Welcome to the Division of Biostatistics at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health. We offer a Biostatistics concentration in our MPH and PhD program, and a joint Biostatistics and Epidemiology concentration in the MPH program. We are fortunate to have strong faculty, staff, and graduate students in our school and graduate programs in biostatistics.

Biostatistics provides the methodological tools for designing and conducting public health research, clinical studies, and epidemiologic investigations. We provide a solid training in biostatistical theory and applications, exposing our students to a variety of prevention, intervention, and etiologic investigations. Classroom teaching, consulting and project work, as well as personal mentoring are priorities among our faculty. We are involved in a variety of projects such as field surveys of pregnant women attending WIC clinics in urban and rural Missouri to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders, and evaluate their impact on healthy birth and utilization of services; GIS mapping of tobacco advertising and distribution; genetic modeling of disease; vaccine efficacy; and other interesting and methodologically diverse applications.

The major strengths of our program include training well-equipped graduates, prevention-focused research activities, a strong commitment to the Jesuit mission with an emphasis on social justice and the elimination of health disparities, diversity of students, and partnerships with academic units and community organizations and agencies. These partnerships include local and state health departments, the CDC, governmental agencies, and various clinical departments including the Vaccine Center, as well as strong interdisciplinary collaboration with the faculty both in the School of Public Health and in a variety of academic units at Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis. These partnerships provide outstanding opportunities for students to gain hands-on challenging experiences for doing biostatistics and developing professional skills.

We hope that you will explore the exciting field of biostatistics and learn more about the Saint Louis University School of Public health and out great City! Please contact Dr. Luke (dluke@slu.edu) with your questions!

Best wishes,

Douglas A. Luke, Ph.D.
Division Head