When disability is not measured, it becomes difficult to understand the barriers people face, evaluate whether interventions are effective, or advocate for meaningful change. Collecting and maintaining disability data is fundamental to ensuring disabled people are visible in the evidence used to shape society.
Visibility
Reaching for High-Impact Opportunities Pushes Profession Forward
Statisticians have an important role in helping make evidence-based decisions in a world awash in data and should serve on expert panels, advisory committees, and commissions where their expertise can enrich collaborative deliberations. Members of the External Nominations and Awards Committee give tips for finding nominees and submitting nominations so more statisticians and data scientists can have a voice at the table when decisions are being made.
Increasing the Visibility of the Statistics Profession
Sharon Murray of GlaxoSmithKline, Amarjot Kaur of Merck Research Laboratories, and Jennifer Gauvin of GlaxoSmithKline share some of the ideas for increasing visibility that arose during a panel discussion organized by the members of the Committee on Applied Statisticians.
Statistics and Scientists: Raising Awareness Through AAAS
ASA President Marie Davidian discusses ways to elevate the visibility of the statistics profession across all of science.
Report of the Visibility and Impact in Policymaking Workgroup
How can the ASA be prepared to speak about emerging policy issues? 2010 ASA President Sastry Pantula appointed a workgroup to find out. Here are the workgroup’s recommendations.