Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics has long been considered the preeminent department of biostatistics in the United States, consistently ranking as the top program in the country
Biostats Stats
- Chair: John Quackenbush, PhD
- Established in 1922 as the Department of Vital Statistics
- More than 50 primary and secondary faculty members
- 77 doctoral students
- 105 master’s students in biostatistics, health data science, and computational biology/quantitative genomics programs
- 100+ researchers including scientists, research associates, and postdoctoral fellows based at:
- Harvard Chan School, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals: Brigham & Women’s, Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel/Deaconess, and Massachusetts General Hospital
- 6 degree programs offered: PhD & 5 Master’s programs
Contact us
655 Huntington Avenue
Building 2, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617.432.1056
dept@hsph.harvard.edu