MAR 11: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Yale School of Public Health

“Unveiling Bias: A Statistician’s Quest for Data Representation in Health Research”

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Hybrid Event
In-person: CDS Building, 17th Floor
Charles River Campus
665 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
12:00-1:00pm Seminar
1:00-2:00pm Luncheon

Bio: Professor Bhramar Mukherjee is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). Professor Mukherjee serves as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at YSPH. With over 400 publications in statistics, biostatistics, medicine, and public health, Professor Mukherjee is globally recognized for her research contributions in integrating genetic, environmental and health outcome data. Dr. Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Mukherjee has received numerous awards including the Gertrude Cox award, the Adrienne Cupples Award, the Janet Norwood award, the Sarah Goddard Power award, the Karl E Peace Award, the Jerry Sacks Award, and the Marvin Zelen Statistical Leadership Award. In 2022 she was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine. She is the founding Director of an NIH funded undergraduate summer program on big data and has been directing this program since 2015.