Here are the highlights of the 2010 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics that took place in Washington, DC, in January.

The Health Policy Statistics Section presented its inaugural Mid-career Excellence Award and Long-term Excellence Award on January 21 during the keynote session of the Eighth International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC.
Arlene S. Ash of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Alan M. Zaslavsky of Harvard University received the section’s highest honor—the Long-term Excellence Award—recognizing their outstanding leadership and sustained contribution to the development and application of statistical methods in health-care policy and health services research, and for service to the section.

The Health Policy Statistics Section announces the 2010 Student Travel Award competition. Current students, or those who completed their degrees within the past year, are eligible to apply.