Biostatistics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Our goal is to create and foster a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming department for students, staff and faculty in which we learn and practice diversity, equity, inclusion and respect for and with each other and in our scholarly work.

About Us

Our Biostatistics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee was established in 2017. Our departmental committee is composed of students, staff and faculty. 

We host events that promote:

• Inclusion and intercultural exchanges:
  • Lunar New Year celebration
  • Biostatistics Talent and Art Show
• Discussion of DEI-related research topics in our Biostatistics DEI Research Seminar:
  • 2019-2020 seminars by students and faculty were:
    • Measuring racial inequalities in health care outcomes: Prostate cancer in the US
    • Reviewing A Career’s Worth of Collaborations toward Equity: the Role of the Statistician
    • The U.S. Decennial Census: Why it Matters, Current Issues and Prospects for 2020
    • Contrasting the genetic architecture underlying gene expression levels in European Americans and African  Americans: An eQTL mapping study in GENOA
    • Admixture Mapping: African Ancestry and Pneumonia                     
• DEI Learning and better mentoring of students    
  • PhD Retreat
  • Mentoring Others Results in Excellence Faculty Workshop 

Our Biostatistics Students DEI Committee was formed by students in 2020. Our student committee is working to:

• Incorporate datasets that highlight health inequities into the required applied analysis classes
• Increase students exposure to health inequities and the history of inequities in Biostatistics
• Form an anti-racist journal club

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Biostatistiscs DEI Resources