This month, we welcome many new members and spotlight Christianah Jemiyo, a research scholar/data analyst at the University of North Dakota.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Reflections on CSP 2024 in New Orleans
Nearly 400 statistical practitioners and data scientists convened in New Orleans February 27–29 to attend the 2024 Conference on Statistical Practice.
Ronnie Sebro
Ronnie Sebro grew up in Tobago, a small Caribbean Island, the third of six children. He was the first student from Tobago to receive a National Scholarship in the Sciences from the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biology and minor in mathematics from Morehouse College. He was also the first student at Morehouse to receive the Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellowship. Sebro’s career differs from most statisticians because he decided to go to medical school during graduate school. He spent his junior faculty years at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Mayo Clinic in December of 2020. Recently, he was promoted to professor of biostatistics and professor of musculoskeletal radiology. He was humbled to learn he is one of a handful of Black male biostatistics professors and simultaneously one of few Black male radiology professors in the United States. This was one of the proudest moments in his life, second only to the birth of his son and marrying his wife.
People News for January 2023
Read about what ASA members have been up to lately in January 2023’s people news.
Simone Gray
After graduating from the University of Miami, Simone Gray became aware of the critical shortage of math and science teachers in high schools across the United States and became a tutor and mentor before going on to become a full-time mathematics teacher at a low-performing high school in southwest Florida. Gray wanted to continue learning about both math and science, however and decided to leave teaching to pursue a PhD in statistical science at Duke University. Today, she is a senior statistician in the Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
Simone Gray
Simone Gray grew up on the island of Trinidad and enjoyed being challenged by mathematical problems. After graduating from the University of Miami, she became aware of the critical shortage of math and science teachers in high schools across the US and became a tutor and mentor. Recently, Simone was the co-chair of the Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop hosted by the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society at JSM.