Haibo Zhou

Dr. Haibo Zhou is a tenured Full Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health. He directs the Biostatistics Core at the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology. His research focuses on environmental statistics, survival analysis, and outcome-dependent sampling methodologies, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top journals. He has led four NIH-funded R01 grants on statistical methodology for cost-effective sampling designs. Dr. Zhou is an Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served on editorial boards (e.g., Biometrics) and federal review panels (e.g., NIH, USDA).

Education: PhD (1992), MS (1990) in Statistics from University of Washington; BA (1985) in Mathematics from Shandong University.

Research Interests: Environmental health impacts, measurement error correction, and translational studies in pulmonary disease. Notable work includes:

• Developing outcome-dependent sampling frameworks to optimize study efficiency
• Statistical methods for asthma and airway inflammation studies
• Collaborations with NIEHS and EPA on environmental health risks

Key Awards: Society of Toxicology's Outstanding Presentation Award (1995), NIH Intramural Research Award (1995-96).

Service: Led Gillings School committees (Strategic Planning, Communication), organized international symposia on outcome-dependent sampling and epidemiology, and reviewed grants for >15 journals including Annals of Statistics and JAMA.

Labs/Teams: Leads Biostatistics Core supporting translational research in lung biology and environmental medicine.