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Announcements
Susan S. Ellenberg, PhD, will serve as interim chair of the DBEI. Dr. Ellenberg will assume the role on October 1. Read more.
Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD, will assume the role of Director of our Division of Biostatistics, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Morris is a leader in developing quantitative methods to extract knowledge from biomedical big data. Read more.
Spotlights
Biostatistics Student Arman Oganisian: To Show Healthcare Costs, Make Few Assumptions
Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, PhD, Associate Professor of Informatics
In the News
July 2019
President Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at improving the care of kidney patients. In an interview on Weekend Edition, Nwamaka D. Eneanya, MD, MPH, commented on that a goal of having 80% of patients with end-stage kidney disease use home dialysis or receive a transplant would be a monumental change.
July 2019
Why are bed bugs on the rise in cities like Philadelphia, and what dangers do they pose? Michael Z. Levy, PhD, comments as part of this live National Public Radio show.
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.
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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