Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics and Data Science at Columbia (SIBDS@Columbia)

PROJECT NARRATIVE Technological advances are leading to unprecedented abundance of increasingly complex, voluminous, and multi-dimensional data on a wide range of health outcomes and their determinants, including those related to lung, heart, allergy, and infectious diseases—creating a critical need to train biostatisticians and data scientists with multidisciplinary skills to properly analyze such data. Also evident is the need for a diversified workforce of biostatisticians and data scientists well-versed in public health principles to properly tackle the acute and growing challenges of health disparities. To fill this critical gap, the Summer Training Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science at Columbia (SIBDS@Columbia) proposes an innovative curriculum in quantitative skills anchored on data immersion related to research challenges in studies of heart and lung diseases as well as infectious diseases, to train the next generation of adept biostatisticians and data scientists poised to address these pressing challenges.