Biostatistician
Collect, analyse, interpret and communicate health-related data
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What's it like to be a Biostatistician?
Biostatisticians may work in medical or agricultural research, collecting, analysing, interpreting and communicating health-related data. Biostatisticians provide the specialised skills needed to draw useful conclusions from health-related research.
Tasks and duties
- Designing studies and analysing data.
- Investigating the factors that impact the health of people or animals in order to arrive at conclusions about disorders, disease, or other health risks.
- Developing and applying statistical methods to scientific research in health-related fields, including medicine, epidemiology, and public health.
- Helping to formulate the scientific questions to be answered, and determining appropriate sampling techniques.
- Coordinating data collection procedures.
- Conducting statistical analyses to answer scientific questions.
- Preparing research material for publication.
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Biostatisticians may work in government departments, hospitals, research centres, universities, or pharmaceutical or agricultural companies, working on, for example, clinical trials to determine how effective a certain drug is on people or animals.
How to become a Biostatistician
- Undertake a qualification in Statistics, Mathematics or Econometrics. This may be a Bachelor of Statistics or a Bachelor of Science (Statistics). Alternatively, students with previous related qualifications may wish to undertake a Master of Biostatistics or a Master of Applied Statistics.
- Apply to become a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Registration is not mandatory to work as a Biostatistician in Australia however accreditation indicates you have achieved an acceptable level of professional competence.
- Supervisory and higher management positions is just one pathway for experienced Biostatisticians. Other career pathways include specialising as a Biostatistician, becoming an Epidemiologist or an Applied Statistician.
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Nov 2023
Acceptable, good.
Reviewer's Qualification
Master of Public Health
Experience
1 – 4 years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
The good things
It was a wonderful opportunity to learn and also to flex my wings.
The challenges
Too many projects all at once, so it can get time-demanding at times. However, at times, there was also little work to be done.
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