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I would like to congratulate 4 of my former students (from my class and my lab group) who were accepted to the 2024 MIT DeltaV entrepreneurial program this summer and are presenting their startups at the large annual DemoDay showcase today: entrepreneurship.mit.edu/acc…

My former grad student, Honey Bajaj, and her health startup were selected to present at this year's prestigious G20 meeting held in India. Congrats to her team! thefirstparents.com/ @thefirstparents #G20India2023

Our Tech for Mental Health and Wellness class 2023 is off to a great start! The class is completely full (30+) with over two-thirds grad students from Harvard. We are looking forward to working with so many great students! web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.e…

Attending the annual behavior medicine conference #SBM2023, I met these researchers from University of Georgia who have developed a non-invasive way to check if people are eating enough green vegetables using a color vision test (macular pigment optical density). Brilliant!

Tonight we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Recovery Research Institute at MGH. Very grateful to be affiliated with such a wonderful organization that has impacted so many lives of people in recovery and helped us better understand the science. recoveryanswers.org/

I'm very grateful to report that our interdisciplinary team at Harvard/MIT/MGH/BI/PIH Rwanda won the $0.5M first place award in this year's NIH Tech Innovation prize (NTAC). The MIT News published a nice story today on this project: news.mit.edu/2022/protecting… #mhealth #AI4Good

Our hearts go out to our partners in India and Bangladesh who are experiencing a devastating wave of #COVID19 caused by the new double mutant #B1617 strain that also affects younger age people. We must not become complacent, since this is a global problem. #CovidIndia

The 1918 flu: Why did young healthy adults have more excess deaths than the elderly? This fascinating lecture explains how your body's antibody response is not just a function of #vaccines and age, but also your specific viral exposure as a young child. youtu.be/48Klc3DPdtk

One of the #mhealth startups from our group, founded by Audace Nakeshimana was recently featured on the cover of the main Rwandan newspaper for the great work they are doing using #AI to help diagnose #COVID19. Congratulations Audace! epaper.newtimes.co.rw/infini…

medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coron…. Excellent review article by @tomaspueyo that explains mathematically and statistically why fast response and social distancing can make a huge difference in pandemic outcomes. (Article is also available in multiple languages)