Graduate Training in Biostatistics

描述(由申请人提供) 这是要求延长哈佛大学公共卫生学院环境卫生统计培训计划的请求。该项目培养博士后和博士后研究员，从事生物统计学在环境健康领域的应用研究。该计划将通过生物统计系进行管理，环境卫生系和流行病学系的教职员工将积极参与，这两个系也位于哈佛大学公共卫生学院。学员将接受高质量的基本生物统计理论和方法的指导，如概率、统计推断、计算和数据分析。该方案还将提供与环境应用特别相关的专门专题的培训，如纵向分析、缺失数据技术、统计遗传学和高维数据分析，以及与环境暴露评估有关的统计方法，如测量误差模型和空间统计。还将通过环境健康方面的应用课程工作和名为“环境统计研讨会系列”的定期研讨会系列提供培训，教职员工、学生和研究员将在研讨会上介绍他们自己与环境健康有关的研究。培训的一个重要重点将是有机会与教职员工在生物统计学研究方面进行合作，因为它适用于环境健康。所有受训者都将参加哈佛大学在研究过程中的科学诚信计划，以及专注于在学术环境中取得成功的战略的专业发展研讨会。 自1982年成立以来，该培训计划一直强调与环境科学的紧密联系。近年来，项目培训人员特别重视从代表性不足的少数群体中招收学生。哈佛大学公共卫生学院注重跨学科的培训，以及其才华横溢、多元化的学生群体和教职员工，这使得它非常适合环境统计培训项目。 背景 这是哈佛大学公共卫生学院环境统计培训项目的竞争延续申请。该计划于1982年启动，并得到了持续的支持。该计划的重点是培训生物统计学家和其他定量科学家在统计科学的理论和实践方面应用于环境健康研究。由于最近数据收集技术的进步，以及培训计划与其他受资助的环境健康研究项目之间的重大互动，对环境健康方面的复杂数据进行分析的需求日益增加，因此这一应用是合理的。 过去五年筹资周期的新特点是两个特点。2003年，生物统计学系与统计系和哈佛大学文理研究生院达成安排，提供博士学位，而不是公共卫生学院提供的博士学位。这对培训计划产生了影响，因为GSA为合格的博士候选人提供了招聘努力；学生现在有资格获得仅对哈佛博士生提供的额外奖学金(对代表不足的少数族裔来说很重要)；这一变化改善了GSA统计学教师提供研究指导的可能性。 此外，2003年瑞安博士休假时，库尔博士接任了该项目的主任。自她回来后，瑞安博士被任命为联席主任。2005年，两名对环境统计学有研究兴趣的新教职员工受聘。培训计划目前采用“执行委员会方式”管理(Coull博士担任主任，Ryan和Lin博士担任联席主任，Paciorek博士“参与所有行政决策”)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This is a request for an extension of the training program in Environmental Health Statistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. The program prepares pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellows for research in the application of biostatistics to environmental health. The program will be administered through the Department of Biostatistics, with active participation by faculty members from the Department of Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology, also located at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trainees will receive high-quality instruction in basic biostatistical theory and methods, such as probability, statistical inference, computing and data analysis. The program will also provide training in specialized topics of particular relevance for environmental applications, such as longitudinal analysis, missing data techniques, statistical genetics and high-dimensional data analysis, and statistical methods relevant to environmental exposure assessment such as measurement error models and spatial statistics. Training will also be provided through applied course work in environmental health and a regular seminar series called "Environmental Statistics Seminar Series", where faculty, students, and fellows present their own environmental health-related research. An important focus of training will be the opportunity to collaborate with faculty members on biostatistical research as it applies to environmental health. All trainees will participate in Harvard's program on scientific integrity in the conduct of research as well as professional development workshops focusing on strategies for success in academic settings. Since its inception in 1982, this training program has emphasized strong links to the environmental sciences. In recent years, program trainers have placed particular importance on the recruitment of students from underrepresented minority groups. The focus on interdisciplinary training at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as its talented and diverse student body and faculty, makes it ideally' suited for a training program in Environmental Statistics. BACKGROUND This is a competing continuation application for a Training Program in Environmental Statistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. The program was started in 1982 and has been continuously supported. The emphasis of program is to train biostatisticians and other quantitative scientists in the theory and practice of statistical science with application to environmental health research. The application is justified based on the increasing need to analyze complex data in environmental health that resulted from the recent advances in data collection technology, and significant interaction of the training program with other funded research projects in environmental health. New over the past five-year funding cycle are two features. In 2003, the Department of Biostatistics entered into an arrangement with the Statistics Department and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Harvard to offer the Ph.D. instead of the S.D. offered by the School of Public Health. This impacts the Training Program by making available the recruiting efforts from the GSAS for qualified Ph.D. candidates; students now qualify for additional scholarships available only to Harvard Ph.D. students (important for under-represented minorities); and this change improves the availability of research mentoring from GSAS faculty in Statistics. Additionally, in 2003 when Dr. Ryan was on sabbatical, Dr. Coull took over as Director of the program. Since her return, Dr. Ryan has been named the co-Director. In 2005, two new faculty members were hired with research interests in environmental statistics. The Training Program is currently administered using an "Executive Committee approach" (Dr. Coull as Director, Drs. Ryan and Lin serve as co-Directors, with Dr. Paciorek "involved in all administrative decisions").