Jemar R. Bather with Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of The Pennsylvania State University Eberly College of Science
ASA member Jemar R. Bather was awarded the Penn State Alumni Association’s 2024 Alumni Achievement Award. The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments.
Bather graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in statistics in 2014 and embarked on a career in data analytics within nonprofit organizations, assisting charter schools in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. He pursued a master’s in applied statistics for social science research at New York University and earned a PhD in biostatistics from Harvard University.
Currently, Bather is part of a cross-functional team at Merck, where he applies his statistical expertise to developing new medications that enhance health outcomes for those affected by infectious diseases.
In addition to the Penn State Alumni Achievement Award, Bather was honored in 2023 with the Albert Schweitzer Award from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. His published papers have appeared in several journals, including the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Statistics in Medicine, Environmental Research, Public Health Reports, Frontiers in Genetics, and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
The Penn State Alumni Award Ceremony took place in March and is available to watch on YouTube.
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