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
Departmental Annual Report
Our Efforts in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
Our faculty were recently featured in the Amstat News cover story recognizing academic departments for JEDI efforts.
Student Life
Click here to read about and view photos from past student life events.
Contact Us
- Email: gph.bsadmin@nyu.edu
- Twitter: @NYUGPHBiostats
- Congratulations to five of our students who presented their work at the ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting as members of two of the Final Four DataFest teams selected to showcase their projects (Photos)
- Sarvar Khamidov (with Shuxin Tang from Columbia and Linqing Zheng from University of New England): "The Interaction Effect Between Antihypertensive Medication and Depressive Symptoms on Uncontrolled Hypertension Using Regression Survey Analysis and Random Forest Tree Approach"
- Monal Daterao, Emma Hugues, Augustus Williams, Devin Nathan: "The Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Blood Pressure (BP) Control Among US Adults with Hypertension"
- All five students presented their work at the ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting on March 24th (pictured here).
- Congratulations to Jemar Bather and Melody Goodman who served as contributing statisticians in the paper "Uptake of Cancer Genetic Services for Chatbot vs Standard-of-Care Delivery Models" which has been selected for STAT Madness 2025! This paper has been selected as a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program Research Highlight for 2024! Voting is now open!
- Three NYU GPH Department of Biostatistics students–Tun He, Lijing Wei, and Weng In Leong–participated at the 2025 Columbia BMES Healthcare Hackathon, a 48-hour healthcare-focused hackathon bringing together 150+ participants from Columbia and neighboring universities to collaborate in small teams, creating innovative hardware solutions for pressing challenges in healthcare. The hackathon took place from February 8–9, 2025, at Columbia University. (Photo)
- At the 2024 Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting, held on from October 29th-31st, 2024 at the University of Michigan, 2nd-year MS student Nathaniel Maxey presented his first-authored study, "A Quasi-Experimental Study of New York City's Sodium Warning Regulation and Hypertension Prevalence, 2005-2020". We are proud to share that his project – with co-authors also including 2023 MS alumna Marina Mautner-Wizentier – was selected as one of the winners among presented posters. (Photo)
- Two of our 2nd-year master's students, Weng In Leong (MPH candidate) and Kaylen Wei (MS candidate), presented their research poster "Remote Work and Mental Health Among Employed US Adults in the Household Pulse Survey" at the NYU Langone Health Equity Symposium on Tuesday, October 8th (photo).
- We are pleased to welcome new permanent faculty members Drs. Yajun Mei and Wen Zhou to our department. Having officially joined our department on July 1st, Drs. Mei and Zhou join us as Professor and Associate Professor of Biostatistics, respectively.
- (Archived news items)
Click here for the full webview of our upcoming events
Biostatistics Special Seminar
Thursday, April 3rd, 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
"Towards a Cancer Learning Healthcare System in the National U.S. Veterans Affairs Healthcare System"; to be presented by Nathanael Fillmore, PhD of VA Boston Healthcare System (RSVP)
Professional Development Series
Friday, April 4th, 11:30 am-1:30 pm ET
Your Biostatistician GitHub: A Step-by-Step Guide with Phuc Vu (RSVP)
Biostatistics Journal Club
Wednesday, April 9th, 2:00 – 3:00pm ET
Discussion to be led by 2nd-year MS student Yanbing Chen, on Statistics in Medicine article "BOP2: Bayesian optimal design for phase II clinical trials with simple and complex endpoints" (RSVP)
Industry Seminar
Tuesday, April 22nd, 1:00 - 2:00pm ET
"Problem-Solving, Career Paths, and Opportunities for Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry"; to be presented by Margaret Gamalo, PhD, FASA of Pfizer (RSVP)
Biostatistics Seminar Series
Thursday, April 24th, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET
"Representation Retrieval Learning for Heterogeneous Data Integration"; to be presented by Annie Qu, PhD of UC Irvine (RSVP)
Joint Seminar with NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Tuesday, April 29th, 11:00 am - 1 pm ET
We are excited to feature two engaging presentations: (Flyer, Join via Webex)
- “Streaming data analysis for efficient quickest decision-making”; to be presented by Dr. Yajun Mei of NYU School of Global Public Health (Abstract)
- “Unmeasured pollution exposure in rural populations: assessing equity in PM2.5 monitoring”; to be presented by Zoé Haskell-Craig of NYU School of Global Public Health (Abstract)
Biostatistics Seminar Series
Monday, May 12th, 1:30 - 3:00 pm ET
Masters' Student Research Symposium (RSVP)
Student Life Event
Monday, May 12th, 3:00 - 5:00pm ET
2025 Biostatistics Graduation Reception (RSVP)
Check Out Our Past Seminars & Events
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."