Kristina Boyd (BIOST '19) wil...
Boyd wins Lingzi Lu Memorial Award
Kristina Boyd (BIOST '19) will receive the 2020 award, created in 2013 by the American Statistical Association in partnership with the International Chinese Statistical Association in rememberance of Lingzi Lu, the first-year student in the statistics master's program at Boston University who lost ... (12/05/2019)
The brand new Health Data Sci...
New HDS concentration featured in AmStat News
The brand new Health Data Science concentration in the Department of Biostatistics was featured in the December issue of AmStat News. "We created our concentration to keep pace with scientific needs and train graduate students properly for the evolving job market while ensuring a rigorous statistic... (12/05/2019)
RUBBER & PLASTICS NEWS - The ...
IISRP to honor Marsh with Technical Award
RUBBER & PLASTICS NEWS - The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers will honor Gary Marsh, BIOST and EPI, with the association's Technical Award this spring. Marsh, founder of Pitt's Center for Occupational Biostatics and Epidemiology, studies the long-term health effects of exposure... (12/05/2019)
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE - Nob...
Maseru and Mendez agree that racism as a public health crisis should be focus of city council meetings
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE - Noble A-W Maseru of BCHS and director of the Center for Health Equity, noted the life expectancy difference between mostly white Highland Park (84 years) and nearby, mostly black Larimer (62 years). Dara D. Mendez, EPI, added that racism weathers the body, accelerating agi... (12/05/2019)
Russell E. Morgan Jr (HSADM ’...
Morgan wins Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award
Russell E. Morgan Jr (HSADM ’70) received the Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding lifetime achievements in international health from the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Morgan was presented with the award during the 201... (12/04/2019)