Department of Biostatistics
Resources
Student Handbooks
- PhD Student Handbook (BSPH ID Required)
- ScM/MHS Student Handbook (BSPH ID Required)
General Department Resources
- Biostatistics Department Accomplishments: Have you recently received an award or recognition, or had an accomplishment others should know about? The Biostatistics Department wants to know!
- Biostatistics Department SharePoint page (BSPH ID Required): Full list of key Department resources.
- Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center (JHBC): Free Friday Online Clinics for Bloomberg School Graduate Students
- Monday Seminar Series: Join us for our weekly seminars led by biostatistics experts, covering a wide-range of topics.
- Biostat PhD Advanced Topic Seminar Series
- Key Data Science Classes: A curated list of key data science classes taught in the Department of Biostatistics.
- Quarterly e-Newsletter: Keep up with the latest news, events, and updates from the Department by signing up for our quarterly e-newsletter. You can also view our previous newsletters on our website.
Please send all subgrant requests and information via email.
Campus Resources
- JHU Alerts: Up-to-date alerts on JHU operations such as winter weather closures.
- Transportation: Find out how to get to and around the campus, from parking to the JHU shuttles that run throughout Baltimore.
- JHU SafeRide/Free Lyft Services: This service was created to provide safe travel between your home and school for Johns Hopkins University pre-doctoral students of SOM, SON or BSPH who live near the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus.
- BSPH Room Reservations (BSPH ID Required): When possible, requests should be submitted three to four weeks in advance (eight weeks in advance if utilizing Marketing and Communications support). Requests will only be scheduled up to one year in advance.
- BSPH Live Room Availability (BSPH ID Required): To check availability before placing a room request.
- JHU Writing Center: The Writing Center offers Bloomberg School students enrolled in degree programs free, individual sessions on their writing with experienced tutors.
- BSPH Career Services
Technology Resources & Databases
- The Joint High Performance Computing Exchange (JHPCE) is a High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility in the Department of Biostatistics.
- Student Licensed Zoom Accounts (BSPH ID Required)
- Ingenta (Global Research Gateway)
- Lexis-Nexis
- MEDLINE
- Welch Medical Library (Johns Hopkins Health Institutions)
Educational Materials
- Functional Data Analysis with R: Consists of the development of robust statistical methods and reproducible software for model implementation and visualization
- Methods in Biostatistics with R: A Rigorous and Practical Treatment of Biostatistics Foundations using R
Funding Resources
- Committee on Funded Research
- American Statistical Association External Funding Sources
- Serving Effectively on Funding Review Panels: Advice for Statisticians New to the Process
- Statistical Issues Seen in Non-Statistics Proposals
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- "The Peer Review Process": NIH Center for Scientific Review
- NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices
- NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices
- NIH Grant Application Process