On Thursday, November 13, our undergraduate Statistics concentrators enjoyed an engaging dinner with Professors Alice Paul, Anarina Murillo, and Cory Zigler. A meaningful evening filled with conversation, connection, and a bit of Biostats spirit! 🍽️📈

If you’re an undergraduate, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of data science, and you may have taken a stats class, but you may never have heard about biostatistics. Interested? Read more about why Biostatistics is right for you: biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/academics/wh...

Happy and healthy Halloween wishes from all of the ghouls and goblins of #BrownSPH!!🎃

📰 Check out our October 2025 Newsletter! Subscribe today to get the latest Department news, events, student information, seminars, job postings, publications and much more! us13.campaign-archive.com?u=198ca4880a...

Department staff, faculty, and students attended the annual Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at @rwpzoo.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 28th. 🎃 We had so much fun strolling through thousands of carved pumpkins!

Congratulations to Corwin Zigler for receiving The 2025 IBES Catalyst Research Award! The IBES Catalyst Research Award supports Brown faculty pursuing research that advances IBES’s mission. Read more about how Corwin Zigler is collaborating: ibes.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

TODAY! Ting Ye, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington will be speaking at the Statistics Seminar & Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of Fine Arts Series on zoom at 1PM EDT! We hope you will join us! events.brown.edu/biostatistic...

First up: talks from Dr. Jon Steingrimsson & Dr. @rhubbbstat.bsky.social, both of @brownbiostatistics.bsky.social, on #AI, #MachineLearning, & #RealWorldData in cancer #ClinicalTrials. More to come!

We are pleased to welcome one of our newest members, Dafne Zorzetto, as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biostatistics to @brownpublichealth.bsky.social, department of Biostatistics! Welcome, Dafne! 🥳 biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

If you're in health policy or medicine and confused about what to do with all the recent DiD innovations -- or curious about their adoption in the medical literature -- @brownbiostatistics.bsky.social PhD student Shuo Feng has you covered! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Meet the 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees! IBES will fund 6 core & affiliate faculty members to pursue scholarly projects around the world, with topics ranging from parasite identification to Indigenous-led environmental justice organizing. Mara Freilich Brown History Department Brown Biostatistics

Tomorrow! 🚨 Biostatistics Information Session! October 3 | 10AM | Virtual Register Here: events.brown.edu/biostatistic...

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Community Focus: How clinical data about pregnant women is collected, a conversation with Alyssa Bilinski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at @wpri12.bsky.social! 🔗 www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

RECAP: The Brown University Department of Biostatistics hosted a welcome reception on September 8th to mark the start of the '25–'26 academic year! Extending a warm welcome to our graduate students, undergraduate concentrators, faculty, and staff. 🔗 biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

Anne-Marie Feeney is a data analyst at the Stanford Cancer Institute who is applying skills from Brown's new online master’s degree in biostatistics and health data science to her cutting-edge work in CAR-T cell therapy. sph.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

TODAY! Jingyi Jessica Li, Ph.D., Professor & Program Head of Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at the University of Washington will be speaking at the Statistics Seminar and Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of Fine Arts Series on zoom at 12PM EDT! 🔗 events.brown.edu/biostatistic...

Happy #postdocappreciationweek!🎉 Meet Sreeram Anantharaman PhD, a @uconn.bsky.social alum & @brownbiostatistics.bsky.social postdoc working to improve clinical decision support systems for Kenyan HIV care and infectious disease surveillance, right here in RI. #NPAW2025 sph.brown.edu/research/pos...

NCATS AIM-AHEAD Training Program Cohort 3 Applications due September 26 Six months of online training in AI and machine learning 8-10 hours per week $8,000 stipend and $2,000 travel allowance Project guidance and 1:1 mentorship Present your project at the AIM-AHEAD annual meeting in July 2026

The 5th annual State of the School 2025! Dean Ashish Jha welcomed faculty, staff, students and alumni and highlighted Brown’s impact in education, research and policy. sph.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

At the 5th annual State of the School, Dean Ashish Jha welcomed faculty, staff, students & alumni and highlighted Brown’s impact in education, research and policy. Despite the unprecedented moment we face, “our school is strong,” he said. Read more⤵️ https://sph.brown.edu/news/2025-09-17/state-school

Ying Ma, Ph.D., Awarded 3 grants from NSF and NIH! 🔗For more information: biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

Happy #postdocappreciationweek!🎉 Kenya Andrews, Ph.D. focuses on machine learning, just decision-making and human-robot interaction. She's excited to expand her training working with multi-factor data at #BrownBiostatistics. #NPAW2025 #BrownSPH https://sph.brown.edu/research/postdoctoral-training

Amazed that this is still written in NYT in 2025. With RCTs, we would have better evidence on acetaminophen in pregnancy with fewer individuals exposed. Why are we forcing everyone to experiment and not learning from it? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...

Congratulations to Alice Paul, Ph.D., who has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biostatistics! 🔗 biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week!🎉 Meet Kenya Andrews, Ph.D., Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow.

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week!🎉 Meet Sreeram Anantharaman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biostatistics. #NPAW2025 #postdocappreciationweek2025

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week!🎉 Meet Dongliang Zhang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biostatistics. Zhang has been working on on modeling Positron Emission Tomography imaging data to understand brain changes related to Alzheimer’s disease. #NPAW2025 #postdocappreciationweek #Biostats

RECAP: Biostatistics Master's Orientation from August 28th, 2025! Students enjoying lunch and meeting professors!

TODAY! Zhijin (Jean) Wu, Ph.D., from The Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health at Brown University will be speaking at the Statistics Seminar Series at @brownpublichealth.bsky.social in room 245 at noon! We hope you can join us! 🔗 events.brown.edu/biostatistic...

Our DUG leaders, Charly Castillo and Ruth Moreira Ulloa, at the Academic Expo hosted by Brown University at the Pembroke Green on September 2nd! The Academic Expo is a unique opportunity to learn about the wide variety of courses and concentrations available to you at Brown.

Announcing the Statistics Seminar & Marshall Woods Lectureship Foundation of Fine Arts Series Fall 2025 lineup! Join us for an exciting roster of speakers and discussions on Mondays at noon in room 245! For more info: biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/statistics-s...

Please join us for our Virtual Information Session on September 5 at 10:00am EDT! Attendees will gain further insight into the master’s and Ph.D. Biostatistics programs, structure, curriculum highlights and application process! Register here: events.brown.edu/public-healt...

Congratulations to Dr. Chang Yu for successfully defending her dissertation on Tuesday, August 19th! 🥳 We are incredibly proud of Chang's hard work and determination during her time in the Biostatistics Department.

LISTEN: Being stalked is obviously frightening and harmful to psychological well-being. But a new study from @hsph.harvard.edu finds being stalked also harms women's cardiovascular health. Professor @liztobintyler.bsky.social says understanding these linkages is critical. www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...

Congratulations to Dr. Ruya Kang for successfully defending her dissertation on Friday, August 1st! Ruya entered the Biostatistics PhD Program in 2020 after completing her Master's in Statistics at ETH Zürich. We are incredibly proud of Ruya's hard work and perseverance over the last five years!

Biostatistics Reception Recap 🎓 AWARD WINNERS: The Undergraduate Statistics Concentration Capstone Poster Award of Excellence was awarded to Benjamin Moshes! The PhD Presentation Award of Excellence was awarded to Robert Zielinski and Chang Yu! Congratulations! 🥳

We are pleased to welcome our new Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, Kenya Andrews to Brown Universtity, @brownpublichealth.bsky.social Department of @brownbiostatistics.bsky.social! Welcome, Kenya! 🥳 biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2025-07...

Biostatistics Commencement Reception Recap! We had an amazing turnout at the 2025 Biostatistics Commencement Reception celebration! The 2025 award winners were revealed for Doctorates, Master's and Undergraduate Statistics Concentrators. biostatistics.sph.brown.edu/news/2025-06...

Congratulations to our Brown University Biostatistics graduates, Class of 2025! 🎓

Professor Alyssa Bilinski, Ph.D., has found that systematically including pregnant participants in trials would speed up the detection of adverse effects and increase uptake of beneficial medications. 🔗 For more information: sph.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

Professor Corwin Zigler, Ph.D., discusses breaks down the Air Quality Index and its real-world impact on public health on the Possibly Podcast on Spotify! Check out the New Episode out now! open.spotify.com/episode/4bZx...

TODAY! Brian Caffo, Ph.D., from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social will be speaking at the Statistics Seminar and Charles K. Colver Lectureship Series at @brownpublichealth.bsky.social in room 245 at noon. We hope you can join us! 🔗 events.brown.edu/biostatistic...

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Jon Steingrimsson has been named Biostatistical Editor of Gastroenterology. Gastroenterology is a premiere journal for original research in the field of GI disease!

TODAY! Alisa J. Stephens Shields, Ph.D., from @pennmedicine.bsky.social will be speaking at the Statistics Seminar and Charles K. Colver Lectureship Series at @brownpublichealth.bsky.social in room 245 at noon. We hope you can join us! 🔗 events.brown.edu/biostatistic...

Today's the day! Join your fellow Brunonians and pay it #Forward4Brown by making a gift to the #BrownSPH Annual Fund today! Maybe you'll be the donor to unlock a $100,000 challenge gift to the Brown University School of Public Health!! >>>> bbis.advancement.brown.edu/bbphenix/pifd/

Congratulations to Brown Biostatistics students, staff & faculty honored at the #BrownSPH 2025 Dean's Awards Ceremony!🏅

Congratulations to the students, staff & faculty honored Wednesday at the #BrownSPH 2025 Dean's Awards Ceremony!🏅 “You remind us that in moments of uncertainty,” Dean @ashishkjha.bsky.social said, “the mission of our school becomes not just relevant, but essential.” sph.brown.edu/news/2025-04...

Congratulations to Dr. Gauri Kamat for successfully defending her dissertation on Friday, April 11th! 🥳 Gauri joined the Biostats PhD program in 2020 after earning her Master’s from Duke. We are incredibly proud of Gauri's determination and diligence over the last five years!