Join the Department of Biostatistics in welcoming Dr. Rudin, who directs the Prediction Analysis Lab at Duke University. Previously, Dr. Rudin held positions at MIT, Columbia, and NYU. She holds... Read more »
Susan Homes, PhD, professor of statistics and member of BioX at Stanford University, will present this week's Biostatistics seminar titled, "Robust methods for heterogeneous data collected in studies of the human microbiome." Brought up in the French School of Data Analysis (Analyse des Données) in the 1980’s, Dr. Susan Holmes is a Data Scientist specialized... Read more »
Jamie Perin, the 2018 James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, will be presenting her award lecture for this week's biostatistics seminar. The lecture is titled, "Predicting child mortality by cause in high mortality countries with the Bayesian lasso." Jamie Perin's research interests are international health, biostatistics, longitudinal data, missing data, child mortality, statistical epidemiology,... Read more »
Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and... Read more »
Shuangge Ma, PhD, professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Pan-disease clustering analysis of the trend of period prevalence." For all... Read more »
Dr. Greg Aarons, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), will be presenting "Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) to Improve Care in Systems and Organizations." Lunch will be provided. Please register online.
Jan Hannig, PhD, professor of statistics and operations research at UNC Chapel Hill, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)." A major challenge in... Read more »
Please join us for the 3rd Annual Environmental Justice Lecture – Inspired by Steve Wing: The People’s Professor. We are excited to welcome Dr. Scott Laney, Epidemiologist with the National... Read more »
Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops... Read more »
Dr. Alex Rowe, medical epidemiologist and chief of the Strategic & Applied Science Unit in the Malaria Branch of the CDC will present a talk entitled "Effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC): a systematic review". The talk will focus on the Health Care Provider Performance Review... Read more »
The UNC-CH student chapter of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (SISPE) and the Graduate and Professional Student Federation will be hosting a career panel inviting a diverse group of panelists representing many employers of Gillings alumni. There will be a reception, with food catered by Med Deli, following the career panel so students may network... Read more »
Join the Gillings Student Government Association and Research, Innovation and Global Solutions office in celebrating our School's wonderful student research! Food will be provided. ORAL PRESENTATIONS | 1:00-2:30 PM Daria... Read more »
Join the Student Global Health Committee for a screening of Pollution - A Global Public Health Crisis. Following the film, speakers will include Elena Rue of Storymine Media, Dr. Jason Surratt,... Read more »
Nancy Zhang, PhD, professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics." Abstract: Cells are the basic biological... Read more »
Please save the date for the 3rd Annual Cancer Prevention and Control Debate, “The Role of Precision Prevention in Reducing Breast Cancer Mortality.” This debate is hosted by Melissa Troester... Read more »
