Statistics play a pivotal role in public health research and practice. Biostatistics is the application of statistical tools and methods to health and biological data, which are continuously recorded through medical observations and epidemiological studies. This course provides the graduate students in public health and epidemiology with the basic knowledge and skills required in collection, management, visualization, and analysis of health data. Key concepts in statistical inference and hypothesis testing will be covered. This course will enable students to understand, describe, and visualize health data sets, design experimental studies, conduct basic statistical analyses, and attain the necessary foundation for learning more sophisticated statistical methods.