ISCB Sub-Committee Education Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB37 Birmingham 2016: AGM Wed 24 Aug

Education: Terms of Reference and Membership Information Terms of Reference Members Education iscb-education@ googlegroups.com To support and organise one or two day courses on contemporary methods in clinical biostatistics in locations represented by the Society. Guidelines and a list of courses offered in the past are available. Chair: Erik Cobo (ES,11/2015) Secretary: Thomas Jaki (UK, 11/2015) Members: Alexia Iasonos (US) Anca Vitcu (RO) Catherine Quantin (FR), past-Chair Jeremy Taylor (US) KyungMann Kim (US) Maria Grazia Valsecchi (IT) Mike Campbell (UK) Rumana Omar (UK) Shona Fielding (UK) Wenle Zhao (US) President’s Representative Temporary member: Jeno Reiczigel (HU), past-Secretary

News At the end of 2015: Catherine Quantin and Jeno Reiczigel resigned as Chair and Secretary of the ISCB-Educ-SC Thomas Jaki and Erik Cobo accepted to serve our Society and they asked Catherine and Jeno to overview and help, at least for one year. Thomas and Erik updated the guidelines and the advertisement with minor changes, later approved by the SC.

Course organization Target Countries Hungarian National Group. “Statistical issues in drug development”, Stephen Senn. Organised by Julia Singer in Autumn 2016, Budapest. Polish National Group. “Models for Causal Inference”, Stijn Vansteelandt. Organised by Kinga Sałapa in Autumn 2016 (22- 23.09.2016), Cracow. ISCB will provide €1500 for each of the two courses. No proposals received for Biostatistically Developed Countries.

ISCB- Educ-SC Any suggestion about our future? Thanks for your attention