Jeff Goldsmith is a Biostatistics PhD graduate from Sherman, Texas. When Jeff first thought of graduate school, he had never heard of public health. He received a recruiter’s email encouraging students with an interest in math to consider biostatistics. In researching the field, he realized biostatistics was a way he could use something he was good at to solve real world problems. Jeff’s work at the Bloomberg School focused on neuroimaging. He examined brain scan data to determine disease progression in multiple sclerosis patients. Brain scan information can be hard to come by, but through the Department of Biostatistics, Jeff collaborated with the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins Hospital to access a.
