Job Alert! 📢 @jhubiostat.bsky.social is searching for Postdoc Fellows in the broad areas of data science and AI, with a focus on developing and applying novel data science approaches, computational tools and statistical methods to advance health and biomedical research: apply.interfolio.com/174430

Does A really cause B? @lizstuart.bsky.social joined Public Health On Call earlier this year to offer a crash course in biostatistics and explain the nuances of designing studies that accurately assess causality. 🎧 johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/794-does-a-r...

The Department's September newsletter is now available to read online. Highlights include the start of the new academic year, the Bloomberg School's new Dean, Keshia Pollack Porter, exciting accomplishments, and more: mailchi.mp/jh/bsph-dept...

Registration is now open for the @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social’s October Open House, offered both on-campus and virtually. Register and view the agenda online: publichealth.jhu.edu/offices-and-...

Faculty Spotlight: Margaret Taub is a Senior Scientist and the Master's Program Director in the @jhubiostat.bsky.social. Listen as Margaret speaks about her work as well as her educational role in the Department.

The Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center offers free clinics for @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social students, and consulting for researchers inside and outside the @jhu.edu community. Meet our team that has decades of combined experience supporting researchers: publichealth.jhu.edu/johns-hopkin...

Alumna Hilary Robbins, MSPH ’12, MHS, PhD ’18, co-leads the Risk Assessment and Early Detection Team at the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. Read more about Hilary’s work, and her time @jhubiostat.bsky.social, in our alumni spotlight: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/alumni-...

Biostats professor Michael Rosenblum recently co-organized and spoke at the "Harnessing AI for Forensic Science Symposium," which discussed the potential applications and limitations of AI in forensics. Read more about the symposium online:

This past Friday we welcomed our 2025/2026 students (including 4 new PhD and 13 new ScM students) to @jhubiostat.bsky.social! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Grace Ringlein is a PhD student in @jhubiostat.bsky.social focusing on causal inference, measurement error, EHR data, mental health, and algorithmic fairness. Learn more about Grace's work with researchers across multiple @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social departments in our Student Spotlight:

Congratulations to Johns Hopkins Biostats alum Marco Carone, PhD ’11, who is the recipient of the 2025 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship! Marco will give an in-person lecture @hsph.harvard.edu in September. mailchi.mp/hsph/biostat...

Congratulations to Biostats assistant professor Jessie Tong for receiving a 2025 Welch Center TRaC Grant! The TRaC Grant is designed to spark new partnerships across @jhu.edu that enhance the depth and breadth of research at the Welch Center. mailchi.mp/mail463.jh.e...

Excited to share this huge team effort collaboration supervised by Stephanie Page in Translational Neuroscience @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social to generate a spatio-molecular resource of the hippocampus in human 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A week after these findings were released, indicating that the existing coal dust mitigation measures are insufficient, Maryland imposed a new requirement on the facility: to install a windscreen around its rail terminal higher than its coal piles, in order to minimize offsite dust dispersion.

A community-driven study, co-authored by Biostats PhD student Anik Burman and Associate Professor @dattascientist.bsky.social, shows links between air pollution in South Baltimore's Curtis Bay neighborhood and bulldozer activity involving coal at an adjacent open-air facility:

Really proud of @jhubiostat.bsky.social PhD student @kinnaryshah.bsky.social for leading this project, which I am so excited to get to share with the community.

Congratulations to our Biostats faculty who were recognized for their excellence in teaching for the fourth term! A full list for the 2024-2025 academic year can be found on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/biostat...

Congratulations to Biostats postdoctoral fellow Sandipan Pramanik who recently received the Pathway to Independence Award from the NICHD at NIH! This award is given to promising postdoctoral scientists seeking to complete needed, mentored research: www.nigms.nih.gov/training/car...

Our Biostatistics & Study Design Program, an integral part of the @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social's Biostatistics Center, provides researchers across @jhu.edu with biostatistical and data management consultations. Learn more online: ictr.johnshopkins.edu/service/anal...

Congratulations to Biostats PhD student Emily Norton for winning the Carol Eliasberg Martin Scholarship to support her research on breast cancer risk modeling!

Akihiko (Aki) Nishimura, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social. Hear Aki talk about his work with Bayesian methods and statistical computing in our faculty spotlight video below:

You can now read our latest Biostatistics Department newsletter online: mailchi.mp/jh/bsph-dept...

Congratulations to the team named 2025 winners of the the @amstatnews.bsky.social ‪Outstanding Statistical Application award, including @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social's Alison Gemmill, Suzanne Bell, Elizabeth Stuart, Selena Anjur-Dietrich, and Amy Ozinsky: magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/06...

Alumni Spotlight: Kipper Fletez-Brant earned a concurrent MHS in Biostatistics, along with his PhD in Human Genetics from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in 2018, and is now a Senior Scientist at Genentech: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/alumni-...

Congratulations Jiayi (Jessie) Tong, a 2025 Faculty Innovation Fund Award winner! These awards are intended to stimulate innovative, data-driven research projects that will strengthen the faculty members’ research trajectory and support future applications. publichealth.jhu.edu/researchbsph...

Biostats assistant professor @lcolladotor.bsky.social is also an investigator @lieberinstitute.bsky.social where he leads the R/Bioconductor-powered Team Data Science group. Learn more about his work in the video below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz4L...

Did you know that the Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center offers a wide variety of comprehensive data management and biostatistical consulting services? Visit our website to learn more: publichealth.jhu.edu/johns-hopkin...

Peter Liu is a 2025 Biostats ScM graduate with a desire to help others with chronic conditions. Read about Peter's journey, and his work at the Bayview Medical Center, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

Read seven stories centered on moments big and small from journeys in lifesaving, including one from Biostats PhD candidate @alycolumbus.bsky.social about her volunteer work distributing free radon test kits and brochures in California: magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/science...

‪Associate professor @dattascientist.bsky.social develops and applies statistical and machine learning methods to address questions in environmental health, climate sciences, and global health research. Hear Abhi talk about his work in our faculty spotlight video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEj...

Congratulations to Biostatistics professor Marie Diener-West on her 10th (!) Golden Apple Award! The Golden Apple Award is chosen by votes from the entire @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social student body and given to faculty members for their excellence in teaching.

Kinnary Shah is a fourth-year PhD candidate and co-president of the Biostats Student Org. Learn more about Kinnary and two of her ongoing research projects, one with the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social, and one with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

Congratulations graduates! 🎓 At yesterday’s @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social convocation, we celebrated the 6 PhD, 15 ScM, and 2 concurrent MHS graduates who completed their Biostatistics degrees this year. 🎉 We are so proud of you and your accomplishments and are excited to see what you do next!

Congratulations to our graduating ScM and concurrent MHS students who recently presented posters of their work at our Masters Thesis Showcase! There are so many wonderful celebrations happening in the Biostatistics Department as we end the academic year.

Congratulations to Biostats associate professor Abhirup Datta and PhD student Wentao Zhan for winning the JASA Reproducibility Award, which aims to recognize exceptional contributions in computational reproducibility within the statistical field. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to our Biostats faculty who were recognized for their excellence in teaching for the third term. A full list for the current academic year can be found on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/biostat...

Biostats alum Bohao Tang, PhD ’23 is a Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma. Learn about Bohao's current research-focused work, and his advice to prospective students, on our website:

Congratulations to our most recent Departmental Award Winners! 👏 Alyssa Columbus received the Jane and Steve Dykacz Award; Joseph Sartini received the Louis I. & Thomas D. Dublin Award; and Yujie (Phyllis) Wei received the June B. Culley Award.

Our April e-newsletter is now available to read online. Dive in for the latest Johns Hopkins Dept. of Biostatistics highlights, helpful resources, and most recent publications: mailchi.mp/jh/bsph-dept...

Amia Graye is a first-year Biostats ScM student focusing on health disparities and causal inference, and member of our STATCOM chapter, a volunteer organization that provides pro bono statistical consulting to local organizations. Learn more about Amia online: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/student...

We are thrilled to announce that @dattascientist.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social have been elected Fellows of the American Statistical Association! 🎉 This prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to statistical science. Congrats Abhi & Stephanie! 👏 @amstatnews.bsky.social

There's still time to register for the Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology & Biostatistics! Interested in gaining new biostatistics skills this summer? Sign up for any of our 25+ short, intensive courses providing practical and tangible skills this June.

Congratulations to PhD student @alycolumbus.bsky.social who has received one of the 2025 Teaching Assistant Recognition Awards! This award honors teaching assistants who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and excellence in their role, going far beyond standard expectations.

Ciprian Crainiceanu is a professor in the Biostatistics Dept working on complex, high dimensional data obtained from wearable and implantable computing and neuroimaging studies. Hear Ciprian talk about his research and what he enjoys most about being at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social.

Our final seminars of the academic year begin next week. See more details, and pre-register via Zoom, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

We are thrilled that both the School and our Department have been ranked #1 in the U.S. News and World Report rankings for 2025.

Advance your public health expertise this summer by signing up for Graduate Summer Institute classes. The 43rd Summer Institute runs June 9-28 and offers courses ranging in length from 4-hours to 2-weeks. View our full course list online: publichealth.jhu.edu/academics/gr...

So this weekend I won the veggie category at @jhubiostat.bsky.social annual Chili Cookoff! Huge congratulations to @statsprofo.bsky.social — winner of the meat category! We have the privilege of wearing these hats for the next year 😂 🌶️ #stats 🧪🧬💻 PS thank you @lizstuart.bsky.social for hosting! 🌸

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Happy Hour in New Orleans during the ENAR Spring Meeting this past Monday night. It was wonderful catching up with so many alumni, students, faculty, and friends of the Department.

PhD alum Bingkai Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Hear about Bingkai's current position, his time in our Department and his experience navigating the job market after graduation, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/alumni-...