1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research and Education Programs http://epbiwww.case.edu Professor Jiayang Sun Case Western Reserve University jsun@case.edu 1 October 21, 2013

2. Research Faculty The Dept. has a long history of outstanding research, with internationally known faculty and a Nobel Prize winner, Frederick C. Robbins.Frederick C. Robbins. It currently has 28 primary faculty, 87 secondary/adjunct faculty, and more expected. It is strongly interdisciplinary, with links across the CWRU campus and extending to the UH, CCF, MetroHealth, and to similar entities across the US and internationally. It is strongly interdisciplinary, with links across the CWRU campus and extending to the UH, CCF, MetroHealth, and to similar entities across the US and internationally. 2

3. Graduate Programs 3

4. Why Biostatistics Statistics is the science of data. Biostatistics addresses all aspects of statistics that arise from medical and health-related sciences, with tools, techniques and science essential to these areas and applicable to all areas requiring statistics expertise. Job Prospect: As stated in the NY Times: “For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics.” Further, Wall St also projected: Future statistics job openings by 2020 as a percentage of 2010 employment is 74.5%.NYWall St 4

5. CWRU Biostatistics Offerings 5

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