We are excited to announce that we have our first draw for the BCA Student Prize! Dr Vickie Cai and Dr Mallory Trent both from the University of Sydney received incredible scores in the 4 core units: Mathematical Foundations for Biostatistics (MFB), Principles of Statistical Inference (PSI), Regression Modelling for Biostatistics 1 & 2 (RM1 & RM2) to both win a $500 voucher. University of Sydney Program Coordinator A/Prof Erin Cvejic presented the awards to the very deserving recipients.

University of Sydney Program Coordinator A/Prof Erin Cvejic awards Dr Vickie Cai and Dr Mallory Trent the BCA Student Prize

A warm congratulations to Farhana Nabi and Natalie Parent for graduating from their postgraduate degrees at the University of Adelaide! With the students is University of Adelaide Course Coordinator Associate Professor Lynne Giles.

Graduate and supervisor at University of Adelaide
Farhana Nabi and Associate Professor Lynne Giles



Natalie Parent and Associate Professor Lynne Giles

Congratulations to Dr Justin Wu, the winner of the BCA Student Prize for Semester 1 of 2024! The prize recognises the student of each semester with the highest overall mark in the four core units DMC, PSI, RM1 and RM2. See below for an action shot of Justin fresh out of work in scrubs, accepting the prize from Dr Erin Cvejic, Program Director – Biostatistics at University of Sydney School of Public Health.

The BCA hosted a Careers in Biostatistics Webinar on 25th May 2023. 

5 BCA graduates joined us to talk about their career paths:

Jennie Louise – Senior Biostatistician, Women’s and Children’s Hospital Research Centre. Biostatistics Unit, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (Master of Biostatistics and Star Graduate, 2014)

Taya Collier – Research Fellow (Biostatistics) Monash University (Master of Biostatistics, 2016)

Mars Kim – SLHD Eating Disorder Coordinator, Dietitian, Sydney Local Health District(Master of Biostatistics, 2022)

Jason West – Cheif Statistician, Science & Innovation Group, The Bureau of Meteorology (Master of Biostatistics, 2022)

Sam Mancuso – Assistant Director, Targeted Reserach and Strategic Evaluation, Research and Evaluation Branch, National Disability Insurance Agency (Graduate Diploma of Biostatistics, 2022)

Congratulations to Jana Bednarz and Ling Wen Davies for graduating with a Masters from the University of Adelaide

Jana and Ling Wen standing with Amy Salter, all in Academic robes.

To ensure continuous improvement of the BCA program, an external program review was conducted in 2019. The review produced a set of recommendations outlining how the program could be further developed and adapted to respond to the broadening demands of biostatistics in the workplace; be it in government, industry or academia. These recommendations formed the basis of a restructure of the BCA Masters and Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics.

The new structure reduces the number of core (compulsory) units, allowing greater flexibility in the choices of elective units. Additionally, students will be able to choose up to 2 elective units for the Masters degree (and 1 for Graduate Diploma) from outside the list of BCA electives.

We are excited to introduce these changes; to offer a program that aligns with changing student needs and enables more choice within the program to suit particular and varying interests.

Explore the new program curriculum

The BCA is proud to support the Australian Public Health Virtual Conference, being held Thursday 23 and Friday 24th September, 2021.

We are particularly pleased to sponsor the Early Career/Young Professional Award.

Come visit BCA staff at the Virtual Exhibition Hall throughout the two day conference:

  • Erin Cvejic is a BCA Graduate himself and Program Coordinator at The University of Sydney.
  • Michael Waller is the BCA Program Coordinator at The University of Queensland

The BCA is proud to sponsor WCE2021 and we look forward to meeting delegates at the Student Information Sessions

  • Saturday Sept 4th, 9am-12pm GMT+8 (10:30am – 1:30pm Adelaide time) – Dr Amy Salter (Program Coordinator at The University of Adelaide)
  • Monday Sept 6th, 9am-12pm GMT+8 (11am – 2pm Brisbane time) – Dr Michael Waller (Program Coordinator at The University of Queensland)
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The 2021 Australian and New Zealand Statistical Conference will take place virtually from 5-9 July 2021 and will bring together three leading statistical communities – the Statistical Society of Australia, the New Zealand Statistical Association – and the Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics.

The aim of ANZSC 2021 is to bring together a broad range of researchers and practitioners across a variety of statistical disciplines to facilitate the exchange of theory, methods and applications.

Find out more and register your interest on the ANZSC 2021 Website

3 June, 2020

Congratulations to Annette Dobson on being awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Statistical Society of Australia.

Annette was the inaugural Chair of the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA) and was a Program Coordinator for many years.

https://statsoc.org.au/News-and-media-releases/9011183

The BCA acknowledges we live and work on the ancestral lands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have for thousands of generations exchanged knowledge for the benefit of all. We pay our respects to those who have cared and continue to care for Country.