The Biostatistics Department would like to take the opportunity to honor Professor Marcello Pagano who will be retiring from the Department this year. It is difficult to know where to … Continue reading “Celebrating Marcello Pagano in Honor of his Retirement”
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the Department gave an in-person welcome to the 2023 cohort of the Summer Program in Biostatistics and Computational Biology! Dr. John Quackenbush along … Continue reading “First day of the 2023 Summer Program!”
Extremely proud to see our own Octavious Smiley, PhD ’23, featured in the school’s student stories this month! Check out the featured story which traces his path from a child fascinated by negative … Continue reading “Octavious Smiley: Strength in numbers”
The McGoldrick program hosted its Quantitative Methods in Global Health: Mini-Conference on Tuesday, August 16. Over 50 participants joined for the virtual conference, most from parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. … Continue reading “McGoldrick Program Conference on Quantitative Methods in Global Health”
The 2022 Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology concluded last week, after the annual “Pipelines into Biostatistics Symposium” was held virtually on Thursday, July 14th. Research project presentations were … Continue reading “Summer Program Concludes with a Successful Pipelines into Biostatistics Symposium”
Congratulations to the StatStart team who was recently selected as a 2022-23 grant recipient of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (CLIF)! The team will receive generous funding for their upcoming summer program after … Continue reading “StatStart Receives CLIF Funding!”
Alumni Melody Goodman, PhD ’06 and Ronnie Sebro, PhD ’07, professor Marcello Pagano, and doctoral student Jemar Bather recently published a paper on “Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Students, Graduates, and Faculty in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 2010-2020” in Public Health … Continue reading “Goodman, Sebro, Pagano, and Bather Publish Paper in Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Biostats and Epidemiology”
The Department virtually welcomed the 2022 cohort of the Summer Program in Biostatistics and Computational Biology this morning!Eleven undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students will spend the next 6 weeks participating in classes such as biostatistics, programming, health data science and … Continue reading “First day of the 2022 Summer Program!”
Again, StatStart was a success this year. The students appreciated the opportunity to spend some time (virtually) with us. I would like to thank all the people who volunteered their … Continue reading “StatStart 2021 – Letter from the Program Director”
The StatStart program concluded last week with 10 high school students presenting the research they worked on during the 4-week intensive summer program. The following topics were included in the presentations: Dose Finding … Continue reading “Another Successful Summer of StatStart!”
