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Christakis Is Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a leading expert in the study of social networks and biosocial science. His research focuses mainly on the social, mathematical, and biological rules governing how social networks form and the biological implications of how they operate to influence thoughts, behaviors, and feelings.
6 May 2024
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Teaching Medicine to Machines: Using AI and Machine Learning to Improve Health Care
AI and machine learning are shaping research and patient care at Yale one algorithm at a time, from medical imaging to predictive models.
24 Mar 2021
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Fourth Virtual Dean's Workshop Highlights Mathematical Modeling as a Valuable COVID-19 Tool
Sophisticated mathematical modeling and quantitative science were the topics of the fourth virtual Dean’s Workshop on the COVID-19 pandemic, held May 21, 2020.
6 Jun 2020
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Yale App Hunala Aims to Be ‘Waze for Coronavirus’
Just as Waze relies on crowd-sourced data to provide real-time updates of traffic conditions in order to redirect drivers to less congested routes, Hunala relies on daily inputs from users to provide a real-time look at coronavirus risk based on individuals’ associations, activities, and health status.
Source: YaleNews
5 Jun 2020
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Study Suggests That To Contain COVID-19 Schools May Have To Remain Closed For Some Time
Schools all over the country are being closed with many moving to online instruction. So how long will these closures go on for? Unfortunately, the answer is that they should probably go on for a pretty long time.
Source: Forbes
15 Mar 2020
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Yale-led project connects social networks and the microbiome
Led by Nicholas Christakis, Yale’s Sterling Professor of social and natural science and the director of the Human Nature Lab, the Microbiome Biology and Social Networks in the Developing World project launched Jan. 1. The project is funded by a $3.54 million grant from the NOMIS Foundation and will take place in the Copan region of Honduras.
Source: Yale Daily News
16 Jan 2019
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Blavatnik Fund awards grants for innovation
Several faculty members won research grants from the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale at the fourth annual Yale Innovation Summit on May 10. The summit, presented by the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) and Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, provides a window into an expanding entrepreneurial ecosystem at Yale.
15 May 2017
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Inaugural Applied Data Science Seminar Feb. 20
The inaugural Applied Science Seminar, "Social Network Experiments" will take place on Monday, February 20.
14 Feb 2017
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Changes in dieters’ social networks may undermine weight-loss efforts
Efforts to lose weight may be unsuccessful because of an important mismatch between the social contacts created by individuals desiring to lose weight, and the factors that are actually beneficial for achieving weight loss goals, according to a Yale study.
31 May 2016
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Social network experiments create a tipping point to improve public health
Convincing a large group of people to change its behavior is no popularity contest, a new study shows. In a novel experiment, researchers found that certain public health interventions work best when key “influencers” in a face-to-face social network are exposed to the program. What’s surprising, they say, is that those key influencers are not the most socially connected people in the network.
6 May 2015
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Time adds a wrinkle to nature and nurture
Nature and nurture have found a new companion — historical context. A new study has produced the best evidence yet that the role of genetics in complex traits, including obesity, varies over time. Both the era in which scientific research is conducted and the era in which subjects were born may have an impact on the degree to which genetic factors are present in scientific data.
4 Jan 2015
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Q&A: What studying networks can tell us about the world and ourselves
There was an opening ceremony on Feb. 5 for the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS), dedicated to exploring fundamental properties of networks as they appear throughout the biological, physical, and social sciences.
11 Feb 2014
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Pressing issues facing the elderly focus of Nov. 7 aging symposium at Yale
The complex issues facing the growing elderly population and their families will be discussed at a symposium in celebration of two decades of aging research by the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
3 Nov 2013
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Dr. Nicholas Christakis is named the Sol Goldman Family Professor
Dr. Nicholas Christakis, newly named as the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, is a sociologist and physician who conducts research in the areas of social networks and biosocial science.
28 Oct 2013