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Department of Biostatistics

The Department of Biostatistics tackles pressing public health challenges by conducting cutting-edge research and translation and by offering top-quality education and training.

Phone 617-432-1056
Location

655 Huntington Avenue Building 2, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02115

News

  • May 1, 2023

    Genomics Training Grant Retreat

    The Genomics Training Grant held a successful retreat on Friday April 28 organized by trainees Rebecca Danning and Stephanie Armbruster and attended by grant PIs Xihong Lin and Curtis Huttenhower….

  • May 1, 2023

    Biostats Department Seminar – 5/8

    Harvard Biostatistics Department Seminar Monday, May 8 | 1:00-1:50pm | FXB G11 Dr. Zihuai He Assistant Professor of Neurology and of Medicine Stanford University Advancing conditional independent feature selection in…

  • May 1, 2023

    Upcoming Thesis Defenses

    Contact David Cruikshank for Zoom information. Related Topics Last Updated Get the latest public health news

  • May 1, 2023

    Harvard Catalyst Journal Club – 5/3

    Biostatistics Journal Club: Linear models for characterizing measurement uncertainty and comparing evaluators: a review, with applicationsWednesday, May 3, 20231:00pm-2:00pmRegister hereMark Vangel, PhD, Massachusetts General HospitalThis journal club considers two models…

  • May 1, 2023

    Armen H. Tashjian Jr. Award Lecture – 5/4

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  • May 1, 2023

    7th Cutter Symposium – 5/5

    The Department of Epidemiology invites you to: The 7th Cutter SymposiumLongevity: The Role of EpidemicsFriday, May 5, 2023 | Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1)3:00-5:00pm Symposium5:00-7:00pm ReceptionOpen to the publicRegister for in-person…

  • April 24, 2023

    NIH finds that daily statin reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV

    Decades of research and advances in HIV treatment have drastically reduced AIDS-related complications and deaths. As people with HIV live longer, premature heart disease and other chronic conditions have emerged…

  • April 24, 2023

    Intekhab Hossain receives best poster award at RECOMB’s Computational Cancer Biology (CCB) satellite conference

    Congratulations to Biostats PhD candidate Intekhab (Inté) Hossain who was awarded a best poster award at RECOMB’s Computational Cancer Biology (CCB) satellite conference for his paper “Biologically informed NeuralODEs for…

  • April 24, 2023

    Marvin Zelen Leadership Award – 4/26

    We are extremely pleased to announce Dr. David Harrington will be the recipient of the 2023 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science! We will host Dave for a lecture…

  • April 24, 2023

    Biostats Colloquium with Eric Laber – 4/27

    Harvard Biostatistics Colloquium SeriesThursday, April 271:00-2:00pmFXB G11Eric LaberProfessor of Statistical ScienceDuke UniversityReinforcement Learning for Respondent-Driven Sampling Related Topics Last Updated Get the latest public health news