MSU Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Epidemiology and Biostatistics are known as basic sciences in public health. Our department engages with faculty and students in numerous colleges and departments across the university which includes the campus here in East Lansing, as well as those in Grand Rapids, Flint and other Michigan communities. Our college is also now engaging with a new partner, Henry Ford Health System (HFHS), that will extend our partnership with investigators in Detroit. We see particularly strong opportunities for collaboration with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and biomedical informaticians in the HFHS Department of Public Health Sciences. Our two departments already have a history of collaborations but we hope the formal affiliation between institutions will lead to more synergy and more closely involve students. Our faculty strive to produce scientific evidence that will lead to improvements in public health in Michigan, the US, and worldwide.