Public Health 292: Biostatistics Seminar for Graduate Students (2022-2024)

May 1, 2022

Course Information

  • Professor: Corinne Riddell
  • Content: PH292 is a required seminar course for master students in Biostatistics. Topics include thesis writing, peer review of academic writing, statistical software development, principles of open and reproducible science, collaboration etiquette, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

You can find my lecture slides about these DEI topics:

  • Eugenics and statistics, i.e., how racism and other -isms are part of the history of statistics and play out in modern statistics.

  • Ethics and algorithmic fairness in health care, including

    • ethical concerns in the development of genetics,

    • representation disparity in genetic studies and clinical trials,

    • algorithmic fairness in machine learning with case studies.

Yutong Wang (王雨桐)
Yutong Wang (王雨桐)
Postdoctoral Researcher

I am a postdoctoral scholar with Dr. Jimmie Ye at University of California, San Francisco. I recently completed my PhD in Biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley, working with Dr. Yun S. Song. My research is primarily driven by developing and applying machine learning and statistical methods to understand biology. Recently, I am studying how genes interact with each other in the multi-cellular organisms.