Company Profile
Department of Biostatistics
Company Overview
The Department of Biostatistics is part of Brown University's School of Public Health and is co-located with the Center for Statistical Sciences. The Department offers Master's and doctoral degrees in Biostatistics and has a highly interdisciplinary faculty of thirteen core members. Current Biostatistics faculty research interests include missing data and causal inference, diagnostic test evaluation, bioinformatics, statistical methods for HIV epidemiology, Bayesian inference, the analysis of spatial data, statistical methods for neuroscience, and health services and outcomes research in addition to meta-analysis and multi-level modeling.
The Department of Biostatistics is part of a major expansion of research and educational programs within the newly accredited School of Public Health specifically and the University at large. The academic departments and research centers at Brown offer the opportunity for collaboration with world-class investigators in health services research, behavioral sciences, epidemiology, computational biology, neuroscience, environmental science, evidence-based medicine and the new data science initiative, as well as several other fields.
Company History
The Department of Biostatistics at Brown was launched in July 2011 as one of the four constituent departments of the Brown University School of Public Health. The formation of the Department was the culmination of fifteen years of growth in Biostatistics at Brown, beginning with the founding of the Center for Statistical Sciences (CSS) in 1995 as a unit of the Brown Medical School. Over the years, CSS developed a robust research enterprise and provided the academic strength and infrastructure for the growth of the Biostatistics faculty and the launching of degree programs in Biostatistics in 1999 (PhD) and 2007 (ScM, AM). The Undergraduate Statistics Concentration was also formed in 1997, with the Center's leadership. In 2006, the Biostatistics Section of the Department of Community Health was formed as a transitional organization for the Biostatistics faculty in the process of laying the foundations for the establishment of the Department.
Notable Products / Brands
Biostatistics, Data Science
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
The mission of the Department of Biostatistics at Brown is to conduct fundamental research that generates new discoveries in theory and methods of statistics and data science; to provide expertise and leadership and to promote interdisciplinary research in domain areas related to human health and the life sciences; to develop future researchers and professionals in the field of biostatistics through a graduate program that combines rigorous training in theory and methods with meaningful engagement in interdisciplinary research; to provide high quality courses and mentoring in biostatistics and data science for the broader community of students and researchers at Brown; and to serve the academic community at Brown and the scientific community at large by providing intellectual and organizational leadership and collaboration on programs in the statistical and data sciences.