About the Department
Department of Biostatistics at NYU GPH is engaged in three inter-related activities that aim to improve Public Health through rigorous research and that educate future practitioners, leaders and researchers. We strive for excellence in:
- innovative and groundbreaking methodological research that is relevant to critical Public Health research
- collaborative research in pressing and important Public Health issues;
- education and training of students from diverse backgrounds in cutting edge statistical methods for design and analysis of studies used in Public Health research, as well as theoretical foundations that will serve as the basis for future innovations.
We are experiencing major events in Public Health and Biostatistics has many critical contributions to make. We welcome you to our department and invite you to explore all of our facets in these webpages.
Prominent Links
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Departmental Annual Report
Annual Report 2024 – 2025You can learn more about our students and faculty our Department Annual Reports accessible here. Our 2024–2025 is now available below!
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Biostatistics Research Labs
Explore our LabsOur Biostatistics research groups labs a collaborative environment where students receive expert mentorship and engage in high-impact, action-based learning. Explore our faculty-led labs below to see how we are transforming data into public health solutions.
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Biostatistics Consultation & Collaboration Core (BC3)
Lear moreThe mission of the Biostatistical Collaboration and Consultation Core (BC3) is: (1) to be a high-quality resource for robust, reliable, and reproducible statistical support; and (2) to educate and train the next generation of collaborative statisticians.
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Student Life
Click here to read about and view photos from past student life events.
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Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research summer program
The PQAR summer program will host the program in the Summer of 2026! Visit the website to learn more here.
Contact Us
- Email: gph.bsadmin@nyu.edu
- Twitter: @NYUGPHBiostats
- We are delighted to share that fourth-year PhD student Taehyo Kim has had his first dissertation project accepted for publication in the prestigious journal Medical Image Analysis. His paper, titled "A False Discovery Rate Control Method Using a Fully Connected Hidden Markov Random Field for Neuroimaging Data," marks an exciting milestone in his doctoral research. Please join us in extending a huge congratulations to Taehyo on this achievement!
- Congratulations, Ruby Yuyu Chen for successfully defending her dissertation! Please join us in celebrating this incredible milestone! Ruby is our department's second PhD student to defend.
- Congratulations to Dr. Hai Shu on being promoted to Associate Professor of Biostatistics, with tenure! This is well-deserved recognition of Hai's accomplishments in research, teaching, and mentoring and of his many contributions to our department, to GPH and to our profession. We look forward to Dr. Shu's future achievements in all of these dimensions and welcome him to our senior faculty!
- The Department is thrilled to extend its warmest congratulations to Dr. Zoé Haskell-Craig, who has made history as our very first PhD graduate! Following this landmark achievement, Dr. Haskell-Craig is heading to the prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) where she will join the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society as a Research Fellow in Biostatistics. Based in the Environmental Health Modeling lab, Dr. Haskell-Craig will collaborate with Dr. Gasparrini on an impactful project titled, "Cohort and environmental data integration for epidemiological innovation." Her research will focus on developing advanced statistical solutions for environmental epidemiological studies, leveraging large cohort datasets to analyze climate and environmental exposures, specifically focusing on air pollution and temperature. We are incredibly proud of Dr. Haskell-Craig and look forward to seeing her continued contributions to the field of biostatistics. Congratulations, Dr. Haskell-Craig!
- Congratulations to MS student Yelan Wang, who presented her research titled “Predictors of Cigarette Cessation: Findings from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study Data Waves 1–7” at the New York City Epidemiology Forum on April 14. She received the Distinguished Student Poster Award from the New York State Public Health Association.
- Congratulations to Biostatistics first-year Master's students Muyao Wang, Zhixin Wang, Sabrina Wu and Zihan Xu for being selected as one of the top four teams in this year's ENAR DataFest competition. They have been invited to present their project at the ENAR Conference in Indianapolis in March, 2026: "Beyond Age: A Machine Learning Approach to Disentangle Demographic, Lifestyle, Clinical, and Metabolic Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment"
- Congratulations, Zoé Haskell-Craig for successfully defending her dissertation! Please join us in celebrating this incredible milestone! Zoé is our department's first PhD student to defend. (photos)
- The PQAR summer program will host the PQAR summer program, for current undergraduate students and recent graduates, in the Summer of 2026! We encourage prospective students to visit the webpage for more information here.
- Congratulations to Dr. Hai Shu, Yangbin Chen, Tianze Tang, and Taehyo Kim on a new publication titled “UKAN-EP: enhancing U-KAN with efficient attention and pyramid aggregation for 3D multi-modal MRI brain tumor segmentation.” Yanbing and Tianze are MS alumni who graduated from are program in 2025, and are currently PhD candidates at Penn State University, and Medical University of Vienna respectively. Taehyo Kim is a PhD candidate at GPH.
- Congratulations to Prof. Hai Shu on his new, 4-year RF1 grant from NIH titled "SCH: Novel Multi-View Statistical Machine Learning for Alzheimer's Disease"
- The Department of Biostatistics welcomes Boyu Fan, our new first year PhD student. Say hello and welcome him if you see him around the department. Boyu is coming from UC Berkeley where he studied Data Science, Statistics, and Economics. His areas of interest lie in image segmentation and uncertainty quantification and aims to develop transparent and reliable methods to augment decision-making. Welcome Boyu!
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- All of our events for the AY 2025–2026 have concluded! Please tune in for upcoming Fall 2025 events.
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Christopher Park, MPH '19
"Critical and conceptual understanding of data is necessary for public health research. My biostatistics courses have helped me to develop statistical analytic skills that shape the way I think about data management and utilization in a way that’s fit for public health discoveries."
Ejiro Gbaje, MPH '19
"I am fascinated by the power of biostatistics; it uses mathematics to paint pictures of underlying conditions."
Yan Zhang, MPH '19
"The ability to extract health-related patterns from uncertainty is the undeniable beauty of biostatistics."