The DBEI distinctively brings together expertise in biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics, to advance population-health science.
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Attend our second annual DBEI & CCEB Research Day, March 21! Read more.
Read about the cross-disciplinary work of our Distinguished Faculty members.
Announcements
More than one in seven in the US have chronic kidney disease, and as nation’s largest clinical CKD lab, the multi-decade Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort heads the battle against this population-health threat. The DBEI’s Harold I. Feldman, MD, MSCE (pictured) and J. Richard Landis, PhD, lead work funded with a new $17.5M from NIH. Read more.
We at the DBEI are seeking a distinguished senior-faculty scientist for this open position. We welcome candidates who have an internationally recognized record of scholarship and who have demonstrated success in academic-research leadership. Read more.
New informatics faculty member Danielle Mowery, PhD, is also Penn Medicine's first Chief Research Information Officer. Read more.
In the News
December 2018
M. Kit Delgado, MD, MSCE, is studying how to “gamify”—or create incentives for—safety steps, so that it becomes “a much more engaging experience and more fun” to stay off the phone while driving.
December 2018
Black and Hispanic Americans quit smoking successfully only half as often as their white counterparts. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded $11 million for researchers led by Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics, to find out what could help.
October 2018
A rule change significantly reduces concussions from kickoffs, an especially dangerous play, in college football, reported Douglas Wiebe, PhD, and colleagues recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The positive results in the Ivy League athletic conference show how a public-health intervention can emerge from collaboration among injury epidemiologists, coaches and athletic trainers, commented Dr. Wiebe.
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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