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Improving health outcomes by targeting climate and air …

WEBClimate policies are typically designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that result from human activities and drive climate change. The largest source of these …

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Computing for the health of the planet

WEBThe health of the planet is one of the most important challenges facing humankind today. From climate change to unsafe levels of air and water pollution to …

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The downside of machine learning in health care

WEBThe downside of machine learning in health care. “If used carefully, this technology could improve performance in health care and potentially reduce inequities,” …

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2021 Women in Data Science conference addresses …

WEBThe themes of what data science can do for health care and how to address bias and equity within data science were the twin foci of the 2021 Women in Data Science (WiDS) …

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Modeling the growth phase of the COVID-19 spread at a …

WEBThe availability of case count data at the county-level in the U.S. allows us to examine the growth phase of the spread by location. We postulate a growth phase model of the form …

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Supporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of …

WEBSchool of Engineering. The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new research projects to support, led by …

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ICSR Project Teams

WEBICSR Project Teams Healthcare. Health is important, and improvements in health improve lives. However, we still don’t fundamentally understand what it means to be healthy, and …

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Labs and Centers

WEBLabs and Centers Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC). The MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) is an interdisciplinary research center …

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Mast cells may explain chemical intolerance

WEBImage by Kauczuk. A newly published paper, co-authored by IDSS Professor Nicholas Ashford, also a visiting scientist at the Harvard Chan School of …

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Research Domains

WEBResearch Domains. IDSS takes cross-disciplinary approaches to solving significant societal challenges across a wide range of application domains. This includes analytical …

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AI can identify race from medical images with no indications of

WEBUsing both private and public datasets, the team found that AI can accurately predict self-reported race of patients from medical images alone. Using …

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Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation and Technology …

WEBIDSS welcomed a new alliance member this summer: Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation and Technology (CIMIT). After learning about each other’s …

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