

The BSU mission is to work towards promoting student success and the organization is able to do this through community building and a variety of programs. When BSU functions well, it is a key tool students have to try to address the equity gap for students of color by offering assistance and a sense of community. This is a key point related to the difference between equity and equality. “Students of color are in a unique position to best understand the challenges they face in a primarily white institution and to help their fellow students. This presents an isolating problem that many of these students are forced to face. It also serves as an asylum and a place for individuals of color, like myself, to view Whitewater as welcoming,” said BSU President, Keshawn Williams.īSU recognizes itself as a place for individuals to thrive in an environment that does not necessarily provide the same stability and cultural awareness as their communities back at home do. “When I first got to Whitewater, BSU depicted itself as a home away from home. Today, while BSU responds to and engages contemporary problems and debates, it has focused more on community building and belonging. When BSU was founded, it was a very political organization owing to rules in 1968 that sought to block integration and equality on college campuses in Wisconsin. The Black Student Union (BSU) has been working to build up this community and showcase their importance to not only the university but Whitewater itself. The BSU also has developing links with major programmes in stratified medicine and in big data analytics such as Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing institute.“The purpose of education, therefore, is to educate everyone to think critically and to think intensively.” – Martin Luther King Jr.Īlthough Black students make up less than 5% of the University of Whitewater campus enrollment, they make a huge impact here on campus.
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The Unit works with leading trial centres and epidemiology groups, and public health bodies such as the UK Health Security Agency. The Unit’s current research portfolio is organised into four main themes that span the scientific research spectrum from basic science to population health and respond to current scientific needs in biomedicine. Each of the themes is anchored in important scientific questions arising from our key partners, questions which both motivate methodological developments and ensure their impact. We develop, apply and promote innovative statistical and data science approaches to advance biomedical science and human health.” – John Whittaker, Director of the MRC BSU The BSU is recognised for its strength in Bayesian inference applied to biomedicine and public health. The BSU mission is to promote the development and application of innovative statistical methods in the health sciences for the improvement of health.īSU researchers work extensively to make inference for complex data accessible to the scientific community and to produce innovative methodology related to trial designs, longitudinal and event history data, meta-analysis of clinical trials, missing data, evidence synthesis in public health and statistical genetics and genomics. The Unit was founded in 1913, at the same time as the MRC, and is internationally renowned for the strength of its research and successful strategy of maintaining a unique balance between statistical innovation, dissemination and engagement with making impact in biomedical and public health issues.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit (BSU) is one of the largest groups of biostatisticians in Europe, and a major centre for research, training and knowledge transfer in biostatistics.

