Biostatistics at a Glance
Our Mission
Provide exemplary education, training, and mentoring
Conduct outstanding disciplinary methodological research
Conduct meaningful interdisciplinary applied research
Serve and promote our college, university, state
Rankings
US National Research Council
- The department is ranked in the top 10 nationally in the survey, quantitative, and research activity rankings.
- Ranked No. 3 nationally in average number of citations per publication.
US News & World Report
- Ranked No. 20 among all biostat departments, and No. 9 among those at public institutions.
- The UI College of Public Health ranked No. 25 among all Colleges of Public Health, No. 12 among those at public institutions.
Iowa Summer Institute in Biostatistics
Personnel and Resources
15 full-time faculty 13 adjunct and secondary faculty 60 graduate students
Nearly all students supported by half-time research assistantships
Dedicated computer lab and access to high-performance computing cluster
Extensive collaboration with University of Iowa health sciences
Faculty Areas of Expertise
Methodological/Disciplinary
- Bayesian modeling and inference
- Bioinformatics
- Causal inference
- Clinical trials
- Cluster analysis
- Computational statistics
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Infectious disease modeling
- Informatics
- Integrative analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Machine learning
- Missing data techniques
- Model selection
- Network data analysis
- Penalized likelihood models
- Personalized medicine
- Predictive modeling
- Quantile regression
- Semiparametric and nonparametric modeling
- Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling
- Statistical computing
- Statistical genetics and genomics
- Statistical and machine learning
- Survival data analysis
- Syndromic surveillance
- Time series data analysis
Applied/Interdisciplinary
- Audiology
- Cancer / Oncology
- Cardiovascular Health
- Dentistry
- Disease Mapping
- Environmental Science
- Epidemiology
- Health Services
- Genetics and Genomics
- Gerontology
- Infectious Diseases
- Injury Prevention
- Neurology
- Neuropsychology
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Speech and Language
Student Research Positions
Our students have successfully gained summer internships at numerous pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and a variety of other industries, clinical research facilities, and government agencies.
Center Affiliations
Department of Biostatistics faculty provide leadership for several research centers.
Clinical Trials and Statistical Data Management Center
The Clinical Trials and Statistical Data Management Center is a team of highly skilled and experienced biostatisticians, project coordinators, database developers, data managers, regulatory staff, and administrators committed to providing high quality infrastructure and support for multicenter clinical trials. The CTSDMC funding totals approximately $7 million per year, supporting more than 40 full-time staff.
Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy
The Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy collects, analyze, and disseminates public health data in relation to the research, teaching, and service missions of the College of Public Health. Among other things, the center focuses on developing collaborative relationships in the area of public health statistics.
Biostatistics Consulting Center
Faculty and student consultants from the Biostatistics Consulting Center work with investigators during all phases of research: proposal development, study design, data form or questionnaire development, data entry, data management, statistical analysis, and report preparation. Collaborations range from brief consultations to long-term interdisciplinary research endeavors.
Biostatistics Core of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer focused on advancing cancer research that impacts the ability to prevent, detect, and treat patients with cancer. Biostatistics Core faculty and staff are actively engaged in the mission of the HCCC through study design and development; protocol review and study monitoring; research data management; statistical analysis and programming; analysis reporting and publication; methodological development; and mentoring, formal training, and professional development.
Other Centers
Department of Biostatistics faculty are also actively involved in the Injury Prevention Research Center, the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, the Veteran’s Administration Center of Innovation, the Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center, the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, the Strategically Focused Hypertension Research Center, and the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Center, as well as in various research networks such as the e-Health Network and the MInD-Healthcare Network.
Alumni Positions
UI Department of Biostatistics alumni have received positions in academia, pharmaceutical industries, biomedical research institutes, government agencies, and major corporations outside of the health sciences.
