, Kale; Nkpaa, Kpobari W et al. (2018) Validation of x-ray fluorescence measurements of metals in toenail clippings against inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in a Nigerian population. Physiol Meas 39:085007
Nassan, Feiby L; Williams, Paige L; Gaskins, Audrey J et al. (2018) Correlation and temporal variability of urinary biomarkers of chemicals among couples: Implications for reproductive epidemiological studies. Environ Int 123:181-188
Weisskopf, Marc G; Seals, Ryan M; Webster, Thomas F (2018) Bias Amplification in Epidemiologic Analysis of Exposure to Mixtures. Environ Health Perspect 126:047003
Hart, Jaime E; Bertrand, Kimberly A; DuPre, Natalie et al. (2018) Exposure to hazardous air pollutants and risk of incident breast cancer in the nurses' health study II. Environ Health 17:28
Raz, Raanan; Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi-Anna; Weisskopf, Marc G (2018) Live-Birth Bias and Observed Associations Between Air Pollution and Autism. Am J Epidemiol 187:2292-2296

Showing the most recent 10 out of 1142 publications