About Biostatistics

The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health is rated as one of the nation's top biostatistics programs by U.S. News & World Report. We bring biostatistical design and analysis expertise to a wide spectrum of health-related issues. Our faculty, students, and staff work in important and diverse areas of current biostatistical research; including Bayesian methods, causal inference, clinical trials, electronic health records, high dimensional inference, image analysis, longitudinal data analysis, machine learning, methods for missing data, mobile health, personalized prevention and treatment, statistical computing, statistical genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, survey research, and survival and event history analysis. 

At-A-Glance

Veera Baladandayuthapani, PhD, Chair

  • 45 primary faculty members
  • 295 students in our MS (Biostatistics and Health Data Science) and PhD (Biostatistics) degree programs
  • 152 administrative and research staff
  • 17 Postdocs
  • $35.5M sponsored research in FY24

About Biostatistics

Department History

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Meet Our Staff

Biostatistics Faculty and Staff Directory

E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: 734-764-5450

1415 Washington Heights, M4210
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029