Role of the Department at UB

The role of the Department of Biostatistics within UB and across Western New York spans several domains: teaching, research, economic development and service. 

Housed with the School of Public Health and Health Professions, we also have a formal presence in the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CoE), Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) and the Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI).

Faculty Expertise and Leadership

Our faculty members may be considered broadly to have expertise in the disciplines of bioinformatics, biostatistics, mathematical statistics and probability, statistical genetics and public health informatics.

Academic Offerings at UB

We offer an undergraduate minor in statistics,a bachelors degree in statistics, an MPH degree with a concentration in biostatistics, MA and PhD degrees in biostatistics, an MS in bioinformatics and biostatistics, graduate certificate programs in applied statistics and biostatistical informatics. In addition, the department teaches an undergraduate service course (STA 119 Statistical Methods), which generally has enrollments of more than 1,000 students per academic year.

Collaborative Research and Economic Development

Department faculty members play a key role in collaborative research and economic development within the university and in developing their own research programs.

  • In 2010-2011, faculty members averaged 8.8 publications per year as compared to the AAU median of 2.7 papers for all disciplines.
  • During the past year, faculty members published in several top-tier statistics and biostatistics journals, including Statistics in Medicine, Biometrics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Canadian Journal of Statistics and Bioinformatics. 
  • In 2010-2011, faculty members averaged $142,873 federal research dollars compared to the AAU median of $163,000 for all disciplines.