Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is composed of two divisions: Epidemiology and Health Statistics. The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has two research platforms: the big data Center for Medical Information and the Center for Epidemiological Research. There are 24 staff, including 4 professors, 4 doctoral tutors, 12 associate professors, 13 master's tutors and 1 assistant director technicians.
Teaching and Training of Students
The department is responsible for the teaching of epidemiology and biostatistics for undergraduate, international, graduate and doctoral students in medical related major. It is the editor in chief of 1-3 edition of national planning textbook "Medical Statistics" and related study guide and exercise. Teachers have participated in compiling more than 20 textbooks of "Epidemiology" and "Medical Statistics" or "Health Statistics". 2 Encyclopedia of medical statistics or biostatistics.
The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics is the doctorate and master's degree awarding point, and has been working for many years on doctorate, master's and master of public health (MPH). There are more than 400 graduate students studying in this department. Graduates have mainly worked at universities and colleges, health and disease control agencies, state administration agencies, policy research institutions, professional prevention and control agencies, non-governmental organizations and information and data analysis companies.
Scientific Research
Epidemiological and biostatistics is a secondary discipline in public health and preventive medicine. There are currently two large research teams in the department. In recent years, we have undertaken more than 50 national scientific and technological research projects, support and major special projects, natural science fund projects, ministry (provincial) level key scientific research projects, and international cooperation projects, etc. One of the national key R & D program, "Precision Medicine Research," a key project-"Northwest China natural population cohort study" received more than 17 million grants. The department has spent more than 10 million yuan each year on research projects, and has won 2 provincial and ministerial first and second prizes, and 2 national patents. In the past five years, it has published more than 500 scientific research papers, of which more than 200 have been published in SCI. The doctoral thesis is published in BMJ and other famous international medical journals. It also provides important data and technical support for government policy formulation and health promotion measures.
Social Service
Teachers of this department are actively involved in social services. Many teachers hold important posts in national and local academic organizations, participate in the formulation of health policies and regulations, health industry standards and guidelines, and have devoted themselves to the frontline work of disease prevention and control and emergency treatment of public health emergencies. Many of the faculty members serve as chairmen, vice-chairmen or standing committees of national, provincial and municipal professional branches, and hold many professional academic meetings in the form of academic societies.
International Cooperation
The Department attaches great importance to international cooperation and exchanges, each year invited experts from home and abroad to the Department for academic lectures, project guidance and cooperative research, a number of experts have been appointed as visiting professors of the Department; At the same time send teachers and graduate students to the United States, Europe and Australia cooperation colleges as a visiting scholars and joint training students. The aim is to make teachers and students have a broad international vision, and their research is comparable to international level.
Future Development
The department was moved into Western China Science & Technology Innovation Harbor since April 30, 2020, working and living environment have a comprehensive improvement. The department will carry out extensive cooperation and research on medical information big data mining and decision support. Invite domestic and foreign scientific research elite to join our research team, welcome students who are interested in epidemiology and health statistics to apply to our department.
Director：Zeng Ling-xia
Vice-Director：Wu Qian
Office area：Xi'an Jiaotong University Medical Campus WeiFa Building Second Floor for Epidemiology , Sixth Floor for Biostatistics
Tel：029-82655108（Epidemiology）, 029-82655104（Biostatistics）
Email：epistat_xjtu@qq.com
