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02/24/2026

Join us this Friday, March 27th from 1:00-4:30pm for our Annual Research Day event! The event will take place in SPH Commons & A115 Public Health. Refreshments to be provided.

02/19/2026

Doctoral student Crystal Zang has won an Honorable Mention from the Mental Health Statistics Section for JSM for her dissertation paper "Supervised and covariate adjusted principal coordinates analysis for visualization and prediction using microbiome data." Crystal will present this work in the section's topic contributed session for awardees at JSM this summer. Congratulations, Crystal!

02/12/2026

Barbara Hanusa's (MsHyg ’90) career journey is a testament to intellectual curiosity and adaptability.

Read more about Dr. Hanusa's illustrious career with the link below.
https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/news/physics-public-health-career-path-barbara-hanusa

02/04/2026

Please join us today, February 4th, for a seminar presentation by Dr. Katie Suda from the School of Medicine as she gives a talk titled, "The Strength of the Chain is in its Weakest Link: Drug Shortages".

01/30/2026

Congratulations to our PhD student Sarah Wang, advised by Dr. George Tseng, on receiving a Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics!

Award recipients will present their work at JSM 2026 and will be recognized at the Computing and Graphics Mixer.

01/26/2026

Dr. Wei Chen’s team has been awarded the inaugural ENAR Team Science Award for their outstanding integration of advanced biostatistics and machine learning with clinical and biomedical expertise. We are proud to recognize our own secondary faculty member, Dr. Wei Chen, for their central role in this achievement, along with Dr. Molin Yue, a recent graduate of our PhD program now working at Eli Lilly.

Read more at the link below.
https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/news/biostatistics-team-wins-inaugural-enar-award

01/21/2026

Congratulations to two outstanding students in our department! MS student Xin Li has been awarded the William T. Green, Jr. Award in Public Health Studies for her research on emerging risk factors and their temporal patterns in hospitalized COPD patients. PhD student Haoling Wang received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 ASA Section on Risk Analysis Student Paper Competition and will present his work on neural networks for interval-censored data at JSM. Both students are advised by Dr. Ying Ding, professor and associate dean for graduate academic affairs. We're proud of their achievements!

01/20/2026

Please join us tomorrow for our first seminar speaker of the spring semester, Michael Pennell.

12/17/2025

Congratulations to our students for making it to the end of the fall 2025 semester! Thank you to all who came out and celebrated at our Winter Potluck this month. See you in 2026!

12/03/2025

Pitt Public Health recognized eight remarkable recipients at the 2025 Alumni Awards, held at Monterey Bay Fish Grotto this year. Among the recipients are Drs. Ada Youk, PhD, class of 1996, and Tianzhou (Charles) Ma, PhD, class of 2018

These honorees have made a significant impact across research, practice, leadership and service. We are proud to celebrate their achievements and contributions.

Read more at the link below.
https://linktr.ee/pittbiostatistics

11/14/2025

Come work for us! The Department of Biostatistics & Health Data Science is hiring!

https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=25006266&tz=GMT-05%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York

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Pittsburgh, PA
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https://publichealth.pitt.edu/biostatistics, https://linktr.ee/pittbiostatistics

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