This month, we spotlight new member Vera Dureke, whose dream is to be a research scientist focused on data ethics.
Health Policy Statistics
2024 Election—BOD Candidate Statements and Open Section Positions
The ASA announces the candidates for the 2024 election. Voting begins April 1 and runs through April 30.
Practical Significance | Episode 28: What’s in a Meeting (with Apologies to Shakespeare)?
Shakespeare asks, “What’s in a name?” in the play Romeo and Juliet, the purpose of which is to focus our attention on what’s important. This month, Practical Significance explores what’s important for an ASA meeting or conference to be successful as co-hosts Donna and Ron welcome Julia Sharp, chair of the ASA Meetings Task Force, […]
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.
Deadlines and Contact Information for Select ASA National Awards, Special Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
The ASA’s extensive awards program recognizes statisticians who have made outstanding contributions through research, teaching, consulting, and service to the association and statistical profession.
13th ICHPS Sold Out in San Diego
The flagship conference of the Health Policy Statistics Section, ICHPS was host to a sold-out crowd of more than 350 in January.
Diagnosing and Treating Noncommunicable Diseases Around the World
Kelly H. Zou, Jim Z. Li, and Nik Sethi of the Upjohn Division of Pfizer Inc. taught a three-part web-based lecture on generating and harnessing real-world evidence, health information technology, and artificial intelligence. Here, Richard Zink from the Biopharmaceutical Section asks the lecturers a few follow-up questions.
‘Personalized Medicine’ Featured at JSM, AAAS Annual Meetings
As representative from the ASA to AAAS in biological sciences, ASA life member Turkan Gardenier organized “Evolutionary Personalized Medicine,” a symposium assigned to the Human Biology and Health track of the 2011 Annual Meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Washington, DC, in February. A follow-up will be held on August 3 in Miami Beach, Florida, with the panel titled “Personalized Medicine and Convergence: Prospects for Statisticians.”
Range of Topics to Be Covered at JSM
The Section on Health Policy Statistics has included a range of topics associated with health policy research and its applications in its JSM 2010 program.
Honors Go to Ash, Zaslavsky, and Elliott
The Health Policy Statistics Section presented its inaugural Mid-career Excellence Award and Long-term Excellence Award on January 21 during the keynote session of the Eighth International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC.
Arlene S. Ash of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Alan M. Zaslavsky of Harvard University received the section’s highest honor—the Long-term Excellence Award—recognizing their outstanding leadership and sustained contribution to the development and application of statistical methods in health-care policy and health services research, and for service to the section.