Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Health: Biostatistics

University of Cincinnati

Housed in UC’s department of Environmental Health with collaborations throughout the College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics offers exciting training and research opportunities in biomedical data sciences. Training programs in the division combine rigorous statistical and computational education rooted in the probability theory and computer science with the exposure to a broad range of biomedical research applications.Biostatistics is a data science field concerned with application of statistical reasoning in the biomedical and public health research. Biostatisticians develop statistical methodologies that are tailored to address specific biomedical data analysis problems. Biostatisticians are also members of interdisciplinary biomedical research teams whose role is to ensure optimal use of data to answer specific biomedical research questions.Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and computational tools for understanding high-dimensional biomedical data. Bioinformatics combines computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to manage, process and analyze biomedical data. There and many overlaps between Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in terms of methodologies utilized and domains of application in biomedical research. However, Bioinformatics tends to be more focused on the analysis and interpretation of high dimensional datasets such as genomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Furthermore, Bioinformatics research objectives often involve development of software tools that facilitates management and analysis of large and complex datasets.

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