Beyond crunching numbers
Understanding disease risks and uncovering health trends requires a lot of data, and biostatisticians make sense of it. Biostatisticians combine insights from biology, mathematics and statistical analysis to look at health data in new ways, sifting meaningful information from useless “noise” and discovering patterns that shape the health of individuals and communities. From analyzing genetics to designing clinical trials to determining racism’s impacts on health, biostatisticians address critical emerging health problems. Alumni go on to work in universities, private research, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and more.
