About the Department - Biostatistics & Bioinformatics ::

About the Department - Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

About the Department

About the Department

The B&B Department engages in methodological and collaborative research, and directs educational programs, in the areas of biostatistics, computational medicine, statistical genetics, epidemiology, health economics, health services research and computational biology. The Department currently consists of 44 faculty members who are individually affiliated with various research groups, centers, and institutes across the School of Medicine, including the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Durham VA Medical Center, the Center for Aids Research, the Human Vaccine Institute, and the Institute for Genome Science and Policy. The discipline of biostatistics constitutes a primary focus of the Department, which serves as the academic home for all faculty biostatisticians in the Medical Center.

Outside the School of Medicine, statistics and biostatistics are represented at Duke by the Department of Statistical Science, one of the eight natural science departments in the School of Arts and Sciences. Some Department of Statistical Science faculty members have secondary appointments in B&B, and vice-versa. Secondary appointments are also held by several faculty members in the Center for Human Genetics whose primary appointments are in the Department of Medicine or in the Department of Community and Family Medicine.