Biostatistics at Brown

TODAY! 🚨

Yong Chen, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics and Senior Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine will be speaking at the Brown University School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics Seminar Series at noon.

We hope you will join us!
https://events.brown.edu/biostatistics/event/329699-statistics-seminar-series-yong-chen-phd

TODAY! 🚨

Mariel Finucane, Ph.D., Director of Statistical Methods at Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA will be speaking at the Brown University School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics Seminar Series at noon.

We hope you will join us!
https://events.brown.edu/biostatistics/event/329686-statistics-seminar-series-mariel-finucane-phd

TODAY! 🚨

Zhenke Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Michigan Statistics for Individualized-healthcare Lab (MiSIL), Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan School of Public Health will be speaking at the Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics Seminar Series at noon.

We hope you will join us!
https://events.brown.edu/biostatistics/event/328024-statistics-seminar-series-zhenke-wu-phd

Join us today in room 901 for a National Public Health Week Event presented by Jeffrey S Morris, Ph.D., entitled “Seeing Through Epidemiologic Fallacies: How Statistics Safeguards Scientific Communication in a Polarized Era.”

Wednesday, April 8
Noon - 1 p.m.
121 S Main St | RM 901

This seminar will be delivered in hybrid format, so while we'd prefer if people came in person, we do have a Zoom link option: https://brown.zoom.us/j/9440784940

Our very own Associate Professor of the Practice of Biostatistics, Peter Lipman filmed media assets for BHDS 2050: Problem-driven Biostatistics and Capstone Project (the filming studio is at 225 Dyer St, in the School of Professional Studies)!

https://biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/academics/masters-programs/scm/online

On March 6th the Department of Biostatistics hosted a PhD Accepted Student Welcome & Mingle event!

It was a wonderful opportunity to meet potential incoming students and welcome them to our wonderful department!

TODAY! 🚨

Mingyao Li, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics and Data Science, and
Digital Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania will be speaking at the Statistics Seminar Series at Brown University School of Public Health at noon in room 245.

Talk Title: "AI-powered tissue maps: uniting spatial omics and pathology imaging"

We hope you will join us!
https://events.brown.edu/biostatistics/event/328014-statistics-seminar-series-and-marshall-woods-lectures

"Making The Data Speak"

Our very own Ying Ma speaks on how her work in genomics is shaping personalized treatments for the world’s most challenging diseases.

Read more here: https://sph.brown.edu/news/2026-03-25/ying-ma-genomics

We are pleased to welcome our new Administrative Manager, Danielle Lilly to Brown University, Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics.

Welcome Danielle! 🥳

Read more about Danielle here: https://biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2026-03-01/admin-manager

Inside Brown’s new statistics curriculum:
The Department of Biostatistics is pivoting toward a deeper, student-focused and computational approach to the field.

Read More: https://sph.brown.edu/news/2026-03-17/new-statistics-concentration