Program Overview

Program Overview

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Biostatistics is a research-intensive program offered by the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences at McGill University. This program emphasizes engaging and cutting-edge learning opportunities, aiming to equip students with skills in independent thinking, data analysis, and scientific communication to pursue professional opportunities in academia or industry.

Program Description

The program's objective is to equip students with skills in independent thinking, data analysis, and scientific communication to pursue professional opportunities in academia or industry. The program focuses on areas such as causal inference, dynamic treatment regimes, longitudinal data, spatial statistics, statistical genetics, time series, statistics, data science, Bayesian, clinical trials, causal inference, disease mapping, genomics, pharmacoepidemiology, spatio-temporal processes, statistical genetics, and statistical computing.

Unique Program Features

• The program trains students to become independent scientists able to develop and apply statistical methods in medicine and biology and make original contributions to the theoretical and scientific foundations of statistics in these disciplines.
• Faculty members focus their research in areas that include survival analysis, non-parametric and semi-parametric modelling, analysis of longitudinal data, causal inference, statistical computing, classification and regression trees, methods for evaluating diagnostic accuracy, Bayesian statistics in medicine, statistical methods for clinical trials, and the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies.
• Graduates pursue careers as biostatisticians in government agencies, the pharmaceutical industry, and contract research organizations (CROs), as well as in academia and hospital and other medical research institutes.

University-Level Admission Requirements

• An eligible Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA
• English-language proficiency

Each program has specific admission requirements, including required application documents.

Available Intakes

• Fall

Application Deadlines

Intake | Applications Open | Application deadline - International | Application Deadline - Domestic (Canadian, Permanent Resident of Canada)
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FALL | September 15 | December 1 | December 1
WINTER | N/A | N/A | N/A
SUMMER | N/A | N/A | N/A