Learn about our department's vision, mission and guiding principles.
Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME) Department Mission
BBME advances health and trains the next generation of leaders in biomedical informatics, biostatistics and medical epidemiology to improve health and healthcare at local, national, and international levels.
BBME Department Vision
BBME will serve as the academic and professional home at MU for biomedical informatics, biostatistics and medical epidemiology, enabling innovations in research, education, and service, while developing and sustaining partnerships with local, national, and international collaborators.
Guiding Principles and Values
Value - Create value through knowledge about biomedical informatics, biostatistics and medical epidemiology, using evidence-based decision making to achieve the highest level of population-based health. Achieve broad cultural competence in order to work effectively in collaborative and diverse work and community environments.
Knowledge - Develop learning partnerships among the faculty, students, staff, medical professionals, and colleagues for creating, disseminating, and applying knowledge to achieve high levels of performance for medical and health care provision.
Leadership - Foster a learning environment in which faculty, staff, and students envision the future and develop strategies for change.
Technology - Use advanced information technology to improve organizational performance and individual and population health outcomes.
Quality - Create an environment for excellence in quality, and for quality improvement in all educational, research, and service processes.
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Centers and Institutes
- Biostatistics Unit
- Center for Biomedical Informatics
- Health Informatics in Diabetes Research (HIDR) Core
- Center for Diabetes Translation Research - Health Informatics in Diabetes Research Core
- Center for Medical Epidemiology and Population Health (CMEPH)
- MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics
Giving / Ways to Give
- Missouri Medicine "Future of BBME Fund"
- BBME Ernst & Young "Health Informatics Fund" - recognizes the need to prepare leaders who can bring knowledge of advanced information technologies to strategic and operational decision making in integrated health systems.
Remembering Donald Lindberg, MD
Dr. Donald Lindberg began his health informatics career in 1960 as a professor of information science and pathology at the University of Missouri and was named Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in 1984 and served until 2015. During his time at the NLM, he led the digitization of the library's collection.
