Biostatistics News

Faculty Accolades and Honors
May 15, 2023

Faculty accolades and honors

The School of Public Health celebrates honors and achievements made by faculty members during the spring semester.

Congratulations go to School of Public Health faculty members who have received new grant awards to support their research:
May 10, 2023

Faculty grants awarded

Congratulations go to School of Public Health faculty members who have received new grant awards to support their research:

Two faculty members presented teaching awards at this year’s graduation ceremony
May 4, 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 Pitt Public Health faculty award recipients

Two faculty members were presented teaching awards at this year’s graduation ceremony

Pitt Public Health Building
April 26, 2023

U.S. News and World Report 2023 graduate school rankings released

Pitt Public Health and several departments and programs perform well in the latest graduate school rankings.

Narcan
March 14, 2023

‘Make the fentanyl go away’? The rise of fentanyl analogs buoys challenges for reducing substance use in Allegheny County

“You don’t know the potency of it,” said Dr. Jeanine Buchanich, associate dean for research and a professor of Biostatistics. 

A team of biostatisticians led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health scientists announced today in PNAS that they’ve developed a framework to determine how much congruence and discordance laboratory animals have with specific human diseases.
February 3, 2023

Statistics remove bias from debate about how well mouse models mimic human disease

Mice and other animals have been key to some of the biggest medical breakthroughs in human history. But animals aren’t always good models of human disease, leading to failed experiments and controversy over their usefulness.

Polynesian Study
October 24, 2022

Polynesian study yields new clues to genetic causes of high cholesterol

UPMC- The discovery of a genetic variant that is relatively common among people of Polynesian ancestry, but incredibly rare in most other populations, is giving clues to the genetic underpinnings of high cholesterol in all people.

Grant awardees
October 12, 2022

Grants of note

It’s a Grant Quintet for Public Health