Rebecca and Cory are exceptionally creative and talented scholars. To bring them both to Brown in the same year is remarkably good fortune.

Over the last year, prestigious national and international organizations recognized our Brown Biostatistics faculty members (Lorin Crawford, Christopher Schmid, Anarina Murillo, and Jon Steingrimsson) for their research, scholarship and leadership.

Anthony Sisti, Biostatistics Ph.D. Candidate and first author of the study discovered that listening to personalized music can temporarily decrease verbally agitated behaviors and increase observed pleasure in dementia patients in nursing homes.

Funds awarded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Congratulations to our Brown Biostatistics faculty Roberta DeVito who was appointed Thomas J. and Alice M. Tisch Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science

Jon Steingrimsson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and colleagues organized a workshop with ICERM.

Ph.D. Student in Biostatistics, Chunnan Liu attended and presented at the 2023 ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Regulatory- Industry Statistics Workshop

Lorin Crawford, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics was elected to the Regional Advisory Board of ENAR

New appointed member of Folia Health’s Scientific Advisory Council

Read all about what Alyssa Bilinski, Ph.D., Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Biostatistics has to say about COVID-19 isolation on TIME.

Welcome Reception 2023-24

“Health Data Science in R”

Congratulations to Jon Steingrimsson, Ph.D., for being named Associate Group Statistician in the Biostatistics and Data Management Center of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group!

Anarina Murillo taught Data Science and Statistics in Public Health to High School Students during this year’s ICERM GirlsGetMath summer program.

We welcomed Akhil Ambekar, Seth Bittig, and Thomas Kenny.

Ani Eloyan, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, has been appointed Vice Chair of the Department of Biostatistics.

Alice Paul, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, has been appointed Associate Director of the Master's Program in Biostatistics.

Ph.D. Student in Biostatistics, Robert Zielinski was selected for a ICoN T32 training grant on Interactionist Cognitive Neuroscience from Carney Institute.

The 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) was held from August 5th-10th, in Toronto, Canada.

Congratulations to first year Master’s student and NextGen Scholar, Diahmin Hawkins for receiving a five-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research Awarded $9.2 Million NIH Renewal, Biostatistics Core is co-led by Joseph Hogan.

Brown University's School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics is pleased to welcome one of our newest faculty members, Ying Ma, Ph.D. as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, effective August 1, 2023. Ma is a member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) as well as Center for Statistical Sciences (CSS).

Christopher Schmid, Ph.D. Brown University Professor of Biostatistics received the Shadish Recognition for Extraordinary Service from the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (SRSM) at its 2023 conference.

Our 2023 graduates included five Doctorate, 19 Master’s graduates and seven Undergraduate Statistics Concentrators.

Dissemination of new methods, formation of new collaborations, extended discussion to identify new challenges, and engagement of junior investigators

Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou was honored with the prestigious Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund award.

Standardizing reporting of abnormalities could minimize mortality, healthcare costs and unnecessary medical interventions.

Graduating biostatistics students present and discuss their Capstone projects.

Biostatistics PhD student, Sarah Voter, has received the Young Investigator Award for her poster presentation at IWHOD.

Congratulations to our Biostatistics students who were inducted into Brown’s Epsilon Iota Chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society.

Congratulations to our Biostatistics students who won posters at the 2023 School of Public Health Research Day!

Christopher Schmid has been named a Fellow of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (SRSM).

The symposium is designed to promote continued engagement between statistical scientists from the ‘global north’ and ‘global south’.

Associate Professor Lorin Crawford received the Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS)

Ani Eloyan has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biostatistics

The award is titled, “Recovering reproducible and local signal in genomic data"

Joseph Cappelleri, adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at Brown and Executive Director of Biostatistics at Pfizer, won the Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics held in Scottsdale, AZ.

Biostatistics Ph.D. student Jennifer Scodes contributed analysis to report on student newspapers at NYC high schools

Growth in Master’s scholarships reflects the School of Public Health’s commitment to changing the face of public health and data science.

Fenghai Duan receives award from RIH for a 5-year R01 from NIA

Jon Steingrimsson and Constantine Gatsonis are co-investigators on a recently funded NCI grant that will use radiomic features to distinguish low from high risk DCIS.

Fenghai Duan and Ilana Gareen receive an award from UC Irvine for a 5-year R01 from NCI.

A welcome reception to kick off the 2022- 23 academic year

Youjin Lee, Ph.D. Brown University Manning Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, received a Brown University Carney Institute for Brain Science award from their NIH funded Center for Central Nervous System Function (COBRE).

Youjin Lee, Ph.D. Brown University Manning Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will co-lead a National Science Foundation funded project with Nandita Mitra, Professor in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Roee Gutman is the recipient of the 2022 Health Economics Outcomes and Research - Methodology Award

Completion of a primary COVID-19 vaccination series after recovery from infection was tied to half the risk of reinfection in the pre-Omicron variant era, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.