June 13, 2019
Paper on Cross-Disciplinary Work by Leon Espira
ITiMS fellow, Leon Espira's paper "The Value of Creative, Cross-Disciplinary Work: Bringing Together the Theoretical and the Practical" was published in The Pursuit this week.
Leon Espira, M.P.H., M.Sc., B.Sc.
PhD Student in Epidemiology, Jacquez Koopman Simon Longini Complex Systems Epidemiology Scholar and ITiMS Fellow
The Value of Creative, Cross-Disciplinary Work: Bringing Together the Theoretical and the Practical
"The very nature of public health is cross-disciplinary."
"I was challenged to see my work from other perspectives and to understand how different fields would approach similar problems."
"What good are rapid, point-of-use sensors for the detection for disease when there is no infrastructure to treat the disease following diagnosis?"
Full text at https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2019posts/creative-cross-disciplinary-work.html