ASA Fellow Jing Huang discusses her work leading data and AI strategy to advance precision medicine for transplant patients.
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UT Biostatistics, Data Science Department Celebrates 55 Years
The University of Texas School of Public Health’s department of biostatistics and data science celebrated its 55th anniversary with a conference featuring leading experts, research discussions, and awards recognizing distinguished alumni and student achievements.
Introducing Our Newest Members: Spotlight on Christianah Jemiyo
This month, we welcome many new members and spotlight Christianah Jemiyo, a research scholar/data analyst at the University of North Dakota.
IMPACCT RWE Summit Allows Exploration of Future of Real-World Evidence
The 12th IMPACCT Real World Evidence Summit is set to take place October 29–31 in Boston. Featured speaker Kelly H. Zou, who serves as head of global medical analytics, real world evidence, and health economics and outcomes research at Viatris, tells us a little about what participants can expect.
Co-editors Publish Award-Winning Book
Kelly H. Zou, Lobna A. Salem, and Amrit Ray recently completed a book titled Real-World Evidence in a Patient-Centric Digital Era that won an award from the 2022 Reuters Events Pharma Awards.
Elizabeth L. Scott Award Goes to Madhu Mazumdar
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Elizabeth L. Scott Award committee recently honored Madhu Mazumdar of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with the 2022 award. Mazumdar was selected for serving as an outstanding role model of leadership and creating new leadership opportunities for statisticians, fostering opportunities in statistics and promoting statistical careers for diverse trainees, training and mentoring the next generation of statistical leaders, and excelling in team science research.
Flipping the Research Framework
ASA President Rob Santos illustrates how one might flip a research framework to create opportunity through a new perspective—something he sometimes does when working on policy issues as a reality check.
January, San Diego, and Leveraging Data to Shape the Future? Yes, Please.
The ASA’s Health Policy Statistics Section and ASA staff are planning the biennial International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, to be held January 6–8, 2020, in San Diego, California.
Can a Statistical Concept Help Solve Political Gridlock?
Here are the highlights for the latest issue of CHANCE magazine.
BEA’s Innovation Spurs Projects for Richer Economic Statistics
The people of the Bureau of Economic Analysis have to be economic data pioneers. Here is a snapshot of a few of the data projects BEA’s economists are working on.