Biostatistics

Biostatistics concerns the application of Statistics to the understanding of biological phenomena. This involves methodological and computational developments as well as applications on the design of biological experiments, data collection, and data analysis. The aims of Biostatistics are related to answering research questions associated with medicine, epidemiology, public health, and biology. This includes the application of several areas of Statistics such as: Design of Experiments, Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis, Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics, Medical Statistics, Statistical Inference, Machine Learning, and Bioinformatics, to name but a few.

Co-Chairs
Martina Mittlboeck, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Francisco Javier Rubio, King�s College London, UK.
Members
  1. Raden Gerald Agustin, University of the Philippines Cebu, Philippines.
  2. Rahim Alhamzawi, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq.
  3. Nuno M Brites, ISEG/UL, Portugal.
  4. Quy Cao, University of Pennsylvania, United States.
  5. Din Chen, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
  6. Liqun Diao, University of Waterloo, Canada.
  7. Ivan Diaz, NYU Langone Health, United States.
  8. Iris Ivy Gauran, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
  9. Roman Gulati, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States.
  10. Nicholas Illenberger, NYU Langone Health, United States.
  11. Hulya Kocyigit, University of Georgia, United States.
  12. Vladimir Kutsenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
  13. Cladnos Mapfumo, Stellenbosch university, South Africa.
  14. Helena Mourino, FCiencias.ID-Associacao para a Investigacao e Desenvolvimento de Ciencias, Portugal.
  15. Trang Nguyen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States.
  16. Harry Parr, The Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom.
  17. Gyanendra Pokharel, University of Winnipeg, Canada.
  18. Paul Rathouz, University of Texas at Austin, United States.
  19. Benjamin Risk, Emory University, United States.
  20. Maria Conceicao Serra, Minho Universitu, Portugal.
  21. Hua Shen, University of Calgary, Canada.
  22. Simone Tiberi, University of Bologna, Italy.
  23. Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba, Canada.
  24. Halima Twabi, University of Malawi, Malawi.
  25. Wenkai Xu, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
  26. Xiangnan Xu, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
  27. Qi Zhang, University of New Hampshire, United States.