Welcome!

Welcome to the website for the Australasian Region of The International Biometric Society.

Our society comprises members of The International Biometric Society that predominantly reside in Australia and New Zealand. Currently, membership numbers are over 200.

Professionally, we are statisticians, biometricians, mathematicians, scientists and managers, from academia, consulting or research and development, with biological applications being the common link. Biological applications include medicine, public health, ecology, environmental science, agriculture, genetics, microbiology and toxicology, amongst others.

Our employers range from local and commonwealth government agencies where there may be a team of biometricians employed, to private institutions which may only employ one biometrician.

We offer students scholarships and financial support to attend conferences on a regular basis. The region is currently offering a travel grant for the International Biometric Conference (IBC) to be held in Florianopolis, Brazil, in December 2010. See our Prizes/Awards page.

Our main activity is our regional biennial conference, which last took place in 29 November - 3 December 2009 at Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Roughly two years following, the next regional conference will be in or near Sydney.

The 2009 conference presentations are now available. Note that on the Monday there were some changes to the printed programme. And click here for photos!

Go to the Conferences page and click on the left hand link, or go directly to the 2009 Regional Biometric Conference secure website.

There were also two satellite workshops attached to the IBS Regional Biometrics on the Lake Conference, but in Auckland the previous week. They were Cluster Randomised Trials (Wednesday-Thursday 25-26 November 2009) with Professor Martin Bland, and An R Workshop - Summer Fun with R (Friday 27 November 2009) with Associate Professor Thomas Lumley.