ASA Fellow Joseph Cappelleri has been awarded the 2025 Applied Public Health Statistics Section Award from the American Public Health Association. He will receive the award during the APHA Annual Meeting November 2–5 in Washington, DC.
The APHS Achievement Award recognizes a distinguished career in statistical research and applications in public health with contributions spanning academia, government, and industry. Cappelleri was selected for his work in applied statistics within the pharmaceutical industry.
Cappelleri serves as executive director of biostatistics and head of the health economics and outcomes research in the statistical research and data science center at Pfizer, where he was the recipient of the Craig A. Saxton Clinical Development Excellence Award.
In addition, he has held adjunct professor appointments at Brown University, Tufts Medical Center, and the University of Connecticut. He has co-authored hundreds of publications about clinical and methodological topics, including regression-discontinuity designs, meta-analysis, and health measurement scales.
Cappelleri has received multiple honors throughout his career, including the Long-Term Excellence Award from the ASA’s Health Policy Statistics Section and the Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award from ISPOR.
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