Virginia Tech Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science
Research - Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Virginia Tech Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science Employees
Virginia Tech Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science Details
The Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science provides leadership and expertise to collaborative research projects in the health sciences, including those in addiction, aging, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, sleep, neuroscience, and many others. CBHDS, academically housed in the Department of Statistics, is located on Virginia Tech's Health and Technology campus in Roanoke, one of the country's fastest-growing academic biomedical campuses and destinations for talent. The primary objective of CBHDS is to achieve excellence in Virginia Tech's health- and medically-related research portfolio through fostering collaborations across biostatistics, data science, health analytics, bioinformatics, biology, project coordination, clinical practice, health economics, translation, public policy and many other areas. To achieve this mission, the Center seeks to:1. Identify, integrate and coordinate expertise and resources pertinent to the areas of biostatistics, statistics, health analytics, data science, epidemiology, data management, informatics, health economics, etc. to provide a central support hub for health- and medically-related research;2. Promote the use and awareness of appropriate contemporary analytic methods in health- and medically-related research projects;3. Provide training and mentorship to statisticians, analysts, and data scientists relative to communication and collaboration with biomedical and health researchers;4. Through effective interdisciplinary collaboration, gain an understanding of disease etiologies, adopt effective treatment and prevention strategies, and positively impact mental health, physical health and quality of life.
