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The Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association has selected Rebecca Hubbard, PhD, as a winner of its 2020 Mid-Career Award. The award recognizes leaders in health care policy and health services research for their excellence at the frontier of statistical practice. Read more about Dr. Hubbard.
Mary Regina Boland, PhD, has been awarded the designation of Fellow of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. This achievement signals that the designee is an expert in evidence-based informatics practice and is engaged with a community of lifelong learners who apply the latest advances in informatics to improve health and health care. Read more.
Spotlights
Biostatistics Student Arman Oganisian: To Show Healthcare Costs, Make Few Assumptions
Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez, PhD, Associate Professor of Informatics
In the News
October 2019
Why are so many patients dying after lung transplants? A new study led by Jason Christie, MD, MSCE, aims to identify risk factors for chronic lung allograft dysfunction, the top cause.
October 2019
Michael Levy, PhD, argues that a last-minute amendment weakens Philadelphia’s plan to stop being the nation's No.1 most bedbug infested city. Bedbugs are difficult to eliminate from homes, but they are not so difficult to control in a city, he writes. With the proper push, Philadelphia could turn around the epidemic.
September 2019
"Our study showed that transplants with HCV-infected kidneys are now routinely performed at many centers, and they are functioning well at one year after transplant," said study co-leader Peter Reese, MD, MSCE.
About Us
To understand health and disease today, we need new thinking and novel science —the kind we create when multiple disciplines work together from the ground up. That is why this department has put forward a bold vision in population-health science: a single academic home for biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics. MORE
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