Who Wants to Be a Biostatistician (or Environmental Statistician, or Social Science Statistician, or...)?

摘要

In April, I visited the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with Sastry Pantula, ASA president; Sally Morton, a past president of the ASA; and Steve Pierson, ASA director of science policy. We met with Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), to talk about funding for training biostatisticians. We are pushing NIGMS to find ways to fund some of our master's students. There is interest, but the current guidelines make it difficult.