ViCBiostat Summer School, February 2026

ViCBiostat is excited to announce an extensive and diverse program for its annual Summer School in biostatistical methods, with registrations now open. We are offering four courses, on diverse topics, over 6 days, 13-20 February 2026, in the Spot Building at the University of Melbourne. Remote attendance will be possible although not preferred.

The four courses are:

1. Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding (Friday 13 Feb), led by the internationally renowned Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen of the University of Pennsylvania.

2. Implementing the Estimand Framework in Clinical Trials (Monday 16 Feb), with our local experts Anneke Grobler, Sabine Braat and team.

3. Pairwise and Network Meta-analysis: Fundamentals and Beyond (Tues/Wed 17/18 Feb), featuring A/Prof Areti-Angeliki Veroniki of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, along with A/Prof Emily Karahalios and team.

4. Cluster Randomised Trials: From Fundamentals to State-of-the-Art (Thur/Fri 19/20 Feb), led by Prof Andrew Forbes and Prof Jessica Kasza, with A/Prof Fan Li and A/Prof Tony Tong of Yale University School of Medicine, USA.

Further course details are available here: https://www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses. Please see here for registrations: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1508377.

Please direct any enquiries to vicbiostat@mcri.edu.au or to cebu.admin@mcri.edu.au.