F. DuBois Bowman

Fredrick DuBois Bowman is an American biostatistician who has been the 13th president of Morehouse College since July 15, 2025. He served as the 12th dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan from October 2018 to July 2025.

Bowman's research applies statistical analysis to brain imaging to better understand Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Early life and education Bowman grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Science degree with high honors in mathematics from Morehouse College in 1992, where he also completed the pre-med requirements and joined the Omega Psi Phi fraternity in 1991. He was appointed to the Phi Beta Kappa honour society. He briefly joined the mathematical statistics program at Duke University before electing to focus on biostatistics. The field of neuroimaging was only just emerging whilst he was on the faculty at Emory, and psychiatrists realised that they would need a good grasp of statistics to make best of use of it. where he was made Cynthia and Robert Citrone–Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor. Here his work considered biostatistical approaches to better understand brain imaging data. Cynthia and Robert Citrone decided to fund the chair position after meeting Bowman and hearing about the impact of his research.

On July 19, 2018, Bowman was appointed the 12th dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, effective October 15, 2018. As Bowman decided to begin his tenure as the 13th president of Morehouse College in Georgia on July 15, 2025, Bowman's last day at the University of Michigan was set July 11, 2025.

Awards and honors 2007 Emory University Woodruff Leadership Academy Fellow 2008 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill James Grizzle Distinguished Alumni Award 2012 Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association 2013 President of the Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society 2019 Morehouse College Bennie Trailblazer Award 2019 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020 American Statistical Association Black History Month Trailblazer 2020 Elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine

Selected publications