The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has co-founded a new collaboration bringing together epidemiologists and biostatisticians from multiple universities to partner on research and pursue opportunities to aid the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health. The Philadelphia Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research and Practice Collaborative, formed in the wake of COVID-19, includes epidemiology and biostatistics faculty at the College of Public Health, Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University, and the University of Pennsylvania. “We want to think abo...

Every month, faculty in the College of Public Health take part in a range of scholarly activities; below are the activities for Jan. 1, 2022 through April 30, 2022 (Note: Future roundups will be released on a monthly basis.) For news on research publications and grants, please see the college's news feed for in-depth stories and reports. If you are a faculty member and would like your activities included, please contact Lisa Litzinger-Drayton, Director of Communications and Marketing, at lisalitzinger@temple.edu. Honors and Awards Lisa Bedore, chair of the Department of Commu...

Jingwei Wu, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is one of four researchers nationwide to be asked to join the 2022 Mentored Biostatistics Faculty Program in Aging and Mental Health at the Advanced Research Institute (ARI). Through online meetings and a multiday live event in April, Wu will receive training and guidance from senior biostatisticians and ARI fellows who have experience applying their skills to the field of gerontology. ARI is a national program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that provides career mentoring and gra...

Di Zhu has become the first-ever student from the College of Public Health to receive a Student Membership Award from the American Public Health Association’s Applied Public Health Statistics section. Ten students nationwide are selected annually for the honor, which includes membership in the professional society. The award recognizes education and work experience, interest in health statistics, and future in public health practice or research.  Zhu began this spring in the master of public health in applied biostatistics program, where she has developed her analytical ski...