The Lester R. Curtin Award was established to help promising young health statisticians get the skills and training they need to make significant contributions in their area of study. The award was created to honor the memory of Lester, or “Randy,” and his long career of working tirelessly to teach and mentor his colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The award will provide $1,000 for general registration and travel support in addition to up to $400 toward CE course registration offered at the ASA Conference on Statistical Practice, which takes place every February.
Past chairs from the Health Policy Statistics, Survey Research Methods, Biopharmaceutical, Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences, Mental Health Statistics, Statistics in Epidemiology, and Biometrics sections will select the award winner. To be eligible for the award, applicants must work in the field of health statistics (broadly defined as either applied, including public health policy, or clinical work) or be enrolled in a graduate program to prepare for such work. Preference will be given to those who have been working in the field for five or fewer years, or who are still in graduate school.
Applications are due by October 15 and require the following:
Please contact the committee chair.
2022: Ransmond Berchie 2021: Melissa Jay 2021: Robert Anthony Tumasian III 2020: Amandeep Kaur 2019: Serifat Adedamola Folorunso 2019: Brian Kwan 2018: Munir Winkel 2018: Samantha Montag 2017: Jami Jackson Mulgrave
2015–2016: Jaime Lynn Speiser 2013–2014: David M. Kline