Profile of Research Career Possibilities. Case Study: Prof. S. Strathdee

Lancet biography

When is an effect not an effect? APC, of course

Here's a web tool I ran across.

Does it produce the mutoscope trace as a graph?

Looking for a good graphing tool for that purpose, and to shift focus from eyeball pattern congruence evaluation to a non-linear functional analysis with parameters that can be compared across non-nested sample spaces.

APC webtool

World's most mature wine?

Hajji Firuz?

 

Side-bar blog: Soliciting good decent diet places to eat in NYC

Pretty price-y classic Oyster Bar at Grand Central Terminal, but Mon-Weds there's a happy hour from 5:30-7 and also on Saturdays from 1-7 PM with GCOB Long Island Bluepoint Oysters for $1.25 each. Not half bad. Plus, nearby, there is a salad bar with a $4.99 salad of good mixed greens and dressing, with additional ingredients at 70 cents a pop (e.g., chickpeas, tomatoes, etc.).

 But my favorite salad place was Cafe Metro up Lexington Avenue at 45th or 46th street, just a few blocks away from GCT. $7.99 for a huge salad and multiple toppings. Helped me manage to keep my NYC meal costs at a reasonable level, and ate well. 

Longwood Gourmet buffet ($7.99/pound) at Lexington and 48th looked good, but my sample of various items prompted me never to return, except in a pinch. It helps that it's open 24 hours, but I'd have to be pretty hungry late at night to go back there again.

How good are admin stats in an epidemic era?

admin stats

Useful links to international network

NIDA fellows worldwide

A question: What explains a population's response to a multi-individual traumatic event?

Discussion section for a course on psychiatric epidemiology

Truck plows into Bastille Day celebration, July 2016.

Truck plows into Mardi Gras celebration, February 2017

1. PTSD question for psychiatric epidemiologists?

Will we see cases of PTSD among those who were not present in Nice on Bastille Day, but who watched the event on TV?

Will we see cases of PTSD among those who were not present in New Orleans during that Mardi Gras celebration, but who watched the event on TV?

PTSD-TV readings:

Bernstein et al., 2007.

Kennedy et al., 2004.

Also see: "Post-Modern Stress Disorder" hypothesis: link

2. To what extent will a democracy-regulated population accept federal government curtailment of its freedoms after a foreign-origin terrorism event (e.g., 9/11), a domestic-origin terrorism event (e.g., Oklahoma bombing, April, 1995), or a drunk driving catastrophe?

Take into consideration the number of people killed or injured each year in the US from each type of event?

Take into account the U.S. Constitution and its focus on the protection of the U.S. from foreign invasion, with no mention of drunk driving, as well as other considerations.