Bhramar Mukherjee and Jeremy Taylor of Michigan Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics received prestigious awards from the American Statistical Association. Mukherjee received the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society and Taylor the Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award.
In this Q&A, Yi Li, professor of Biostatistics, and his team discuss their recent project on the risk factors associated with COVID-19 outcomes.
A team of University of Michigan researchers from the School of Public Health DoGoodS-Pi Environmental Epigenetics Lab and Michigan Medicine are working to understand how behaviors and environments during pregnancy can cause changes to the way genes work in offspring. This emerging field is known as toxicoepigenetics.
Lu Wang, professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, was appointed a 2023 Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for her contributions to the advancement of statistical science.
Thomas Braun, professor of Biostatistics, was elected chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). Braun currently serves as vice chair of SACUA, and will begin term as chair on May 1.
A new study funded by the National Cancer Institute and led by Michigan Public Health professor Yi Li will examine large lung cancer cohorts to study racial disparities in cancer outcomes.