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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was
founded in 1918 and included the Department of Biometry and Vital Statistics,
a precursor to the Biostatistics Department of today. This was the first
academic department of statistical science in the world.
Below are the names of people who played a key
role in our department's development:
Raymond
Pearl (Chair: 1919-1926)
Lowell
Reed (Chair: 1926-1948)
Margaret
Merrell (Faculty Member: 1925-1959)
William
Cochran (Chair: 1948-1958)
Paul
Meier (Faculty Member: 1952-1957)
Jerome
Cornfield (Chair: 1958-1960)
David
Duncan (Faculty Member: 1960-1984)
Allyn
Kimball (Faculty Member: 1960-1984; Chair: 1960-1966)
Helen
Abbey (Faculty Member: 1951-2001)
Alan
Gittelsohn (Faculty Member: 1964-1992)
Alan Ross
(Faculty Member: 1964-1996; Chair: 1967-1981)
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Department of
Biostatistics, 1936-37
Left
to right, standing: Unknown, Morton Kramer, Paul Densen, unknown, Ed Crosby,
Margaret Palmer
Left to right, seated:
Velma Scruton, Lowell Reed, Margaret Merrell
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