Biostatistics is pleased to announce that our training program in environmental biostatistics, "Biostatistics for Research in Environmental Health", has been renewed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) through 2012.  This program funds 20 pre-doctoral and 8 post-doctoral fellows in biostatistics, environmental epidemiology, and environmental exposure assessment.  This training program was originally funded in 1971 and has been led by Dr. Bernard G. Greenberg (1971-1972), Dr. Lawrence L. Kupper (1972-2006), and Dr. Amy H. Herring (2006-present).
The interdisciplinary goal of this training program is to prepare scientists to address emerging challenges in environmental health research, with an emphasis on the development of tools for harnessing the rich and high-dimensional information that is now routinely available in scientific studies.