Apply for the Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale. Application Opens on Dec 15, 2024

Dear Colleague, You are receiving this email as someone who may work or interact with undergraduate students who have interests and talents in mathematics/statistics, biomedical/health sciences, and/or data science. These students may be well suited for Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) Programs, which we hope to bring to their attention. As a new SIBS site at Yale University, we are excited to introduce Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale (BDSY). Applications for the BDSY program open on Dec 15, 2024.  We would be grateful if you could share this email with undergraduate-level students who might be interested in this opportunity. Please feel free to share this PDF flier. Thank you!  Sincerely, Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale Program Team

What is the Summer Institute in Biostatistics and Data Science program? The Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) and Data Science is sponsored jointly by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The comprehensive six to seven week summer training course on biostatistics and principles of data science combines classroom learning with career mentoring and hands-on data analysis using data collected from clinical studies in prevention and treatment of infectious, immune-mediated, and chronic diseases. Designed to address a growing imbalance between the demand and supply for biostatisticians and data scientists, the course targets undergraduates and beginning graduate students who are interested in learning about biostatistics, and encourages them to consider graduate programs related to biostatistics and data science. The typical curricula include an intensive introduction to biostatistical approaches and research by exposing participants to the principles, methodologies, uses, and applications of statistical methods in biomedical and clinical research.

What is special about the Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale? After ten outstandingly successful years at the University of Michigan, the SIBS program is launching at the Yale School of Public Health. Yale University, with its rich landscape of teaching, research and practice in data science and health, provides a perfect setting to launch this program in the summer of 2025. The students will stay in the beautiful residential colleges at Yale University campus. Undergraduate trainees joining this six-week immersion program will go through preparatory bootcamp in R, Python and Statistical learning in the first two weeks. Each morning, they will attend didactic lectures by stellar faculty in biostatistics, epidemiology, statistics, computer science, biomedical data science and each afternoon they will work in small groups on mentored research projects, supported by a graduate student and a faculty mentor. The projects will be in the areas of infectious disease modeling, causal inference, and genomics. Public health, medicine, social science and policy researchers will share their perspectives on using data science for improving human health. Throughout the program, the students will attend professional development workshops and have an opportunity to bond over social events. At the end of six weeks, they will present their research in a concluding symposium through posters and oral presentation. In our morning lectures, we will focus on responsible and ethical use of data science and artificial intelligence in this iteration of the program. For application details, visit  sph.yale.edu/bdsy  Link to BDSY Website Click below for more details about Summer Institutes in Biostatistics (SIBS) Link to NIH - SIBS Program