News

• How department researchers keeps your family healthy
  Associate Professors Dr. Jean Kerver and Dr. Mat Reeves are making progress finding real world solutions that help families live their heathiest lives.
  
  
• CHM Award Nominations
  Congratulations to Dr. Dorothy Pathak, Dr. Claire Margerison, and Jill Hamilton
  
  
• Vazquez/de los Campos publication
  Uncovering covariance patterns across energy balance traits enables the discovery of new obesity-related genes
  
  
• Graduation Celebration
  Join us Friday as we congratulate students from our department who are the Spring class of 2025.
  
  
• Revisit Research Day 25
  Research Day was held on Friday, April 25
  
  
• View our Spring Newsletter
  Please take a few minutes to learn more about our department. Explore topics such as the Serengeti, India, Kentucky, student updates, faculty research, and individuals who enjoy baking. All just a click away. 
  
  
• First place at UURAF 25
  Khushi Chhabra won the first-place award for the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Category at UURAF 2025.
  
  
• Department Chair, Dr. Dawn Misra in the New Yorker
  The professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the College of Human Medicine commented on the elimination of federal funding for health research, including work on maternal health disparities that took years to receive funding.
  
  
• What can newborn hearing tell us about neurodevelopment
  Dr. Nicole Talge, an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, heads the MSU Neurodevelopment and Health Research Group.
  
  
• Trends in Cervical Cancer
  During 2008–2022, cervical precancer incidence decreased 79% and higher-grade precancer incidence decreased 80% among screened women aged 20–24 years, the age group most likely to have been vaccinated.  The Lead author of this publication is former PhD alum Julia Gargano.  Former PhD student Sarah Brewer was also a part of this research team.
  
  
• Faculty and Student Spotlight
  This month we feature  Associate Professor Dr. Kip Bohnert and Masters student Michael Yeboah. Take a moment to learn more about who has an increasingly large record collection and who loves writing.
  
  
• Lifetime Achievement Award for department professor
  
  
• JimLAb Award Recipients
  

• The department announces Research Day for April, 2025
  The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Day is an event designed to showcase the research and outreach work being led by the department’s faculty, students, and post-docs. Research Day is set for April 25, 2025

• Faculty and Student Spotlight
  Did you know that Dr. Reeves is a DIYer or that Bendu Sherman enjoys interior design and art? Take a moment to learn more about Dr. Mat Reeves and PhD student Bendu Sherman.

• Congratulations to Dr. Gustavo de los Campos
  Congratulations to Professor Gustavo de los Campos from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics on being named Co-Vice Chair for the 2025 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Gordon Research Conference, and Co-Chair for the 2027 conference!