The DBEI distinctively brings together expertise in biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics, to advance population-health science.
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The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for the position of Chair of the DBEI. The DBEI is an international leader in biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics; its faculty collaborates with biomedical researchers throughout the University. Learn more about the position.
Elizabeth Stuart, PhD, a statistician who develops and uses methodology to better analyze the causal effects of public health and educational interventions, is the first recipient of the DBEI-sponsored Marshall Joffe Epidemiologic Methods Research Award. Read more and hear her remarks.
Spotlights
Biostatistics Student Arman Oganisian: To Show Healthcare Costs, Make Few Assumptions
Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, PhD, Associate Professor of Informatics
In the News
July 2020
Changing behavior now, while the COVID19 increase is still manageable, is the best way for Colorado to avoid what’s happening in Houston, where ICUs have been overwhelmed, commented Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
July 2020
Some challenges that confront scientists racing to develop COVID-19 treatments and vaccines resemble those faced in the past—with HIV, SARS, H1N1 and Ebola—while others are new. Susan Ellenberg, PhD, unpacks what we need to know about clinical trials during the current pandemic. Read the perspective piece in Clinical Trials.
July 2020
Seeing groups hanging out together at concerts, bars and parties with few masks in sight, “It’s not surprising that people are spreading the virus,” Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, told Philadelphia’s NBC10.
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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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