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.

Task force members are working with ASA meetings staff to understand current policies and procedures for selecting a meeting location and developing a checklist for ASA staff to consider when selecting meeting locations.

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.

Students at any level, as well as 2022 graduates who submit an abstract by June 30, can submit a written paper to be considered for a travel award to the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics.

Planning is ongoing for the 2023 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), a forum for discussing research needs and solutions to the challenges of health policy research.

Liz says she attends at least six conferences every year, but it’s the ASA conferences that feel like her professional home.

Kelly H. Zou, PStat, is head of Medical Analytics and Real World Evidence at Viatris. Here, she tells us about her ASA journey.

The flagship conference of the Health Policy Statistics Section, ICHPS was host to a sold-out crowd of more than 350 in January.

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.

The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics has played a vital role in the dissemination of statistical methods in health policy and health services research. In preparation for the next conference, we’re running a series of interviews with previous Health Policy Statistics Section award winners. This month, we feature a conversation between Sally C. Morton and Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar.