The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, was established in 2012 at Tianjin Medical University. Dr. Xilin Yang is the current chair of the department. Its predecessors were the Department of Epidemiology and the Department of Biostatistics, which were founded in 1957 and 1978, respectively. Under the leadership of famous epidemiologists such as Profs. Guanyi Geng, Zhenglun Wang, and Jianhua Wang, and biostatisticians such as Profs. Ruotao Wang and Wei Wang, it has developed into the key discipline in the third phase of the “211 Project” and the key discipline of Tianjin, as well as PhD degree authorization department and postdoctoral training stations. Our department offers many excellent courses to students. Epidemiology is a national quality course; Epidemiology and Health is a quality video open course, proposed by the Ministry of Education; Epidemiology and Biostatistics are both the First-class courses in Tianjin, Biostatistics is the municipal quality course in Tianjin, Epidemiology and medical statistics are Tianjin municipal English-taught brand courses, and epidemiology is a demonstration course and excellent case of ideology and politics in Tianjin.

At present, 23 faculty members are employed by our department, including 8 professors, 9 associate professors, 6 PhD supervisors, and 14 MSc supervisors. Up to now, 35 PhD students and more than 300 MSc students have graduated from our department.

Our professors served as the editor-in-chief of the General Higher Education National Planning textbooks, for example, Epidemiology 1st-8th editions, and Preventive Medicine 1st-2nd editions. During the past 5 years, we served as chief or associate editors have edited more than 33 textbooks and monographs. We have carried out 23 projects of Educational Reform, and published 10 teaching-related papers. We have won several National, Municipal or University-level Teaching Achievement Awards. We have received over 16 grants funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 provincial/municipal-level grants, and 82 provincial-level and other projects grants, with a total funding of more than 40.72 million RMB. In particular, Prof. Xilin Yang has received the national grants funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China in 2018, titled Current profile of risk factor prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus and its risk prediction model and intervention and management technique development., with a funding of RMB￥2,150,000. We have published over 300 research papers, including 183 SCI papers, 62 papers with impact factors of 5 to 10, 20 papers with impact factors of 10 and above, and the highest impact factor of the publications was 19.96.

We have won the Tianjin Scientific and Technology Progress Award. The department has won second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award.  Epidemiology (9th Edition) edited by Qi Xiuying won the first prize of the National Excellent Textbook (Higher Education). 7 staffs have won the Teaching Excellence Award of Tianjin Medical University or the most popular teacher, and 7 other awards. With the efforts of our faculty members, we have successfully held the 2016 National Biostatistics Conference, the 2017 Stroke Prevention and Control Conference in Tianjin, and the 22nd Ministry of Education Training Course for English Teachers (Epidemiology and Medical Statistics) in 2019. Two teachers have guided students to win the first prize in the National Statistical Modeling Competition.

Teaching staff