Jeremiah Zhe Liu (SM ’15, PhD ’20) was recently interviewed for the school’s Why Public Health? feature in the Harvard Public Health Magazine. After coming to America and seeing a … Continue reading “Why Public Health? Featuring Jeremiah Zhe Liu”
The King Abdulaziz University MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology saw its first cohort graduate this year. Several of our students submitted their theses for publication, with the guidance of our … Continue reading “A Boston – Jeddah Collaboration”
The Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Program had another productive year. We continued to provide statistical consulting services to Harvard-affiliated investigators. This year, our consultants supported several K2 and R01 grant awards, collaborated … Continue reading “Translational Science Moving Forward”
The department has developed several new educational initiatives this past year. As Xihong mentioned, the School has approved a new Masters program in Health Data Science. This program affords several … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Associate Chair Brent Coull”
As the year closes and we celebrate the holiday season, I would like to express my warm appreciation to all of you in the Harvard Biostatistics community for your many … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Chair Xihong Lin”
Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics and Chair, Xihong Lin, was recently asked, “What can biostatisticians do today that they couldn’t do 10 years ago?” Thanks to whole-genome sequencing, Xihong … Continue reading “Off the Cuff with Xihong Lin”
The annual Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science, supported by colleagues, friends and family, was established to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long and distinguished career as a statistician and his major role … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen Award Nominations Due 12/18”
Just before Thanksgiving, doctoral candidate Heather Mattie gave a talk entitled “Biostatistics: Using Numbers to Improve Health and Help Communities Thrive” at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) conference … Continue reading “AISES Conference”
As part of our Department Colloquium Series, Michael G. Hudgens from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina will be our speaker on December 10, 2015. Dr. Hudgens will … Continue reading “Colloquium Speaker”
The Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics are pleased to announce the first year of joint seminars between the two departments to encourage collaboration and networking, as well as a greater … Continue reading “Joint Statistics Colloquium – Robert Kass”
