GREETING FROM THE CHAIR

I’m pleased to have this opportunity to greet you and share some information about the Arnold School of Public Health (ASPH) at the University of South Carolina and The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. We are one of the best and fastest growing academic units at USC and we have a wonderful cadre of faculty and students. Our department offers many exciting career opportunities in epidemiology and biostatistics and provides excellent training to prepare graduate students for both academic and professional careers through masters’ and doctoral degree programs in both disciplines. If you are a prospective student, epidemiologists and biostatisticians are in great demand. Have you ever thought of a career in biomedical research? Read on.... Please surf through the information about our faculty, job opportunities, and the various degree programs and application information on this web site.

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has an exciting, rapidly growing research program in the areas of methods (including spatial statistics, hierarchical modeling, survival analysis, and analyses for complex sampling strategies), cancer, diabetes, obesity, physical activity, and nutrition, with developing research in women’s and children’s health, Alzheimer's and aging studies, molecular epidemiology, mental health, environmental health, and health disparities.
The department's impressive research portfolio includes methodological issues in Biostatistics ranging over singular information, GEEs, statistical computing, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, spatial and environmental modeling in epidemiology. The department also has a strong tradition of significant collaboration with public and private health agencies and institutions including strong collaborative ties with the Department of Health and Environmental Control of South Carolina. Applied statistical and design areas, which are of particular relevance to the research currently being conducted at USC, include the use of longitudinal methods and assessment of change, multi-level modeling, group randomized and intervention trials, surrogate endpoints, mixture or latent-class models, cluster/spatial issues, and methodological issues in prevention science (a partial list).
New faculty hires will complement our current expertise with plans to recruit in health disparities, genetic, environmental and cancer epidemiology and in spatial statistics, bioinformatics and clinical biostatistics. You can browse a list of faculty, most of whom have a link to a brief page describing research interests.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. For any interested prospective students, we would be happy to connect you with faculty or students who have common interests. We also encourage a visit to Columbia and the USC campus to learn about the quality of life and opportunities for faculty and students. If this is your first visit to our website, we welcome you to become a friend or member of the USC family.

With best wishes,

Robert E. McKeown, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair