Overview
The Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core provides intellectual guidance for quantitative aspects of the design and analysis of Center studies. Core faculty and staff have expertise in a full range of biostatistical methods, environmental risk assessment, Geographic Information System (GIS) and spatial statistics, as well as molecular biology, bioinformatics and statistical genetics. Core Faculty are mostly drawn from the Department of Biostatistics at HSPH, particularly the Program in Environmental Statistics, but also from the Environmental Health Department at HSPH.
In addition to providing support for study design and analysis, Core members undertake methodological research motivated by their collaborations with Center investigators. The Core runs a regular seminar series and often sponsors short-courses on specialized topics of interest to the community.
Core Goals and Objectives
- Provide Center investigators with state-of-the-art statistical and bioinformatics support, as well as support in related quantitative areas such as environmental epidemiology and statistical genetics;
- Maintain a state-of-the-art GIS facility and provide expertise in spatial methods for health research;
- Provide guidance on data management and computational issues;
- Promote interdisciplinary research involving the development of new statistical and bioinformatics methods for the design and analysis of environmental health studies and to disseminate this work through expository papers in environmental health journals, as well as via the web;
- Educate Center investigators on new statistical methods applicable to their research activities
How to Request Services
To request any of the services of the Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core, please fill out the online Request Form.
People
Director: Brent Coull, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Executive Director: Elaine Hoffman, Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics
Program Coordinator: Vickie Beaulieu
