The Partnership between the Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics and the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services made an outstanding data-driven contribution in improving the well-being of children and families in Tennessee by enhancing child welfare, supporting vulnerable families, and advancing policies that promote healthier communities.
Key contributors:
Rameela Raman Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
David Schlueter, Ryan Jarrett, Sarah C Lotspeich, Jamie Joseph, Julia Thome, Joshua Slone, Alexis Fleming, Lisa Levoir, Ashley E Mullan Former and current Vanderbilt University Department of Biostatistics students
Lynne Berry Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Kathy A. Gracey Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Tarah M. Kuhn Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Richard A. Epstein Northwestern University
Michael J. Cull University of Kentucky
Anthony Nease Tennessee Department of Children’s Services
Sammi S. Maifair Tennessee Department of Children's Services
The SPAIG Award was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding partnerships between academe, industry, and government organizations, as well as to promote new partnerships among these organizations. The award is sponsored by the SPAIG committee of the ASA and distinct from other ASA awards in that it recognizes outstanding collaborations between organizations, while recognizing key individual contributors.
Nominees must represent at least two of the organizations from academe, industry, or government. Also, their collaboration must have resulted in significant contributions to the statistical field with applications to real-world problems. Examples include publications, presentations at statistical conferences, exchange visits, support for graduate students, consulting jobs, grant support for faculty, and continuing education opportunities for statisticians outside of academe.
Nominations are due by March 1, and required information can be found on the sample preview.
The award recipients are responsible for providing a current photograph and general personal information the year the award is presented. The American Statistical Association uses this information to publicize the award.
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2024: Madeline Pe, Corneel Coens, Ahu Alanya, Martin Taphoorn, Saskia le Cessie, Bernhard Holzner, Johannes Giesinger, Lisa Wintner, Silene ten Seldam, Kristin Bjordal, Anders Ingelgard, Elektra Papadopoulos, Vivek Pawar, Michael Schlichting, Jane Chang, Satrajit Roychoudhury, Joseph Cappelleri, Paul Cislo, Anja Schiel, Chantal Quinten, Mallorie Fiero, Vishal Bhatnagar, Maxime Sasseville, Khadija Rantell 2023: Joseph Ibrahim, Arvind Shah, Joseph Heyse (deceased), Frank Liu (deceased), Ming-Hui Chen, Jianxin Lin, Donglin Zeng, Sungduk Kim, William Wang, Guoqing Diao, Xianming Tan, Ethan Alt, Amarjot Kaur, Lisa LaVange (nominator) 2022: The COVID-19 Multicountry Research Group 2021: DELPHI & ICECaP 2020: William A. Brenneman, Evren Gul, Roshan V. Joseph, Lulu Kang, Shan Ba, William R. Myers, Fang Cao, Chien-Fu J. Wu, Li Gu
2019: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, and Sanofi Pasteur & Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and MassMutual Financial Group 2018: The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) & The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2017: Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) & National Science Foundation and U.S. Census Bureau 2012: Baylor University and Eli Lilly & Company 2011: Nationwide Center for Advance Customer Insights, The Ohio State University, and Insights and Analytics Nationwide Insurance Company 2010: Pfizer Inc. and Rutgers University
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