CCEB Seminar-Jonathan Jay, DrPH JD

Thursday, September 20, 2018
9:00 am - 10:00 am
09/20/18 - 9:00am to 09/20/18 - 10:00am
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CRB Austrian Auditorium, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadephia
"Beyond Hot Spots: Predicting Gun Violence Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning"   Jonathan Jay, DrPH JDT.H. Chan School of Public HealthHarvard University   Jonathan Jay, DrPH JD, studies urban health risks using machine learning and spatial analytic methods. He is based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a postdoctoral fellow for the Firearm-safety Among Children and Teens Consortium (FACTS), administered from the University of Michigan, and as a research fellow for the Computational Epidemiology Group at Boston Children's Hospital. His long-term projects include predicting fires, overdoses and other emergency medical incidents for Portland (OR) Fire & Rescue. Originally trained as an attorney and bioethicist, Jon earned a doctorate in public health from Harvard in 2018.