Ryan Seals is a graduate student in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on environmental health, and on methods to draw causal inferences from observational studies. Aside from his areas of research, he is interested in how scientific data - particularly observational epidemiology - are used in policy-making and the law, and how such use has changed over time. Email: [email protected]
by Ryan Seals We are in the position, unique in human history, of possessing the knowledge of how to alleviate much of the unnecessary suffering in the world. What we lack is the knowledge of how to deliver and disseminate that knowledge, and of how to encourage its uptake. In an eerily prescient article of…