Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Biostatistics.

Department of Biostatistics was one of the first departments in the newly formed Harvard School of Public Health in 1922. Called the Department of Vital Statistics until 1946, it was a result of the work of Lemuel Shattuck in the last century. The department's mission: to facilitate collaborations between the members of the Department and other medical scientists.

From the description of Executive Correspondence, 1923-1943. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 743283473