The Quality and Productivity Section executive committee reviews the section goals for 2023.
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Survey Research Methods Reports on Past, Upcoming Meetings
The Survey Research Methods Section reports on its latest business meetings and upcoming conference BigSurv23.
Data for Good 2022 Year in Review
David Corliss reports on the many accomplishments the Data for Good community achieved in 2022 and looks forward to events in the upcoming year.
Member Kelly Zou Dives into Real-World Evidence
IMPACCT: Real World Evidence Summit organizer Hanson Wade interviewed speaker Kelly Zou about the use of real-world evidence for regulatory submissions and improved clinical trial design.
ICHPS 2023 Offers Opportunities for Professional Growth, Innovative Thinking
The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics will bring practitioners, methodologists, health service researchers, health economists, and policy analysts together to exchange and build on ideas about improving the pipeline of health policy research.
Conference on Teaching Statistics Planned for June; Proposals Wanted
The conference provides a welcoming and engaging (perhaps even fun) environment in which teachers can exchange ideas and motivate each other to improve their teaching of statistics.
August Issue Features Data from Middle Ages, Data Viz Heroes
Digging for data from the medieval ages occupies James Walker, John Lee, and Stephen Broadberry in the August issue of Significance. They use ancient statistical documents, including arguably the most famous of them all—Domesday Book, published in 1086—to painstakingly reconstruct the medieval economy.
My ASA Story: Arinjita Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist
Arinjita Bhattacharyya is an early-career statistician working as a senior scientist in the biostatistics and research decision sciences division at Merck & Co.
Using Data Science in the COVID-19 Pandemic in West Virginia
As one of the team members charged with working with data during the COVID-19 pandemic in West Virginia, Brad Price noticed there was one overall theme: Communicate and share the necessary information to keep the 1.79 million residents, health care facilities, and economy of West Virginia protected. This wasn’t as easy as it might sound.
Data Literacy as a Tool for Community Health and Social Justice
Data is one of the world’s most valuable resources and an important tool for improving community health. Therefore, knowledge of how to understand, interpret, and share data is necessary for personal and professional success, most importantly for the work of changemaking and improving well-being of low-income and/or predominately minority communities. Understanding these realities, Melody S. Goodman and Janice Johnson Dias have spent the last decade working collaboratively with community members to train and find innovative, time bound, relevant solutions to some of the most intractable health issues facing communities. They have also been training and equipping community members with the language and skills to understand, interpret, design, collect, and share data.