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National Public Health Week: Mark van der Laan, Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Berkeley Public Health

We recently asked Mark van der Laan, UC Berkeley Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, about his work and thoughts on the field of public health.

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SPH Selects Winners of Dean’s Innovation Challenge

BU School of Public Health Blog

Monitoring Public Health Emergencies Huimin Cheng , assistant professor of biostatistics, and Vedika Srivastava , a research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics, intend to use their award to develop a new digital platform that integrates multiple public data sources to enhance early detection and response to emerging health threats.

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The Pivot with Dr. Hongtu Zhu

UNC Epidemiology Blog

I play a pivotal role in public health as a professor and researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, where I hold appointments across several departments, including biostatistics, genetics, radiology, computer science and statistics. Dr. Zhu speaks at the Department of Biostatistics’ 75th anniversary celebration.

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Epi Scholars Program, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

The Cofounder

Since 2007, the EpiScholarsProgram has provided rigorous training in appliedepidemiology to stellar graduate and professional epidemiology and biostatistics students at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH).

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Revolutionizing missing data management in EHRs with machine learning

News Medical Health Sciences

Researchers from the National Institute of Health Data Science at Peking University and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Peking University People's Hospital have conducted a comprehensive systematic review evaluating strategies for addressing missing data in electronic health records (EHRs).

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AI tools show potential to improve aging interventions and recommendations

News Medical Health Sciences

A collaborative study between researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and aging Research, Rostock University Medical Center, Germany, investigated how advanced AI tools, like Large Language Models (LLMs), can make it easier (..)

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Poster Competition, Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance

The Cofounder

The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) program of the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance is hosting a graduate student poster competition for the 2025 Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference.