D. Anthony Miles

ASA member D. Anthony Miles and his Analytix Group team won two Best Paper awards for the following papers at the Academy of Business Research Conference in San Antonio, Texas, this fall:

• “STATISTICS RESEARCH: Movie Sequel Marketing and Predictive Analytics: The Movie Marketing Analytics of Marvel’s Sequel, Wakanda Forever”
• “STATISTICS RESEARCH: The New Remote Work Revolution: An Empirical Study on the Management Crisis with the Rise in Remote Work Preference with Employees”

Additional team members included Earnell La’Shaun Seay, Shantana L. Robinson, Joshua Garcia, Wanda Goodnough, dt ogilvie, Eniola Olagundoye, and Nathan Tymann.

Jessica Roydhouse

Jessica Roydhouse was awarded the 2023 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award. The society is for health economics and outcomes research professionals and sponsors this award to recognize a new investigator who has shown exceptional promise.

Roydhouse, who earned her PhD from the Brown University School of Public Health, is the Select Foundation Senior Research Fellow in health services research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania.

The ASA External Nominations and Awards Committee sponsored Roydhouse’s nomination. In a letter of recommendation, committee members noted “Roydhouse’s impressive body of work has not prevented her from service to the profession—in fact, it has inspired her. She has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Health and Quality of Life Outcomes; she regularly reviews journal submissions for several prominent journals; and she has organized sessions and presented at ISPOR, the Joint Statistical Meetings, and other statistical conferences.”

Roydhouse also serves as director of the Tasmanian Cancer Registry, the population-based cancer registry for the state, and academic lead for the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry Tasmania, a clinical quality registry. She currently serves as chair of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Patient-Centered Special Interest Group and is a member of the GP5 Working Group in the National Cancer Institute Cancer Treatment Tolerability Consortium.

The award was established in 2004 to honor Bernie O’Brien, who demonstrated a long-standing commitment to training and mentoring new scientists in the field.

Ofer Harel

Ofer Harel has been awarded the American Public Health Association Achievement in Academia Award for 2023.

Harel’s citation reads, “In recognition of your distinguished career in statistical research and applications. Your contributions to public health and health policy through research and commitment to the American Public Health Statistics section. Your mentoring of students, current and future statisticians and biostatisticians and tireless pursuit of knowledge with impact on public health policy which make you a true inspiration to all members of the American Public Health Association. And for substantial contributions promoting the use of advanced statistical methods in medical and public health research.”