The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association presents the Mortimer Spiegelman Award annually to honor a statistician below the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics.
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Loni Tabb Gives Insight on Winning First Annie T. Randall Award
The Annie T. Randall Innovator Award was established to recognize early-career statistical innovators across all job sectors and honor path-breaking Black female statistician Annie T. Randall for her pioneering career in government amid pervasive racial discrimination. Established in 2020 by the Biometrics Section, the award provides a $2,000 prize each year and is co-sponsored by the Mental Health Statistics Section. The inaugural awardee is Loni Tabb, an associate professor at Drexel University.
JSM 2021: Data for Good and the Stories It Tells
David Corliss recommends making JSM 2021 the event that will help you tell your own Data for Good story and offers suggestions for sessions and search terms to get involved.
Data for Good Can Drive COVID Vaccine Confidence
David Corliss says statisticians can help address the distrust of vaccines, a large challenge of this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tanya Garcia
Born in Peru and raised in California, Tanya Garcia fondly remembers—as a 4-year-old—craftily fitting together the pieces of jigsaw puzzles. Puzzles took a new shape years later and her enthusiasm for solving mathematical and statistical problems blossomed. Now at UNC Chapel Hill as a tenured associate professor, Garcia works toward predicting precise, personalized, and robust progression profiles for neurodegenerative diseases.
ASA Members Stop the Presses with New Book About Disease Outbreaks
It’s not often statisticians get to shout, “Stop the presses,” but that’s what longtime ASA members Steve Rigdon and Ronald Fricker found themselves doing earlier this year. Just as their book, Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague—the latest in the ASA’s collaborative series with CRC Press—was going to the printer in early 2020, news was emerging about the novel coronavirus.
International Epidemiologist Awarded ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
Jess Craig—an epidemiologist who has worked in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—has been selected as the ASA’s 2020 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow and will train as a science journalist with NPR.
ASA Members Show Leadership During COVID-19 Crisis
In January—when COVID-19 sprang up in China and the world seemingly began to transform daily—statisticians, biostatisticians, data scientists, and epidemiologists went to work turning data into information people could use. Here are some of the ASA members who forged ahead during the crisis and provided direction based on sound statistical practice.
Louis Israel Dublin
Louis Dublin’s statistical research programs at Metropolitan Life gave the insurance industry a new dimension in public health and welfare service.
William G. Cochran
William Cochran is well-known for researching the effects of smoking. In 1964, based on his work, the Advisory Committee presented the Surgeon General with proof that lung cancer was a direct result of smoking. This was the first official recognition of the health risks connected to tobacco.