Donna Spiegelman presented the 2026 Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics on April 20 at Emory University. Spiegelman’s lecture, titled “Causal Inference: The Limits of Confounding, the Boundlessness of Measurement Error,” examined two central sources of bias in epidemiologic research.
Rollins School of Public Health
Donna Brogan
Denied technical roles early in her career, Donna Brogan went on to earn a PhD and became a pioneer in biostatistics and women’s health. As a founder of the Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science, her legacy reaches far beyond her research.
Honoring the Legacy of Dionne Price: Reflections from Emory University
Emory University hosted the Dionne Price Memorial Lecture to honor their distinguished alumna, the first African American female ASA president, featuring keynote speaker F. DuBois Bowman and discussions about inclusive leadership in statistics.
Donna Brogan
Over nearly four decades, Brogan made significant contributions to biostatistics, particularly in sample survey design and public health research, including work that informed breast cancer studies and population-level health data.