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A look at our content-packed DBEI & CCEB 2019 Research Day: View videos and more!
Read about the cross-disciplinary work of our Distinguished Faculty members.
Announcements
Congratulations to all of our biostatistics and epidemiology grads! View our photo of those who walked in the ceremony, with biostatistics faculty and Perelman School of Medicine leadership.
Three faculty members in the Biostatistics Division have been named fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). the field’s largest and most prestigious professional organization in the United States. Nandita Mitra, PhD (pictured), Rebecca Hubbard, PhD and Jinbo Chen, PhD, kicked off a banner season that also has seen four of our biostatisticians elected as ASA officers. Read more about the new ASA fellows.
Spotlights
Biostatistics Student Arman Oganisian: To Show Healthcare Costs, Make Few Assumptions
Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, PhD, Associate Professor of Informatics
In the News
June 2019
For years, we have questioned whether risks are higher for patients whose blood pressure seems to spike only at the doctor's office. A new study led by Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE, says the answer is emphatically yes.
June 2019
For nearly 20 years, eGFR equations have helped clinicians screen for kidney disease and care for patients. But the problems of racial classification related to eGFR have not been closely examined, write authors Nwamaka D. Eneanya, MD, MPH; Wei (Peter) Yang, PhD; and Peter P. Reese, MD, MSCE.
March 2019
“If you have a proactive legislation that incentivizes landlords and everyone to treat for bed bugs promptly, you can really decrease the number of bed bugs quickly,” Michael Z. Levy, PhD, commented about a study he worked on with lead author Sherrie Xie, a graduate researcher in epidemiology.
About Us
To understand health and disease today, we need new thinking and novel science —the kind we create when multiple disciplines work together from the ground up. That is why this department has put forward a bold vision in population-health science: a single academic home for biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics. MORE
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