Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar’s journey from Penn State to ASA president highlights her dedication to real-world statistics, health policy, the ASA, and gender balance in the field.
HPSS
Health Policy Statistics Section Seeks Award Nominations
Nominate a colleague for one of the Health Policy Statistics Section’s achievement awards.
ICHPS 2023 Offers Opportunity for Professional Growth, Innovative Thinking
The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics was held January 9–11 in Scottsdale, Arizona, bringing together practitioners, methodologists, health service researchers, health economists, and policy analysts.
Meet the JSM 2022 Featured Speakers
Catch all of these featured speakers at JSM 2022 in Washington, DC.
A Conversation with Anirban Basu
In preparation for the next Health Policy Statistics conference, which will take place in January 2020, we’re running a series of interviews about previous HPSS award winners. Last year, Anirban Basu was awarded the mid-career excellence award and James O’Malley interviewed him.
NISS-Merck-HPSS Meet-Up Focuses on RWD
RWD and its applications in the pharmaceutical industry was the topic of the fourth virtual meet-up sponsored by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and Merck and co-sponsored by the ASA’s Health Policy Statistics Section for the first time this year. Big data, real-world data, and observational data have become ubiquitous and essential components of the drug development and commercialization process.
Christopher Schmid Talks Health Statistics
Christopher Schmid is professor in and chair of the department of biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a former chair of the Health Policy Statistics Section.
Q&A: What Skills Do You Need to Succeed at Your Job?
What skills do you need to succeed in your technical job? We asked some of our members this and other questions and here is how they responded.
HPSS Achievement Awards Go to … Morton, Rosenbaum, Basu
The Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) presented the 2018 HPSS Achievement Awards—including the Mid-Career Award and Long-Term Excellence Awards—January 12, following the plenary session of the 12th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) at the Charleston Marriott Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina.
Health Policy Statistics Section Achievement Awards Open
The 2018 HPSS Achievement Awards honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of statistical methods or have developed innovative statistical applications for health care policy or health services research.




