Environmental Stats Training Grant
Environmental Stats Training Grant
Training Program in Environmental Health Statistics
The Training Program in Environmental Health Statistics, originally established in 1982, prepares pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellows for research in the application of biostatistics, statistical genetics and genomics, and data science to the environmental health sciences. The program is administered through the Department of Biostatistics, with active participation by faculty members from the Department of Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology, also located at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trainees receive high-quality instruction in basic biostatistical theory and methods, such as probability, statistical inference, computing and data analysis. The program also provides training in specialized topics of particular relevance for environmental applications, such as longitudinal and multivariate data analysis, Bayesian methods, causal inference as well as statistical genetics, environmental genomics and other high-dimensional data techniques. The program also provides training in statistical methods relevant to environmental exposure assessment such as measurement error models, spatio-temporal methods, and data fusion methods for integrating exposure and health data from disparate temporal and spatial scales.
Training Grant Outcomes
Training Grant students who have entered the program post-Bachelors have completed their doctoral degrees with a typical completion time of 4.8 years.
The Program doctoral completion rate has been 100%,
Events
The training grant sponsors a seminar series which provides a forum where students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, and faculty can discuss cutting-edge quantitative issues in environmental health research. Speakers include faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows from Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, and prominent experts from outside the University.
Annual Environmental Statistics Retreat
The Department sponsors an annual day-long retreat workshop on environmental statistics. The workshop consists of work-in-progress presentations made by pre- and postdoctoral trainees as well as keynote talks presented by internationally-renowned environmental biostatisticians or a faculty member from the HSPH Department of Environmental Health or Epidemiology.
Environmental Statistics Symposia
Every year or two Environmental Statistics faculty organize one- to two-day symposiums on a particular topic that requires longer discussion that that provided by an hour seminar.