The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics was established in the School of Public Health in 1959 and awarded its first Ph.D. degree in 1963. The department was established to carry out the following goals:
- Develop a graduate program to meet the demand for well-trained biostatisticians.
- Develop biostatistical research programs responsive to the scientific problems encountered in public health and biomedicine.
- Actively collaborate with investigators at UCLA and worldwide to solve global health problems.
The department is a leader in biostatistical training for academia, government and industry. UCLA Biostatistics is at the forefront of scientific research and policy issues in Public Health, Biology and Medicine. The Biostatistics department is centrally located in the UCLA Center for Health Sciences, which facilitates our collaborations with all of the health science schools, centers and departments including Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the AIDS Institute. Faculty members collaborate with investigators in diverse disciplines, and as a result, biostatistics students have a wide variety of research opportunities. Our research programs in Bayesian methods, causal inference, clinical trials, genetics, hierarchical models, high-dimensional data, HIV/AIDS, longitudinal data analysis, machine learning, missing data, multivariate statistics, -omics, optimal design, phylogeny, spatial and spatial temporal statistics, statistical computing, and survival analysis, are well-respected nationally and internationally.
Department Head
Sudipto Banerjee
Affiliate Liaison Contact
Thomas Belin, Catherine Crespi