Center for PH-IDEAS
Fall 2025 - Biostatistics Foundations
Highlights
This 2-week intensive program was designed to prepare current and future Public Health students with the foundational skills needed for success in formal biostatistics coursework. The course helped close knowledge gaps, built mathematical confidence, and provided a solid theoretical base to support students in their future studies and research.
This program is intended to equip current and future public health students with the necessary fundamental competencies in biostatistics prior to undertaking their course work in formal biostatistics. The course will fill in knowledge gaps, build confidence and instill a firm mathematical and theoretical basis that will help the students excel in the future course of biostatistics.
By the end of the program, students had gained an understanding of core statistical concepts, learned to organize and summarize health-related data, applied probability principles, calculated key statistical measures, recognized various sampling techniques, understood the basics of statistical inference, conducted chi-square tests, and explored introductory concepts in correlation and regression.
Output
By completing this course, students gained a solid foundation in the essential concepts of biostatistics needed for success in future coursework and early entry into the public health workforce pipeline. They developed an understanding of basic statistical principles and how these concepts support public health research and evidence‑based decision-making. Students learned to organize, summarize, and display health data; apply probability concepts; and calculate and interpret common descriptive measures.
They also became familiar with sampling techniques, the logic of statistical inference, and the use of chi‑square tests and contingency tables. In addition, students explored introductory correlation and regression concepts. By strengthening these skills early in their academic journey, the course helped cultivate future public health professionals equipped with the analytical competencies essential for the field. Overall, participants left the course more confident in their ability to analyze and interpret data within public health settings.
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